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Innovation and technology centers 

Pioneering work by 550 researchers

Essilor's research and development is a mainstay of the company and represents a real innovation laboratory. It guarantees the group's technological progress.

Working for innovation

Essilor focuses on innovation in order to offer increasingly effective products and services to optical professionals and wearers. The group attaches the utmost importance to the significant resources it allocates to research and development.

Specialists in optics, physical chemistry and disruptive technologies, the R&D teams work globally on two fundamental areas:
  • anticipating the needs of world markets;
  • developing the lenses of the future using the best expertise.
Three Innovation and Technology Centers in France, the United States and Asia, as well as two centers under the responsibility of the Transitions joint venture in the United States and Nikon-Essilor joint venture in Japan, account for the majority of the group's researchers.
Essilor's innovation strategy is also based on a network of partnerships created with universities, industrial groups and innovative SMEs. Examples include collaborations with the Institut de la Vision, the CNRS, the University of Shanghai and the University of Montréal, with which Essilor has set up a research chair.

Essilor Innovation & technology centers



A company with 740 patent families and 5700 patents

At the end of 2010, Essilor owned 740 patent families representing a total of more than 5700 patents and patent applications in France and around the world.


Convincing results Convincing results
  • 50% of Essilor's turnover comes from products less than three years old;
  • 240 new products were developed in 2010;
  • In a few years, there has been a three-fold increase in the number of new products launched and a halving of the lead time required.
 
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