Vari-Lite, creators of modern moving head light fixtures and Signify entertainment lighting brand, announces that the VL2600 SE Series has received the PLASA Award for Innovation in Sustainability at the recent PLASA Show London 2024.
“The award is a special category in the PLASA awards for Innovation, a respected industry award celebrating future-focused technology that improves safety, efficiency and performance through new methods and materials,” the announcement states. “Product entries were judged by a team comprising 13 independent technical specialists from an array of backgrounds. The Sustainability Award is only awarded at the judges’ discretion, and it has only been awarded three times in the last ten years.”
“This award from PLASA is a great honor, and it exemplifies why the VL2600 SE Series is the smart choice product with a sustainable future,” says Martin Palmer, Vari-Lite Marketing and Product Management Leader at Signify. “The VL2600 SE Series offers significantly increased output to new and existing fixtures. It’s possible to rent a VL2600 luminaire on every continent on the globe, and this new SE Series increases sustainability by extending the life of these highly specified light fixtures with notably higher output and the same outstanding features. It was exciting to have the judges validate the impact of this approach.”
To be eligible for the Sustainability Award, product entries were required to show a significant reduction in the environmental impact of the product life cycle. According to PLASA's article in Light and Sound International, “The judges found that the upcycling commitment and longer product lifecycles enabled by [the Vari-Lite VL2600 SE Series] sets the benchmark for other manufacturers to follow.”
“Sustainability is core to our DNA at Vari-Lite,” adds Sameer Sodhi, Vari-Lite Business Leader at Signify. “Signify is a world leader in sustainability, and so it is never our intention just to release a plethora of new products superseding or making irrelevant our current portfolio. That’s why the new VL2600 light engine leverages advancements in LED technology to increase the output of the current family of fixtures, reducing cost and impact on the environment.”
