UltraVision
{{Short description|British contact lens manufacturer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox company
| name = UltraVision CLPL
| logo =
| type = Private Limited Company
| former_name = Contact Lens Precision Laboratories
| foundation = 1967
| location = Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England
| key_people = {{Ubl
| John H Clamp, Co-CEO, CTO
| Diane Angell, Co-CEO
| J. Keith Lomas, Non-Exec. Dir.
| Dick Newell, Non-Exec. Dir.
}}
| industry = Ophthalmology
| products =
| revenue =
| num_employees =
| homepage = {{URL|www.ultravision.co.uk}}
}}
UltraVision CLPL is a contact lens manufacturer, with headquarters in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England. It ships products across the world.
History
Contact Lens Precision Laboratories (CLPL), was founded in Cambridge in 1967. J. Keith Lomas, who was the company's managing director between 1996 and 2017, oversaw the acquisition of UltraVision in July 2003.[http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/2003091626847/manufacturing-archive/contact-lens-maker-lifts-european-status-with-major-acquisition.html Lens Maker lifts status with major acquisition | Business Weekly] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628165017/http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/2003091626847/manufacturing-archive/contact-lens-maker-lifts-european-status-with-major-acquisition.html |date=June 28, 2009 }} Upon that acquisition, the company name was changed to the UltraVision CLPL group.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n16151685 School friends with an eye on success | Independent, The (London)]{{dead link|date=September 2016}}
UltraVision CLPL opened a research-and-development office in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.newsrx.com/newsletters/Biotech-Business-Week/2007-01-29/501292007128BB.html|title=Better Understanding Through Technology & Emerging Research|website=www.newsrx.com|access-date=25 September 2018}} Based in Cambridge, this office has developed various types of contact-lens technologies, including freeform surface modelling, toric lens design, and wavefront technologies, as well as lenses for persons suffering from keratoconus and corneal trauma, KeraSoft.
In April 2018 Contact Lens Precision Laboratories was acquired by SEED Co., Ltd.
Awards
In 2001, UltraVision's Spherical Aberration Management technology received the Award for Innovation in British Optics from the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers.[http://www.spectaclemakers.com/pages/award3.html The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers Innovation in British Optics: Winners 2001] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070608061713/http://www.spectaclemakers.com/pages/award3.html |date=June 8, 2007 }} In the same year, the company received a Technology Award from EFCLIN (the European Federation of Contact Lens Industry).{{cite web |url=http://www.efclin.com/?page_id=305 |title=Previous Winners |website=www.efclin.com|access-date=25 September 2018}}
UltraVision CLPL has received The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation twice{{Snd}} first in 2006 for its Spherical Aberration Management and Wavefront technologies[http://www.queensawards.org.uk/business/Winners/2006.html#innovation Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation - Winners of 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024085434/http://www.queensawards.org.uk/business/Winners/2006.html#innovation |date=October 24, 2007 }} and again in April 2010{{cite web |url=https://www.ft.com/content/b666dd1c-4c8e-11df-9977-00144feab49a |title=The cutting edge of technology |website=Financial Times |access-date=25 September 2018 |url-access=subscription }} for KeraSoft, UltraVision's patented contact lens for irregular corneas.[http://www.optometry.co.uk/newsview.php?id=979 Optometry Today - UltraVision wins second Queen's Award]{{dead link|date=September 2016}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.ultravision.co.uk/ UltraVision Group website]
Category:Optics manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Companies based in Bedfordshire