French company Tactea is looking for stone processors in the UK who want to offer supersophisticated touch technology electrical lighting controls in their worktops.
The technology offers controls for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) built into the kitchen units or the underside of the worktop itself, just by touching the worktop.
And it is the worktop that is touched. Nothing penetrates the surface, although it is a good idea to have something to show where the surface needs to be touched in order to operate the controls.
A sensor underneath the surface reacts to a finger placed on the surface – and only a finger. If you put something else on the sensor it will not react.
It is clever, high technology that needs to be added when a granite or engineered quartz worksurface is being manufactured because the sensors and wires need holes underneath the worksurface to fit into and the worksurface itself needs etching where it needs to be touched to operate the controls.
But because it needs the skills of a stone processor to install, it is an ideal product for stone processors to use to help distinguish their offerings from those of competitors – and improve their margins.
The technology has been around for a few years and Tactea was shown at the Marmomacc exhibition in Verona last year.
Interested? Contact Anthony Gillespie-Smith on 0033 247 464807, agillespie@tactea.fr or see the website www.tactea.fr.