GlobalCONTACT
ISSUE 02/2024
Overview
Report: Meetings of ECOO and EAOO in Helsinki // 50th EFCLIN Congress // Company Profile: Valley Contax // Fitting Background: Dropouts // Myths: children and contact lenses // Interview: Roland Fromme
NEWS
CooperCompanies announces revenue growth
CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO), a global medical device company operating through two business units, CooperVision and CooperSurgical, announced revenue growth for both its fiscal fourth quarter and for fiscal 2024 ended October 31, 2024. The company reported fourth quarter revenue of $1,018.4 million, up 10 percent from last year’s fourth quarter, up 9 percent in constant…
An exciting step forward
BostonSight® announced it has published a groundbreaking study: “Utilizing PROSE as a Drug Delivery Device for Preservative-Free Cyclosporine 0.05% for the Treatment of Dry Eye Disease: A Pilot Study” in the journal Clinical Ophthalmology. “The publication of this landmark open-label, prospective, non-comparative clinical trial highlights the investigative approach, concepts, and many important scientific questions regarding…
Hecht: Founder Dieter Muckenhirn dies at 81
Mourning for a great personality Dieter Muckenhirn is considered the inventor of the aspherical contact lens. Together with partners, he founded Hecht Contactlinsen GmbH in 1978. He passed away on November 5. The management and employees of the contact lens manufacturer bid him farewell in an obituary. “It is with deep regret that we bid…
Two-day specialty contact lens congress in Rome
From November 23 to 24, 2024, everything in Rome will revolve around specialty contact lenses. It is the only international meeting of its kind in Europe and will bring together opinion leaders from 25 countries in the field of specialty contact lenses to share their experiences, research results and innovative ideas. The event will be…
Alcon reports financial results
Alcon has reported its financial results for the 3- and 9-month periods ending September 30, 2024, demonstrating a 6 percent increase in sales to $2.4 billion on a reported and constant currency basis for the third quarter, as compared with the same quarter of the previous year. Sales for the first nine months of 2024…
ARTICLES
LenzBox: Innovative contact lens cleaning
Efficient contact lens care for soft contact lenses is particularly important for long-term and safe contact lens wear. At the last Opti Munich 2024, a start-up presented a completely new system that not only simplifies contact lens care, but also manages the amount of care product used sustainably.
Chat GPT and other AI – a new language for the industry
An interview with CSEM machine learning expert Philipp Schmid ChatGPT and other AIs have recently caused a furor in virtually all professions where people write, program or design. How much dust are these supposedly general-purpose AIs stirring up in the industry? The general-purpose AIs are kicking up an enormous amount of dust. But unlike 2016,…
Contact Lenses: Enhancing the comfort
The importance of contact lens characterization Why do wearers consider “soft” contact lenses (CLs) more comfortable than the “rigid” gas permeable (RGP) alternative? Thus, what does “comfort” mean from a scientific point of view? In this short article, we aim to emphasize the significance of meticulously characterizing and monitoring the physical parameters of CL materials…
State of the Art(ificial): Part 2
Understanding Soft Lens Design & Fitting Celebrating 50 years of EFCLIN, urges us to look back – but also gives us a good opportunity to look forward. Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting a lot of attention lately, almost to the point of becoming a fashion statement: everybody is into artificial intelligence, it seems. Several recent…
A historic therapeutic contact lens
Series on the Roth Collection Contact lenses are not only a valuable visual aid, they were also used soon after their invention as a bandage and, following the successful synthesis of water-retaining plastics, as a drug carrier on the eye. Their ability to compensate for irregular corneal astigmatism was recognized as early as the first…
Erik Larson: The Problem Solver
A visit to Larsen Equipment Design Together with his son Andrew, Erik Larsen shoulders a steel bar and carries it into his workshop. It smells of oil and metal here. A whole battalion of machinery is installed here. Large, old, new and small. And the really big ones, which easily have a footprint of 6…
LETTER
Employee, where are you?
Are you having trouble finding employees? And to keep them? There’s a specter haunting the EU – and unfortunately, it’s very real: The shortage of skilled workers. And it’s particularly noticeable in some EU countries. That’s because demographic change is in full swing here – and often more advanced than in other regions of the world.