INDIANAPOLIS--Practical Systems, Inc. (PSI) has signed an agreement with Augen Optics to be the exclusive distributor of the new Centurion Series lenses to the U.S., Caribbean and South and Central American markets.

“Having the opportunity to promote the Augen Optics products to new markets is extremely exciting for all of us at PSI,” said Patrick Hernandez, president of PSI, who announced the agreement at the Optical Laboratories Association’s annual meeting here in November. “PSI has enjoyed a long relationship with Augen Optics and Dr. Machado. Both of our companies are driven to bring our customers the best in process materials, equipment and leading technologies.” “This is a marriage made in heaven,” said Dick Kapash, president of Augen Optics at the press conference held here. “This partnership made sense to Patrick and made sense to us as well. So we are off and running. Some of PSI’s sales team have already started selling the lenses.” The same technology used by the Hubble Space Telescope has been applied to the creation of Augen’s Centurion lens blanks featuring a patented Aspheric and Double Aspheric High Definition lens. This new technology is specifically designed to provide natural vision all around the lens without induced optical aberrations. Centurion lens designs are manufactured with computerized 5-axis digital surfacing generators and polishing machines resulting in a “High Definition Lens.”