fair chance that the optical lenses you wear, have been manufactured in Thailand ....
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Originally Posted by
Lab Insight
This is the norm - called global sourcing. Essilor, Nikon, Hoya and many others outsource to their global affiliates overseas at a rate of about 70%. They only produce their highly profitable branded lenses in their local labs in Dallas, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver which is about 30%.
Lab Insight is right.............
Even their profitable lenses are made in Thailand as semi finished.
Thailand is todays largest lens manufacturing country.
Whether you buy your new glasses in Thailand and elsewhere, there is a fair chance that the optical lenses you wear, have been manufactured in Thailand. Thailand produces more than 20 % of the close to a billion optical lenses made each year. Besides local independent manufacturers, many foreign countries have factories located in Thailand. These include : Hoya Lens (Japan), Essilor Manufacturing (France), Rodenstock (Germany), Solarlens (Italy), Indo (Spain) and Transitions (U.S.A.). Local total production capacity is 200 million optical lenses.
A known local enterprise is Thai Optical Group, which produces optical lenses under its own brand names, and as an original-equipment-manufacturere (OEM) for other companies and brands. Thai Optical Group has an annual capacity at present of 27 million lenses.
Most of the raw material needed to produce optical lenses, has to be imported into the country, and has to be transported in refrigerated containers. The larger orders the country generates, creates lower costs per unit of production.
See the production graph by country: =============>
http://www.thaiwebsites.com/opticallenses.asp
Nikon lenses are NEVER ...............................
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Originally Posted by
Klean
Nikon lenses are NEVER Visionease lenses or Hoya lenses or anything other than an Essilor product. I hope this clarifies for some of you.
correct....................however they are all the same as made by another one.
Nikon Corporation, Japan and Essilor International, France ..........................
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Nikon Corporation, Japan and Essilor International, France, establish a joint research center in Japan
see all of it, at :
http://www.nikon.com/news/2009/0212_01.htm
They are now having a SILMO 2018 in Thailand this year ...........................
They are now having a SILMO 2018 in Thailand this year. :
About SILMO Bangkok 2018
Creating new opportunities, the first edition of SILMO Bangkok 2018 serves as the ideal gateway into ASEAN’s optical industry, bringing together over 4,000 professionals to explore the latest products, technologies and solutions on a regional stage. The inaugural show focuses on three guiding pillars :
- A business and trade platform;
- A gathering for professionals to learn and network; and
- A must- attend event for the latest eyewear fashion.
https://silmobangkok.com/file/2017/09/ad-block-date.png
source:
https://silmobangkok.com/silmo-bangk...eyewear-market