MEI has distinguished itself designing and manufacturing visionary equipment for the lens edging process, whose robustness, reliability and flexibility has no comparison with any other available product. The “thinking out of the box” inclination of the company, brought in the dry cut technology, which is used in all MEI edging machines, comes with many advantages over the oldfashioned grinding method.

The dry cut technology has made the dream of the blockless edging a reality, giving the company the opportunity to become the leading manufacturer in its Field and the key supplier of edging machines for large lens corporations as well as for independent labs of any size all over the world.

MEI offers a broad range of edgers in different size, loading systems and throughput, suitable for any type of customer, from optical shops up to the big fully automated industrial labs.

But it’s not just about edging. Driven by the success of the block free edging, MEI envisioned a way to eliminate the need for blocks in lens production. The result of this transformation process includes CoreTBA, Alpha CoreTBA, and Omega CoreTBA – the MEI block-less Freeform Lens Production Systems. For the first time in history, labs can avoid using tapes, blocks, and wax, or Alloy. Moreover, with its Dry Cut technology, these products don’t need a water filtering system, helping to save money and protect the environment. MEI’s latest innovation, ClearXM, is the first advanced system to automate the cleaning of edged and round lenses, integrating cosmetic inspection and quality control into a single, compact solution. All MEI machines are entirely manufactured in Italy.