Memphis-Area Company Making Solar Eclipse Viewing Glasses
U.S. News & World Report BARTLETT, Tenn. (AP) Next year, North America will see one of the largest and most impressive solar eclipses in living memory. And many people will be viewing that celestial phenomenon through specially designed glasses made in the Mid-South.
Bartlett-based American Paper Optics is the worlds largest 3D optics company as well as the largest supplier of safe solar eclipse glasses. The company makes all its products in the Memphis area, chief marketing officer Jason Lewin said.
The company, founded in 1990, sold 45 million pairs of eclipse glasses before the 2017 solar eclipse and in the run-up to next years and an annular eclipse, sometimes known as a ring of fire eclipse, in the western United States this fall the company hopes to sell upward of 75 million pairs. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, entirely blocking the face of the sun.
Its this is a lifetime experience. So we do not want (people) working on that Monday (April 8). I want (people) to drive over to Arkansas, to see totality, said John Jerit, president and CEO of American Paper Optics.
