Technology Licensing
Brand your own AR
iCoat’s Technology Licensing Program has been designed specifically for independent labs and retail chains. Whether you are planning to implement an in-house AR (anti-reflective) coating line or updating your current AR coating offerings, the program meets your demands for private labeling of precision engineered lens treatments. The program is flexible in meeting your particular product, costing, and technical needs and allows you to achieve one of the best premium AR coatings in the market yet remain independent of equipment suppliers and lens vendors.
More labs and large retail chains these days are focusing on getting products privately labeled to establish their brand name in the eyes of their customers. iCoat’s Technology Licensing Program can make your dreams come true with immediate and dramatic results. This is a great program for customers that demonstrate commitment to providing exceptional premium AR products and services while wishing lens and equipment vendors independence.
iCoat’s rapidly growing licensing program helps the licensee master the art of making lenses better without any hassle. Thermally cured dip hardcoat has served as a backbone for iCoat’s technological advancements in developing premium AR coatings. You can now learn the art and science behind operating a coatings lab efficiently and cost effectively. Becoming a licensee of iCoat’s expert technology will help avoid many implementation risks such as: delays, failure rates, and cost overruns inherent in operating an in-house coating operation.
Our Value Proposition:
iCoat’s Technology Licensing Program
*iCoat can support you at any point during your process cycle.
The Program
iCoat’s technology licensing program grants a licensee the rights to utilize iCoat’s proprietary AR and hardcoat coating technologies, patents, know-how and methods of manufacturing optical lens coatings. The flexibility of this program is particularly valuable to customers who want to remain independent of lens manufacturers’ coating technologies, however, also being able to compete head-on with all of the similar offerings from the lens vendors with their own private labeled products.
Years of experience has enabled our processes to maintain extremely high yields and low breakages. Our continuous running rate stands at breakages of less than 1.0 % compared to industry standards averaging at 4.0% to 5.0%.
We are engaged with our customers from: initial planning of the coating department, equipment selection and layout, testing, and training through production implementation and launch. Post launch we support our customers with continuous improvements including process optimizations, follow-up monitoring, quality assurance, continuous lens testing, and auditing.
The Benefits
You will be able to coat the widest variety of lens styles, materials, and manufacturers thereby offering the opportunity to choose the most appropriate lens for the job and offering total lens vendor independence.
Our technology is engineered to work universally with any equipment manufacturer. We help you operate with the equipment of your choice!
Utilizing iCoat’s expert advice new product launch learning curves are minimized.
With iCoat’s proprietary lens coating technologies you will be able to offer a variety of state of the art AR coating products.
iCoat’s licensing program enables vertical integration that provides a cost and service edge over direct competition.
Utilizing our technology will enable you to increase your revenue by offering a richer AR product mix.
iCoat will train your personnel to efficiently run the operation and will also train the dispensers to rapidly grow your AR sales.
With the help of iCoat’s expertise, guidance, and training; you can quickly expand your business capabilities in running a state of the art lens coating laboratory.
No need to re-invent the wheel! As part of the licensing agreement years of know how in product and process development will be transferred to you and your personnel.
Our coating technology provides an opportunity to produce and market your products under your own brand label with continuous new improvements being offered.
