Molding the impossible: The

NYPRO/Vistakon Disposable
Contact Lens Project
Putilem Jamir (PGP/21/223)
Baskhar (PGP/21/1
Amit Meshram (PGP/21/213)
Shubham
Mahesh
Youri Kaufmann IE/21/001
 History of the Company

 Founded in 1955
 Name: Nylon Products Corporation
 Previously, custom injection molders of plastic materials leaders
 Main figure: the general manager Gordon Lankton (he started in 1962, with
a company’s value of less than $1Million in sales)
 By 1969, values’ company was at $4Million in sales
 However, huge competition, so the company had trouble to keep raising
after the 70’s
 Then manage to grow from $4Million to $40Million in the 80’s
Strategy of NYPRO
 The company managed to create pieces that were to small for the others
competitors, with a unique expertise
 This company targeted a specific segment, where customers needed a
really good and precise technology, with specific needs
 So premium segment, with premium price
 The goal of NYPRO was to become a large scale modeler. Which would led
to economical advantage and then to better new technics of manufacturs
 As this kind of business is a regional business, need to develop small regional
connections.

Thank’s to this strategy, NYPRO went from $4Million

to $40Million during the 80’s
Injection Molding Process
 The Process seemed relatively simple with raw materials being dumped into
large hoppers and parts dropped from machines onto conveyors.
 The interesting part happened inside the machine
 Complex interaction of scores of factors affected by:
 Molding temperatures
 Molding pressures
 Mold Design
 Dwell time
 Machine drift and Wear
 Operator/Engineer Judgement
Vistakon division

 Market Size of contact lenses were approximately 1 billion $

 Bausch and Lomb were clear market leaders with 25% market Share.
 The Vistakon division of Johnson and Johnson entered the business in 1981
by acquiring Frontier Contact Lenses.
 It was subsequently named Vistakon, with a market share of 5% in 1986
 It’s strategy was to redefine the concept of contact lenses
 Inexpensive contact lenses under the name ACUVUE were to be made
available
 Vistakon wished to price ACUVUE as low as possible and to be made
available by early 1987.
 NYPRO-Vistakon Alliance
NYPRO
Vistakon Need Vistakon NYPRO Dilemma
•To launch the Expectations Deliverables
ACUVUE ahead •To achieve •Maintaining the
of its competitor process control key dimensions
Bausch & Lomb while preparing Radius, Peak-to
•To minimize the the lenses with Valley,
cost of testing desired power Circularity, NYPRO
and sorting while and Flatness of the Deadlines Feasibility
creating ACUVUE specifications molds Employees
lenses •To produce the •Delivering the
disposable molds by
contact lenses conforming the
with +6.0 diopters Vistakon
with dimensional ambitious As the disposable Achieving ±20𝜇𝑚
tolerance of deadlines lenses has not yet within specified cost NYPRO’s staff majorly
± 20𝜇𝑚 been existed, along with meeting handling 100-200
preparing one within other technical projects
tight schedules is specifications is simultaneously
unreliable extremely complex

Keeping above expectations and concerns in mind, NYPRO and Vistakon form an alliance to
produce the Disposable contact lenses. NYPRO has taken the commercial and technical risk for the
optimistic outcomes.