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LASN Within the Profession May, 199405-01-94 | News

A New Option in Landscape Lighting

A Rohm and Haas engineer checks the quality of the finished flexible light pipe sheathed material as it comes off the line at the manufacturing plant in bristol, Pennsuylvania.

By the time one reads this article, the Rohm and Haas Company will have introduced the OptiFlex light pipe to the industry at the 1994 Lightfair International Lighting Expo and Conference.

This new product is described by the proprietor as a ?EUR??,,????'??flexible acrylic lightguide...as easy to work with as electrical wire and, similarly, it will be available on reels of hundreds or thousands of feet.?EUR??,,????'??

The light pipe will be sheathed, so light will not emerge along the entire length of the pipe, as in this test for thermal stability.

All of the applications of this product have yet to been tested, but the manufacturer feels that outdoor landscape lighting will be one of the earliest fields targeted. Step lighting and pathway lighting are just a couple of the possible uses in the landscape architecture industry.

For the time being, the company wishes to ?EUR??,,????'??spark the imaginations?EUR??,,????'?? of the people at Lightfair. Commercial quantities for the light pipe will be offered soon, but the commercial plant will not be open until 1995. At that time the company will be able to manufacture the product on a continual basis and produce millions of feet of the light pipe.