Vision Now February 2022

News Eyespace More than 60 styles have been added to Eyespace’s eyewear portfolio of designer and house brands. The 2022 sunwear collection includes 19 sustainable styles, including within the Aspinal range. These frames are hand-crafted using bio-acetate and sustainable leather – aligning with Aspinal’s sustainability journey. A bee motif can be found on the outer tips of all Aspinal sustainable models in gold.

Meanwhile, licensed brand Land Rover also features new sustainable styles for men featuring bio-based acetate from a renewable source and recycled stainless steel. Six premium metal styles are composed of precision-cut Japanese titanium and Mazzucchelli acetate, while

Sustainable Aspinal sunwear

laser-etched signature branding enhances each frame. Cocoa Mint continues to deliver exaggerated sunwear styles for women – with bolder, brighter colours. A capsule collection includes six sustainable styles.

Théa UK Théa UK has launched its new Théa Academy to provide online CPD. Practitioners who register will be able to access talks by renowned eye health professionals, supporting CPD requirements for continued registration. Online events, courses, workshops and webinars will be suitable for students and support staff too covering a wide variety of topics. A library of books, brochures and articles will be available on demand as well as information about upcoming events. Visit www.thea-pharmaceuticals.co.uk/academy

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Essilor

Stellest lenses for six to 16-year-olds

Essilor has described the UK launch of Stellest spectacle lenses as its “best solution and support yet for eyecare practitioners, parents and children in the fight against myopia progression”. Clinical trial results show that after two years, children wearing Stellest lenses for at least 12 hours a day saw their myopia progression reduced by 67 per cent on average (0.99D) – compared to children wearing single vision lenses.

Doug Bairner (L) with Heathcliffe Clash at CooperVision HQ

All CooperVision one-day contact lenses distributed in the UK and Ireland are now described by the company as ‘plastic neutral’ thanks to a new global partnership with the social enterprise, Plastic Bank. For every box of CooperVision one-day contact lenses distributed in the UK and Ireland, CooperVision purchases credits that fund the collection, processing and reuse of general plastic waste that is equal to the weight of the plastic used in its one-day contact lenses, the blister and the outer carton packaging.

Through Plastic Bank, collected ocean-bound plastic materials are reprocessed for reintroduction into the global supply chain. Collectors receive a premium for the materials they collect, which helps them provide basic family necessities. Doug Bairner, country manager UK and Ireland at CooperVision, said: “Plastic plays a critical role in the hygienic delivery and sterile protection of our contact lenses, and how that plastic is managed is important to us. The commitment to making all of our one-day lenses in the UK and Ireland plastic neutral is an innovative addition in CooperVision’s holistic approach to sustainability...”

Designed with Highly Aspherical Lenslet Target (HALT) technology, a constellation of 1,021 invisible aspherical contiguous lenslets distributed over 11 rings on the surface of the lens create, for the first time, a volume of unfocused light in front of, and following the shape of, the retina. This signal helps to slow down the eye elongation and therefore myopia progression. Tim Precious, managing director at Essilor, said: “Stellest lenses now offer the dual benefit of myopia correction and control to help minimise the risk of related complications that can eventually lead to irreversible vision loss, and without any aesthetic compromise.”

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