We’ve made it more modern and hopefully more informative. We’ve added a “News” section, so that you can keep up to date with any new developments within John Harwood and the world of Optics. So, if there are new spectacle lenses, frames or contact lenses available, we’ll endeavour to let you know all about them.

You’ll also find that we have a “Promotions” page where we’ll let you know about our latest promotions.

We look forward to welcoming you at one of our John Harwood practices soon!

The British company has it’s Research and Development facility in Southampton, but due to it’s expanding business, it needed to open an additional manufacturing facility. Its capacity exceeds 100 million soft contact lenses a day. The operation now has 140 employees.

The state-of-the-art equipment is mainly from the UK, however the nanotechnology robots are from Japan, and there are some German and Italian moulding and packaging machines. The site is managed by a Hungarian team that has experience with medical device regulated products, which was one of the advantages for Sauflon coming to Hungary over two years ago.

The factory today combines the manual work of its employees with automated work processes, and is currently undergoing a major capacity expansion to be able to fully exploit the opportunities offered by the new SiH (silicon hydrogel) technologies. Sauflon produce many types of soft contact lens, but they have recently won awards for their Clariti family of contact lenses that are made from SiH.

During the visit, Andy, Charlotte and Michelle were shown around the now extensive premises by production staff and witnessed the production facility in action. At the end of the visit, Charlotte Cook said: “I had expected to see a state of the art production facility, but was amazed by the the sheer scale of the operation. I didn’t realise that so much technology would be involved in the production of a soft contact lens and really value what Sauflon are providing for our Patients.”

After the visit to the manufacturing facility, the Partners were free to explore beautiful Budapest.

If you would like to try any of the new Clariti soft contact lenses, please speak to one of our members of staff, who can arrange  for you to have a contact lens consultation with one of our Optometrists.

Most patients come to John Harwood practices by personal recommendation. As a thank you for every new patient you recommend to us we will give you a voucher worth 10% off the cost of your next pair of spectacles when the new patient attends for an eye examination. You can accumulate up to four of these for any pair of spectacles. As an added bonus the person you have recommended will receive 10% off any spectacles they require

Please ask for Thank You Vouchers at any of our practices or you can click on and print the voucher below.

Please note that this voucher cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer and can only be used with orders of complete spectacles costing £99 or more.

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Receive 20% off Complete Spectacles

Click on and then print the voucher. Bring it into one of our branches to take full advantage of this discount while it lasts!

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            Not in conjunction with any other offer.