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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…

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…

New Head of Corporate Human Resources at ZEISS Group

Georg von Erffa will take over the management of Corporate Human Resources of the ZEISS Group. He will succeed Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf, who was appointed Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) on the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG from 1 July 2022. As Head of CHR, Georg von Erffa will report to Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf. Georg von Erffa…

HOYA enters into joint venture with Jiangsu Sigo Optical

HOYA Vision Care, a leader in optical technology innovation, recently announced that it has entered into a strategic joint venture (JV) with Chinese eyeglass lens manufacturer Jiangsu Sigo Optical’s (JSO) Founder and Chief Executive Officer Liu Jianzhong. The partnership will provide HOYA with access to a wider range of high-quality plastic and polycarbonate finished single…

Horizons Optical in the US

Horizons Optical, an international R&D company placed in Barcelona, Spain, that is focused on the development and distribution of technology for the optical industry, has settled a subsidiary in the US, Horizons Optical of America (HOA). In 2021, the growth of Horizons was over 40%, almost doubling the number of laboratories that have decided to…

DaTE will take place in September in Italy

Opening in less than two months, the 10th edition of DaTE – Shaping Avantgarde, the eyewear show focused on state-of-the-art eyewear, set to take place from Saturday, September 10 to Monday, September 12 at the Leopolda in Firenze. To date, 90 exhibitors have confirmed their participation in the show, representing more than 150 brands (data…

New appointments at Vision Council team

The Vision Council is pleased to share two new appointments to the organization’s Market Research team. Kris Stevens joins The Vision Council as the new Data and Analytics Manager and Dianella Maalem joins as the new Research Manager. Stevens and Maalem will report to Alysse Henkel, The Vision Council’s Senior Director of Market Research and…