What Custom LED Optics Means When You Work With an Extruder
Custom LED optics with an extruder means one constant section, a die you can revise, and any cut length. What to put on the drawing before tooling starts.
Custom-Cut LED Optical Profiles: Length Cutting Tolerance and Packaging
Custom cut LED optical manufacturing: which cutting method sets length tolerance, what to write on the drawing, and how cut lengths are packed.
Custom Extruded Lens vs Injection-Moulded Lens: Where Extrusion Wins
Custom extruded lens or injection moulding? Compare tooling, MOQ and length limits: profiles 10 to 2,000 g/m, MOQ 500 pieces, cut to your drawing.
Korea EXPO 2024: Prismatic Linear Covers in Seoul
We took embossed prismatic linear covers and high-precision lenses to KINTEX in June 2024. What plant lighting engineers asked, and what the covers do.
What We Saw at GILE 2025: The Pull Toward Linear Optics
The 30th Guangzhou lighting expo put linear optics front and centre. Here is what we exhibited, what buyers kept asking, and where the questions are pointing.
From Yuhang to Deqing: Building a 20-Line Extrusion Plant
Established in 2008 in Hangzhou, Baoming Optical now runs more than twenty PC and PMMA extrusion lines in Deqing. The move, the show calendar and the plant.
LED Diffuser Temperature Effects: Sag, Cold and Expansion
What heat and cold do to extruded LED diffuser profiles: thermal expansion, sag on long spans, low temperature brittleness, and what to ask a supplier.
LED Diffuser Export Packaging: What to Specify
How extruded PC and PMMA diffuser profiles are packed for export, the four transit damage modes, and the packaging lines to add to a purchase order.
UL 94 Flame Rating for LED Diffusers: What to Specify
How to specify UL 94, glow wire and GWFI ratings for PC LED diffusers, why thin walls change the result, and which documents to ask a supplier for.
How to Choose an LED Lens Beam Angle: 35° to 105°
Linear LED lenses come in 35°, 45°, 60°, 85°, 95°, 100° and 105° beams. Match the angle to mounting height and spacing, with a field reference table.