The first thing a visitor notices are thousands of patterns for the different sizes and shapes of lenses they make.
Starting with a hockey puck sized piece of plastic, polycarbonate, or the ultra thin, high index material, it goes through numerous stages of cutting, polishing and cleaning before a final inspection prior to being delivered.
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- Thousands of different patterns for a variety of size and shapes of lenses that are available.
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- Thousands of different patterns for a variety of size and shapes of lenses that are available.
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- Office manager/lab technician Kathy Chase keeps track of all the orders, first placing each one into a color coded container depending on the type of lens to be made.
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- Lab technician Chris Jipson checks the power of the lens prior to one more final cleaning prior to being delivered.
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- Lab technician Chris Jipson uses a hand caliper to check the thickness of a lens.
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- After removing resin from the lens that holds it on to the bracket for cutting, lab technician Paula White polishes a lens.
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- A pair of lenses are washed in the surfacer to polish the lenses after being cut.
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