Welcome To Pech Optical

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Pech Optical was founded on the vision of doing one more job today than yesterday, with one less error. Achieving this means to continuously increase the number of customers satisfied with the quality service they desire. With daily job numbers growing from 250 to well over 2,100, it is evident Pech Optical is on the right track.

To experience such a growth, ideas must be integrated from all sectors of the laboratory. Pech Optical regularly evaluates how each stage of the production process works together; ensuring the ability to produce efficient products in a timely manner. Teamwork between departments is what allows Pech Optical to provide superior products.

Pech Optical has incorporated the following views into daily operations:

If you want it done right the first time, have the people at Pech Optical do it.
Pech Optical: synonymous with quality and friendly service.
Customers look to Pech Optical for the latest products and machinery to handle it right.
Pech Optical always lets the customer know their options and goes that extra mile.
Go to Pech Optical for no hassles over their guidelines.
Pech Optical has the right price.

Bob Pech, CEO

The optical industry has experienced amazing technological evolution throughout its existence. In order to provide top-of-the-line products, Pech Optical has invested in an array of these advancements. The timeline below details the installation of equipment as well as other notable occurrences in the history of Pech Optical.

2008: Zeiss AR equipment and facility updated to include A20I coating machines and H8NG hard coat line; Pech became and Essilor Partner Lab

2007: Silhouette Optical Ltd. partnered with Pech; Pech launched a new line of in-house mirror coatings, Safari Mirrors

2006: Satisloh VFT and Autoflex polish line installed; accounts invited to tour the “new” lab

2005: LOH robotic surface equipment installed; LOH robotic ES-3, National Optronics 7E, and MEI Monosphera edgers installed for custom edging; Crizal EXT lab (AR treatment from Essilor of America, Inc) installed

2004: Construction project started to add 29,000+ sq. ft. to facility

2003: New equipment demanded additional space; five acres of land purchased for expansion

2002: Zeiss A60F chamber added to handle increased coating demands; Pech raised the roof - literally - doubling the administrative office space

2000: Zeiss Foundation coating and second B12 coater added; Gerber Coburn Hexapod system installed for polycarbonate

1990’s: 18,000 sq. ft. facility purchased and fitted for an optical lab in Sioux City’s Bridgeport Industrial Park; first Lektreiver “rotary file” installed to handle lens inventory; first AR lens treatment system - a Leybold CCS 250 - installed, followed by first Carl Zeiss Vision AR system - B12 bell jar machine

1989: Pech Optical Corp. opened in downtown Sioux City, Iowa


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