type private limited company industry ophthalmology founded 1967 headquarters leighton buzzard bedfordshire england key people j. keith lomas group president & ceo john h clamp group vice president & coo dick newell non executive director website www.ultravisiongroup.com ultravision clpl is a contact lens manufacturer with headquarters based in leighton buzzard bedfordshire england . contents 1 company history 2 awards 3 references 4 external links company history edit contact lens precision laboratories clpl was founded in cambridge in 1967 . j. keith lomas who had been the company s managing director since 1996 oversaw the acquisition of ultravision in july 2003 . 1 upon that acquisition the company name was changed to the ultravision clpl group . 2 ultravision clpl opened a research and development office in 2007 . 3 based in cambridge this office has developed various types of contact lens technologies including freeform surface modelling toric lens design and wavefront technologies as well as lenses for persons suffering from keratoconus and corneal trauma . awards edit in 2001 ultravision s spherical aberration management technology received the award for innovation in british optics from the worshipful company of spectacle makers . 4 in the same year the company received a technology award from efclin the european federation of contact lens industry . 5 ultravision clpl has received the queen s award for enterprise innovation twice . first in 2006 for its spherical aberration management and wavefront technologies . 6 and again in april 2010 7 for kerasoft ultravision s patented contact lens for irregular corneas . 8 references edit lens maker lifts status with major acquisition business weekly dead link school friends with an eye on success independent the london dead link ultravision opens new u.k. research facility rx news biotech business link the worshipful company of spectacle makers innovation in british optics winners 2001 dead link efclin award winners queens award for enterprise innovation winners of 2006 dead link financial times the cutting edge of technology optometry today ultravision wins second queen s award dead link external links edit ultravision group website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ultravision & oldid 740223195 categories contact lensesmanufacturing companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in bedfordshirehidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from september 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 september 2016 at 20 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view