Melanin filters are designed to fit over standard T5, T-8 and T-12 fluorescent lamps. They improve color contrasts, reduce glare, reduce eye strain, and provide warm color rendition. UV protection with melanin filers is achieved in the UVA and UVB regians with 0% transmittance of wavelengths below 395 nanometers. This type of protection is ideal for the preservation of fabrics, artwork, objects of historical value, and other light sensitive materials.

For years, lamp manufacturers have tried to improve the color rendition of fluorescent lighting. They wanted the rich and warm rendition achieved only with incandescent lamps. Even the modern color corrected lamps do not accomplish this goal. Melanin filets, when used over fluorescent lamps, allows us to achieve the very desired warm effect and look of incandescent lighting of harmful ultraviolet rays.

Melanin filters are easy to install. They simply fit over the selected lamps. They cost than some fluorescent lamps. With a minimal invesment, our filets can illuminate your facility with the rich appearance of incandescent lighing, without changing you fluorescent fixtures of bulbs. This allows you to use your low energy consuming flourescent fixtures and still achieve the warm rich look of incandescent lighting.

Retail Centers

Designers of high-end department stores and exclusive Madison Avenue boutiques seelct melanin filets because of the warm rendition achieved with these filters. areas illuminated with energy saving fluorescent lamps, covered with melanin filters, appear warm and rich, as if they were illuminated by incandescent lighting. The filters are also used because of the apparent improved color contrast and to protect from UV degradation.

Protection for Fine Art Work and Books

Museums, libraries, and art galleries use melanin filters to prevent degradation of their important materials. In museums and galleries, painting and historical objects need to be protected from harmful ultraviolet wavelengths, even though only low levels of illumination are those facilities.

At the Office and Classroom

Most office and classroom facilities use energy efficient flourescent parabolic fixtues. Those light fixtures are designed to be more efficient and provide the most light output possible. With the use of these fixtures, the number of lights required to illuminate a space can be greatly reduced. Each unit becomes a source of great brightness and glare when viewed from various angles. This is because they are not directly shielded. Melanin filters reduces the glare and creates a more productive, pleasant, and attractive working environment.

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