About Us

A New Era Of Eyewear

Until more recently the majority of eyewear brands have been sourcing their frames from East Asia and Italy. They commonly are mass produced using plastic known as acetate.

The acetate used starts as a sheet and then gets cut down to a frame’s dimensions. Any of the sheet that is not used ends up as waste. This is known as subtractive manufacturing.

Founded by Eyecare Professionals in 2020, Oculuxe in contrast relies on additive manufacturing where by each frame is built up from scratch using nylon powder with minimal waste.

All our frames are proudly made in the UK using state of the art 3D printing machines. This allows us to make our collections in low quantities reducing the need of excess stock levels.

We feel that the eyewear industry’s current model of production is not sustainable and a lot of the time creates frames that are ill fitting.

With our insight of over 15 years in the optical sector we aspire to be an ethical brand of the future, creating frames that truly fit our individual customers.

3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process whereby layers of raw material are built up to create a three dimensional (3D) solid object from a digital file. It is a unique manufacturing method that allows many things which are usually difficult to be created using conventional means to be made.

• Firstly the frames are digitally designed using sophisticated computer aided design (CAD) software
• Once happy they are prototyped and tested to meet British and EU regulations
• Each frame’s 3D file is then finalised
• They are then transferred to the MJF (Multi Jet Fusion) machines made by HP ready for batch printing
• The raw material used by the machines is powdered Polyamide12 (PA12), it is fused together layer by layer to create the 3D printed frame
• After the print has completed it is left to cool and then removed from the unused bed of powder. The frame is then cleaned, polished and dyed
• Finally, hinges are fitted by hand and lenses glazed into each frame.