LightForm allows you to bend light!

Unbelievable custom lighting schemes are now possible, thanks to Grote Industries and their new LightForm, a completely new, advanced LED lighting “film” technology. Now truck customizers and restylers can bend lighting around corners, over contoured areas and into complicated shapes.

At less than 1 millimeter thick, LightForm flexible LED lighting film is uniquely superior for creating dazzling, razor-thin edge lighting effects that are as bright at one end as they are at the other.

It installs quickly and easily and fits in tight spaces that were previously inaccessible to lighting.

“This is one of the most radically innovative lighting products to come along in decades,” said Grote. “LightForm™ will change the shape, design and application of interior and exterior vehicle lighting in ways we haven’t even begun to imagine. In the evolution of lighting, this is a totally new species.”

During the presentation, Grote suggested that the audience throw away everything they know about LED illumination, and explained that at less than 1 millimeter thick, LightForm™ is a highly-advanced, thin-film, solid-state lighting device.

Grote added that LightForm™ is a most environmentally-friendly lighting technology.

Showing the components that make up a standard LED marker lamp, Grote compared and contrasted the material volume used to make an equivalent marker lamp using LightForm™ and underscored the reduced environmental impact.

Grote also explained that with less material, mounting a LightForm™ lamp can be quickly accomplished via a peel-and-stick method, using the familiar adhesive now found on conspicuity tape and other similar products.

Grote also noted that the company would draw on its considerable optical expertise to engineer never-before-seen light patterns and configurations.

“We can achieve the same FMVSS 108 photometric requirements for a P2-rated marker lamp, with just two percent of the material used in a traditional LED lamp,” Grote said, “all while eliminating the installation cost and time associated with drilling holes, affixing mounting brackets and utilizing traditional fasteners.”

Grote underscored his company’s intimate understanding of the demanding needs of the commercial vehicle marketplace and said Grote engineers have already subjected the product to a rigorous battery of stress tests including salt baths, extreme humidity, heat and cold. “LightForm™ is already hardened and robust—far beyond the mere prototype stage,” Grote said.

“When one considers the weight, energy use and aerodynamic advantages associated with an exterior application of LightForm™, we’ve really accomplished something significant,” he added, “but when you consider that you can now bend your lighting around corners, over contoured areas and into complicated shapes, we’ve simply changed the entire lighting equation.”

LightForm™ will also shift paradigms in vehicle interiors, according to Grote, offering myriad advantages over current accent and environmental lighting solutions.

“Tomorrow’s truck interiors, as well as a variety of other vehicle interiors including aircraft and watercraft, will be much more interesting, attractive and functional because of LightForm™,” Grote said.  For more information go to: Grote Industries or call (800) 628-0809