Design & Development

We provide optical coating design services to a global range of customers from defence and aerospace to cutting edge ophthalmics and industrial displays.  Utilising industry recognised software for the design, optimisation and reverse engineering, combined with the experience to ensure coatings perform in the environments required and within the manufacturability available at the client. 

We provide a range of services dedicated to ensuring that clients specify, select and obtain the most applicable technologies suitable for their application and requirements.  Our experts can provide insight to manufacturers, technologies and processes to provide the client with all the information required to make a fully informed decision whilst ensuring that we eliminate any of the acronyms and 'black box' views which can be associated with such technologies.

We know that on occasion resource, capability or the requirements for discretion means that outsourcing R&D can be an effective tool.

In these situations we can support activities from running large collaborative R&D projects to supporting small activities with academics, handling the supply chain, partners and outputs with clear reporting to the clients and key stakeholders.

Where key technical knowledge is required to deliver a project Light Coatings provide key project management to our clients.  This has been in the form of running government funded projects for clients to ensure delivery and reporting to the oversight body to delivering project management for the delivery and establishment of complete industrial coating facilities.