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Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia. Alcon Inc. ( German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people. [ 2]
By the mid-1990s, Alcon’s 150-acre campus in south Fort Worth was home to nine buildings and 2,500 employees, including hundreds of research scientists, manufacturing workers and managers.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines soft contact lenses as: made of soft, flexible plastics that allow oxygen to pass through to the cornea. Soft contact lenses may be easier to adjust to and are more comfortable than rigid gas permeable lenses. Newer soft lens materials include silicone-hydrogels to provide more oxygen to your ...
This listing is limited to those independent companies and subsidiaries notable enough to have their own articles in Wikipedia. Both going concerns and defunct firms are included, as well as firms that were part of the pharmaceutical industry at some time in their existence, provided they were engaged in the production of human (as opposed to veterinary) therapeutics.
The Cooper Companies, Inc., branded as CooperCompanies, is a global medical device company headquartered in San Ramon, California. [1] The company consists of two business units, CooperVision (CVI) which manufactures contact lenses, and CooperSurgical (CSI), which manufactures medical devices and fertility and genomic products for the women's health care market.
George Edward Alcorn Jr. George Edward Alcorn Jr. (born March 22, 1940) is an American physicist, engineer, inventor, and professor. He taught at Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia, and worked primarily for IBM and NASA. He has over 30 inventions and 8 patents resulting in his induction into the National Inventors ...
List of companies in Houston. Floating cube at ExxonMobil headquarters. Sysco headquarters. Hewlett Packard Enterprise headquarters. Post Oak Tower in Uptown Houston, the headquarters for Landry's and Fertitta Entertainment. Crown Castle headquarters. KBR Tower, KBR 's headquarters. Academy Sports + Outdoors headquarters in Katy, Texas.
Acme Brick Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of brick and masonry -related construction products and materials. Founder George E. Bennett (October 6, 1852 – July 3, 1907), chartered the company as the Acme Pressed Brick Company on April 17, 1891, in Alton, Illinois, [ 1] although the company's physical location has always ...