Profile
Optical Surface Technologies (OST) is the leading European producer of cerium oxide based glass polishing powders. We have been making polishing powders in our UK factory under the well-known Regipol™ brand since the early 1960s.
OST purchased the Tecepol brand of polishes at the end of 1995. This further strengthened our position as a major manufacturer of glass polishing powders. All Tecepol® polishing powders are now produced at OST's UK factory. Strategic acquisitions of this kind are possible because OST is part of the Metallurg group, an international organisation with headquarters in New York and operations in four continents.
Our products are sold through a well-established global network of distributors. OST's distributors and customers have access to our experience and support, ensuring that the best results are achieved with our product. Choosing cerium oxide made by OST means choosing cerium oxide by a company that knows the business.
OST also supply the Polimax range of alumina polishing agents for plastic lenses (CR39 and polycarbonate) and our Decol products are used in the decolourisation of glass.
Environmental Policy
It is the policy of LSM to ensure that the environmental impact of our operations and products is continuously reduced or eliminated.
We seek to achieve these policy aims by:
- Meeting or exceeding the requirements of all environmental laws and regulations.
- Ensuring that our operations and products are safe for our employees, customers and the environment.
- Utilising non-polluting technologies to minimise energy, material consumption, and waste disposal.
- Providing employees, customers, communities, public interest groups and others with information about our environmental performance.
- Continuously assessing our environmental technology programmes and monitoring our progress towards environmental goals.
Extract from Health and safety policy:
It is the policy of LSM to promote standards of health, safety and welfare at work, which aim to identify and eliminate or control risk to all employees, contractors, visitors or members of the public in so far as they come into contact with the company or its products, and to prevent damage to plant or property. It is therefore the company’s policy through proper planning and the provision of adequate resources, to do all that is reasonable to adhere to these objectives and to ensure compliance with current UK legislation relevant to health and safety.
Quality policy:
It is the policy of LSM to ensure that our products and services give complete customer satisfaction by delivering them in specification through the application of a quality management system registered to ISO 9001:2000.
Please click here to view our ISO Certificate.
We seek to achieve these policy aims by:
- Listening to our customers;
- Involving and developing the skills of our employees;
- Developing products and services which are consistent, innovative and competitive;
- Setting and monitoring objectives which drive continual improvements to the system, products and services.
