All-Purpose Protection

2023 • Tech

Shamir Glacier Sun™ is an advanced achromatic coating which ensures enhanced protection and minimized glare. It’s perfect for cloudy as well as sunny days. And, its AR (anti-reflective) properties help deliver perfectly clear vision and keeps reflected sunlight from bouncing off rear lens surfaces into the eyes.

Tip: Be sure to explain to patients that protection isn’t just important on sunny days. Shamir Glacier Sun™ is also the perfect choice for cloudy days.

Shamir Glacier Sun™ does not interfere with the wearer’s sun lenses’ chosen hue and helps prevent their color from fading. Its antistatic, hydrophobic, and oleophobic properties make lenses easy to clean. They also ensure extraordinary scratch resistance and durability.

Many Benefits

Here are just some of its unsurpassed benefits for wearers. Shamir Glacier Sun™:

• maintains color and protecting it from fading

80%
The percent of the sun’s UV rays that can pass through clouds.

• doesn’t change lens tint

• offers enhanced protection

• absorbs dangerous reflected radiation

• minimizes glare

• is highly durable and scratch resistant

• is easy to clean

• is highly resistant to water, stains, grease, and fingerprints

All Types of Weather

Be sure to explain to patients that protection isn’t just important on sunny days. Shamir Glacier Sun™ is also the perfect choice for cloudy days. While clouds and shade may reduce UV intensity, some harmful rays can still pass through, leading to eye damage. How much? According to the Skin Cancer Institute, up to 80% of the sun’s UV rays can pass through clouds.

Be sure to let patients know that Shamir Glacier Sun™ is the featured coating technology in Shamir’s new Driver Intelligence Sun™ lenses.

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