International. Opple Lighting and Seaborough announced the signing of a technical cooperation agreement (TCA), which is the first step towards the production of the world's first universally interchangeable LED light tube, the oneTLed.
The deal was signed by Paul van Doorn, managing director of Seaborough and Martijn van Rheenen, CEO of Momentum Capital, the private equity group behind Seaborough. On opple's side, Jeroen Janssen, group managing director in Europe, and the company's CTO Qi Xiao Ming have signed the agreement.
The signing took place during an official dinner in Shanghai, in the presence of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Willem Alexander, and the Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders, who were on an official visit to that country. Under the terms of this agreement, Opple lighting will drive the development and manufacture of LED tubes incorporating oneTLed technology developed by Seaborough. Opple sees this as an opportunity to further boost its strategy of rapid global expansion. The oneTLed technology, developed by Seaborough and his team of scientists, is a combination of hardware and software that will be incorporated into any LED tube.
OneTLed will be compatible with all types of ballasts, and will be very high cost-effective. An LED tube with built-in oneTLed technology allows safe and fast installation in any linear fluorescent luminaire, regardless of the type of ballast it incorporates, by energy-saving LED tubes, meaning a breakthrough that has taken a long time to develop.
With an estimated 12 billion existing traditional fluorescent luminaires, sustainable and energy-efficient LED tubes incorporating oneTLed technology will accelerate energy savings by consuming 50% less electricity. If all fluorescent light tubes were replaced by LED tubes, more than 100 medium-sized power plants could be shut down. In addition, oneTLed does not contain mercury or any other toxic chemical that may affect the environment. With a long half-life of more than 8 years, the oneTLed will also significantly reduce the costs of maintenance and waste production.
