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‘RX Automation’ boosts lens-making capacity for TOG

‘RX Automation’ boosts lens-making capacity for TOG

Thai Optical Group (TOG) has introduced “RX Automation” integrated production technology to enhance the quality of its prescription eyeglass lenses and services.

It also reduces production and labour costs significantly, and earns Board of Investment tax benefits.
Managing director Torn Pracharktam said this week he expected sales of prescription lenses from the RX Automation project to increase this year. 
RX Automation, representing a Bt400-million investment, can manufacture more than a million prescription lenses (Rx lenses) on top of previous capacity. 
The high precision of the technology imported from Germany significantly reduces production waste and has been approved by the BOI for a corporate income-tax exemption.
TOG will demonstrate the process to major clients and the press in the first quarter of 2018 in a bid to build confidence among customers about quality, manufacturing standards and other services.
Vice president Sarath Teganjanavanich announced the firm’s annual results for 2017. 
The company has revenue from sales of goods and services of Bt1.87 billion, which is 2.92 per cent less than the last year due to a decrease in sales of value-added lenses spanning Asia-Pacific and North America. 
The company had a net profit of Bt183.46 million (net margin of 9.59 per cent), 26.72 per cent less than that of the previous year. Net profit decreased due to production-process factors in the first half of 2017 and loss of the currency exchange rates.
TOG is preparing to unveil a new product, Bluloc, at the MIDO Eyewear Show later this month in Milan, Italy. 
The Bluloc lens can reduce harmful light of frequencies below 420 nanometres by more than 95 per cent. 
The company anticipates positive feedback from foreign customers, especially for its high-impact-resistance lenses such as Excelite Trivex and Excelite Tribrid and the high-index lenses like Excelite 1.67.

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