Description

Growing demand for better anti-reflective coatings is undeniable. Customers are now much more aware of the benefits of quality AR coatings, and overnight coating service is now the norm in the marketplace. This requires optical laboratories that desire to remain competitive to look for faster, better, cost effective and growth-friendly solutions to meet this demand.

Once sealed to a small group of corporations, the AR market is now serviced by a growing group of much smaller companies producing equally impressive AR coatings with fast turnaround service. Tecport realized this trend and introduced the Symphony series coating chambers to the ophthalmic industry. Symphony’s design, reliability, and coating results offer a smooth path to growth in revenue and customer success.

Tecport is committed to delivering tomorrow’s technological solutions today. Achieving unprecedented growth in the precision optics market since the introduction of the Symphony series, Tecport is now expanding its presence in the ophthalmic industry with the same successful ingredients.

Today, Tecport is recognized as an industry leader with global standing.

Setting the New Standards in the Ophthalmic Coating Industry

Tecport’s keen focus on improving AR coatings drives our customer’s success. Tecport delivers the new standard of performance through our experts on process development, who have more than 100 years experience in optical thin film coatings with educations from the nation’s top optics universities such as the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester and CREOL at the University of Central Florida.

What Tecport Brings to the Ophthalmic Industry:

Continuous Efforts on Improving Thin Film Technology of the AR Stack

• Improvement in hard coating chemistry provides a better foundation for the AR stack
• Index matching of materials on hard coating and on AR stack pushes reflectance to 1% and lower in AR coatings
• Continuous testing of new chemicals on AR stacks to increase the durability of AR coatings by more closely matching chemical stress factors
• Working closely with chemical companies to provide ultimate top coat, a combination of hydrophobic and oleophobic material, to virtually roll off oils, grease, finger prints, dirt, and moisture from the surface of the lens
• Complete ion assisted deposition with ion particle bombardment
• Complete plasma assisted deposition with combined ion particle bombardment and chemical reaction

Symphony Ophthalmic Advantage

• Agile Response to Change: Symphony series is built as a modular system. All the components are easily interchangeable, so it’s always equipped with the latest technologically improved components and subsystems. As a result we make sure our customers are the frontrunners in their served marketplaces.
• Compress Time to Market: Symphony provides higher throughput than any of its competitors' systems. Loading capacity for each class is higher and pump down time is faster. Tecport process development service also helps the customer to compress time to market, achieve higher innovation yields, and improve productivity without spending process R&D investments. Tecport has a feasibility study lab, R&D facility, and backup AR labs for customer in case new development is required or extra capacity is required to bridge scheduled downtime or expansion.
• Highest Quality: Symphony places a premium on quality. Symphony is equipped with only proven subsystems and components from the best suppliers in the world, and they are all available off-the-shelf. Therefore, the customer does not need to wait for special parts from other countries, and equipment downtime is the shortest in the industry.
• Better Communication and Control: Ongoing communication is the key for the success for both Tecport and our Customer. Rapid development cycles of Symphony OPUS software with feedback from our customers allows new customers to have the latest software upgrades with many improved functions, and allows existing customers to upgrade or customize their operating software.
• Trouble Free Commissioning: During commissioning, Tecport will not only satisfy the equipment specifications and integrity, but also will assist our customers in process development and fine tuning system parameters. By the end of commissioning, our customers are equipped with the training and process setup to start production immediately.

Process

Tecport Broad Spectrum of Coating Processes

• LuminAR: Standard Anti-Reflection Coating with Hydrophobic Top Coat
• LuminEX: Premium Anti-Reflection Coating with Combined Hydrophobic and Oleophobic Top Coat
• Green, Blue, and Gold Anti-Reflection Coating Color
• Multi Hard Dielectric Layers Mirror Coating with Available Colors of Tropical Green, Island Blue, Silver, and Gold.
• Covers all substrate materials: mineral glass, polarized, CR39, Polycarbonate, Hi-Index, Transitions®, Progressive® lenses.
• Exceeding the current market’s test benchmarks for: Bayer Test, Water Drop Angle Test, Boiling Salts Water Test, and Variable Height Impact Test

Lab Solutions

Tecport Complete Turnkey Lab Solutions

• From small RX labs to mass production wholesale labs
• Inspection Equipment and Accessories
• Ultrasonic Cleaner
• Hard Coating Equipment and Solution
• Whole Dome Oven
• Air Flow Bench with Ionized Nitrogen Gun
• Air Compressor and Chiller
• Bead Blaster Unit
• Spectrophotometer

Models and Production Capacity

	Symphony-6000	Symphony-7000	Symphony-9000	Symphony-12000
Chamber Dimension	650mm diameter	750mm diameter	900mm diameter	1200mm diameter
Capacity 75mm Single Dome	42 Lens	62 Lens	84 Lens	167 Lens
Capacity 83mm Single Dome	32 Lens	47 Lens	72 Lens	136 Lens
Capacity75mm Segmented			72 Lens	150 Lens
Cycle Time/side (Door Close to Open)	35min	40min	40min	45min
High Vacuum Pump (l/s)	Cryo Pump or Turbo Pump or Diffusion Pump	Diffusion Pump (9600)	Diffusion Pump (12000)	Diffusion Pump (24000)
Polycold	PFC550	PFC/PFC 550	PFC/PFC 670	PFC/PFC 1100
Mechanical / Booster (m3/h)	65 / 250	65 / 500	120 / 500	120 / 1000
Ion Beam Source (Anode Max)	EH200 (300V, 2A)	EH400 (300V, 3A)	EH2000 (300V, 10A)	EH2000 (300V, 10A)
Electron Beam Source	7cc x 6ea	15cc x 6ea	20cc x 6ea	25cc x 6ea
Thermal Evaporator	1ea (3kW)	1ea (3kW)	1ea (4kW)	1ea (4kW)
Quartz Crystal	XTC/3	XTC/3	XTC/3	XTC/3
Surface Treatment	Ion Pre-clean Ion Assist	Ion Pre-clean Ion Assist	Ion Pre-clean & Assist Or Plasma Pre-clean & Assist	Ion Pre-clean & Assist Or Plasma Pre-clean & Assist
* These are base production capacity requirements only. Tecport can deliver any customized size of symphony systems which are not listed on above matrix.

Downloads

• Brochure - Symphony Precision