Transition coating origin.

[hwong1991]

I have a question here, i would like to know where is the origin or the name of the company that create transition? i have no idea where it is from. Very appreciate for the help.

[rinselberg]

http://en-us.transitions.com/en/default.aspx

[hwong1991]

thank you rins.

[Jim Schafer]

Transitions Optical, Inc was incorporated in the summer of 1990. However, the name Transitions lenses came from the parent company PPG Industries, Inc in early 1988.
The optical products group of PPG's Chemical Division developed a photochromic lens using CR39 as the lens material. We began selling it during test markets in 1987 and 1988. We had a pilot lens plant set up in Tallmadge Ohio. We made four skus, all SFSV in gray and brown and in cold weather and hot weather iterations. The work in Tallmadge and at the PPG technical center located at that time in Barberton Ohio, made many improvements to the production technology and our raw materials for each test market study. We could see we had a viable product and the labs we worked with were very encouraged with the pace of the project.
We needed a name for the product and the Research Center in Barberton Ohio held a contest to name the product. The administrative assistant for the group, a woman named Ann Butler, came up with the name Transitions Lenses. The name was trademarked at that time. We set up at the PPG booth at VEE and VEW in those years, flying our Transitions banner and talking to everyone who stopped by about our lens. We did not have our own booth at a trade show until VEW in Anaheim in 1990.

[hwong1991]

Woo, thank you very for the information =D. so are you working for transition company?

[Jim Schafer]

Yes, I work for PPG Industries and have been assigned to Transitions Optical from the start. I was part of the original photochromic lens team in R&D from the early 1980's.