SOLF, Norman’s visionary little firm!

The one glass maker in Normandy is close to Evreux, in Guichainville in Eure. The Société d’Optique Lunetière Française, SOLF, applies its artisanal know-how, from product design to manufacturing.

In France, 7 out of 10 folks put on glasses or they put on them someday, or three quarters of the inhabitants. 16 million pairs of glasses are bought yearly, in a market that has been elevated lately by means of screens, and is estimated at 7 billion euros.
The society SOLF has been advancing its experience since 1966, supporting its shoppers – designers, distributors and luxurious manufacturers – all through the manufacturing course of.

Promotion made in France Two males have been on the head of the Normandy firm since 2014, sharing the identical mind-set: selling artisanal data and made in Normandy. “It’s important to know once you purchase a French product that it’s French employees who’ve labored, social prices are paid, the complete French economic system is essential,” defined Jean-François Lufeaux, director normal associated Solf.

To make the frames for his or her glasses, the entrepreneurs selected to work with cellulose acetate. Step one in making glasses, chopping, after which comes sprucing the frames. These workshops are a mix of refined 4.0 instruments and 55-year-old traditions. “We use barrels that flip with picket balls inside, which come for nearly per week to beat the acetate glasses till they go from a uncooked state to a shiny state.” specifies Thierry Bonhomme, affiliate director of Solf.
After a remaining hand sprucing, all scratches are alleged to be gone. The glasses are able to be assembled by one of many firm’s 70 craftsmen. The method may be lengthy, stretching over a number of months, between the design and the creation of the body.

Between 60 and 80 operations are required to convey scene frames to life. On essentially the most complicated outcomes, as much as 100 operations may be carried out.

Thierry Bonhomme, Deputy Managing Director of Société d’Optique Lunetière Française

You will not discover a big collection of injection plastic glasses within the SOLF workshops, however high quality frames, designed for about twenty manufacturers.
Fashions made in Normandy, stamped with Label Garantie Origine France.