GlobalCONTACT
ISSUE 01/2025
Overview
Technology: Laser Swelling: Microlenses // Report: SSC // GSLS // Fitting Background: Presbyopinion pt. 2 // Pterygium // Business & Marketing: Five Myths about AI // Cyber Security pt. 2
NEWS
Alcon reports first quarter 2025 financial results and updated full-year guidance
Alcon has announced its financial results for the three months ending March 31, 2025. For the first quarter of 2025, sales were $2.5 billion, flat on a reported basis and up 3 percent on a constant currency basis, as compared with the same quarter of the previous year, the company stated. Vision care net sales,…
CooperVision reaches half-billion bottle milestone in Net Plastic Neutrality Initiative
CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO) and a leading manufacturer of contact lenses, announced it has reached a significant milestone in its pioneering net plastic neutrality initiative. Eyecare professionals and contact lens wearers have now prevented the equivalent of more than half a billion plastic bottles from entering the world’s oceans, the company said,…
Celebrating 15 Years of Dr. Eef van der Worp’s Scleral Lens Guide
Fifteen years ago, Dr. Eef van der Worp published A Guide to Scleral Lens Fitting, a landmark resource that has shaped scleral lens education worldwide. Developed with insights from top experts and backed by Bausch + Lomb, the 66-page guide remains a go-to reference, with over 100,000 downloads. Dr. van der Worp aimed to make…
Soleko unveils a rebranding of lens care products
Soleko, part of Menicon group, leader in contact lens care, unveils a rebranding of its lens care products with a modern and appealing design. The rebranding covers the entire product range, including cleaning, disinfection, hydration, and storage solutions. The new packaging features vibrant colours, enhancing shelf presence and making the products more recognizable to consumers….
Medical Vision is new majority shareholder of Galifa Contactlinsen
St. Gallen-based Galifa Contactlinsen AG, which specializes in the production and distribution of high-quality contact lenses, has gained a new majority shareholder in Roggwil TG-based Medical Vision AG. Medical Vision AG’s commitment strengthens its position in ophthalmology, optometry and ophthalmic optics and opens up new growth potential for Galifa Contactlinsen AG. Orderly successionChristian Krüsi, the…
ARTICLES
Pediatric Scleral Lenses
The care and treatment of vision problems in childhood is particularly challenging, especially when conventional visual aids are not sufficient. A 21-year retrospective study by Carrasquillo et al. highlights the long-term effects and benefits of scleral lenses in pediatric care.
Presbyopinion
Everyone has an opinion on presbyopia. But let’s stick to the facts and answer this question: What is presbyopia, exactly, and what can we do about it? Part I here in GlobalCONTACT covered the mechanism of accommodation and presbyopia as well as definitions of the condition.
Contact lenses in their DNA
Hecht Contactlinsen GmbH is based in Au near Freiburg, Germany, and is one of the leading manufacturers of customized contact lenses. Founded in 1978, the company specializes in individual solutions for contact lenses and offers high-quality RGPs as well as soft contact lenses. In addition, several subsidiaries have been added over the years.
The Summit of Specialty Contacts
From November 23 to 24, 2024, everything in Rome revolved around specialty contact lenses. It is the only international meeting of its kind in Europe and has brought together opinion leaders from over 25 countries in the field of specialty contact lenses to share their experiences, research results and innovative ideas.
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,…
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.