 |  | 1947 David Pank and Don Schultz buy a controlling interest in Laubman and Pank, an optical business located in Adelaide, Australia
1950s Schultz and Pank experiment with CR-39, a new plastic lens material
1957 Noel Roscrow named managing director of a Laubman and Pank subsidiary - Scientific Optical Laboratories of Australia, Ltd. (SOLA) - which would commercialize this technology
1960 SOLA Optical begins selling CR39 lenses with a staff of 9 employees
1960-79 SOLA develops rapidly, initially exporting and then developing marketing and manufacturing bases around the world.
1979 SOLA acquired by Pilkington plc.
1987 Acquisitions in Barns Hind & Coburn Optical see the group become one of the largest of its kind in the world
1991 Pilkington sell their interest in Coburn Optical.
1993 SOLA group was acquired by AEA Investors Inc.
1995 SOLA is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
1996 Acquisition of AO (American Optical)
2000 SOLA acquires Optical Eyewear and SOLA Technologies is born
2004 SOLAOne nominated the best progressive lens by the Optical Laboratory Association.
2005 SOLA merges with Carl Zeiss to form Carl Zeiss Vision, a company jointly owned by Carl Zeiss AG and EQT Partners
2005 September - in the first 6 months of its operation CZV generates revenue of EUR 415 Million (AUD 651 Million) |