In The News

P.O.G. Expands Their Lab Network

June 3, 2010 - Vision Monday

Precision Optical Group, Inc. is proud to announce the latest addition to their P.O.G. Labs network. Precision Optical Group, Inc. has secured minority interest this week with CRX Laboratories located in Greenville, South Carolina and Athens, Tennessee. CRX Laboratories specializes in industrial safety and government contract business.

CRX Laboratories will continue to be managed by Warren A. Herron, a veteran of the industrial safety eyewear business and will keep the same name and current locations. The CRX Laboratories partnership now consists of Warren A. Herron, Southern Eye Associates (a group of Ophthalmologists in Greenvilee, South Carolina) and Precision Optical Group, Inc. (Creston, Iowa).

The partnership allows CRX Laboratories to offer a full product line to their current and potential customers. This also gives P.O.G. Labs the opportunity to expand their industrial portion of their business. "Our unique partnership will provide the tools for all of us to continue to grow our business. We are thrilled to have Warren and his staff as partners", said Mike Tamerius, Co-Founder of Precision Optical Group, Inc.

CRX Laboratories joins K Optical (Detroit, Michigan), JMR Wholesale, Inc. (Denver, CO) and Precision Optical Group, Inc. (Creston, Iowa) to P.O.G. Labs' rapidally expanding network of laboratories.

P.O.G. expands their Creston, Iowa Location

May 10, 2010 - Creston News Advertiser

P.O.G. Labs recently purchased a neighboring commercial property just east of their current building to accommodate their growing laboratory. The new building holds all the finishing lab area and some of the final inspection staff. The Accounting department also calls this building "home". The extra space in the building will be used for storage and for a workshop area. It allows all the departments to spread out a bit and have some extra room to work.

To connect the two buildings, P.O.G. built a walk way. One of the more interesting features of the expansion is a robotic shelving unit called a Packmobile. This runs on an invisible track throughout the buildings to help the work flow. The new building adds an additional 3,200 square feet to the production facility. The total square footage of the entire lab is now 18,200!

"I remember when we first bought the building that we currently occupy. We thought we would never fill the space. Infact, we rented some of the space out to local businesses in Creston. But as time passed and the lab grew we added on to the building and have since more than doubled our space." stated Mike Tamerius (Co-Founder). "And we still plan to expand!"

P.O.G. has been in a total of 3 buildings since the beginning in 1987. They plan to continue to expand to meet the growing needs of their customers nationwide.

P.O.G. fights cancer with "Courage Coating®"

January 18, 2010 - Vision Monday

P.O.G. Labs is launching a new marketing initiative aimed at fighting cancer. The Creston, Iowa-based lab is contributing $2* to the American Cancer Society® for each pair of lenese made with "Courage Coating®".

"Unfortunately everyone is affected by cancer in some way", said P.O.G. Labs co-founder Matt Somers. "That is why when we launched our new hard coating we decided to do something about it."

"Courage Coating®" is available with or with out anti-reflective coating (AR). Each order of "Courage Coating®" is delivered with a cleaning cloth, authenticity card and a "Courage to Fight Cancer" bracelet.

This program runs from September 29, 2009 to August 30th, 2010. The American Cancer® Society does not endorse any product or service.