Called the most innovative lighting technology since the first LED marker lamp was introduced more than 20 years ago, Grote’s new LightForm marker lamp is thinner than a penny and is mounted on self-adhesive flexible strips that can be bent, twisted and cut to size. Making its debut on its first commercial application later this year, the application for interior and exterior lighting can produce red, amber, green and blue light. A white light version is under development.

Grote's Innovative LightForm Technology Available for Interior, Exterior Lighting

A new solid-state light technology from Grote Industries is thinner than a penny and is mounted on self-adhesive flexible strips that can be bent, twisted and even cut to size. Called LightForm, the proprietary technology will see its first commercial application as a P2 marker lamp before the end of the year, according to Dominic Grote, vp-sales and marketing.

Grote introduced the industry’s first LED marker lamp at the Mid-America Trucking Show 20 years ago. LightForm is the “most radically innovative lighting product to come along” since that introduction, he said.

Using 98% less material than a standard LED marker light and measuring only 1-mm thick, the marker is being called “a light stamp” because of its extremely light weight and profile, and because it can be affixed with peel-and-stick tape. Cost “will be competitive with standard LEDs,” according to Grote.

The marker application is just the first for the technology that Grote said “will change the shape, design and application of interior and exterior vehicle lighting in ways we haven’t even begun to imagine.” According to the company, LightForm can produce red, amber, green and blue light; a white-light version is under development. More information can be found at www.grote.com.

[source - trucker.com]