Absolute Action Ltd

Absolute Action Company Profile

Absolute Action

Absolute Action’s workshops and offices are based just South East of London. It is an independent company specialising in the specification, design and manufacture of bespoke fibre optic lighting systems. With experience dating back to their pioneering of the fibre optic lighting market in 1983, Absolute Action has forged an unsurpassed international reputation as the longest established, most widely experienced and most trusted supplier of quality fibre optic lighting solutions. The company offers a broad selection of highly efficient and durable fibre types, lamps and optical components.

Absolute Action provides a total specialist consultancy service and oversees projects from conception to completion. Drawing on the expert skills of in-house engineers and technicians as well as independent consultants within specific fields of expertise, the company can generate innovative, reliable and durable fibre optic lighting solutions, at all times with complete confidence. Contract principals, designers and specifiers rely on Absolute Action’s competence as the leading specialist company in this field to carry out the largest and most demanding contracts with the utmost care, efficiency and attention to detail.

Fibre Optic Lighting

During 30 years of experience, Absolute Action has designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned fine fibre optic lighting systems for a huge array of applications around the world. Many have been published as exemplary and honoured with awards. By working closely at all times with clients and consultants, the company has provided bespoke lighting solutions which achieve unparalleled results.

Fibre Optic Lighting offers a wide range of benefits, many unique, and which include:

• Energy saving and cost-efficient
• Remote source ease and simplicity of maintenance
• Durable, sustainable and safe
• Absolutely no maintenance at output
• No electricity at output
• No harmful UV or IR emissions at output
• Controllable, glare-free and consistent
• Colour and mood options
• Emergency lighting options
• Maintainable components available world-wide.

Standard Lighting Products

Absolute Action’s fibre optic lighting systems comprise three fundamental components, which include:

• The Light Source - which is connected to the mains supply and creates a single source of light (of varying intensities) for multiple fibre light guides. Each of the range of such sources can be tailored to generate various lighting techniques using ancillary components such as dimming or colour-changing elements.
• The Optical Fibre - which is generally made up into a harness or bundle of light guides and transmits light from source to the output fittings. A range of fibre sizes and configurations is available to satisfy differing lighting requirements. The scope and intensity of the light can be affected by both the fibre active diameter and the light-guide length.
• The Output Fittings - which are attached to and adjusted against the ends of the optical fibres and are available in a huge array of sizes, finishes and optical performance. The most adaptable scope and widest variety of lighting palette can be achieved to suit the technical and aesthetic specifications of almost any application.

Combined components are required for certain applications and they integrate into easily understood and user-friendly product-based systems. Options currently available are:

• The Touch Reading Light Range for comfortable and cool night-time reading
• The Miniature Track System for numerous retail and museum lighting requirements
• The Slimline Lightbar for many confined display and architectural lighting applications

Popular Applications

Absolute Action has generated fibre optic lighting solutions for a broad range of clients and applications. Examples include:

• Aquatic Lighting: Fibre Optic lighting is a natural for wet locations, including swimming pools, fountains and spas. With no electricity or maintenance at output, permanent and safe light fixtures, machined from corrosion-resistant marine grade stainless steel, can be installed in the most hostile and inaccessible locations with utmost confidence.
• Architectural Lighting: Fibre optic lighting is a popular choice for permanent architectural applications due to its reliable longevity, to the simplicity of remote maintenance, and to the greatly reduced energy consumption. Thermal management is also readily achieved at specific locations, and loads on air conditioning systems greatly reduced.
• Canopies and Atria Lighting: Fibre Optic lighting is an ideal solution for the provision of lighting at or from inaccessible locations. Only with fibre optic lighting do the light heads themselves have a genuinely indefinite lifespan, with maintenance being required only at the accessible source location.
• Commercial Lighting: Commercial applications using fibre optic lighting systems benefit from zero ultra-violet or infra-red radiation, no heat or electricity at output, easy action plans for remote maintenance, and a vast array of control protocols. Low energy consumption, freedom from glare, performance consistency, and the maintainability of the technology, all contribute to the Facility's Manager's peace of mind.
• Conservation Lighting: No other kind of lighting can offer the high quality and controllability of light that is generated with fibre optic systems. Using lamps with a CRI of up to 100 and a wide range of optical fixtures, some of the world's most priceless gemstones, ancient exhibits and priceless works of art have been beautifully and enduringly illuminated by Absolute Action's skilled engineers.
• Décor and Effects: Fibre Optics can be applied creatively to create a wide range of special effects for animation, mood and colour change. Effects include star-scapes, cascading chandeliers, 3D mirror effects, suffusions of coloured light walls, bubble displays, and much more. Fibre lights can be imbedded in floors, carpeting and curtains, or built into furniture, to add glamour and fun to the creative interior.
• Ecclesiastical Lighting: Specialist lighting is often required for the illumination of listed buildings, including cathedrals and churches, both for interior and exterior applications. These wonderful buildings can be discreetly enhanced by subtle and safe fibre optic lighting which requires minimal disturbance to the fabric of the structures themselves and can be tailored to generate entirely bespoke fixture heads to match existing finishes.
• Exterior Lighting: With no maintenance - ever - at the light output heads, fibre optic lighting is perfect for high level lighting applications, or for instances where the fixtures should be permanently integrated into the building's construction. It can thus provide a perfect solution for safe access illumination to and from especially fire escape and assembly locations.
• Leisure and Hospitality Applications: Suitable candidates for permanent corridor/access or emergency lighting, special décor effects, the touch bedhead lighting range or for a variety of spa and aquatic applications, fibre optic lighting today still offers an incredible range of durable and cost-effective solutions.
• Residential Lighting: A highly valued bespoke service is offered to appreciative clients to enhance their elegant residences around the world. From the exclusive personal touch in bathrooms, kitchens and bedrooms, to complete bespoke lighting schemes, or from the intricate lighting of a garden sculpture to the illumination of complete private collections of art and memorabilia, Absolute Action provide discreet and comprehensive personal attention to all needs.
• Retail Lighting: For focus and impact in the retail environment, fibre optics continue to offer a cost-effective and reliable lighting solution. Absence of UV and IR radiation preserves merchandise in optimum conditions, and users benefit from the consistency, flexibility and simplicity in use of this type of display lighting - month after month after month, regardless of maintenance programmes and the re-arrangement of merchandise.

The company has maintained and jealously guards its independence from all other suppliers of its associated components, thereby ensuring its determination to supply only the very best and most appropriate systems to suit the demands of each project. The continual sourcing and resourcing of new components, coupled with the rigorous testing of all new products, means that clients are assured of receiving only that which has been determined as the latest and best at all times.

Absolute Action is held in very high esteem by its exacting clientele around the world and has successfully completed a vast range and complexity of projects, achieving international acclaim. The assured and friendly team has the in-depth knowledge and experience in fibre optic lighting techniques to inspire total confidence as the acknowledged experts in their field. The complete turnkey service that is provided as standard, along with the calm and assured competence, is a welcome constant in today’s sea of technological uncertainty.