LARGO, Fla.—CC Systems, based here, has formed a joint venture with Indizen Optical Technologies (IOT) of Madrid, Spain called the Lens Design Corporation of the Americas (LDCA) to distribute free-form lens designs to all independent wholesale optical labs and retailers in the Americas and the U.K.

Stephen Cohen

CC Systems will act as a facilitator to introduce IOT’s free-form designs to the marketplace. Seamless integration will be available to all lab management systems (LMS) using the VCA standard and can be manufactured using any digital surfacing equipment. The competitively priced designs will instantly allow most labs and retail chains to introduce their own branded free-form designs.

Stephen Cohen, president of CC Systems, said the strength of his company’s 24 years experience distributing and servicing LMS’ will allow CC Systems to introduce IOT to new markets and provide seamless integration to all independent LMS systems, not just those offered by CC Systems.

“The technical strength of these designs and the competitive pricing has the potential to quickly reshape the optical industry,” he remarked.

Indizen Optical Technologies is a technology company that designs software programs to create aspheric single-vision and progressive lens designs. According to the company, its lens designs take advantage of digital surfacing equipment and allow for visual acuity that is not available with traditional semi-finished lenses.

CC Systems is a leading software provider of lab management systems for surfacing, finishing or coating labs, and integrated retailers servicing over 170 wholesale labs plus an additional 700 retail lab systems worldwide.