NEON Materials

NEON

      NEON (Greek word meaning "new") was discovered in 1898 by British chemists Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916) and Morris W. Travers (1872-1961) in London. The gases that then evaporate cooling the air, apart from nitrogen, oxygen and argon are krypton, xenon and neon. The characteristic bright red color emitted by the neon gas when electrically stimulated was immediately noted by Ramsay.

       After 1902, his company George Claude, the Air Liquide, started the industrial production of NEON as a byproduct of neon liquefaction of air, and in December 1910 showed that Claude modern neon lighting was based on a sealed tube neon. In 1912, Claude's colleagues began selling neon tubes for billboards, which were introduced in the U.S. in 1923, when two large neon signs were purchased by Los Angeles car dealership Packard. The glow and the red neon advertisement made it completely different from the competition. From then until now, Neon lighting has changed forms and has many applications especially in the labeling.

NEON Applications

      NEON is most frequently used in neon signs and produces a bright red-orange light. Although is still referred to as "neon", all other colors are created with the other noble gases, or the different colors of fluorescent lamps. The Neon is used in vacuum tubes, high voltage indicators, lightning arresters, television cathode ray tubes, and helium-neon laser. Liquefied neon is used commercially as a cryogenic refrigerant in applications not requiring the lowest temperature possible with the more extreme cooling liquid helium.

ΝΕΟΝ Signs

      The colors of neon tubes and the many advantages compared with ordinary light, such as those of lower energy consumption, longer life, improved durability, their smaller size and faster switching colors, predominantly used in manufacturing neon signs and marking in general. In particular we find in manufacturing neon text screens, large and small inscriptions and pharmacy crosses. All these structures are generally composed of the box, neon tubes and transformers necessary for Neon signs. Hellas LED is a company that established its business in the field of NEON signs and LED signs since 1966. We cooperate with and provide technical products only in neon signs. Our partners are amongst the largest in Europe. Contact us to inform you about the quality and wide range of NEON materials available for the professional lighting and signs.