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Eyejusters Triple Winner at Plastics Industry Awards 2016

Winners of the 2016 Plastics Industry Awards (PIAs) were revealed on Friday 30th September by at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

Eyejusters affordable, innovative self-adjusting glasses that offer the possibility of clear vision for the first time to millions in the developing and developed world won three awards in what are known as the Oscars of the UK plastics industry. It won the Best Business Initiative of the Year, while Fanuc UK won the Supplier Partnership – Prime Machinery Award for its work with Eyejusters and Hi-Tech Automation also scooped the Supplier Partnership – Ancillary Machinery award for its contribution to the same product. Eyejusters was also a finalist in the prestigious Consumer Product of the Year.

British based Eyejusters have created a discreet adjustable eyeDial to allow users to change the lens strength in the same way as binoculars or a microscope, giving wearers near perfect vision, whatever their needs - computer, reading or detailed close-up work.

Their classic styles are all crafted using quality materials, in Acetate and Stainless Steel. The glasses are available in 17 different colours and retail at £69 and £79. All Eyejusters come with a 1 year warranty.

Most people need help with close up vision at some point in their lives hence the popularity of ‘ready readers’ (over-the- counter reading glasses). By our mid-forties we start struggling to see close-up objects such as books, computers and phones. This is caused by an age-related condition called presbyopia, which is part of the natural ageing process of the eye[i]. Our eyes begin to lose elasticity making it harder to switch focus between short and long-distance objects. Reading glasses are not a complete solution for presbyopia as they have a fixed lens, this means that only a small zone is in focus, at a constant distance from the eye. To change this distance, you need a different pair of glasses. Additionally, ‘ready readers’ have the same strength lens for each eye - many people, however, require different strengths for each eye.

With this problem in mind, the creators of Eyejusters invented SlideLensTM, the result of five years of intensive research which means that each lens can be individually focused by the wearer through a small adjustable dial in each side of the frame enabling wearers to focus each eye independently.

“Many people need glasses with lots of different strengths. They may have a pair with for computer work, another for reading, and maybe yet another for close up work like hobbies,” said Owen Reading, Co-founder of Eyejusters, “Eyejusters replaces the need for multiple pairs of glasses. We are delighted to have been honoured at the Plastics Industry awards. It is especially pleasing that our suppliers, Fanuc UK and Hi-Tech Automation who have helped us enormously were also recognized.”

Eyejusters contain SlideLens technology – a pair of adjustable focus lenses so their strength can be altered at any time with a small, hidden dial. Using two independent lenses, sealed against moisture and dirt, which slide across each other, the glasses adjust the full field of vision, not just a small area of the lens. This restores the natural ability of the eye to change focus. Rather than carrying multiple pairs of glasses of varying strengths and quality to use throughout the day, users only need a single pair.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by David Pacini .