Your Eye-wear Quality Testing Expert
ABOUT
SUNBOND
Lens inspection since 1989. Smart glasses since they existed.
We inspect lenses. That is the whole business, and it has been since April 1989. The lenses themselves have changed beyond recognition in that time, glass to polycarbonate, then photochromics, then polarising, and now a waveguide with electronics behind it. The question we are asked has never changed. Is this lens what the factory thinks it is?
Smart eyewear is the hardest lens inspection problem anyone
has brought us. It is also the one we were most ready for.
The newest category
Smart eyewear asks more of a lens than anything before it. A waveguide has to carry an image without distorting the world behind it. A coating has to sit on a substrate that did not exist five years ago. A frame has to survive an impact test with electronics inside it, and then qualify as PPE under ISO 16321-1 like any other protector.
We work with leading brands in the category so the testing keeps pace with what they are building.
The benches that measure it are not exotic. They are the same optical bench, the same scattering test and the same impact rig that have been in this catalogue for years, which is exactly why we could meet the category on the day it arrived.
What we concentrate on
INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS
Equipment matched to what a floor actually produces, across the optical industry, general manufacturing, PPE and now smart eyewear. A lens factory and a coating factory need different benches, and neither needs everything in the catalogue.
REAL FIXES, SUPPORT & GUIDANCE
When a client needs a machine adapted for a new lens
a new material or a new standard, we take it straight to the manufacturer and come back with a real change, quickly.
Where we work
Hong Kong is the base and mainland China is the core of the business, that is where most of what we do happens, and where the demonstration equipment sits. Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam come next, because that is where much of the world's lens and eyewear manufacturing actually takes place. From there the work reaches across the rest of Asia, and on into the Americas and Europe.
Wherever a factory is, it gets the same three things from us: expert knowledge of smart glasses and lens testing, collaboration on the problems that do not have a bench yet, and the supply and support to keep the equipment working once it is installed.