SEOUL, KOREA - LG Electronics is making forays into global sports markets with its next-generation lighting technology PLS (plasma lighting system). The company succeeded in commercializing the PLS technology, first in the world, that gives electric stimulus to make the lamp to emit bright light in a plasma state.

The PLS-using lighting is highly economical thanks to the excellent optic efficiency, while providing the light that is closest to natural color.The PLS is suitable as lighting for sports stadiums. The PLS is enjoying rising popularity as an alternative to existing metal halide lighting.

LG Electronics announced on July 3 that it has installed 90 units of PLS lightings at the home stadium of the Argentine professional football team San Lorenzo.

LG Electronics said that after installation of PLS lightings, the brightness of the San Lorenzo stadium doubled to 750lx from 350lx. Unlike metal halide lightings whose brightness falls to below 70 percent of the initial level in 3,000 hours after the installation, PLS lightings maintains more than 90 percent of its brightness under the same condition.

 

Source : The Korea Economic Daily