Author: Hanna Diewald

The Vision Council receives award

The Vision Council earned a Power of Associations Silver Award from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) for its successful Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts. “Fostering a more diverse, equitable and inclusive community is paramount to our mission of creating more opportunities for community-building and encouraging industry growth,” said Ashley Mills, CEO of The…

Rodenstock completes acquisition of Indo Optical

The Rodenstock Group, a global leader in eye health innovation and manufacturer of biometric, ophthalmic lenses, today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of the leading Spanish lenses manufacturer Indo Optical. Rodenstock’s acquisition of Indo is part of its global growth strategy, expanding its business to high growth markets in Europe and North America….

EssilorLuxottica releases three-year clinical trial results

EssilorLuxottica yesterday released the much-anticipated three-year clinical trial results of its breakthrough innovation Essilor Stellest lens, for the first time at the International Myopia Conference (IMC) 2022 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The results show that the Essilor Stellest lenses continue to exhibit strong efficacy in slowing myopia progression and axial elongation in the third year of…

Avant-garde eyewear show DaTE starts September 10

From Saturday, September 10th to Monday, September 12th at the Leopolda di Firenze, 100 companies from around the world, and a total of 170 brands, will exhibit their collections, whose lowest common denominator is creativity. DaTE is also much more ‒ a not-to-be-missed opportunity for the exchange of ideas and networking among eyewear professionals, a…

Trade fair parts2clean in Stuttgart, Germany

As a quality criterion and competitive factor, industrial parts and surface cleaning makes an essential contribution to value creation in manufacturing, remanufacturing and recycling. Due to current product and manufacturing trends as well as the need to make parts cleaning more energy and resource  efficient, companies are facing an array of challenges. In order to…

New show floor layout at Vision Expo East 2023

The Vision Council and RX, co-organizers of Vision Expo, today share plans for an exciting and reimagined Show Floor layout that will debut at Vision Expo East 2023, taking place March 16–19 at the Javits Center in New York City. The new layout will feature all of Vision Expo’s Show Floor neighborhoods on Level Three…

Demystifying the dip coating process

Demystifying the dip coating process

Hard coating of ophthalmic lenses For most of the ophthalmic laboratories, among the many steps for lens manufacturing, the most critical one is certainly the hard coating process. This is probably linked to the fact that it is a chemistry related process and not a purely mechanical one. Most laboratory managers have a good knowledge…

Coburn adds Spanish and Chinese translation to website

In the ongoing effort to accommodate international and non-English speaking customers, Coburn Technologies has made coburntechnologies.com available in Spanish and Chinese (Mandarin). Users can now select from English, Spanish and Chinese (Mandarin) using a simple language switcher tool incorporated into the website navigation bar. In addition to text in the product pages, videos for many…

Vision Expo West 2022 to debut The Panorama

The organizers of Vision Expo, The Vision Council and RX, today share details on The Panorama, a new Show Floor neighborhood planned for Vision Expo West, taking place September 14-17, 2022 in Las Vegas at the Venetian Expo & Convention Center. The Panorama is designed to showcase cutting-edge technology in the vision industry. “Driven by…

SIOF will be held in September 2022

In compliance to China State Council’s “Guidance to implement joint prevention and control mechanism on the normalization and containment of the new coronavirus epidemic”, the 21st China (Shanghai) International Optics Fair, scheduled to be held in Shanghai (February), has been relayed to September 15-17, 2022, at Suzhou International Expo Center. At latest count, SIOF 2022…