BMC Industries Inc.

On June 5, 2007, BMC Industries, Inc. went out of business as per its liquidation under Chapter 11 bankruptcy. BMC Industries, Inc. offers high volume precision products in two segments, Optical Products and Buckbee-Mears. The Optical Products segment, which operates under the Vision-Ease Lens trade name, designs, manufactures, and distributes polycarbonate, glass, and hard-resin plastic eyeglass lenses for the global optical industry. Within each of these lens materials, it offers single-vision lenses, which have a constant corrective power at all points; multifocal lenses, which have two or more distinct areas of different corrective power; progressive lenses, which are a type of multifocal lens with a continuous gradient of different corrective power; and prescription lenses that are used primarily for sunwear. This segment also produces lenses with anti-reflective features and varying levels of scratch-resistant coatings. The Buckbee-Mears segment produces aperture masks, which are a key component of color television picture tubes. BMC Industries, Inc. was founded in 1907 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.