How Contact Lenses are Manufactured

Contact lenses are thin lenses that can be placed directly on the survace of the eye and are used by over 150 million people world wide. The following video looks into the manufacturing process of both soft and rigid contacts. You'll see the various steps from injection moulding to manufacture soft contact lenses as well as the lathe cutting for rigid gas permeable lenses.

Today contact lenses are made with out any handling, shaping or sterilizing by any human they are manufactured fully automated. The process has become so cost effective that contact lens manufacturers like Johnson & Johnson and Ciba Vision are able to produce affordable disposable contact lenses. Three popular disposable contact lenses Dailies Aquacomfort Plus (90-Pack), 1-Day Acuvue Moist (90-Pack), and Dailies Total 1 (90-Pack).