All Nouvelle Chicane Frames shown here are available now at Charlotte Jones Opticians 509 9th Ave. midtown Manhattan check our catalog too. The Live at 509, street music eyewear trunk shows series is on Fridays this fall in midtown, stop by. Enjoy the music and the best eyewear in the city. Click for our YouTube short from this event..
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Friday October 4th Nouvelle Chicane Eyewear will have a trunk show from 3-6pm at Charlotte Jones Opticians in Midtown Manhattan on 509 9th Avenue and 38th Street. Come for the live music, stay for the fashionable eyewear.
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The Presto will be on Display
June 8th 2024 Midtown Manhattan, New York City now has their photography in the New York Public Libraries permanent picture collection. Look for us in the “Poses” folder…
8 juin 2024 Midtown Manhattan, New York City a désormais ses photographies dans la collection permanente d’images des bibliothèques publiques de New York. Cherchez-nous dans le dossier « Poses »
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Violaine Frederique
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To manufacture your glasses; 4 x 6-inch blocks of acetate are cut into the shape of the frame. 80% is wasted and landfilled. This is called subtractive manufacturing and a wasteful approach.
Recent advances in manufacturing equipment and materials have made additive manufacturing (3D printing) a viable alternative process, that is also environmentally and ecologically conscious. Only the material needed for the frame is fully processed. Nouvelle Chicane chose this process as well as several other prestigious brands at the leading edge of this technology.
Inventory overruns are another wasteful impact to the environment generated by subtractive manufacturing. Why? high minimum lot quantities are needed to cover costly setup charges that conventional manufacturers demand. To keep costs down they typically need to run several hundred copies of the same frame. This creates piles of dusty inventory that many times ends up sold at a discount, or worse, landfilled.
When using additive manufacturing and a tightly controlled supply chain the batch size can be as small as one piece.
Nouvelle Chicane makes limited frames and works with our shops closely to support low inventories. Our process allows us to backfill quickly in 3 weeks with novel pieces.
See the following article for further details on additive versus subtractive manufacturing in eyewear. You can make an environmental impact today, by choosing Nouvelle Chicane Eyewear.
At Nouvelle Chicane we make to order, we make locally in NYC, and we use additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing is sometimes referred to as green manufacturing. We only add the needed material, rather than remove and discard what is not needed.
Over 50% of all eyewear is never worn, discarded and landfilled. Nouvelle Chicane makes each pair to order.
Click for more details on additive manufacturing.
