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Maria Petruccelli Joins HOYA Vision Care, North America

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Maria PetruccelliMississauga, ON –  Effective June 1st, 2016 Maria Petruccelli joined the global marketing team of HOYA Vision Care, North America located in Lewisville, Texas in the capacity of Director of Brand Marketing, Americas.

In her new role Maria will lead all marketing activities that pertain to the internal and external promotion of branded product. She will contribute to the overall marketing strategy, act as a liaison with the global marketing team and implement a tactical plan that will position and promote HOYA’s branded products in the marketplace. Her contributions will strengthen HOYA North America’s marketing efforts. Her focus will be on the US market combined with responsibilities in Canada and South America.

Maria has been a part of the HOYA family for thirteen years and has over twenty-five years of experience in the Vision Care Industry. Maria joined HOYA Vision Care Canada from the time of its inception thirteen years ago and has been instrumental in shaping its strategy and policy. Her HOYA career started as a Sales Representative calling on Eye Care Professionals and has progressively advanced in roles including Regional Manager and Director of Marketing and Professional Services.

For full press release, click HERE.

Essilor named No. 5 in Newsweek’s 2016 Green Rankings

Charenton-le-Pont, France Essilor announced today that it was ranked No. 5 in the 2016 Newsweek Green Rankings, created in partnership with Corporate Knights and HIP Investor. Since 2009, the Newsweek Green Rankings have been one of the world’s foremost corporate environmental rankings which assess the overall environmental performance of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the United States and the 500 largest publicly traded companies globally.

With 61,000 employees in 63 countries, nearly 540 production sites on five continents and more than $2.4 billion (€2 billion) in purchasing, Essilor’s “footprint” is larger and more diverse than ever. The company’s significant growth in recent years, along with changes in regulations and stakeholder expectations, has led Essilor to raise the bar in terms of its environmental sustainability responsibilities.

All over the world, each Essilor entity is engaged in a continuous improvement approach and contributes at its own level to the main drivers of the company’s sustainable and responsible development: reducing water and energy consumption; innovating; promoting diversity; ensuring quality working conditions; and connecting suppliers and customers to its mission. Concerning the optimization of natural resources management, the company has reduced water consumption by 40% and energy consumption by 22% in its mass production plants over the last 7 years.

In 2015, the company was ranked, for the fourth consecutive year, among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World (Global 100) Index by Corporate Knights. US magazine Forbes also ranked the Group amongst the World’s Most Innovative Companies for the fifth year running. Lastly, Essilor was selected as one of 50 companies that are changing the world in the first edition of Fortune magazine’s “Change the World” list.

Click HERE to read the full press release.

 

 

Safilo Presents Dior Homme AL 13.6

Reinterpretation of the essence of the emblematic AL13 line with a new shape, the AL13.6 sunglasses emerge from the inspirations of the Dior Homme winter 2015-2016 ready-to-wear fashion show.

They incarnate a dialogue between the technical and the formal, emphasized by the matte aluminium of the frame that brings lightness to the style.

The lines are sharp, the details sophisticated, the colours mirror the Dior Homme vestiaire. The cut, emblematic code of the brand, is subtly visible by the décroché on the front and at the endtips

Distributed by www.safilo.com

CooperVision Biofinity XR toric CL Now Available in Canada

June 10, 2016 – Coopervision announced the expanded availability of Biofinity® XR toric, the latest addition to the company’s leading Biofinity® range of monthly silicone hydrogel contact lenses. Now, Biofinity® XR toric is available to all eye care practitioners—and their patients—throughout Canada.

Biofinity® XR toric lenses are available in sphere powers from +10.00D to -10.00D (0.50D steps after +/-6.00D), with cylinder powers from -2.75 to -5.75 (0.50 steps) and an axis of 5 degrees to 180 degrees in 5-degree steps, and +8.50D to +10.00D with cylinder powers from -0.75 to -2.25 (0.50 steps) and axis of 5 degrees to 180 degrees in 5-degree steps.

CooperVision first introduced its Biofinity® XR sphere lenses in late 2013, offering patients with severe near- and far-sightedness a combination of high oxygen permeability and all-day comfort. With Biofinity® XR toric, these in-demand benefits are extended to people who have both high prescriptions and astigmatism—typically patients who have had challenges with contact lenses in the past, or may even have thought that contact lens wear was not an option.

Biofinity® XR toric is a fully cast molded made to order lens that incorporates the same uniform horizontal ISO thickness and optimized ballast band design as Biofinity® toric, making it an easy-to-fit, stable toric lens with excellent visual acuity. Its optimized, continuous surface ensures that the eyelid interacts with a smooth lens surface on every blink, resulting in a more comfortable wearing experience.

Click HERE for the complete press release.

Waterloo Smart Contact Lens Start-Up Receives $1.4 M in Seed Capital

Medella Health, a start-up company developing a proprietary smart glucose monitoring contact lens, founded at University of Waterloo’s technology incubator, has raised $1.4 M seed capital from venture capital firms.

In June last year, InfoClip reported Harry Ghandi, the company co-founder, was awarded a $100,000 prestigious Thiel grant to develop the product. The team has since grown to include nanotechnology, micro-electronics, health IT and micro-fabrication experts in its quest to commercialize the product, disrupt the market and take advantage of the shift to preventative health care.

Ghandi told InfoClip the company anticipates a final prototype by the end of 2017.

Lyndon Jones, Director of the Centre for Contact Lens Research is impressed. “Not only do they (Medella) have the rigor and the resilience to solve the hard problems facing this industry, but they weave together the balance between visionary purpose and practical implementation.”

The market opportunity for bio-sensors and health monitoring has not gone unnoticed. Alcon’s parent company, Novartis, announced the licensing-in of smart lens technology for ocular use last year from Google.

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