NanoLumens Ranked #267 on Inc. Magazine's 2015 List of the Nation's 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies

Inc. magazine’s 2015 list of the nation’s 5000 fastest growing private companies is out and NanoLumens, Inc. (www.nanolumens.com), a visualization solution (“digital display”) provider that delivers value, advertising revenue, experience creation, and customer engagement has recently been named Gwinnett County’s #1 fastest growing company, Georgia’s 15th fastest growing company and the nation’s #267th fastest growing company.

“We provide solutions to problems that haven’t been thought of yet by others, and our ability to do this for customers around the world is driving our success,” CEO Rick Cope (an entrepreneur, former combat commander and Special Operations advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf) said today, “This achievement stems from the vision, commitment, and can-do spirit of the entire NanoLumens team who believe that Made in America is not a statement about our past but a promise about our future as Americans competing in a global economy.” 

With a three-year growth rate of 1692%, NanoLumens redefines the way architects, designers, integrators, retailers, casino operators and event/convention center organizers engage with their customers through LED display solutions in any size, shape, or curvature.  The company’s ability to listen to a customer’s needs and then respond with a unique solution that no one else can match has resulted in record-breaking sales for NanoLumens in an industry dominated by Asian manufacturers. 

Because of this extraordinary American-made quality NanoLumens is also the only display designer in the field to offer customers an unconditional Six Year, Zero Failure Warranty that covers the entire display from corner to corner, including all parts and controller devices sold by NanoLumens to end users, resellers, and distributors, effective from the date of shipment. 

NanoLumens Lights Up CenturyLink's New Technology Center of Excellence With a Unique NanoWrap™ Solution

Last March, CenturyLink (www.centurylink.com), a global communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company, cut the ribbon on its new Technology Center of Excellence. The 300,000 square-foot state-of-the-art (LEED certification pending) R&D center features of a stunning array of NanoWrap visualization solutions from NanoLumens (www.NanoLumens.com), an industry leading manufacturer and marketer of visualization solutions.

The new building’s lobby is a palace of glass that incorporates 37,000 square feet of View Dynamic Glass, making it the single largest installation of electrochromic glass in the country. View Dynamic Glass leverages nanotechnology and pre-programmed intelligence to tint automatically in response to outside conditions and user preferences, eliminating the need for blinds or shades. But, even with that technology, the lobby is still very bright. The exceptional brightness of NanoLumens’ technology, which can be adjusted as the ambient light levels change throughout the day, assures that the video on the solutions will remain clearly and crisply visible at any time, under any conditions. 

“The NanoLumens displays create a stunning effect in the lobby, and it’s fair to say that this sets the lobby apart from any other atrium like it,” said Ben Cating, Senior Consultant-VP of Idibri (www.idibri.com), the Addison, Texas-based consulting firm hired by CenturyLink. “It’s more than just a video installation — it’s a visual achievement.”

The center also includes a technology research and development lab, a network operations center, a customer experience center and a collaborative office and meeting space.  But, said Cating, the space also needed to make a definitive statement that immediately established the facility as a cutting-edge technology location. NanoLumens NanoWrap solutions helped the client make this visual statement and capture the attention of customers as they walk through the door. 

Three columns in the building’s three-story-tall atrium are wrapped with NanoLumens’ 5MM NanoWrap displays in a 42-inch-diameter circular panel that covers 12 feet of vertical surface on each column. The NanoLumens LED panels, made up of thousands of Nixels™, NanoLumens’ patented display module, turn these architectural elements into archi-technological elements. They provide a continuous stream of full-motion video that’s visible throughout the entire lobby and from any angle. Each display can show different video content or all three columns can play synchronously, with content fed over IPTV via fiber from a cloud-based Cisco-AppSpace content delivery system.

The NanoWraps are attached to the columns by a unique circular mounting system, incorporating a custom metal frame around the column in which the panels are attached. This system was carried out by AV systems integrator American AVL, based in Ruston, LA.

“CenturyLink wanted to make this lobby a unique technological experience for visitors and guests,” Cating emphasized. “We looked at a lot of possibilities, and video would keep the columns as an integral part of the aesthetic design. But attaching conventional flat displays to them would have ruined the flow they create visually. Only the flexibility of the NanoWraps, which we could literally wrap around the columns, offered us the solution that we needed. NanoWraps were the only way we could address this particular form factor. The result is striking to look at.”

“The space- and energy-efficient NanoWrap solution offers quiet, low energy consuming cylindrical visualization wherever a customer would like to place it,” emphasized NanoLumens Executive Vice President of Business Development, Karen Robinson. “Whether that’s hanging overhead, in a fixed position on its own, or around the columns of a building, NanoWrap solutions are made to equip customers like CenturyLink with the perfect visualization solution that’s just right for them– no matter what size, shape, or curvature is needed.”

To download additional hi-res images, click here. All photography is courtesy of Idibri Consulting. 

NanoLumens NanoSlim Engage 1.8MM LED Display Wins Digital Signage Magazine Best of Show Award at InfoComm 2015

Underscoring its ability to continually redefine benchmark performance standards for LED display technology, NanoLumens (www.nanolumens.com), the industry leading manufacturer and marketer of visualization solutions, today announced that it has been awarded a Digital Signage Magazine InfoComm Best of Show Award for its next-generation NanoSlim Engage 1.8MM pixel pitch solution. The announcement was made at InfoComm 2015 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

NewBay Media presents the Digital Signage Magazine Best of Show Awards, honoring outstanding products exhibited at the InfoComm show. Panels of professional users and NewBay Media editors select winners based on product descriptions as well as on judges’ inspection on the convention show floor.

“It’s truly an honor to receive a Best of Show Award from a prestigious publication like Digital Signage Magazine,” NanoLumens Executive Vice President of Business Development Burt Smith stated. “At NanoLumens, we’re dedicated to providing our customers with the best selection of visualization solutions for any project. The new NanoSlim Engage 1.8MM display demonstrates this commitment by being the world’s slimmest visualization solution available in any size or shape, completely bezel-free.”

The first product in the NanoLumens NanoSlim Engage line featured a 2.5MM pixel pitch and it was introduced to the world at ISE 2015 in Amsterdam.  It was the first LED display solution able to be front-installed and front- serviced and is designed to allow customers to engage their audiences up close and personal.  The high resolution, large-scale visualization solution came backed by an unprecedented corner-to-corner six-year warranty and is designed to serve as the ideal display solution for boardrooms, command and control centers, and other areas where clear and up-close viewing is required. 

The 1.8MM pixel pitch version of NanoSlim Engage introduced at InfoComm 2015 goes even further, delivering impeccable clarity and brilliance with one of the tightest pixel pitch available on the market today. “The introduction of a NanoSlim Engage solution that offers an even tighter pixel pitch than the solution introduced a few short months ago demonstrates our company’s ability to redefine standards we ourselves set,” Smith emphasized.

NanoLumens displays are extremely slim, ultra-lightweight, energy efficient, and feature a bright, seamless, high resolution picture quality that can be viewed from any angle throughout the display horizon without color shift or image distortion. The company’s patented display technology and highly innovative products are transforming the way companies engage their audiences in every type of higher education, retail, hospitality, stadium, arena, casino, transportation and public event environment.

All NanoLumens displays accept input from nearly any device or content management system. There is no need for additional software, hardware or specialized personnel to display content beautifully.  With a profile of only a few inches, NanoSlim displays can be installed on virtually any surface without being obtrusive, adding the ‘WOW’ factor to any environment without taking up precious space. NanoLumens’ patented display technology is optimized for indoor use, operating with minimal heat and no noise while producing bright, rich, consistent color as well as superior off-axis viewing with no color shift or image distortion throughout the display horizon.

NanoLumens Introduces NanoSlim Engage 1.8MM Solution at InfoComm 2015

Redefining a performance benchmark it set just a few short months ago, NanoLumens (www.nanolumens.com), the industry leading manufacturer and marketer of visualization solutions, today announced the debut of its next generation NanoSlim Engage 1.8MM display solution at InfoComm 2015 at Booth #4759 in the Orange County Convention Center.

Introduced to the world at ISE 2015 in Amsterdam with a 2.5MM pixel pitch, the NanoSlim Engage visualization solution is the first LED display solution able to be front-installed and front- serviced and is designed to allow customers to engage their audiences up close and personal.  The high resolution, large-scale visualization solution comes backed by an unprecedented corner-to-corner six-year warranty and is designed to serve as the ideal display solution for boardrooms, command and control centers, and other areas where clear and up-close viewing is required. 

The 1.8MM pixel pitch version of NanoSlim Engage being introduced at InfoComm 2015 goes even further, delivering impeccable clarity and brilliance with the tightest pixel pitch available on the market today.  “The introduction of a NanoSlim Engage solution that offers an even tighter pixel pitch than the solution introduced a few short months ago demonstrates our company’s ability to redefine standards we ourselves set,” said NanoLumens Executive Vice President of Business Development Burt Smith.  “ 

NanoLumens displays are extremely slim, ultra-lightweight, energy efficient, and feature a bright, seamless, high resolution picture quality that can be viewed from any angle throughout the display horizon without color shift or image distortion. The company’s patented display technology and highly innovative products are transforming the way companies engage their audiences in every type of higher education, retail, hospitality, stadium, arena, casino, transportation and public event environment.

All NanoLumens displays accept input from nearly any device or content management system. There is no need for special software, hardware or special personnel to display content beautifully.  With a profile of only a few inches, NanoSlim displays can be installed on virtually any surface without being obtrusive, adding the ‘WOW’ factor to any environment without taking up precious space. NanoLumens’ patented display technology is optimized for indoor use, operating with virtually zero heat or noise while producing bright, rich, consistent color as well as superior off-axis viewing with no color shift or image distortion throughout the display horizon.

Mark Carlson Appointed General Counsel and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at NanoLumens

Underscoring the importance of having General Counsel that is broadly experienced in working with rapidly evolving globally focused knowledge based companies, NanoLumens (www.nanolumens.com), the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of visualization solutions, today announced the appointment of Mark Carlson as General Counsel and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, reporting directly to NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope. 

“The role of General Counsel has changed dramatically over the last ten years and, increasingly, a company’s General Counsel is being called upon to play a more important role in shaping how businesses operate, managing different kinds of risk, and guiding corporate conduct overall,” Cope said today.  “Mark has both the legal and general business background we need at this critical juncture in our growth trajectory.  He brings both the legal and strategic business acumen to our senior management team that will help us to achieve our long-term growth objectives.” 

Before joining NanoLumens, Mark Carlson served as the Corporate/M&A Group Chair at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. He has also served as Director of Business Development at Fantasma Networks, a Silicon Valley wireless start up; an Attorney at Shearman & Sterling; and as a Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.   

Mark Carlson holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School (1995) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Dartmouth College (1992).