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.”