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Menicon plans European HQ

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Contact lens maker Menicon is to locate its international operations outside of Japan in Emmen, the Netherlands.

The company announced a major reorganisation this month creating a new entity, Menicon Holdings, and a new global management team. Menicon Holdings will build headquarters and a manufacturing plant in Emmen.

The new plant, to open in 2013, will initially produce custom contact lenses for the European market and house Menicon's European R&D centre.

In 2009 Menicon acquired UK manufacturer David Thomas Contact Lenses, based in Northampton.

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