Youngstown company shifts focus to make protective eyewear

In December we introduced you to a local company making custom-fit glasses using 3D printing. Now, Fitz Frames is shifting its focus and making protective eye-wear for health care workers.
"The glasses are not the cutest glasses ever but they are designed to be very, very functional," Said Fitz Frames CEO Gabe Schlumberger. "Particularly it covers your eyebrows, it provides a little bit more droplet protection, provides a lot wider-field of view."
The glasses are printed in Youngstown and Schlumberger says they're the only company to make glasses like this that are truly custom fit.
"At a certain point we were signing up about 100 per hour, which was way more than we could actually produce," said Schlumberger. "We've had more than 3-thousand people sign up on our waitlist."
The company is scaling up production, adding another shift, and selling these glasses -both prescription and non-prescription - at cost. That's about $100 dollars and they take about one to two weeks for delivery.
"We wanted to bring this to market as soon as possible because there was just a pressing demand," said Schlumberger. "We are sort of in 'aw' of all the hard work of all the front line medical staff are taking, they are literally putting their lives on the line and this is our smallest way we can help give back."
Fitz Frames is asking if anyone is interested in helping to underwrite costs by making a donation.
For more information on the protective eye-wear, visit https://www.fitzframes.com/