High-quality coating materials (hard coating, anti-fog coating)

As the market leader in the field of premium abrasion-resistant coatings, SDC offers a complete suite of Crystal Coat™ coatings and primers suited for prescription Rx lenses and other applications. SDC manufactures tintable and non-tintable coatings in both thermal cure and radiation cure formulas, all of which can be applied to virtually any lens substrate. SDC has also developed high-performance RI matched coatings for high RI MR™ series lens substrates.

Compatible with both tinted and clear substrates made of lens materials such as MR™, polycarbonate, polyamide, ADC (CR-39®, RAV 7™), acrylic and Trivex®, SDC Crystal Coat™ products enhance the abrasion resistance and durability of sunglasses and sports eyewear. SDC sunlens coating products offer excellent tintability, anti-fog properties, and high abrasion resistance, essential qualities for sunglasses and sports eyewear.

SDC offers a lineup of Crystal Coat™ products for applications that demand high safety features. In response to current market trends in anti-fog coatings, SDC offers premium hydrophilic anti-fog and high abrasion resistance coatings for specific industries. These coatings meet high standards and pass various industry performance tests. SDC also provides a suite of primer-free coatings for thermal and UV curing applications.

FSI Coating Technologies, Inc. (FSICT) offers a wide range of coatings under the Visgard® and Vistex® product brands. These coatings meet the market demand for highly durable coatings, including (EN-166 and EN-168) performance standards, permanent water-washable anti-fog coatings and standard/ customized anti-fog coated film and sheet products. FSICT also offers a range of hard coating systems and primer solutions that are compatible with AR, mirror and metalizing lens coating treatments. These anti-fog coatings are ideally suited to medical, safety and sports eyewear applications, as well as industrial-use sheets and PET films for commercial freezer display cases.

COTEC® GmbH offers thin film coatings technology expertise, combined with continuous research and development to advance and improve product surface treatments under the DURALON® brand. An established innovator in the development and manufacture of high-quality PVD and MLD materials for hydrophobic, oleophobic and ant-reflective coatings in the ophthalmic, precision optics, automotive and display markets.

Coburn Technologies offers fast curing optical lens coatings under the ProCoat, UVMAX, and DURA-UV brands. These hard coatings offer high durability, abrasion resistance, adhesion, and are low viscosity with no volatile solvents. Coburn coatings have a unique bonding chemical formation and UV/thermal hybrid chemistry for better performance and stability during lab production. ProCoat and UVMAX are Coburn’s tintable coating options.

ProCoat offers high adhesion and abrasion resistance across a broad range of lens materials while maintaining high tintability. UVMAX is a high performance tintable hard coating with Quick Tint (QT) formulation that produces Grey 3 in just 15 minutes, along with excellent adhesion, stability, and abrasion resistance with a low viscosity. DURA-UV is a durable and moderately tintable hard coating suitable for a wide range of lens materials, specifically formulated to adhere to all AR coatings.