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Synergy between pure comfort and successful lens design

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Jonathan Walker looks at the latest contact lens in the CooperVision portfolio, the combination of a well-established toric design with a high-tech silicone hydrogel material

 

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CooperVision had already started to develop its expertise in silicone hydrogel materials when the merger with Ocular Sciences Inc (OSI) took place in 2004. Four years previously OSI had entered into a joint research and development agreement with a Japanese company called Asahikasei Aime. So with the new research and development facility at Pleasanton, California and under the watchful eye of director Dr Arthur Back, the scientists set out to turn these early material developments into a marketable lens.

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