Smart, sustainable and stylish trends draw global buyers.

Optical fair showcases future of eyewear

Smart spectacles and sustainable materials to feature in November optical fair

Eyewear exhibition in sight

With this year’s Avant Garde theme, the 22nd Hong Kong Eyewear Design Competition’s winning pieces reflected the creativity, sharp sense of style and boundless imagination of local designers. The competition aims to encourage innovation and enhance the design quality of Hong Kong eyewear products, identify new talents and promote Hong Kong’s creative products to international markets.

Optical industry puts creative talent in Hong Kong on display.

Eyewear designs win plaudits

In Mainland China, as of 2019, more than 600 million people were affected by myopia.

As short-sightedness surges, Mainland China’s optical community has been swift to focus on the growing needs of the domestic market.

Far-sighted firms tackle myopia surge

Digital start-ups are moving into the eyewear industry. Underlining the trend, market research agency Coresight Research discussed overseas start-ups’ experiences at a seminar during the 27th edition of the HKTDC Hong Kong International Optical Fair in November 2019, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

As the optical industry booms across the world, start-ups are integrating technology and environmental protection elements into spectacles through the direct-to-consumer sales model.

Innovators make mark on eyewear

The devices that ate everything – smartphones – are now extending themselves to their users’ faces by plugging into spectacles.

Fitness-focussed smart spectacles are heading for the mass market.

Through the glass smartly

Blind or partially sighted people live in a world where such day-to-day tasks as reading text, recognising the faces of family and friends or picking out items on supermarket shelves can prove impossible.

Entrepreneurs from Israel have created a device that turns visual inputs into words.

Sound solution for the blind

Advances in both optometry and information technology are driving rapid changes in the eyewear industry; professionals and traders in the optical world converged on Hong Kong in November to learn more.

The world of eyewear is not immune to disruption by start-ups, as attendees at this year’s optical fair found out.

Spectacle of innovation

Furthering its reputation as the device that ate everything, the smartphone is now being connected to eyewear, as visitors to the 27th edition of the HKTDC Hong Kong International Optical Fair will learn.

Innovators are reinventing traditional eyewear, with one local design incorporating audio headphones.

Optical world looks to Hong Kong

The 27th HKTDC Hong Kong International Optical Fair is a trade platform which gives exhibitors an opportunity to connect with global buyers.

This global spectacle presents eyewear of all shapes and sizes, along with equipment and accessories.

HKTDC Hong Kong International Optical Fair

3DNA is a retail technology company that simplified the eyewear-creation process, from concept to design to production, letting practitioners deliver one-of-a-kind custom glasses to each and every customer.

Two entrepreneurs who met by chance in Hong Kong are disrupting the global optical business, one face at a time.

Framework for success

The founders of ethical start-ups producing clothes and accessories with a lighter environmental footprint may be inspired by their own beliefs – but they’re also catering to consumer demand.

Smart, eco-conscious entrepreneurs are putting a new spin on one of Hong Kong’s traditional industries: the garment business.

Fashion-conscious shoppers turn green

AI and the silver economy are driving industry growth.

Optical fair puts focus on global opportunities

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Tadahisa Terao, Chief Strategy Officer of Kubota Pharmaceutical Holdings Co., Ltd. (Japan) speaks to the HTKDC at the Hong Kong International Optical Fair. The 32nd Hong Kong International Optical Fair, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and co-organised by the Hong Kong Optical Manufacturers Association, was held on 6-8 November 2024 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The three-day physical exhibition brought together more than 700 exhibitors from 17 countries and regions, providing a one-stop promotion and procurement platform for the some 13,000 buyers from 94 countries and regions.

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