Grow Closer With Light Polymers’ GrowBlade® Horticultural Lighting
Grow Closer With Light Polymers’ GrowBlade® Horticultural Lighting
SAN FRANCISCO--Light Polymers, a nanochemistry innovator specializing in lyotropic liquid crystals, is launching a Beta-test program for its innovative GrowBlade® horticultural lighting. GrowBlade flat-panels use Light Polymers’ Crystallin™ remote phosphor film technology to let indoor farmers grow closer, delivering even, consistent lighting in a customizable range of rich crop-specific spectra. The GrowBlade has a long service life, running cooler and experiencing less spectrum shift and lumen drop over time than conventional LED grow lights. Better quality light in a thin, wide-area form factor is one key to higher farm productivity.
“As innovators in a range of specialty lighting markets, Light Polymers knows the importance of engaging potential customers effectively as part of our product development process,” said Sandor Schoichet, VP of Grow Products at Light Polymers Lighting. “To this end, Light Polymers is opening up its GrowBlade Beta-testing program to select vertical farm and controlled environment growers, with the twin goals of gaining real world production experience while better understanding the evolving needs of participating growers.”
GrowBlade Edge 300 and 600 panels (approximately 300x300mm or 1’x1’, and 300x600mm or 1’x2’) will be available to select early adopters starting in late May 2018. Longer GrowBlade Edge 1200 and 1500 models will become available in late 2018. Initial Beta-test lights are available in two standard spectra, with new tailored spectra to be added based on customer input. Introductory pricing for GrowBlade Edge 300 and 600 models is set at $129 and $189 respectively.
“Light Polymers has been busy starting production of our Crystallin film, developing specialty lighting product designs that are eye-safe and comfortable, with extraordinarily rich spectra,” said Marc McConnaughey, Chairman of the Board of Light Polymers Lighting. “We are excited to begin production of the GrowBlade and our other specialty lighting product lines based on our Crystallin film technology.”
GrowBlade lighting achieves a unique level of performance by leveraging our breakthrough Crystallin remote phosphor film, which eliminates ‘point-based’ lighting issues common to other LED lights. Instead of converting blue LED light to specific frequencies on each LED diode and then assembling a variety of specialized LEDs, GrowBlades use sheets of Crystallin film to convert the output of a blue LED array into an evenly distributed, consistent, fully diffused spectrum, while blocking problematic blue and UV wavelengths below 420nm.
This design also results in a slender form-factor just 15mm thick (not including the remote, dimmable LED driver). With evenly distributed light, efficient operation, and a low-profile, GrowBlade light can be placed closer to your plants to improve yields and crop consistency for greater productivity.
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About Light Polymers
Light Polymers is a nanochemistry company with deep domain knowledge and expertise in lyotropic liquid crystals, which have many applications including OLED displays, LED lighting and building materials. Light Polymers recently debuted a family of human-centric eye-safe task and study lighting. Founded in 2013 in San Francisco, Light Polymers has over 50 patents issued and pending for its water-based lyotropic liquid crystal nanochemistry. For more information, visit http://www.lightpolymers.com/.