Our current product catalog demonstrates our long experience as a partner to opticians – made in Germany.
Wetzlich is looking forward to the coming year with great excitement: 2025 marks its 90th anniversary! What once began as a small local retailer has grown into the largest medium-sized manufacturer of spectacle lenses with production facilities in Germany. The new product catalog reflects the company's long experience as a reliable partner to opticians and the innovative spirit of an agile and independent organization. With the solutions presented for the anniversary, Wetzlich would like to thank its customers for their trust over the past 90 years. At the same time, the catalog, spanning more than one hundred pages, demonstrates that Wetzlich is looking towards a promising future full of exciting new opportunities!
“While manufacturing is currently being outsourced to other countries across the industry, we made a firm commitment to production ‘made in Germany’ just two years ago when we chose our new location,” explains Managing Director Florian Gisch on the occasion of the upcoming anniversary.
Customer loyalty and support are just one aspect of our commitment; moreover, our collective awareness regarding the environment and resource use has fundamentally changed, which also presents an enormous challenge for industry.
Precision products from Germany
Since its founding, Wetzlich's company headquarters has moved several times: Dresden, Cologne, Viersen, and now, for the past two years, Korschenbroich. To continue producing high-quality spectacle lenses "made in Germany" with excellent service at unbeatable prices, Wetzlich searched extensively before finding the ideal location in Korschenbroich, one that meets the requirements of modern and sustainable production.
Gisch explains: "As a manufacturer of spectacle lenses, we are aware of our responsibility and are actively committed to reducing our ecological footprint, creating sustainable production processes, and using resources efficiently. At our new location, we have been able to drastically reduce our electricity, gas, and water consumption. German quality and reliability are still recognized worldwide; we have built a strong reputation in this regard over decades and believe this valuable alternative to dependence on Asian suppliers is more important than ever."
Short transport routes minimize the carbon footprint. But production in Germany means more than just avoiding the need for lenses flown in daily from Asia. Due to strict environmental regulations, it guarantees sustainable and environmentally friendly production, secures jobs, and strengthens the local economy.
The new product catalog for the anniversary year focuses particularly on the innovative strength of the lens manufacturer, which has planned several promotions under the anniversary logo for the coming year. "Celebrating 90 years" is the motto, which is reflected in the product range, especially in solutions for a modern digital society. The gaming lenses 4 Office Play and Play Plus are just as noteworthy as the completely redesigned office lens 4 Easy Office and nomy, which offers proven success in myopia management. Also new to the product portfolio: the progressive lens Prophecy X.
The new Prophecy X expands the premium progressive lens segment. It impresses with its automatic selection of an inward or bilateral progressive variant, perfectly tailored to the wearer's prescription. The new design is the logical evolution of the Prophecy design, proven for years: its structure and complete customization based on the familiar parameters HSA, pantoscopic tilt, and lens angle ensure extremely stable vision zones and a smooth progression. This guarantees excellent initial comfort, even with higher additions and astigmatism.
Office glass with long-range vision
The 4 Easy Office lens puts an end to the debate about whether workplace lenses should be optimized for near or intermediate distances: "Focusing exclusively on just one of these visual requirements is no longer effective in today's mobile work environment," emphasizes Gisch. The 4 Easy Office is the innovative universal solution that not only provides a near vision zone and an extremely wide monitor distance, but also a distance vision zone. This is achieved with a second degression zone for the upper third of the lens, including the distance correction. The new lens design of the 4 Easy Office meets all the requirements of a modern workplace and thus reflects the trends of our digital world. Gisch adds: "Above all, it works completely independently of whether you need the glasses primarily for screen work or for other office tasks."
Study proves effectiveness
For the younger target group and to promote a new service offered by opticians, Wetzlich has prominently featured the nomy lens for myopia management in its product catalog. Maximum wearing comfort, achieved through an optimal distribution of lens power, provides a visual experience comparable to that of single-vision lenses – both at near and far distances. From the outside, nomy is indistinguishable from a single-vision lens; however, in addition to the crystal-clear vision, the appealing appearance of the extremely thin lenses is also striking.
nomy represents a particularly innovative solution for treating progressive myopia. This is achieved through two main areas within the lens: an oval viewing zone in the optical center for distance vision and positive peripheral blurring in the nasal, temporal, and inferior regions of the lens. The central zone provides full correction, while an additional addition supports accommodation. The efficacy of the nomy design has been demonstrated in a double-blind study with European children, showing that the progression of myopia is significantly reduced compared to standard single-vision lenses. After twelve months, the axial length growth of children wearing glasses with the nomy design was reduced by 39 percent compared to the control group wearing single-vision lenses.
New technologies and manufacturing capabilities
The vision solutions people need have evolved steadily over the past nine decades due to societal changes. New technologies and manufacturing capabilities have also led to modern lenses that meet today's visual demands. Throughout its 90 years of existence, Wetzlich has always distinguished itself through reliability and a spirit of innovation. "That will not change in the future, and we will celebrate this extensively in 2025," says Gisch.