Latest News Art Optical Partners With Laboratoire Precilens to Distribute Expert Progressive GP Multifocal Lens By Staff Wednesday, June 24, 2015 12:15 AM GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Art Optical has again partnered with Laboratoire Precilens of Paris, France, to bring another specialty contact lens to their U.S. customer base. The mutual agreement gives Art Optical manufacturing and distribution rights to the Expert Progressive GP multifocal lens, a contact lens designed to perform like a progressive spectacle lens. Art Optical has been successfully selling the BiExpert Bifocal GP from Precilens since 2009.The Expert Progressive design features slab-off GP lens technology, creating a thinner, uniform edge profile 360 degrees around the circumference of the lens, resulting in less lid awareness and improved comfort, the company said. Art Optical will manufacture Expert Progressive lenses exclusively in Boston (Bausch + Lomb) GP materials. Expert Progressive lenses from Art Optical are backed by the company’s FlexFit Multifocal Management Program.