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Opening the Menicon Future Device Research Laboratory in Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Chair of NITech

Nagoya Institute of Technology
Menicon Co., Ltd.

Opening ceremony of the Menicon Future Device Research Laboratory

 

Nagoya Institute of Technology (Address: Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya; President: Takatoshi Kinoshita) and Menicon Co., Ltd. (Head Office: 21-19, Aoi-3-chome, Naka-ku, Nagoya; Representative Director & President: Hidenari Tanaka) are pleased to announce the opening of the “Menicon Future Device Research Laboratory” on August 3, 2020 in the Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Chair of Nagoya Institute of Technology (Note 1).

 

The laboratory aims to “design new materials for contact lenses by means of structural control and new manufacturing methods” by further developing the results obtained through a collaborative research between Associate Professor Katsuhiro Yamamoto of Nagoya Institute of Technology and Menicon, which started in 2012. Establishment of this laboratory is expected to further promote research and development.


< Outline of Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Chair >

 

< Background of the establishment >
For 70 years, Menicon, a pioneer of contact lenses, has been developing lenses that are safer and more comfortable with lens materials as its axis. Through these activities, we have conducted several collaborative researches with Nagoya Institute of Technology. To promote these researches in a more expansive and comprehensive manner, we established a research laboratory using Nagoya Institute of Technology’s Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Chair Program (Note 1).

 

< Research contents >
The newly established Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Chair will combine Menicon’s expertise in contact lens materials and manufacturing methods, accumulated over the last 70 years, with Nagoya Institute of Technology’s academic research in polymer science, and thus merge high value-added materials and innovative manufacturing methods to contribute to providing better vision for everyone.

 

Note 1: A system that leverages our faculty’s elemental technologies to support companies in creating future value and help businesspeople and academics collaborate to solve societal issues.

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