Highlights of our history

2024

Launch of the new highend progressive lens “SiiA® 2 – vision with new freedom near and far.” With SiiA® calculation technology 2.0, up to 30% and the new “panorama mode” for an average of 20% wider distance vision area.

R+H has been named the best German Lens Supplier for the 11th time since 1991! (Source: markt intern, survey of German opticians).

2022

Rupp + Hubrach celebrates its 100th anniversary.

R+H is named as an “Employer of the Future” by the German Innovation Institute.

2018

Launch of the new highend progressive lens “SiiA – Progressive vision in perfection” with numerous unique features, such as smartphone support, patented “night mode” and the option of Intuitiv technology, that takes handedness into account in the lens.

Top 100 winner: At the 5th German SME Summit in Ludwigsburg on June 29, Rupp + Hubrach was once again recognized by TOP 100 as one of Germany’s most innovative medium-sized companies.

 2013

Market launch of a world first – Intuitiv technology. This innovation takes into account the different vision of left- and right-handed people and enables up to 35% wider fields of vision.

2004

YSIS – best sight of my life.” Rupp + Hubrach launches the first free-form progressive lens manufactured according to individual vision profiles. An absolute novelty on the market.

2001

Corrective sports lenses: R+H is the first european manufacturer to offer individually corrected lenses in „curved sports lenses.”

1994

In May, a laser protection filter developed jointly by Rupp + Hubrach and Jenoptik causes a worldwide sensation. In June, the “GHnc” hard coating with nanocomposite technology for plastic spectacle lenses revolutionizes the market. Developed by R+H Bamberg and the Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken.

1922

Founding of “Optische Werkstätten Rupp + Hubrach” by Max Rupp and Carl Hubrach, “Untere Mühlbrücke 1” in Bamberg on January 17, 1922.