Our founder, Charles J. Eagle, was originally a Swiss tool maker and his total focus became the production of only the finest quality frames for the eye wear industry. From our Rochester, NY manufacturing base, and throughout the decades, the company’s leadership as the industry standard has endured and is most evident in the tens of millions of frames produced by the company’s skilled employees. Now, as the third generation of the Eagle family leads the company, it continues to evolve in an ever-changing landscape of customer demand, well into the next hundred years. Our dedication to quality started in the earliest years of gold-filled classic metals, pince-nez and full frame construction, on through the eras of metal and zyl combination frames. Then production grew into all aluminum frames, acetate and metal trim acetate, to then developing fashionable RX safety frames in the nineties, and through it all, our rich tradition of quality always stayed true. We simultaneously answered the call to supply frame products to our Armed Forces in WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and all current conflicts. And when the demand for exceptional strength and dependability to withstand the in-cockpit environments of high G tolerance in our supersonic fighter aircraft, ArtCraft was called on to design and manufacture their top of the line eyewear. How have we maintained our “American Made” expertise? As outsourcing components and manufacturing functions displaced the vast majority of legitimate US frame manufactures, ArtCraft has always invested in expanding its own in house capabilities. That lead us to installing the finest 3D eyewire machines, electrophoretic coating tanks and drying ovens. To keep up with growing fulfillment, computerized bar-code packaging and electronic assembly devices all added to preserving the production of our classic eye wear.
