Glow Mesh in Day

Now that the sigh of relief is breathing across the signage sector in the wake of the long-slumbered global economic slowdown, innovation finds its way into new-tech signage. Aurora Specialty Textiles Group Inc, headquartered in Illinois, unearths the industry’s most ever-resourceful glow signs, viz. Oxford Glow and Glow Mesh. Using photoluminescent technology, which allows the products chargeable from external light source, the signage products illuminate in the pit dark burning the stored energy.

Unique eminence

Oxford Glow is a 100 percent polyester-based weaved fabric with a photoluminescent PVC coating. It will be available in rolls up to 54-inch wide. The Glow Mesh on other hand is also a photoluminescent PVC coated 100 percent polyester mesh available in rolls measuring up to five meters wide.

Made from a polyester-based yarn with PVC coating infused with glow pigment, weight of the glow sign is around 8.5 oz. The glow additive used in the products has a life span of more than ten years, which would normally last longer than the mesh. The mesh however has durability as that of the typical PVC-coated ones currently available in the market. It can be washed with a mild soap and water, as it will not affect illumination level. But it will be a wise decision to confirm with ink manufacturers whether the graphics can be washed otherwise printing may fade.

Bright features

Being photoluminescent products, Oxford Glow and Glow Mesh have no health hazard stipulation. Technically, photoluminescent is a process where a material absorbs photon energy (light) at one wavelength and stores it by exciting an electron to a higher energy state. Photoluminescent (light emission) in turn is observed when the excited electron returns to the lower energy state. This typical process of excitation and light emission takes 10s of nanosecond.

By arrangement of molecules and additives, photoluminescent period can be extended from 10 minutes up to 10 hours. The glow effect of Oxford Glow and Glow Mesh remain maximum for 90 to 120 minutes, which will be faded to last up to 6 to 8 hours. But the illumination period depends upon the charge the products received during its exposure to light. The products are designed for use in both indoor and outdoor applications.

The mesh can be fully charged in a minimum period of 15 minutes if exposed properly to light. Mesh and film can possess some common applications. But the banners hanging from ceiling in a museum will be a lot more aesthetically valued than the film mounted on a rigid object.

Creator behind

Creation of revolutionary products like Oxford Glow and Glow Mesh would always be a hallmark of Aurora Specialty Textiles Group, which evolved from its roots as a cotton-spinning mill in Aurora, Illinois to a multi-plant textile processing company, with a breadth of manufacturing and technical capabilities as deep as any found in the textile industry today. The company’s offering includes more than 30 styles of specialty fabrics and canvas for the digital graphics market.

Each one of the specifically engineered fabrics of Aurora meets unique applications developed in the contemporary signage segment across the globe. The company’s Northern Lights Printable Textiles are compatible with inkjet solvent, UV (cure) dye-sub transfer, dye-sub direct, screen-print, etc. Aurora products are ideal for art reproduction, trade show graphics, POP retail signs, roll-up banners, indoor and outdoor banners, custom tablecloths, theatrical backdrops and the custom décor market where Oxford Glow and Glow Mesh bring in the newest applications.