Optic Systems Competitors

Thorlabs is a leading designer and manufacturer of photonics equipment for research, manufacturing, and biomedical applications. Founded in 1989, Thorlabs is headquartered in Newton, New Jersey with approximately 2,500 employees at manufacturing and sales offices in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, Japan, China, and Brazil. As a vertically integrated company we design, develop, and manufacture our product portfolio of over 20,000 items.

Founded in 1958, Vision Engineering Ltd (www.visioneng.com) is a global leading-edge manufacturer of patented ergonomic stereo microscopes, digital inspection microscopes and non-contact measuring systems. Our unique patented products have saved manufacturing companies many man-hours, reduced materials wastage and ensured quality and conformance to desired specifications. In 1994, Vision Engineering introduced the World’s first ‘eyepiece-less’ stereo microscope, the Mantis, designed to fill the gap between a bench magnifier and a microscope. It was an ergonomic revolution that went on to win numerous design and innovation awards. The Mantis became the new benchmark for high performance stereo magnification. Since then, Vision Engineering has pursued a corporate design and innovation policy, focusing on improving operator performance when using visual inspection or non-contact measurement systems, improving quality and reducing cost and waste in the manufacturing industries.

SCHNEIDER is one of the world’s leading manufacturers for the development and production of machines in the fields of ophthalmics, precision optics and ultra-precision optics. The company, which was founded in 1986 by Gunter Schneider, currently has more than 840 employees and is located in the US, Brazil, China, Thailand, Hungary and India. Pioneering the freeform idea in the ophthalmic business, SCHNEIDER had the vision to manufacture individual lenses on freely definable mathematical descriptions. The slogan “Fascination for Innovation” reflects the companys’ consistent focus on the development of innovative technological solutions. The company keeps setting new standards for customers with groundbreaking innovations and fundamental modernizations of products and processes.