With the creation in the late 80's, a fundamentally new material - A Tetrafilkona resistant to the accumulation of sediments, developed the first series of its own planned replacement lenses - Preference, sales of which were developing at an impressive pace.
In 1993, following the acquisition of CoastVision, engaged in the production of soft toric contact lenses for people with astigmatism, CooperVision set the goal of an active market introduction of toric contact lenses, where he was able to take a leading position. Basing the design of the lens Hydrasoft Toric, previously issued by the Company CoastVision, the company has established a perfect toric lens planned replacement Preference Toric, using for its own production technology and their best material - Tetrafilkon A.
In 1997 the company was acquired by Aspect, but the production of lenses and remains under the brand Cooper Vision. In addition to traditional soft contact lenses recently put into production a series of planned replacement lenses Cooper Flex and a series of planned replacement toric lenses Frequency 55 Toric. High quality and reasonable price enable them to compete successfully with lenses of similar purpose other firms.
In late 1998, a group of companies Cooper sold its hospital business with a view to focus on the development of Cooper Vision and strengthening its position in the contact lens market. Soon Cooper Vision has developed and patented a technology Ultrasync (synchronized liquid molding) in which the lens was obtained finally made ??already in shape and did not need to rework the edge. This allowed the company to take another step to improve the quality and standardization of products.
July 28, 2004 Cooper Vision and company Ocular Sciences Inc. signed an agreement to buy the last of the 1.2 billion dollars. From a market point of view, this association has significantly increased the company's share in the world market, although most of the models of lenses they are competing against each other.
In 2007, Cooper Vision introduced to the market its silicone hydrogel lenses Biofinity. This emphasizes that the company is at the forefront of the market and forms a contact lens vision correction.
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