Buckeye Shapeform Builds Custom Extruded Aluminum Enclosure for Innovative LED Spotlight: Finalized Product Becomes the Lighting Industry's First Battery-Powered LED Highlight System

    COLUMBUS, OH, August 08, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Like many great inventions and discoveries, FUEL Lighting, a manufacturer of innovative wireless lighting systems, emerged into the market after the unique needs of its preceding company, Boston Uplights, went unanswered.

Boston Uplights owner Paul Therrien needed a new kind of spot light that was light weight, battery powered and controlled remotely. He put in a request for it with his suppliers, but soon realized the unique light he was searching for was absent from the market. Instead of accepting defeat, he saw an opportunity and decided to make it himself.

Therrien purchased Buckeye Shapeform's standard E2 extruded aluminum enclosure because it had the perfect look, feel and quality for his new product. But as he tested and refined his new light system, Therrien discovered the case dimensions were slightly too small to fit the product's exact requirements. There were components that Therrien had custom-designed for the one-of-a-kind light, including a custom Lithium battery system, that were millimeters too large for the E2 extrusion. Therrien contacted Buckeye Shapeform and inquired about fabricating a custom extruded aluminum enclosure to fit his needs for the innovative new light.

Buckeye Shapeform specializes in custom-built enclosure and chassis systems for original equipment manufacturers. From start to finish, Buckeye Shapeform has the tools and expertise to take an enclosure from engineering conception to a fully-modified and painted, professional-quality finished product.

"I started by giving [Buckeye Shapeform] the exact dimensions of the inside of the case I needed," Therrien said. "The outside dimensions of the current case were perfect so the task was to make the walls thinner to create the space needed inside, but maintain enough strength in the overall design to protect our custom Lithium battery system. This process was easier than I had hoped since it took only a few drawings through email to be updated to achieve the look and dimensions I had envisioned."

Buckeye Shapeform worked with FUEL Lighting to create four completely custom parts, helping to meet Therrien's exact product requirements by making several adjustments to the units during the design stage. In the end, FUEL Lighting received a fully-customized E2 Series extruded aluminum enclosure that it could use in two of its industry-leading lighting systems: the Angle Light and the Penda Light.

Buckeye Shapeform finished each extruded aluminum enclosure by installing a round clear overlay that provided protection for a sensor. It also applied silkscreen printing in various colors, anodize treatment and powder coating to give each unit a durable and high quality appearance.

As a result, a new company of innovative lighting systems was born. Buckeye Shapeform provided an end packaging solution for FUEL Lighting that it took to market and successfully sold as a high-end, truly innovative event lighting product.

FUEL Lighting first released the Angle Light, the lighting industry's first battery powered LED highlight system. The Angle Light features a visually pleasing warm-white LED light output, full dimming capability and a high-contrast optical system that has virtually zero light spill outside a super-narrow 3 deg beam. It's easily positioned and adjusted using industrial magnets and a remote control system to create various lighting ambiance and effects during events. The Penda Light is FUEL Lighting's latest addition; it is the industry's first wireless pendent light.

"From the stand-point of a fresh start-up company with no history, I got the sense that Buckeye Shapeform was behind me," Therrien said. "And as the project grew, their belief in what I was doing grew with us. When a manufacturer believes in what you are creating and gets behind you, this can be the key difference in helping a product actually get to market."

Buckeye Shapeform helped FUEL Lighting from product conception to fabrication--ensuring a smooth ride throughout the process for this up-and-coming lighting company and its innovative and ever evolving lighting products.

About Buckeye Shapeform
Founded in 1902 as the Buckeye Stamping Company, Buckeye Shapeform includes Buckeye Enclosures, Buckeye Novelty Cans, Buckeye Knobs and Buckeye Deep Drawn Technology. Buckeye Enclosures offers a complete line of off-the-shelf instrumentation enclosures as well as services for modifying standard enclosures and creating completely customized solutions in either metal or plastic material that's widely used in the military, medical, audio/visual and telecommunications industries. For more information, please visit www.buckeyeshapeform.com.

About FUEL Lighting
FUEL Lighting Systems, which stands for "the Future of Event Lighting," is the lighting R&D division of Boston Uplights, an Event Lighting and Design Company located in North Reading, Massachusetts. FUEL Lighting Systems will develop and launch a new generation of LED wireless lights that will change the way event planners, venue owners, hotels and lighting professionals envision and design events. For more information, please visit www.fuellighting.com.

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