HOYA Vision Care and NIDEK Extend Global Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Integrated Vision Care Innovation

•    Automatic collaboration renewal confirmed, reinforcing a long-term commitment to innovation in vision care and instrumentation
•    Collaboration reflects growing movement toward more precise, personalized vision care through integrating diagnostic instrumentation and advanced lens technologies

 

 

12.07.2026 – HOYA Vision Care, a world leader in eye care technology, has announced the renewal of its global strategic partnership with NIDEK Co., Ltd., a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic, optometric, and lens edging equipment. Originally established in 2023, the collaboration has been renewed and will now be extended on an automatic yearly basis, reinforcing both companies’ shared vision for advancing the future of vision care. 

 

HOYA Vision Care and NIDEK’s renewed partnership reflects the companies’ shared commitment to advancing technological innovation and delivering integrated solutions that elevate the standard of vision care. The collaboration reflects a growing industry trend toward the integration of diagnostic instrumentation and advanced lens technologies to enable more precise, personalized vision care.

 

Instrumentation plays a critical role in delivering high-performance lens solutions, supporting clinical decision-making, and enhancing the overall patient experience. Through this partnership, HOYA Vision Care and NIDEK aim to empower Eye Care Professionals (ECPs) to provide more personalized and data-driven care through advanced diagnostic and measurement technologies integrated with lens innovation.

 

The renewal of this partnership with HOYA Vision Care illustrates our shared commitment to providing long-term support to ECPs,” said Motoki Ozawa, President and CEO of NIDEK. “By combining NIDEK’s technological expertise with HOYA’s leadership in vision care, we are pursuing our ambition to offer innovative, high-performance, and fully integrated solutions.

 

For HOYA Vision Care, this partnership represents a natural strategic alignment with an organization that shares our commitment to quality, innovative design, and long-term investment in research and technology. Both companies are rooted in Japan's long-standing tradition of precision craftsmanship, meticulous attention to detail, and unwavering dedication to excellence – values that define HOYA Vision Care's DNA and form the foundation of this extended collaboration. Together, we are building solutions that empower ECPs to deliver more precise and personalized care, helping to improve life through vision for patients worldwide,” said John Goltermann Lassen, CEO of HOYA Vision Care.

 

Looking ahead, the renewed partnership positions both organizations to respond well to an industry increasingly defined by precision, connectivity, and patient-centricity.

 

About NIDEK
NIDEK CO., LTD., is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic, optometric, and lens edging equipment. Due to their technological expertise in combining optical and electronic technologies, the company has been at the forefront of ophthalmic innovation, creating industry leading products. Currently, NIDEK CO., LTD. participates in global business activities encompassing the development, production, marketing and sales of devices. 

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Pamela Pedrucci 

PR, Media and External Comms Director HOYA Vision Care  

pamela.pedrucci@hoya.com 

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About HOYA Vision Care

For over 60 years, HOYA Vision Care has been a global leader in the eyeglass lens industry. With a presence in over 50 countries, HOYA Vision Care has a leading position in myopia management category and a proven expertise in advanced lens designs, high performance photochromic technologies and high-quality AR coatings.

HOYA Vision Care’s solid market portfolio includes SEIKO and PENTAX optical lenses, as well as innovative products such as MiYOSMART myopia control lenses for children, Hoyalux MySelf individualized progressive lenses and the Sensity series of photochromic coatings. The company employs over 20.000 employees worldwide with large scale production facilities in Asia, Europe and the US and 30 local Rx laboratories globally.

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About HOYA Corporation

Founded in 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, HOYA Corporation is a global technology and med-tech company and a leading supplier of innovative high-tech and medical products. HOYA’s divisions and business units research and develop products utilized in the healthcare and information technology fields. In the healthcare field, we provide medical device products such as eyeglasses, medical endoscopes, contact and intraocular lenses, orthopedic implants, surgical/therapeutic devices and medical device reprocessing and disinfection solutions.

In the information technology field, we provide products such as optical lenses, photomasks and blanks used in the manufacturing process for semiconductor and LCD/OLED devices, text to speech, human resources and other software solutions and critical components for the mass memory and cloud storage industries. With over 150 offices and subsidiaries worldwide, HOYA currently employs a multinational workforce of 37,000 people.

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