Menicon Progent Vials

Historical Significance: Menicon Progent is a product designed to remove deposits from Rigid contact lenses. Two sachets of chemicals are mixed in the vial and the lenses suspended in the solution secured in the clips.Menicon was founded in 1951 by Kyoichi Tanaka. He was an employee of an optical shop in Nagoya when he first heard about contact lenses from the wife of a US army officer, who was a regular customer. He subsequently established a contact lens manufacturing business, producing contact lenses, the first made in Japan, using aircraft windshield glass and an adapted machining lathe. The Nippon Contact Lens Research Institute was founded in 1952 and full-scale production began in that year. The Nippon Contact lens Company was founded in 1965 and Menicon was registered as a trademark in 1967. Menicon soft was introduced in 1973. In 1987 Tokyo Contact Lens Co., Ltd. and Menicon Co Ltd. merged to become the new Menicon Co Ltd. which now manufactures, sells, exports, and imports contact lenses and other medical goods as well as medical Instruments, medical supplies and research and development of intraocular lenses.(See also Cat nos 1937, 2524, 3975 )