A-Z of eyewear: ABC
Optician’s A to Z of Eyewear is a monthly tour of eyewear terminology, focusing on the essential materials, shapes, componentry, iconic brands and some unusual stops in between
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Labs: Consistency and quality
Looking at labs: Consistency and quality
Mike Hale visits Kennet Lahti Optical Glazing, one of only three glazing labs ...
Small but perfectly formed
Small but perfectly formed
Consolidation in the lens market has left just a handful of giants on the ...
How a city earned spectacles
How a city earned its spectacles
David Baker recounts the history of Oudenaarde and why spectacles sit above its ...
Ensuring compliance
Ensuring compliance at Vision Lab
Vision Lab is providing Riley safety eyewear through a range of innovative ...
Looking at labs
Looking at labs: Automatic for the people
Modern lab production technology has undergone a revolution in recent years. ...
Knowledge factory
Inside the TD Tom Davies factory
TD Tom Davies has opened the doors to its factory to help its customers go ...
Interview: Walter Hester
Interview: Walter Hester, founder, Maui Jim
Earlier this year sunglass maker Maui Jim announced plans for a prescription ...
Creative bifocal solution
Executive bifocal creatively solves an artist’s problem
An innovative solution to an artist’s needs for clear close and distant vision ...
Looking in labs: Manufacturing lenses - part 2
Looking in labs
Mike Hale continues the series with a look at lens generators and speaks to Chris Smith of Waterside about the generation process
Looking at labs: An overview of spectacle lens manufacture
Spectacle lens manufacturing
Optical lens manufacture is something many people in practice take for granted but the high technology processes that go into producing modern spectacle lenses deserve closer scrutiny. Chris Bennett reports
Interview: Luisa Delgado, CEO Safilo and Safilo France MD Carole Binet
Interview: Luisa Delgado
With nearly half of Safilo’s leadership roles now held by women, Simon Jones discussed gender and diversity in optics with two of the company’s leading lights, CEO Luisa Delgado and Safilo France MD, Carole Binet
Looking at labs: Crucial role of independents
Crucial role of independents
Talking to opticians it seems there are almost as many reasons for using independent glazing and surfacing labs as there are prescription houses. Peter Black reports
Optician Awards 2018: Celebrating the stars
Celebrating the stars
Winning an Optician Award is the highlight of many optical careers. The race is now on to find out who will triumph in 2018. Optician editor Chris Bennett explains how the entry process is taking shape
LAB directory 2018: Where the works gets done
LAB directory 2018
Optician presents our guide to the optical labs throughout the UK and Ireland, with each company given the opportunity to provide an insight into the services they provide
Looking at labs: Changing with the times
Lab review: Sinclair Optical
Optician talks to Sinclair Optical Services site manager Dave Pitt about how the lab has adapted to the changing face of the profession over the past 30 years
Frame friends of the Earth
Frame friends of the Earth
Simon Jones reports on some of the companies at the forefront of environmentally friendly eyewear production and social responsibility
Manufacturing: Green from the ground up
Green from the ground up
Long term thinking has to be at the heart of environmental planning discovers Chris Bennett from a visit to International Glazing Services in Kidderminster
Looking at labs: The motormen driving forward Specsavers’ manufacturing
Specsavers’ manufacturing lab
Specsavers has turned to the automotive industry to help its manufacturing become world class. Chris Bennett travelled to Kidderminster to find out more
Looking at labs: Staying ahead of the game
Looking at labs
Dunelm Optical has piled investment into the lens manufacturing side of its business in the past two years. Mike Hale hears how it came about and why it can benefit independent practices
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