Eye Index meets rise in base-8 demand

Specialist surfacing and glazing laboratory Eye Index of St Ives, Huntingdon, has continued to invest to meet the growing demand for base-8 sports and fashion wraps.

The company has focused on two main areas of investment – staff training and further roll out of the ‘Labman’ integrated ophthalmic laboratory management system, giving more overall capacity for base-8, with greater manufacturing efficiency and customer focus. It has also introduced new products in the prescription base-8 market, with the recent launch of NXT performance sun lenses produced with Trivex.

Eye Index director Tony Harris said NXT was an ideal partner for base-8, adding that glazing the lens, in common with other base-8 lens options, remained a specialist job.