Sheridan Optical Since 1978 · Pitman, NJ
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For Immediate Release · April 25, 2026
Unity Gold Lab 2026 — Highest Quality Certified seal
Consecutive Years 2025 · 2026

A family-owned independent optical lab —
now two-time recipient of the Unity® Gold Seal.

Built by the Sheridan family in Pitman, New Jersey since 1978. Independent, locally-accountable, and personally responsible for every lens that leaves our floor.

An independent lab built on a single principle.

There's one rule that runs the floor at Sheridan: every pair of glasses leaving this building has to be one we'd be proud to wear ourselves. It's the standard Sheridan Optical was built on, and it's still the standard every job runs through today.

Everything else flows from there. Turnaround time — because a doctor and a patient are waiting on the other end. Quality — because a lens isn't done when it ships, it's done when the patient can see clearly and look in the mirror without disappointment. And white-glove service — because the practices we work with deserve a partner that picks up the phone, owns the work, and makes things right when they need to be made right.

Forty-seven years later, we're still independently owned and operated — never been bought, rolled up, or franchised. Small enough to know our customers by name, and disciplined enough to earn the Unity® Gold Seal of Excellence two years in a row.

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We've always believed the real value of a product comes from its craftsmanship, not from rebates or incentives. We control every step of our process and personally stand behind every lens we produce.

Ed Sheridan III President, Sheridan Optical
What We Make

A full-service lab, end to end.

Free-Form Digital Progressives

100% backside-design progressives for easier adaptation and wider comfort zones. Available in every material and segment height (14 mm minimum).

  • IOT Digital Ray-Path® technology
  • "As worn" + "As prescribed" power options
  • Standard, premium, and custom designs

Endurance™ AR Coatings

In-house anti-reflective coating across five tiers — from everyday scratch protection to maximum blue-light filtration. Backed by 2-year, 2× warranty.

  • Endurance Standard, Max, RB, BB, Max Blue
  • VSP TechShield® AR (Unity Gold Seal)
  • Backside UV included on all products

Surfacing & Finishing

Full surfacing line plus tracing, edging, drilling, grooving, and mounting. Frames sent in are returned ready to dispense.

  • All materials, all index ranges
  • Drill mounts, semi-rimless, full-frame
  • Tray-tracking through every station

Specialty & Quick-Turn

Polarized, photochromic, sport, occupational, safety, bevel-mounted, and high-prism work. We treat every job like a rush when it needs to be one.

  • Honeywell® safety partner
  • Sport wraps, sun, and Rx sunwear
  • Direct-ship to practice or patient
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Made In Our Lab
Trusted Lab Partner Of
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01 / The Investment

$2.5 million
into a brand-new
surfacing floor.

In 2026 we built out an entirely new production space and equipped it with a Schneider Modulo Ring — the same digital surfacing platform that powers the world's most demanding optical labs.

Combined with the equipment on our existing floor, Sheridan now operates one of the most modern independent labs on the East Coast.

$2.5M
Capital Invested
6
Equipment Partners
1
New Production Floor
Surfacing New 2026

Schneider

Modulo Ring digital surfacing line

A fully automated, end-to-end digital surfacing line — generation, polishing, marking, and inspection in a single integrated flow. The same platform used by the largest free-form labs in the world.

Modulo's continuous digital traceability means every job carries its full process history through every station, every time. That's how we keep the Unity Gold Seal standard applied to every lens, not just every audit.

02 / The Rest of the Floor
Finishing
MEI
Tracing, edging, drilling, grooving, and mounting. Every shape, every frame — returned to your practice ready to dispense.
AR Coating
Satisloh
Production AR coating chambers — the workhorse for our high-volume premium AR runs.
AR Coating
Leybold
German-engineered vacuum coating systems. Tight process control, consistent results, durable AR that holds up over years of wear.
AR + In-House Mirror
Optotech
AR coating plus our in-house mirror coating — the capability behind our Rx sunwear and custom-finish work.
Backside Coatings
Coburn
Premium backside coatings — UV, anti-fog, and specialty treatments applied to the lens surface that touches the patient's eye.
Coming Soon

Endurance 2.0 — built to perform.

Five tiers, one philosophy: AR coatings engineered, manufactured, and warrantied by the same family-owned lab that's earned the Unity Gold Seal two years running.

Endurance 2.0 lens lineup — Standard, Max, RB, BB, and Max Blue tiers, with next-generation coating layer details
Available Q3 2026 to Sheridan Optical Lab Partners
Engineered, Layer by Layer

The Endurance™ 2.0 coating stack.

Five layers of precision-applied protection — every batch produced in-house under the same Unity Gold Seal quality controls.

AR Coating Reduces glare, repels water and oil, blocks UV — the surface every wearer touches.
Premium 1.6 Index Lacquer A new high-index lacquer that gives the AR coating a harder, smoother surface to bond to.
Primer Microscopic adhesion layer that locks the lacquer to the lens — the difference between AR that lasts and AR that flakes.
Substrate The lens itself — Rx-ground to your patient's prescription, in the material you specified.

What you get when your lab is family-run.

Someone answers the phone.

When you call Sheridan, a person picks up. When there's a problem, one of us solves it — not a ticket queue. That's the difference between an independent lab and a corporate roll-up.

Made in our lab, top to bottom.

Every lens we ship was surfaced, coated, and finished here in our New Jersey lab. No offshoring. No mystery supply chain.

VSP-validated quality.

Two consecutive Unity Gold Seals mean our process control passes a 12-week independent audit cycle. The same rigor goes into every job we run, Unity or not.

Built for independent practices.

Most of our customers are like us — family-run, locally accountable practices serving their communities. We share your values and treat your patients like ours.

About Sheridan Optical

Founded in 1978 and based in Pitman, New Jersey, Sheridan Optical is a family-owned independent laboratory providing advanced ophthalmic lens surfacing, AR coating, and finishing services for eye-care professionals across the United States.

The company specializes in premium free-form lenses, durable anti-reflective coatings, and responsive customer service backed by technical expertise and integrity.

As a two-time recipient of the Unity Gold Seal of Excellence, Sheridan continues to invest in the technology, training, and disciplined production processes required to deliver lenses that exceed the standards practices and patients expect.

Get started with Sheridan

Whether you're an existing Sheridan customer signing in to place an order, or a practice exploring a new lab partner — here's how to reach us.

Visit the Lab Portal Existing customers can sign in to place orders, check status, view statements, and pay invoices.
New Practice Inquiries
Talk to us about a lab partnership.
1-800-704-1375
info@sheridanoptical.com
Customer Service
Order status, billing, technical questions.
856-582-0963
customerservice@sheridanoptical.com
Visit Us
108 Clinton Avenue
Pitman, NJ 08071
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