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Mitsui expects flat annual sales in vision care materials
Mitsui Chemicals has reported a second consecutive quarter of declining revenue for its Life & Healthcare Solutions division, in which its vision care business is integrated along with other products such as nonwovens, oral care and agrochemicals. The business unit sales for the first six months of the group’s current ...
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Mitsui to increase MR output and bolster synergies with coating unit in FY 2023
Mitsui Chemicals has reported a 33 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to 258 billion Japanese yen (€1.7bn) in fiscal 2022 for its Life & Healthcare Solutions business, a unit that includes sales of vision care materials but also other product categories, such as agrochemicals and nonwovens. Operating margin for the ...
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Higher demand for high-index lenses drives Mitsui vision care unit
Mitsui Chemicals has reported a 14.4 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to 165 billion Japanese yen (€1.2 bn) last year for its Health Care business unit, which includes lens materials and coatings but also nonwoven products and dental materials. The division accounted for roughly ten percent of total revenues. The ...
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Deep Optics kickstarts liquid crystal lenses’ hybrid sunglasses
It took less than twelve hours for the Israeli startup Deep Optics to complete its $25,000 objective in its Kickstarter campaign for the launch of its new 32°N product, a pair of sunglasses with adaptative lenses that can easily be switched to a reading glasses’ function. ...
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Costco switches from polycarbonate to Mitsui’s MR for prescription lenses
Mitsui Chemicals , the Tokyo-based supplier of raw material for lenses, announced earlier this week that Costco Wholesale would start using its MR series of high refractive index lens monomers as a standard option for its eyeglasses sold in the U.S. The membership-based U.S. retailer had been offering ...