Looking at Labs: The Wrexham faculty dedicated to lens learning

Labs used to be noisy, messy places. The clatter of tray-laden trollies vied with rattling conveyor belts and the rush of the trademark white cooling water sloshing through wastepipes. Not so in the modern lab like Hoya’s in Wrexham.

Hoya has cemented its position as a leader in lens technology but it now sees its labs as much as a training tool and an ambassador of its abilities. The plant, once a factory for world-wide stock lens production, now welcomes practices through its doors to tour production processes and learn within a newly created teaching area it calls its UK Faculty. Independents never cease to be impressed by the high tech nature of lens manufacturing.