New facility allows
Plastic Plus to significantly
boost lens output
By Denis Langlois
Plastic Plus has moved into a newly
renovated, larger facility, which its
President says will allow Canada's
largest independent optical lab to sig-
nificantly boost its lens-making capa-
bilities and reduce turnaround time
for producing lenses.
“We will be the most automated lens
lab in the country and one of the Top-
10 automated independent labs in
North America,” Paul Faibish said in
an interview.
Plastic Plus, a family-owned business
founded in 1974, had been at 14 Leswyn
Road in Toronto since 1985.
The company doubled the size of its
facility to 14,000 square feet in 2009,
the same year it became fully automat-
ed and introduced premium anti-re-
flective coatings.
Since that time, both the business
and number of staff also doubled in
size, creating the need to find a
larger space.
Plastic Plus purchased the building next
door, at 10 and 12 Leswyn Road, in 2016
and undertook a massive renovation –
transforming an old warehouse into a
state-of-the-art production facility.
“We just ran out of room,” Faibish
said. “We needed more equipment to
meet demand and we just didn't have
the space to do that.” The business moved over to the new
digs in March. The new 30,000-square-
foot building has allowed Plastic Plus
to more than double its manufacturing
space and boost its lens output by at
least 50 percent.
He noted the company had to turn
down contracts over the years due to
the space restraints and lack of
production capacity. Millions of dollars worth of new
equipment was also purchased and
the production facility is now eve n
more automated.
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“This will allow us to not only
increase our production capacity but
also further develop lenses with the
most complex macros in the world,”
Faibish said.
The turnaround time to produce
lenses will also be reduced by 12 to
24 hours, he said, to within 24 hours
for non-AR products and 24 to 48
hours for AR lenses.