Claypaky K-EYE HCR K-20 wins the Plasa Award FOR Innovation

The Claypaky K-EYE HCR has won the Plasa Award for Innovation, one of the most renowned and distinguished prize in the entertainment lighting industry. The award is assigned by a strict jury made up only of expert professionals in the field, who carefully analyze the various products. It is a highly significant prize specifically because it places great emphasis on product innovation, which is one of Claypaky’s underlying key values, around which all the company’s design efforts and products revolve.

The jury gave the following motivation for the award: “A LED wash light that delivers a new approach to accurate colour rendering starting at chip level rather than manipulating existing sources.”

Pio Nahum, Claypaky’s CEO, welcomed this acknowledgement with great pleasure and illustrated the original specifications behind the K-EYE’s design: “For years, our most demanding customers felt the need for a light that differed from the others not so much for the number of special effect devices, but also and especially for the ‘quality’ of the light it produced. This is a very difficult parameter to define, since it relates to perception: it is the sum of multiple factors such as diffusion uniformity, colour temperature, colour control features, and most of all a high colour rendering index. To meet these requirements, Claypaky and Osram have developed a technology named HCR, used in the K-EYE range and in ADB’s Klemantis.”

The K-EYE HCR is suitable for use in all professional fields of application where great brightness, a wide range of colours, and a high CRI are particularly appreciated: theatres, television studios, showrooms, exhibitions, and fashion shows.

Pio Nahum added: “On behalf of the whole company, I would like to congratulate the entire R&D team, which has created a winning product that rewards the joint efforts of Claypaky and our colleagues at Osram.”