Contamac 25th Anniversary Announced

Publish Date: 2 January, 2012

The Company recently completed expansion and improvements totalling over £2 million in its facility located in north Essex in the UK, including over £400,000 in capital equipment investment. Contamac was founded in 1987 with a range of contact lens materials, with its first foldable acrylic IOL material added in 1997. Contamac US was established as an affiliate company in 2002, followed by the launch of the full range of Optimum GP materials in 2004. Honoured as a supplier to a winning product at the 2008 Medical Design Excellence Awards, Contamac also launched the first lathable Silicone Hydrogel material DefinitiveTM that same year. Now sold worldwide, Definitive was also the basis for a patent awarded to Contamac by the United States Patent & Trademark Office in May 2011 for protection of its proprietary Silicone Hydrogel material. The Company launched its Centre of Excellence and the formation of the Specialty Lens Institute in 2011, as well, targeting practitioner education, contact lens training and optometric school contact lens programmes.