Rotlex Optics invested NIS 4 million to build its Omer plant for the manufacture of ophthalmic lens measuring devices.
Rotlex Optics invested an initial NIS 4 million to build its plant in the Omer high-tech park. The plant will manufacture the company's "Multi Mapper" device, the first of its kind in the world, measures ophthalmic lenses across the entire lens surface, in 4.5 seconds.
Rotex is owned by Teuza Management and Development (40%), AGI Group (40%) and other shareholders (20%).
Rotlex Optics chairman Meir Avital said the company invested NIS 4 million to develop the Multi-Mapper. The project was jointly developed with Nidek of Japan, the leading maker of lens processing and measuring and ophthalmic surgical devices. Nidek has a turnover of $500 million a year.
Avital says the new plant will employ 20 engineers and programmers experienced in developing sophisticated electro-optical systems equipment. Rotlex has registered 20 international patents in the optics field in recent years. The company's customers include Johnson and Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Polaroid (NYSE: PRD), Bausch and Lomb, Elcon, and Hoya Japan.
Published by Israel's Business Arena on 19 February 2002