Looking at labs: Staying ahead of the game
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
Manufacturing View All Manufacturing
Modular manufacturing
Contact point: Lens manufacturing at the heart of Europe
Seeing a contact lens made for the first time is often a revelation for ...
Looking a labs: Caledonian
Looking a labs: The Caledonian sleeper
Significant investment in Caledonian Optical has unlocked the full capabilities ...
Making contacts at No 7
Looking at labs: Making contacts at No 7
Mike Hale visits Hastings to get the inside story on No 7 Contact Lenses and ...
A triumph for Waterside Labs
Hassle-free service
In the saturated sector of optical suppliers the personal customer service ...
Old colleagues, new venture
Looking at labs: Old colleagues, new venture
iTec Optical may be a new kid on the lens lab block, but its people are among ...
Marcolin's success story
At the heart of Italian eyewear production
Marcolin is one of the major global frame producers. But with a focus on ...
Models and masters
Optical Connections: Models and masters
David Baker finds an unlikely link between the Worshipful Company of Spectacle ...
PKP Optics
PKP Optics: Taking long hops forward in Kent
This ophthalmic laboratory between Tonbridge and Maidstone has steadily grown ...
Looking at labs: Waterside stays ahead of the game
Looking at labs: Waterside ...
Timely investment in state of the art technology and a commitment to the needs of independents have ensured that Waterside Labs has stayed at the forefront of the prescription sector, Mike Hale reports
Echoes of the Past: Charting Norville's expansion
Echoes of the Past: Charting ...
Norville is one of the most prominent names in the UK optical sector and over the years has evolved into a group of companies in manufacturing eyewear
Echoes of the Past: Manufacturing setbacks and school eye examinations loom large in October 1975
Echoes of the Past: ...
There was no shortage of activity in the UK optical sector in the mid-1970s judging by this week’s Echoes of the Past
Echoes of the Past: Grand designs
Echoes of the Past: Grand ...
A copy of the Manufacturing Optician supplement from fifty years ago offers a comprehensive take on setting up a spectacle factory in the sixties
Echoes of the Past: A belting job
Echoes of the Past: A belting ...
This week’s Echoes of the Past from Optician focuses on the great strides prescription laboratories were making in the sixties thanks to semi-automated production
Echoes of the Past: Lens laboratory survival
Echoes of the Past: Lens ...
This week’s Echoes of the Past looks at Optician sister title, Manufacturing Optician from July 1965. That month, The Beatles released ‘Help’ in the UK and cigarette advertising was banned on British TV
Echoes of the Past: Livery and let die
Echoes of the Past: Livery ...
Echoes of the Past looks at SMC Masters and some of the notable names in optics that have taken up the position
Rodenstock managing director Niels Jensen talks to Optician
Rodenstock managing director ...
Rodenstock is embarking on a major support programme for its Club members, Chris Bennett asks managing director Niels Jensen about supporting independents and how the market is changing
Echoes of the past: Opticians - part of a profession or a trade?
Echoes of the past: Opticians ...
This week’s Echoes of the Past turns back the clock 75 years to July 1939. The week the issue went to press, 200 enthusiasts attended the world’s first Sci-Fi convention, Worldcon, at the Caravan Hall in New York
Echoes of the past: How Manufacturing Optician magazine covered the Northern Optical Congress trade show
Echoes of the past: How ...
While searching the Optician archives for this week’s instalment of Echoes of the past, volumes of monthly sister title Manufacturing Optician from March 1964 came to light.
Back to the future at Vision Expo West
Back to the future at Vision ...
Optician reports from International Vision Expo West in Las Vegas, where delegates and exhibitors reflected on the event's 25 year history while welcoming in a raft of new technologies.
