EcoTek Lighting’s 2009 LED products define the next generation of backlit displays. Our innovative, state-of-the-art designs are environmentally friendly, energy-efficient and manufactured to qualify for both energy and tax rebates for commercial buildings. In addition, many of EcoTek Lighting’s backlit products use our new DLB technology (Direct LED Backlighting). This revolutionary design not only provides industry standard levels of illumination and leading-edge energy efficiency, but also requires no lamp change-out for more than ten years in retail applications. Unlike competitive solutions, when the expected end-of-life of our products has been reached, they can be recycled with minimal environmental impact, since EcoTek Lighting’s green manufacturing processes uses 99% recyclable components.

Products using our new DLB technology include menu boards, light boxes, Tri-Vu displays, mall kiosks, outdoor signage, display walls and ceiling light panels. All of these revolutionary new products are 50% - 60% more energy-efficient than products using T-8 fluorescent lamps. Using LEDs as a source of illumination reduces the heat produced by our products, and therefore lowers air conditioning costs. The life expectancy of EcoTek’s DLB light panels is more than ten years in retail applications (14 hours per day), and more than seven years when used in the quick serve restaurant industry (20 hours per day).

The first light-emitting solid-state diode was produced in 1907 by British experimenter H. J. Round of Marconi Labs, and the first practical visible-spectrum (red) LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak Jr. while working at General Electric Co. Holonyak is known as the "father of the light-emitting diode”. LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) are semiconductors that glow when electricity passes through them. Light is emitted in the form of photons. The LED was the first solid state light source.