Posted: 8/16/2010
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Any Timmy, Joey or Susie of school age
designation. Playground lasses and recess roughhousers. Pee Wee League
All-Stars and benchwarmers or Pop Warner QBs and water boys. Any squirt,
smallfry, anklebiter or whippersnapper whose favorite subject at school
is Recess.
Posted: 8/16/2010
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PixelOptics has finalized a licensing agreement with
Aspex Eyewear under which Aspex is granted exclusive rights for 10
years to manufacture, market and sell PixelOptics’ emPower!
Posted: 8/16/2010
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Today’s consumer is motivated differently. Retailers and
brands, who until recently had a clear sense of who their customers
were and how, when, why and at what prices they bought, find themselves
in a new world where all of these variables are in constant flux.
Posted: 8/16/2010
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Vision-Ease Lens, a unit of Insight Equity A.P. X. LP,
is suing Transitions Optical for allegedly monopolizing the market for
photochromic spectacle lenses.
Posted: 8/16/2010
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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has published a series of updates to the Z80.1 standard for prescription spectacle lenses.
Posted: 8/16/2010
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In 2006, Rite-Style Optical became the first independent lab in the country to “go digital” when it integrated its Lab Management System (LMS) with a Robotic High Production HSC Master and CCP Polishers it purchased from Schneider Optical Machines.
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On April 10, Nexus Vision Group hosted a reception at its lab near Columbus, Ohio to celebrate the opening of its new digital lens processing facility.
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Mike Fussell, Robertson Optical’s sales and customer service manager, gets excited talking about the new capabilities that digital surfacing has brought to the company’s lab, located in Loganville, Georgia, near Atlanta.
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If you ask an eyecare professional what are the latest trends in ophthalmic lenses, you’ll probably get an earful about digital and free-form design, customization, and personalization.
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Hoya Vision Care, North America, said it is expanding the marketing department of Hoya Optical Labs of America (HOLA).
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Like all labs that have taken the plunge into digital surfacing, Expert Optics has found the process challenging.
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Accurate Optical, a six-unit optical chain based in Salisbury, Maryland, recently entered the digital lens-manufacturing arena when it installed Gerber Coburn’s Advanced Lens Processing System (ALPS) and a Simplimatic automation module in its central lab.
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When was the last time you visited your prescription lab? If it’s been a while, you owe it to yourself to call them up and ask them what’s new. Chances are they’ll have a lot to show you.