Italy-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 ...
IOT 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 ...
NPO 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 ...
EssilorLuxottica to increase its lens capacity in France by 40% with new industrial site
French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated yesterday EssilorLuxottica’s Excellence Rx Laboratory, or Labex according to the group’s terminology, a new industrial facility located in Wissous, in the suburbs of Paris and close to the company’s Innovation & Technology Center in Créteil. EssilorLuxottica stressed that the laboratory, which spreads over 16,000 square ...
PPG Optical grows with legacy products and innovations, looks for more sustainable processes
Amy Mercante, General Manager Specialty Products, discusses the performance of the group’s optical division and other industry topics including smart eyewear, additive manufacturing and sustainability challenges in the lens supply chain.
Multiparty closed-loop waste recycling program for luxury eyewear kicks off in Italy
Gruppo MAIP, an Italian-based supplier of thermoplastic materials, has announced that it was joining the ReGenesis Protocol, a multi-party recycling program developed for the high-end fashion manufacturing sector. In partnership with Eastman, Gruppo MAIP will supply fully recycled and traceable acetate to eyewear manufacturers participating in this program, for both ...
French NPO takes deep dive in ophthalmic lenses and eyewear frames’ carbon emissions
French consumers purchased 32 million lenses and 16 million frames in 2023, for a total carbon footprint of 130 tkCO2e. The report looks at the share of various components (raw materials, energy, transport, packaging, etc.) in the mix.
‘We try to be responsible’
Alessandra Girardi, head of sustainability and co-owner of Vanni, tells us about how the Italian SME’s sustainability approach is rooted in local production and supply chain, internal commitment and outside expertise, and LCA calculations.
US startup picks eyewear market as launch pad for infinitely recyclable plastic material
As the world is grappling with an ever-growing amount of plastic waste, of which less than 10 percent is being recycled, our attention was brought to a California-based chemical start-up that claims it can produce an infinitely recyclable alternative material to high performance plastics. And, somewhat surprisingly for such a ...
Study suggests readers could ease poverty
The American journal Plos One has published a study concluding that the “provision of reading glasses increases income in near vision-intensive occupations, and may facilitate return to work for those currently unemployed.”
