Hoya collaboration claims world first at Silmo with Yuniku

Hoya has teamed up with avant garde eyewear designer, Hoet, and 3D printing specialist, Materialise to create what it described a s new category of eyewear at last weekend Silmo exhibition in Paris.

Under the brand Yuniku the trio unveiled a collaboration which designs a completely personalised eyewear product built around maintaining the best possible vision correction determined by the lens. This visioncentric approach was unique, claimed Hoya’s CEO for the Europe Middle East and Africa region, Hans Werquin.’ Yuniku is not only about technology and perfection of vison or about 3D printing. Yuniku is a revolution, the world’s first visioncentric eyewear.’ We are creating a new category today, we are very excited and passionate about what this is going to do to our industry.’