More than meets the eye: How Bausch + Lomb, Waterford is shaping the future of contact lenses
Contact lenses have quietly evolved into some of the most sophisticated medical devices manufactured at scale today. Much of that evolution is happening not in Silicon Valley or Boston, but in the South-East of Ireland at How Bausch + Lomb, Waterford.
While contact lenses may appear unchanged, they have evolved into highly sophisticated medical devices. At its Waterford facility, Bausch + Lomb is developing the global platforms that will define the next generation of vision care innovation.
At first glance, contact lenses can appear to be a mature technology. Their size and shape have remained largely unchanged for decades, constrained by the anatomy of the eye and the fundamentals of optics. It would be easy to assume that innovation in this space has slowed. The reality could not be more different.
