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ICE-TECH Rx
August 3, 2005… ICE-TECH Rx Completes Development of Thin-ICE Technology for the production of ICE-TECH Advanced Polarized Prescription Sunglasses. Back surface Anti-Reflective Treatment with Free-ICE Super Hydrophobic final element are standard. Complete mirror coatings that match the non-prescription ICE-TECH products. ICE-TECH has built the lab of the future today. After over two years of development, the ICE-TECH Rx Lab is complete. This facility features a state of the art clean room and a non-traditional lens production process capable of producing prescription lens surfaces with exact corrected vision powers (no fining or polishing required). This method of production is so accurate that the lens is manufactured to tolerances not possible before. ICE-TECH can produce a lens with substantially more consistent accuracy than has ever been available. The ICE-TECH Rx lab does not use conventional heavy polishing techniques. By eliminating the conventional approach, which used a set of tools called laps, we are able to offer prescriptions that are more accurate that has ever been possible and these prescriptions fit the frames perfectly. If a frame is made for a six base lens an ICE-TECH lens with a 6 base front curve is used, if the frame is made for an 8 base lens then an ICE-TECH 8 base front curve used to produce the prescription. A lens generated through this process can be custom matched to the patient's prescription and frame choice, which makes a thinner and lighter lens, with less material at the edge so that fitting difficulties normally experienced with stronger prescriptions become almost non-existent. This is ICE-TECH Thin-ICE Rx Technology. This revolutionary process allows lens powers from +7 all the way to -8 with astigmatic corrections to -5 to be installed into cool wrapped style frames! No more steering your customers away from the styles they want because it can't be made, it CAN be done! Not only is it now possible to get them into the styles they desire, it is accomplished with none of the drawbacks previously encountered. ICE-TECH Advanced Rx orders take the designated prescription and maintains this prescribed Rx, based on the standard 13.5 mm vertex distance and flat frame face as prescriptions are written. These prescription orders are adjusted for vertex distance, wrap angle of the frame and pantoscopic tilt of the frame. These adjustments give the patient the same power that is prescribed for a 13.5 mm vertex distance and a flat frame face. Further advancements in ICE-TECH Rx include ICE-TECH's super durable thermally cured hard surface treatment, Titanium-ICE. The Titanium-ICE hardened outer surfaces are applied in a class 100 clean room. This clean room environment ensures a contaminant free superior bond of the multi layered, thermally cured hard surface. To produce the Titanium-ICE surface, first a cushion element is applied. After the cushion element, an additional ultra tough, optically clear hard surface element is applied. Again, ICE-TECH applies the combination of hardness and resistance to scratches to produce the most durable surface possible. This is one of the many features of an ICE-TECH Advanced Polarized Lens. This cushion element, followed by a specially developed thermally cured final element, has previously been very difficult to apply. This is due to the fact that the polarized film within the lens will not withstand the temperatures needed to cure most thermally cured final surfaces. ICE-TECH has developed Titanium-ICE, a proprietary process to overcome this problem. ICE-TECH has spent years developing the combination of technologies to facilitate the production of the best lens possible. After the Titanium-ICE is cured, the anti-reflective and mirror processes are bonded to the lens. The anti-reflective process is a multi-layer Anti-Reflective combination of high index and low index materials. This combination produces the ability to increase light transmission and eliminate reflected glare. These Anti-Reflective elements are available in ICE-Blue, Cool-Green, or Ruby-Jewel. Depending on the base lens color of an ICE-TECH Advanced Polarized Lens, the appropriate anti-reflective color is selected and applied to the back surface of the lens. This prevents bounce back glare, such as seeing a reflection of your eye in the lens. All of this and still there is more! AR and mirror coatings have been known in the past to be high maintenance. Fingerprints, dust, water spots and smudges of some type or another always seem to find their way onto lenses, it just happens. ICE-TECH has solved this problem! Free-ICE Hydrophobic, Oleophobic coating that makes fingerprints, dust and smudges simply wipe right off using nothing but a lens cloth (like the high quality ICE-TECH micro-fiber bag that is supplied with every pair of ICE-TECH glasses). This Free-ICE hydrophobic is so good it never has to be re-applied, ever! The lenses produced in this facility fully meet the mission statement assigned to the ICE-TECH Research and Development Department, which was; "Develop the best sunglass lens for prescription use." Contact ICE-TECH FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: LAURA COLLINS ICE-TECH PHONE:      904-247-2627 FAX:            904-247-1650 WEB SITE: WWW.ICE-TECH.COM E MAIL:      INFO@ICE-TECH.COM