All CSR & Sustainability articles
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ArticleNew white paper looks industry sustainability issues in the eye
Frame the Future, a newly established non-profit sustainability organization, is launching its activities by publishing The Catalyst Study, a 38-page white paper examining the structural barriers that hinder sustainability progress in the eyewear industry. The challenge, they argue, is more structural than technical. The report draws primarily on 19 in-depth ...
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The Most Influential Women in Optical program launches a European edition
Jobson Optical Group, publisher of Vision Monday and 20/20, is joining forces with 20/20 Europe to launch a European edition of its Most Influential Women in Optical program, which was launched in the US in 2003. The initiative is aimed at recognizing and celebrating the impact of women in the ...
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Silhouette to complete natural gas phase out at its main site this year
Silhouette Group is planning to fully phase out fossil natural gas at use at its main facility in Linz, Austria. Following the switch to renewable electricity – most of it produced on site – at its coating production line last year, Silhouette will do the same at its eyewear manufacturing ...
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News briefsVSP Vision Care report warns against workplace screen use
Screens are everywhere – or, at least, most of us are spending ever more of our day staring into them. So says VSP Vision Care’s third annual Workplace Vision Health Report.. This report stems from a survey of 800 personnel directors and 1,200 full-time employees, Unlike its two predecessors, this ...
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Meta launches $2m grants program to showcase AI glasses’ “positive social and economic value”
Meta has announced the launch of AI Impact Grants, a program aimed at supporting “US-based organizations using [its] AI glasses to drive positive social and economic value.” The tech giant says that it will award approximately $2 million in grants going from $25,000 to $200,000 to over 30 organizations. Examples ...
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ArticleItaly-Austria Micro-Alps project on microplastics waste management bears first fruit
Micro-Alps, an Italian-Austrian project looking into microplastics waste management in the eyewear sector in the Alpine region, has yielded its first concrete results, with microplastics generated from lens grinding recovered and reused as a raw material for filaments that will now be tested out as a potential resource for creating ...
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ArticleIOT aims for last-mile manufacturing with new, sustainable lens tech
If you have never heard about frontal photopolymerization, you are not alone. We too never had. However, if the promise made by Indizen Optical Technologies (IOT) with its new Light-Form Technology is fulfilled – no less than “a true paradigm shift in prescription lens manufacturing” – the industry may soon ...
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News briefsSpanish associations to cooperate on eyecare for the elderly
Two non-profit organizations in Spain, Visión y Vida and Acción Visión España, have signed a cooperation agreement for the joint development of programs to inform the public about and otherwise expedite eyecare. Their objective is to make eye health into a right for all, regardless of economic status, place of ...
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MIDO Awards celebrate store designs and innovation, industry sustainability efforts
The MIDO 2026 Awards ceremony that was held at the international trade show in Milan last weekend focused on retail experience and sustainability. On the retail side, two optical shops in Lisbon, Portugal, have received the Best Store Award: AndréOpticas Chiado was recognized for its store design inspired by vintage ...
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Evonik launches new recycled polyamide with Italian partner
Evonik is launching a recycled version of its TROGAMID material, which is used in sunglass lenses among other applications, in partnership with Poliplastic, an Italian-based supplier of specialty polyamides. The recycling loop for the new material, TROGAMID R, starts with the collection of scrap-production shards from manufacturers of optical non-prescription ...
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MYKITA switches to recycled material for its demo lenses
MYKITA has announced that it will switch all its optical frames demo lenses from plastic to Eastman Tritan Renew, an ISSC PLUS certified copolyester made at 50 percent from recycled material. The Berlin-based eyewear company calculates that the move will divert the equivalent of 150,000 single-use water bottles from landfills ...
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Mondottica achieves B Corp status
Mondottica Group has announced that it has achieved the B Corporation status, a recognition of high social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency. The certification was awarded by B.Lab, after an 18-month review including 258 questions relating to the company’s operations. Ben Whitaker, Managing Director of Mondottica Group, stressed that ...
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News briefsMarcolin, New York Tech hold design contest
This month Marcolin and the New York Institute of Technology (New York Tech) conducted what the company calls an “academic-industrial initiative.” Called “Vision Reframed: Designing Eyewear Beyond Boundaries,” the initiative called on students from New York Tech’s departments of architecture, interior design, digital art and design, and medicine (presumably its ...
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News briefsSea2See opens first branded shop
Sea2See, the eyewear brand manufacturing frames from marine waste material, is opening its first branded eyewear store in Grenoble, France. The venture is a partnership with Julien Clavel, an independent optician. The 95 square-meter shop showcases Sea2See’s entire collection and offers a range of optical services, including contact lenses. The ...
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ArticleNPO GoodVision has sold 1 million low-priced glasses to people in need, building up local supply chains along the way
EinDollarBrille (also known as GoodVision), an international eye care association based in Germany, has announced that it has delivered one million pairs of glasses since its creation in 2012 by Martin Aufmuth, a former secondary school teacher of physics and mathematics. The association runs its GoodVision Glasses program in eleven ...
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PPG Optical launches non-methanol version of its HI-GARD coating
PPG Optical has announced the launch of a non-methanol version of its HI-GARD hard coating for 1.5 standard ophthalmic lenses, due to the toxicity of methanol. The company says that the new product offers the same scratch-resistant protection for plastic lens materials as existing HI-Gard solutions and that it is ...
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Silhouette announces one million kg of CO2 savings at main site
Silhouette International says that it has saved one million kg of CO2 since it put photovoltaic systems on the roof of its headquarters and manufacturing site in Linz, Austria, in 2020. The saving in carbon emissions is equivalent to the annual consumption of 500 households or 667 Vienna-New York flights, ...
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OWA to discuss the role of women in optical innovation in SILMO panel discussion
The Optical Women’s Association (OWA) will be holding a panel discussion at the SILMO PARIS trade show on Sept. 26 at 4:30pm at the SILMO Talks Stage. Sponsored by the exhibition organizers, “Seeing Beyond: The Power of Women in Optical Innovation” will look at how women are driving change in ...
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HOYA kicks off SBTI certification process
HOYA Corporation has submitted a commitment letter to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI), a first step towards the certification by the international climate association.The Japanese group said that it was aiming to establish near-term greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets in line with the 1.5°C framework established under the Paris ...
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VSP Vision reports CSR progress
Releasing its 2024 Social Responsability Report, VSP Vision, Marchon’s mother company, said that it has reached a 53 percent ratio of produced eyewear frames made from sustainable, recycled and biobased materials last year, representing a 61 percent year-on-year increase. The group also stressed that it has switched to fully-recycled demo ...
