Visive Group Portfolio - Issue 1

Hi-Lite™30 Chroma Sky Blue RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre making a dramatic statement on the Amsterdam skyline

2021

Hi-Lite™30 Classic l Hi-Lite™30 Border l Hi-Lite™30 Chroma l Hi-Brow™30 UK Headquarters | Ash Road South | Wrexham Industrial Estate | Wrexham | UK LL13 9UG

Visive design, manufacture and supply LED contour products on a global basis with the support of distribution partners and joint-ventures.

UK OFFICE – HEADQUARTERS Visive Group Limited Ash Road South, Wrexham Industrial Estate, Wrexham, LL13 9UG UK T: +44 (0)1978 660181 Email: info@visivegroup.com

Standing Out From The Crowd.

CHINA OFFICE Visive Group (Guangzhou) Commercial Lighting Co., Ltd Rm. 1707, Tianyin Bldg., 437 Zhongshan Avenue, Tianhe Guangzhou, China, 510660 T: +86 20 2383 6842 Contact: Andy Zheng – Director Email: za@auxisolution.com IRELAND DISTRIBUTOR Trimwel Limited 2A Canal Bank, Hume Avenue, Park West Industrial Estate, Dublin 12, Ireland T: 00 353 (0) 12940188 Email: info@trimwel.ie

OK Diner brought to life with HiDISTRIBUTOR Lite™30 Classic in Blue and Red, creating an eye catching andB.V. inviting Bever Innovations environment for diners.

Industrieweg 32,

4301 RS Zierikzee, The Netherlands T: +31 (0)111 453 232 Email: info@beverinnovation s.com DISTRIBUTOR dk LED Ekkersrijt 1209, 5692 AG Son en Breugel, The Netherlands T: +31 499 476 777 Email: info@dkled.nl USA STOCKIST Wired4Signs USA, LLC. 7699 Clinton Highway, Powell, TN 37849, USA T: +1 (865) 339 4956 www.wired4signsusa.com

POWERED BY SMART TECHNOLOGY

Projects RAI Amsterdam

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Feature – Framing A Landmark

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bp

OK Diner

Making A Statement

Holiday Inn

The Enduring Light

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JET

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Grosvenor Casino 10

JCDecaux

Forecourts Around The Globe

Tesco

No Job Too Big

POWERED BY SMART TECHNOLOGY

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MFG EV Hub

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Lighting The Way

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Supporting Creative Advertising

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TGI Friday

Hi-Lite™30 – Performing Well

Betting On Blue

An Even, Crisp Light

Awash With Colour

Window Dressing

Esso

Big Yellow

Creating A Bright Identity

A Guiding Light

Texaco - Skelton 14

New Look

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W4S

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Glowing Stateside

The CSC

The Smart Solution

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Products

Hi-Lite™30 Classic - Green Our LED illuminated Contour / Border solution in Green.

All our Contour / Border solutions are plug and play, utilise a standard mounting clip and for external use are protected by our patented CSC.

04 Hi-Lite™30 Chroma

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Hi-Brow™30

11 Hi-Lite™30 Classic

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PSU with Current Safety Circuits

13 Hi-Lite™30 Border

POWERED BY SMART TECHNOLOGY

Our Story In June 2000 LEDtech was formed and we set about creating a replacement for the neon cold cathode tube. It had to be safe to touch, robust, easy to use and suitable for both indoors and out. The result was Hi-Lite™ I, our first acrylic LED contour tube.

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isive started in 2000 and was originally called LEDtech. The company was founded, and the products developed by bringing together market sales experts and the highly skilled engineers from MDS, a high-tech design and manufacturing company.

We have a large colour palette to choose from as well as Hi-Brow™30 which provides a wall wash effect.

As part of our goal to provide a solution customers can use safely and reliably outdoors, we developed what we call ‘the CSC’. A clever piece of patented electronics that monitors the health of an external installation 24/7. In the event the CSC detects an issue it disables the output of the CSC and displays the potential fault, protecting both individuals as well as the installation.

LEDtech Branding

Recently we have seen an increase in the number of inferior contour / border products in the market and even some copycat products. We therefore decided to introduce the Visive quality mark providing users with reassurance they are using the highest quality product, designed and manufactured by Visive.

This unique approach in this sector meant that our products were developed with functionality, reliability and quality as the overall objective rather than creating the cheapest solution and the problems that brings to the user.

The Visive contour / border product is currently in its third generation with each generation bringing advancements in product design and ease of manufacture. With the energy efficiency improvements within LED technology some of the Visive products now use less than 1.2W / metre compared to 5.0W / metre when the original Hi-Lite product was conceived. A fourth generation of product is currently under development which will see further benefits being added for the installer of the products.

Visive Quality Mark

We are always looking for ways to make our products even better, actively encouraging users to provide us with feedback and ideas. Currently there are some exciting developments planned for the next 12 months.

Hi-Lite™30 is a 30mm diameter tube with a gloss finish as standard for the single-coloured products. It is supplied in three standard lengths including two adjustable lengths, allowing the product to be supplied in bulk and across the globe.

Proposed new tagline

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COMPANY

Framing A Landmark Opened in 1961, the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre welcomes up to 2 million visitors every year. The complex also includes a musical and concert theatre and underground parking space for over 4,000 cars.

www.beverinnovations.com www.visivegroup.com www.rai.com

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ever Innovations, one of our partners and distributors in the Netherlands chose Hi-Lite™30 Chroma in Sky Blue to illuminate the RAI events centre. A white extruded acrylic tube with coloured LEDs as its light source, the product is a neutral white stripe during daylight and a provides a soft pastel colour when illuminated.

The Visive product was also chosen because of its ease of installation and reliability which are essential with such a large installation and where product is fitted in difficult and high positions.

Our products are also the only contour / border solution powered through our patented CSC protection device, providing levels of protection other manufacturers don’t offer.

The team at Visive and Bever had to overcome many challenges, including manufacturing the rigid tube for bespoke curves and corners as well as using high-friction clips for vertical elevations to ensure the tube would stay firmly in place with no slippage.

The installers had to reach heights of over 90m using specialised access equipment in a busy public area in order to install the Chroma product to several elevations.

The RAI Amsterdam is a multi-functional event centre which believes in the power of connecting people.

Since 1893, RAI Amsterdam has actively tried to create the right context for inspiring meetings to take place in and strong ties to develop in.

As the organising party, RAI Exhibitions connects context, content and communities utilising national and international consumer and professional trade fairs.

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FEATURE

Hi-Lite™ 30 Chroma is a white acrylic tube with different coloured Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) as its light source.

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Suitable for indoor & outdoor settings 5-year warranty

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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT

Making A Statement The distinctive OK DINER brand can be seen on several road-sides across the UK and the welcoming exterior façade has been enhanced by Hi-Lite™ Classic LED contour tube.

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or the last 10-years OK DINER have been giving customers an authentic diner experience with stacked burgers, griddle favourites, bottomless coffee plus wings and dogs (that’s chicken wings and hot dogs to us).

To provide the maximum impact two different coloured LED linear lines were used in parallel.

For over 65 years Harpers Signs has been providing quality products and excellent customer service. They design, manufacture and install signage for various leading brands in leisure complexes, restaurants, hotels and retail stores in the UK.

Visive supplied the Hi-Lite™ Classic LED contour tube to Harper Signs, who completed the installation of the signage for OK DINER. Hi-Lite™ Classic's visually stunning LED contour tube creates the distinctive atmospheric warm and welcoming external image we come to recognise with an American dining establishment.

www.okdiners.com www.harpersigns.com

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Creating A Bright Identity Visive LED contour tube illuminates Big Yellow Self Storage Gloucester site.

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ig Yellow Self Storage is the UK’s most recognised self-storage brand providing secure and modern self-storage solutions for homes and businesses nationwide. They combine the latest technology with excellent customer service across a network of 96 sites to deliver storage solutions for over 65,000 customers.

Big Yellow sites are found in high profile, easy– to–access locations with storage rooms ranging from 10 to 400 sq ft plus larger warehouse and industrial units available to rent.

Other Big Yellow sites which have received HiLite™30 include Norwich and Cardiff.

Hi-Lite™30 was installed on the exterior of their Gloucester site to increase the visual prominence and reinforcing Big Yellow’s brand positioning. Hi-Lite™30 contour tube was chosen for this site based on its sustainability, quality, energy efficiency, reliability and safety features.

www.bigyellow.co.uk

This Big Yellow lighting project was managed and installed by Image Technique Ltd, a market leader in the implementation of corporate branded environments. Their services encompass signage, wayfinding, digital media and lifestyle graphics to deliver a true turnkey solution.

For more information about Big Yellow’s sites and storage solutions visit:

www.imagetechnique.co.uk

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Hi-Lite™30 - Performing Well TGI Fridays at Ashton U Lyne is their latest legendary restaurant to receive new, quality external LED lighting, welcoming customers to experience the vibrant atmosphere and delicious menu.

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ew York, 1965. The year the first Fridays opened on the corner of 63rd+1st with the timeless promise ‘In here, it’s always Friday’.

Inspired by the Barnum & Bailey Circus and with an ambition to put on the ‘greatest show on earth’ a red and white striped phenomenon was born.

Fixed lengths were evenly maintained around the corners of the building by supplying bespoke length sections of Hi-Lite™30 Border.

By alternating between white and red HiLite™30 Border, Harper Signs were able to deliver a stunning installation that showcases the TGI Friday branding.

Harper Signs has worked with Visive Group on several valued projects and based on the customer requiring a robust, reliable and safe product, installing Hi-Lite™30 Border LED contour tube to external elevations was the best choice.

www.tgifridays.co.uk www.harpersigns.co.uk

Harper Signs were looking to create the candyfloss effect around the building fascia.

Our Technical team were able to calculate a fixed length for each colour allowing a consistent appearance around the entire building.

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The Enduring Light We have been supplying bp with Hi-Lite™ Classic Green for more than 20 years and it remains their preferred choice, acting as a beacon for customers looking for

energy for their vehicles.

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aving supplied bp with over 300km of HiLite™ LED contour tube since 2000; we are delighted to have secured a further 5-year contract directly with bp to supply them with our quality LED products and outstanding service.

Visive has worked closely with bp's marketing team on several projects including their modern Bright Green Beacon (BGB) design that provides a fresher green LED contour tube to the canopy fascia's, stanchions and PID's.

A distinct advantage of Hi-Lite™30 Classic is its appearance when viewed from various angles – no spotting of LEDs – this was very important to bp's technical team when assessing different products.

Service stations are a fast-changing environment, and our electronic design team are constantly looking at ways to offer new, innovative ideas and great-looking products that are safe, reliable, easy to install and virtually maintenance free.

Hi-Lite™ is now installed on bp's service stations in China, Mexico, Kenya, UK and several countries in Europe.

In 2003, we developed a Current Sense Circuit (CSC) protection device which has given bp and service station operators that surety their illuminated brand identity remains safe and monitored 24/7.

www.bp.com

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A Guiding Light The iconic Holiday Inn in West London sits alongside the A40 and when darkness falls it becomes even more distinctive and inviting with the addition of Hi-Lite™ Classic LED contour illumination installed to the hotel.

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Hi-Lite™30 & Hi-Brow™30 contour LED tube is an ideal solution for large distinctive tall buildings and structures – the products provide the inviting guiding lines of light to travellers seeking refuge.

isive supplied its premier, robust, longlasting and highly efficient LED contour tube to Ashleigh Signs, a leading UK signage and installation company for this stand-out building.

Ashleigh Signs began its journey in 1987 and has evolved into one of the UK’s largest signage manufacturers and installers. They pride themselves on being one of only a few turn-key signage solution companies; covering all sectors including large format print, Static Internal & External Signage and Digital Signage solutions.

www.ihg.com www.ashleighsigns.co.uk

Holiday Inn is a British brand and is now part of InterContinental Hotels Group who have over 5,900 hotels worldwide.

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Betting On Blue Visive’s highly efficient Hi-Lite™ Classic LED contour tube has been installed on Grosvenor Casino venues.

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sing Hi-Lite™ in blue and turquoise produces a distinctive look and clear, crisp lines of illumination to the external elevations of the building. The image above is their Leeds site located on Wellington Road.

Grosvenor Casino's operate over 50 casinos in the UK and Hi-Lite™30 and Hi-Brow™30 is an ideal solution to create the perfect attraction for customers attending these entertainment venues.

Where required we can provide bespoke curves, allowing a continuous line to be achieved around the most complex of building façades.

www.grosvenorcasinos.com www.ashleighsigns.co.uk

Our standard range of contour / border products provides customers with a large selection of colours and tones. However, should a brand or venue need a non standard colour such as the turquoise shown above, we will endeavour to produce a product that matches any requirement.

Our contour / border solutions are both easy to install and versatile.

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Hi-Lite™30 Classic is the premium product in our range of LED illuminated acrylic contour tube. It features different coloured Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) as its light source and is available in 4 standard colours each providing an intense, vibrant and pure colour.

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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT

Lighting The Way Supporting the growth of EV charging hubs with low energy LED solutions.

Hi-Lite™30 Border underlining the MFG charging hub brand.

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e have been supplying LED low energy contour products globally to service stations for more than 20 years via our distribution and signage partners and our products can be seen adding colour to almost every major fuel brand.

We are therefore delighted our products are now being used by Motor Fuel Group (MFG) on their new EV ultra-rapid charging hubs, like the site shown above in Stretford, Manchester M32 8LF.

Visive Hi-Lite™30 range is the perfect solution to ensure these EV charging sites are easily identifiable and inviting. From the Border product available in 7 vibrant colours to Chroma that provides a range of softer pastel colours, there is a colour to match the most creative designs. Whether identifying a new brand or continuing a colour scheme across other areas of the forecourt including canopies, pole signs or MID, Visive have the solution.

The revolution in the electric vehicle market is gathering momentum and companies like MFG are investing heavily in EV technology & new sites. MFG plans are to add over 200 x 150kW EV ultra-rapid chargers to their network of over 900 sites in 2021. MFG EV Power on the App Store (apple.com).

The UK EV map is changing daily and typically, in the last 30-days 1215 new connectors have been added to the 24,813 devices which are currently available to provide power to the 246,000 full battery EVs registered in the UK. It is forecast that the electric vehicle charging stations market will reach a value of £74.83 billion by 2028.

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Hi-Lite™30 Border is the standard product in our range of LED illuminated contour tube.

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Lemon Yellow

Suitable for indoor & outdoor settings 5-year warranty

Candy Red

Cobalt Blue

Tangerine Orange

Lime Green

White

Honey Yellow

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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT

Awash With Colour The newly opened Skelton Lake Service area on the A1/M1 link road outside Leeds has received the premium branded image including Hi-Brow™30 & Hi-Lite™30 Classic supplied by Visive Group and installed by Astley Signs.

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n total, 146m of red Hi-Brow™30 contour tube was installed on site to the canopy fasciae. HiBrow™ 30 tube features lensed LEDs in a frosted acrylic extrusion, providing a consistent wash light glow which is projected down the fascia from behind the top pelmet extrusion.

The Visive contour/border products are fitted on a surface using a our own transparent snap lock clip, including a friction clip. For installations like this where product is installed vertically, fitting the friction clip ensures the product remains in it’s intended position.

By choosing the red Hi-Brow™30 product, Astley were able to enhance the red fascia sections, producing an incredibly deep red affect and giving this iconic brand and colour scheme the quality illumination it deserves.

Visive provides full details of how to use this friction clip correctly along with full installation instructions. We also provide training webinars and tech talk videos available via our website and on YouTube.

Red Hi-Lite™30 Classic was then installed vertically to the stanchions and leading edge of the spreader boxes. This allowed the colour scheme to continue under canopy and maintain that clean and vibrant look.

Both Hi-Lite™30 and Hi-Brow™30 can be supplied as standard in 2.4m fixed lengths as well as 1.2m & 2.4m adjustable lengths which can be adjusted onsite by the installer. Customers with very specific requirements can request, at an additional cost, bespoke factory-built lengths.

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An Even, Crisp Light Petrol Sign secures contract with Euro Garages to install a new ‘Eye-Brow’ identity to canopy fascia’s on hundreds of Esso branded service stations in Europe.

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i-Brow™30 contour tube was selected based on its consistent even wash-light output, sustainability, energy efficiency, reliability, safety features and easy to install plug and play tubing.

The Hi-Brow™ branding is now part of Esso's synergy low energy corporate identity on sites throughout the UK & Europe.

EG Group owns and operates over 5,400 service stations in nine countries.

Petrol Sign and Visive worked in collaboration to ensure that the wash-light angle fitted into a specially designed extrusion to the top of the fascia to meet the ExxonMobil brand specification.

www.eurogarages.com www.msisigngroup.com

Hi-Brow™30 contour tube features a robust 30mm diameter clear acrylic tube and lensed LEDs to provide that extra depth of even light to the fascia up to 1 metre deep. Furthermore, the contour tube has an adjustable section for quick, easy and efficient installations.

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Hi-Brow™30 is a 30mm diameter frosted acrylic tube with LEDs and lenses to project an even consistent fascia wash-light effect up or down a surface.

Suitable for indoor & outdoor settings 5-year warranty

Call +44 (0)1978 660181 to request samples

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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT

Supporting Creative Advertising Custom curved sections of Hi-Lite™ Harlequin RGB tube create feature lighting which can be set to tone with the current advertising campaign.

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utdoor media specialists JCDecaux required an eye-catching lighting feature for their new billboard totems at the Trafford Centre, Manchester. They wanted to be able to change the colour of this lighting quickly and easily, to suit the particular advertisement on display. The solution had to be physically robust and fully weather resistant to survive the exposed and unmanned locations.

– weather proofing to IP66, robust design, simple ‘plug and play’ installation – with a full colour mixing control system, allowing the illuminated colour to be selected from a palate of over 16 million colours.

Visive’s standard DMX master controller allows operators to select from a range of preprogrammed colours and effects. For this application, the customer required that the controller allowed an operator to set relative brightness levels of red, green and blue directly.

Visive developed a custom version of its standard controller to facilitate this. The solution enables a new colour for a particular advertising campaign to be developed on an off-site test rig, with the RGB values for this colour then being passed on to a local operations crew. The local crew can them dial these values into the master controller within the sign.

Visive supplied custom curved sections of HiLite™ Harlequin RGB LED contour tubing to provide an intense multi-coloured lighting solution to the totems. Six oval hoops of HiLite™ encircle the fixture, with the top three hoops raked at an angle to echo the top of the totem column. A customised version of the Visive DMX master controller was used to allow simple setting of colours from within each unit.

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Glowing Stateside Wired4Signs USA are our first US stockist of border tube products. The full range of colours our LED border solutions provide can now been seen brightening up cityscapes.

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isive has supplied LED border / contour tube to the US previously but W4S USA is the first official stockist we have had. Sonic Drive-In with more than 3500 restaurants are one of several larger brands we have supplied our LED illuminated border solution to.

The Visive contour / border products are available as UL approved.

The latest versions of our border / contour include an easy to use adjustable section allowing even the most challenging locations to be fitted with our product.

With a mounting clip specifically designed to be hidden, Hi-Lite™ and Hi-Brow™ is already proving to be the LED border solution of choice

by US installers and vendors.

The above pictures are a small selection of US installations completed in 2021 and demonstrate how effective the Visive product is in transforming dull, uninviting buildings into eyecatching, warm and welcoming locations.

For US customers who have a smaller number of outlets it was not practicable to supply direct from the UK. By appointing W4S USA as a stockist located in Powell, Tennessee we have been able to make our products more accessible to customers.

www.wired4signsusa.com

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Power Supply Units and CSC Visive outdoor IP67 Power Supply Units include maintenance and protection features, allowing faster and fault free installation and peace of mind operation. .

Protection Circuit

Function LED

Plug and Play

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UL Approved

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT

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Window Dressing Our range of Contour / Border solutions lend themselves to both internal and external locations, bringing window displays and brands to life with colour.

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M&S ‘Spirit of Summer’

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New Look

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New Look

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Lacoste

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Harrods

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Harrods

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Forecourts Around The Globe Visive Contour / Tube products are filling forecourts around the globe with vibrant colours, bringing brands to life. Creating a recognisable and welcoming environment whatever the brand.

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JET

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Harvest Energy

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ESSAR

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Gulf

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Shell

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No Job Too Big Visive products can be seen on many different brands and retail outlets, including McDonalds and Pizza Hut. Wherever you want to add colour to bring space and buildings to life, we have a solution.

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Bradley Stoke, Bristol

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Pizza Hut

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Pizza Hut

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McDonalds

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Marriot Hotels

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Taybarns

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VARIOUS

The Smart Solution Visive is the only LED border / contour solution powered through our patented CSC protection device, ensuring your installation is always safe and working correctly.

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ll our outdoor power supplies include our patented Current Sense Circuit (CSC) as standard, providing a greater level of protection than other LED contour / border solutions as well as making installation and maintenance easier.

Safety features The Visive LED border/contour tubing is already a brilliantly safe product for use in public access areas as it is safe to touch with zero risk of shock.

The CSC system adds to these existing safety features making both Hi-Brow™30 and HiLite™30 ideal products for use in retail chain stores, hotels, restaurants, cinemas, service stations, supermarkets and casinos.

The Visive LED contour / border solutions are all plug and play. Simply connect your Hi-Lite™ or Hi-Brow™ sections into the PSU supplied and your installation is automatically protected by the CSC.

Troubleshooting Although the CSC’s primary function is safety, the device does come with a status LED which indicates the cause of the fault. The pulse ratio of the status LED relates to a specific fault issue.

This troubleshooting aid means quicker fault diagnostics, considerably less down time and cost savings.

Continual testing The CSC continuously and automatically performs tests on the DC supply of the LED contour tubing installation. If a fault is detected the DC supply is automatically disabled. This automatic detection and power shutdown helps to dramatically reduce the risks associated with using any electrical product outdoors.

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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT

Hi-Lite™30 Border White The MFG EV Charging Hub in Stretford.

Featuring our Hi-Lite™30 Border product

Hi-Lite™30 Classic l Hi-Lite™30 Border l Hi-Lite™30 Chroma l Hi-Brow™30 UK Headquarters | Ash Road South | Wrexham Industrial Estate | Wrexham | UK LL13 9UG ©Visive Group Limited 2021