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What do you want to glow in the dark?

Whether you want a ladder that you can find in the garage at night, firefighting tools that can be seen through thick smoke or white walls that light up in the dark without batteries, we have the technology to make them including firefighters with glow fabric, tools and air tanks!

Many consumers are familiar with glow-in-the-dark toys or tape and the cyclists’ clothing that reflects headlights. But our group is a research and manufacturing firm that specializes in ways to infuse photoluminescence – glow in the dark compounds – into products and fabrics, not merely sit on top or reflect light.

Our partners have spent many years on research and development of ways to make photoluminescence brighter, in a variety of colors other than green and to apply it to various products. (Click on images for a larger view):

Applications might use powder coating (spray-on paint and bake it) on a ladder. Or put the glow material into liquid plastic and make objects through injection molding. Or put Photoluminescent compounds into fabric that is sewn on to firefighters’ jackets. Or use vinyl dip moulding to coat an air tank (like dipping an ice cream cone in liquid chocolate).

Our partners have a range of patents for making different colours and products but will keep other processes as trade secrets to prevent copying.

Most of our effort goes into manufacturing and R&D such as our current push is in the fire safety market. Fire officials recently allowed one of our team to walk into a training fire so he could experience the darkness, smoke and heat that firefighters experience.

During the experience our partners found a couple more hazards that we'd like to develop applications for, including the water hoses that can easily trip a firefighter who can’t see them.

We prefer the safety side because it can save people’s lives!

Our current attention is focused on exit signs. Many cities and 20 states in the USA and a growing number of countries around the world have passed or in the process of changing laws requiring buildings over 75 feet tall to have glow-in-the-dark exit signs that don’t require electricity or reflected light.

New York City passed a law after the 1993 terrorist attack (underground parking garage), evacuation took hours. Then when 9/11 happened people said two things got them out (of the World Trade Center): humanity and ‘that funny glowing green stuff we followed.

Our groups R&D has achieved a breakthrough in Photoluminescent technology, working with a 1000 micron size particle. Most of the PL industry only uses 30-50 micron size particles.

With this larger particle size pigment is combined we are able to offer dramatically more brightness and afterglow than anything on the market today. Working with product designers we are able to apply the exact amount and particle size of pigment to integrate photoluminescence to meet virtually any specification.

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Our partners now offer a range of bright colours that can be incorporated into plastics, powder coating and other materials.

Through a strategic partnership with DualGlo Technology, the UK-based developer of materials with the combined properties of daytime colours and Photoluminescent afterglows. This new colour capability allows us to add Photoluminescent properties to your product without being limited to the same green colours that have traditionally been offered by the industry.

Our system is even able to do custom colour blending through a unique master-batch system which can then be integrated into your own molding process.

“Colour Technology is provided through an agreement with DualGlo Ltd and is protected by US patent 6,177,029 B1 as well as other patents pending”

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