Overview

Gelflex Laboratories is an innovative Contact Lens manufacturer based in Perth, Western Australia, providing a range of specialised, coloured and extended wear contact lenses to improve the vision, comfort and appearance of its wearers.

Australian Optometrist and pioneer of the contact lens industry Donald Ezekiel founded Gelflex Laboratories in 1971, and today the company is operated and managed by contact lens specialists who understand how to deliver quality service to practitioners and innovative contact lens products for their customers.

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Quality

Widely regarded as one of the finest contact lens laboratories in the world, Gelflex Laboratories conducts extensive research and development, to continually improve on the quality of its product range. Gelflex has implemented and received Quality Assurance Standard ISO 9001 which includes the manufacture of contact lenses and intraocular lenses. Quality management systems include AS.NZ ISO 9001;2000 and EN ISO 13485;2000 Quality System Standards.

Gelflex Laboratories exports all around the world with markets in the USA, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Gelflex has approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Australian Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) and the European CE Mark to manufacture contact lenses and intraocular lenses.

Clinical and technical advice, and general information about all our products is available from our specialist consulting practitioners.

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Innovation

A strong focus on research and development has helped Gelflex become one of the most progressive and creative contact lens companies in the world. The company continually invests in state of the art automated equipment including:

  • State of the art injection moulding machines for cast mould application.
  • Custom designed and built automatic assembly machines for Gelflex's own purpose built cast mould facility.
  • Automatic high speed blister packing machine with camera and laser technology for maximum quality control.
  • Taylor Hobson Form Talysurf for precision cutting of mould inserts.
  • A range of precision NC lathing.
  • controlled lathe edge rounding.
  • automated surface polishing.
  • Laser instrumentation for precise quality control measurement.
  • Swiss FISBA Laser instrument to allow precision lathe set up.
  • Latest DAC 2axis, 3 axis, 4axis, Ott, ALM Ott and DAC CNC Mill. This quality equipment ensures lens reproducibility.
  • Plasma coating chamber for all Gelflex Gas Permeable lenses and Hygel Silicon Hyrdrogel.
  • Gelflex is the only Australian contact lens laboratory to create its own monomers.

In over 35 years as a leader in the contact lens industry, Gelflex has led the industry with several notable achievements. These include:

  • the worlds first hydrogel intraocular lens
  • the gas permeable scleral lens
  • the pediatric gas permeable scleral lens
  • The Triton Translating Soft Bifocal Contact lens
  • And many unique contact lens designs.

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