Centennial Optical says it's pleased
to offer the widest choice of blue light
protection options in an equally wide
selection of lens designs, materials
and coatings.
“In anti-blue light lens coatings,
Centennial offers CHC AR Blocker UV
as a custom coating and, through the
Centennial Lab Pak program, Nikon
SeeCoat Blue UV and SeeCoat Blue
Premium coatings on Nikon lenses,
in addition to Zeiss’ DuraVision Blue-
Protect on digitally customized lenses
by Carl Zeiss Vision,” says Rick Leroux,
Centennial Optical's director of
marketing and communications.
“For the past five years Centennial has
offered BluTech indoor and outdoor
lenses in finished planos and single
vision, semi-finished single vision and
bifocals, and digitally customized
Kodak progressive lenses.”
Leroux says the indoor lenses have
a light tint which mimics the natural
ocular lens pigment found in the human
eye, while the outdoor lenses are polar-
ized brown sunglass lenses which will
provide the highest level of UV and blue
light protection in bright sunlight.
Centennial’s CHOICE BluSelect brand
is a family of virtually clear lenses
that provide in-monomer protection
against UV and high energy blue light
in six different lens materials: 1.50 and
1.56 index, polycarbonate, 1.60, 1.67
and 1.74 high index, available in fin-
ished and semi-finished single vision,
and digitally customized progressives,
office and anti-fatigue lenses.
For customers looking for a lens offering
combined in-monomer blue light
filtering and an anti-blue light coating,
LeRoux suggests the hybrid Kodak
Total Blue Lens finished single vision
lenses in 1.60 index.
Plastic Plus, meanwhile, offers its
UV420 technology, which protects
wearers from blue light.
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The technology distinguishes itself
from other blue light products by
absorbing harmful light rather than
simply reflecting it. In addition, the
UV 420 product has no residual colour
which allows wearers to have superior
blue light protection with clear vision.
Plastic Plus Elite Coating is done using
a dip-coating process that ensures
better hard-coat adhesion to the AR.
It offers improved scratch resistance
and is thermally cured which creates
higher consistency front to back.
In January 2018, the company moved
into its new state-of-the-art lens man-
ufacturing facility, which doubled its
manufacturing space and increases
production capabilities. The facility
will also be able to manufacture lenses
with an even higher level of precision
and improved technology.
The new lab will offer more automation
including increased capacity in sur-
facing, edging, hard coating and
AR coating.
The new equipment is more sophisti-
cated and will allow for more complex
macros that will further enhance the
visual experience for wearers.