Derwent Analytics Has Clear Vision
Posted on 15. Sep, 2010 by editor in Business News
An Ilkeston firm is has opened up an additional production line to make the most of a new solution to clean contact lenses.
Derwent Analytics is so convinced about its new venture it is expanding into extra premises and plans to take on several highly-skilled staff.
The family run company makes bespoke mineral solutions that are used in analysis by various industries to test for impurities.
The company’s latest achievement is supplying a Lincolnshire-based company with chemicals for making cosmetic contact lenses; a fashion accessory for people who like to change their eye colour. The unique solutions keep the lenses clean and sterile to avoid any infection.
Already Argos has agreed to stock the product and Hopkinson estimates that this order along with others will bring in £800,000 a year from Britain. He is also looking to export to India, which in turn would supply the big American market.
He said: “This is an exciting development. This unit, which has been home to us for the past eight years, will become a world-class manufacturing facility, equal to anything. With all markets open to us the potential is unlimited.”
Regeneration agency Erewash Partnership supported Derwent Analytics in their search for extra premises.
Pictured – l-r: Chemist Carl Hughes with Ian Hopkinson, director of Derwent Analytics.
