Lightec sunglasses are made by the French eyewear company Morel. Morel has been around for more than 130 years, carefully following the traditions and respecting the values of Jules Morel, its founder. Lightec eyeglasses predominatly utilize stainless steel in their construction. Stainless steel eyeglasses provides a more affordabe alternative to titanium eyeglasses while still maintaining some titanium's benefits such as being almost as light weight as titanium and hypro-allogenic. Stainless steel also allows the eyewear manufacturer to manufacture the glasses with-in their own borders, where titantium can only be manufactured by a few countries around the world, and really only one of those countries are capaable of producing high quality titanium for the eyeglasses industry.