Articles, News & Press

December 5, 2022

Valley Contax is proud to announce that Kimberly Ahern and April Conklin had their auditing knowledge, skills, and overall competency tested by a globally-recognized certification body

April and Kimberly are Valley Contax’s internal auditors for the quality system, a complex system of processes...

October 21, 2022

Valley Contax Announces 2023 Global Specialty Lens Symposium Student Travel Grant Award Winner

Valley Contax, Inc, in partnership with Contamac US, is pleased to announce their next travel grant award winner...

September 20, 2022

Valley Contax Announces 2023 Global Specialty Lens Symposium Student Travel Grant Award

Valley Contax, Inc, in partnership with Contamac US, is pleased to announce their next travel grant award opportunity...

August 18, 2022

Valley Contax Announces Winner of Academy 2022 Travel Grant Award

Valley Contax, Inc, in partnership with Contamac US, is pleased to announce the winner of their student travel grant...

August 6, 2022

Valley Contax Announces Cornea and Contact Lens Residents Celebrate at the 9th Annual Residency Summit

Valley Contax, in partnership with Contamac held the company's Ninth Annual Residency Summit on the beautiful Oregon Coast.

July 11, 2022

Valley Contax Announces Shuffleboard Bowl Winner

Valley Contax recently awarded three $500 scholarships to the winners of the Shuffleboard Bowl at their booth during Optometry’s Meeting in Chicago...

June 1, 2022

Valley Contax Announces 2022 Academy's Meeting Student Travel grant Award

Valley Contax, Inc, in partnership with Contamac US, is pleased to announce their next travel grant award opportunity.

May 6, 2022

Try Not To Blink Announces a Milestone of its 200th Episode

Try Not To Blink (TN2B) is a fresh and powerful podcast geared toward modern-day optometrists...

April 20, 2022

Valley Contax Announces 2022 Optometry's Meeting Student Travel Grant Award

Valley Contax, Inc, in partnership with Contamac US, is pleased to announce the winner of their student travel grant...

February 12, 2022

Valley Contax Announces 2022 Optometry’s Meeting Student Travel Grant Award

Valley Contax, Inc, in partnership with Contamac US, is pleased to announce their next travel grant award opportunity...

January 20, 2022

Valley Contax Announces 2022 GSLS Student Travel Grant Award.

Valley Contax, Inc, in partnership with Contamac US, is pleased to announce the winner of their first student travel grant...

December 1, 2021

Valley Contax Announces New Directors.

Valley Contax, Inc has announced five new leadership changes, effective December 1, 2021...

July 15, 2021

Cornea and Contact Lens Residents Celebrate at the 8th Annual Residency Summit.

Valley Contax, in partnership with their generous sponsors, Contamac, eyeXY, Ocusoft, OVITZ, and Tangible Science, recently held the company's Eighth Annual Residency Summit...

May 26, 2021

2021 Marks the Tenth Year of Offering Custom Stable Diagnostic Sets to Students of Optometry.

Valley Contax, Inc. and co-sponsor, Contamac, US, are pleased to partner once again to offer complimentary diagnostic sets to optometry graduates across the US...

April 26, 2021

Valley Contax Celebrates Juneteenth. June 19th becomes a paid holiday for staff members.

Today, Valley Contax, Inc has announced it will include Juneteenth as a paid holiday for its staff members in honor of a day marked in history by the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Freedom Day for all African Americans...

January 28, 2021

Valley Contax Celebrates 40th Anniversary. Where innovation and automation come together.

Throughout this anniversary year, the company will pay tribute to Valley Contax’s many accomplishments during the past forty years as they strategize and plan for the next decade...

January 18, 2021

Josh Adams, Vice President of Valley Contax, Inc., Newly Elected as President of the Contact Lens Manufacturers Association, CLMA.

Valley Contax, a specialty contact lens manufacturer since 1981, dedicated to the quality of life through vision for patients across the US and many countries globally, announced today that Vice President...

October 25, 2020

Valley Contax Welcomes Dr. Adeline Bauer to The Team and Launches Their All-New Custom Lens Immersion Program.

Valley Contax, recently announced the addition of Dr. Adeline Bauer to their team as head of professional relations and the “CLIP” Program...

September 8, 2020

Valley Contax Partners With Precision Scleral Lens Center.

Valley Contax has partnered with Precision Scleral Lens Center, the country’s only scleral lens patient referral network for optometrists. Precision connects patients looking for scleral lenses with a local practice...

August 4, 2020

Valley Contax Receives ISO 13485 Certification, One of The Most Rigorous and Well-Regarded Standards in The World.

Valley Contax, a custom contact lens manufacturer, recently announced that their quality management system has been certified to comply with the requirements of ISO 13485...

July 13, 2020

Try Not To Blink Podcast Reaches 100 Episodes Milestone

Try Not To Blink a podcast sponsored by Valley Contax, a custom contact lens manufacturer, recently published their 100th episode...

June 6, 2020

Valley Contax Creates Professional Services Team

Valley Contax, a custom contact lens manufacturer, recently created a professional services team to support the company’s rapidly expanding network of eye care professionals...

May 6, 2020

Valley Contax Releases New Boost Marketing Program

Valley Contax, a custom contact lens manufacturer, recently released their new Boost Marketing Program that provides practitioners with free complimentary professionally designed and custom branded marketing pieces...

November 11, 2019

Valley Contax Announces Custom Stable Cup Winners

Valley Contax, a custom contact lens manufacturer, recently held the Custom Stable Cup Challenge at Academy 2019 in Orlando, October 23rd to 27th...

September 9, 2019

Valley Contax Announces Custom Stable Cup Competition at 2019 AAO Meeting

Valley Contax, a custom contact lens manufacturer, will be holding their Custom Stable Cup Competition at this year’s American Academy of Optometry meeting being held October 24-27 in Orlando, FL...

August 20, 2019

Valley Contax Releases Total Cost Guaranteed Warranty Policy

Valley Contax, a custom contact lens manufacturer, recently released their new Total Cost Guaranteed warranty policy...

August 6, 2019

Custom Stable Cup Winners Take Home Three Scholarship Awards

Valley Contax, a custom contact lens manufacturer, recently held the Custom Stable Cup Challenge at Optometry’s Meeting 2019 in St. Louis...

July 16, 2019

Cornea and Contact Lens Residents Celebrate at the 6th Annual Residency Summit

Valley Contax, a custom contact lens manufacturer, in partnership with Contamac, a contact lens materials manufacturer, recently held the company’s sixth annual Residency Summit in Oregon’s beautiful Willamette Valley...

June 17, 2019

Southern College of Optometry Awards Custom Stable Cup Scholarships

Southern College of Optometry recently awarded four scholarships to Morgan Thorson, Zachary Shriver, Lindsay Estel, and Jaelyn DeBerry in recognition of their clinical excellence in contact lenses...

June 26, 2018

Custom Stable Cup Winners Take Home Three Scholarship Awards

Southern College of Optometry & Midwestern University Arizona College of Optometry earned first and second place respectively in the Custom Stable Cup Challenge...

October 15, 2017

Custom Stable Cup Winners Take Home Three Scholarship Awards

Southern College of Optometry & UC Berkeley College of Optometry earned first and second place respectively in the Custom Stable Cup Challenge...

September 1, 2017

Tangible Hydra-PEG

Valley Contax is happy to offer the Tangible Hydra-PEG coating as an option to all of our lenses manufactured in Contamac Optimum materials...

May 15, 2017

Custom Stable Receives 510(k) Clearance From The FDA

Valley Contax is proud to announce that we recently received 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

May 1, 2016

Custom Stable: Clinical Study Results

The Custom Stable was utilized in a clinical study researching scleral lens use on normal corneas...