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TECTON II: A Continuous-Row Lighting System for Today and Tomorrow

Several factors ensure that TECTON II remains the first choice for customers for many years to come. First, the continuous-row lighting system must be durable. The investment should pay off through a long lifespan, smooth operation, and efficiency. Additionally, the luminaire must continue to meet evolving trends and aesthetic requirements. Manufacturers can only achieve this with a timeless, adaptable design that seamlessly integrates into any environment. Let’s take a closer look at how Zumtobel meets these expectations with TECTON II.

TECTON II: Reliable in All Environments

TECTON II is ready to launch and will be available in the middle of this year. This marks the next chapter in its success story, and the development team has every reason to be proud. Based on customer feedback and practical experience, TECTON II has been equipped with a full range of sustainable, design-oriented, and forward-thinking features. In this post, we focus on the robustness of TECTON II.

TECTON II: Sustainability in All Phases of the Product Lifecycle

The success story of the TECTON lighting system continues. With more than 32,000 kilometers installed worldwide, TECTON is ideal for installations of any kind: production and storage halls, offices, retail, as well as educational and cultural institutions, providing the right light – now with even more sustainable. When the new product generation launches in the middle of this year, it will feature a wide range of sustainable features.

TECTON II: elegant design meets maximum customisability

In collaboration with the renowned Italian design studio and engineering company Pininfarina, Zumtobel, as a provider of integrated lighting solutions, has developed an aesthetically sophisticated and highly customisable continuous-row lighting system that will be available from July 2025. The unique combination of style and functionality opens up a wide range of possible applications. In the second part of our blog series, we take a closer look at the TECTON II values of “design-oriented” and “customisable”.

TECTON II: Pioneering values for the next generation of lighting

In a world of constant change, Zumtobel is setting new standards: With the evolution of the successful TECTON light system, Zumtobel, together with design experts at Pininfarina, has created a visionary new generation—one that stands out for intuitive handling, flexibility, sustainable design, and future readiness. In this monthly blog series, you’ll get exciting behind-the-scenes insights.

Zumtobel and Pininfarina - a perfect match

In 2001, TECTON was presented at ineltec in Basel with the customer promise of future-proofing and simple installation. After more than 20 years and numerous adaptations to new technologies later, Zumtobel is developing the next generation of the continuous-row lighting system in collaboration with Pininfarina: TECTON II. The development with the Italian design studio and engineering company Pininfarina represents a paradigm shift all along the line.

10 projects that demonstrate TECTON’s versatility

From its beginnings as a continuous row with fluorescent lamps, TECTON has been developed into a system that combines general lighting, safety and emergency lighting and lighting controls, sensors and IoT components in a single, integrated solution. Over the past 20 years, TECTON has been reinvented again and again, and the technology it is based on has been developed and refined to meet market requirements. The Zumtobel continuous-row lighting system has also gone from being solely used for industrial applications to becoming a versatile lighting tool for almost all sectors. While some products might claim to be future-proof as marketing spin, for TECTON this is the reality.

“IT IS SIMPLY EXCITING EVERY DAY”

Pre-painted, galvanisedsheet steel - that's the stuff of which TECTON trunking is made. At theZumtobel production site in Dornbirn, Austria, around 1,300 tracks are producedper shift. Lined up end to end, this corresponds to a total length of 250kilometres per month - the equivalent of almost six marathons.

ONCE UPON A TECTON

On the market for more than 20 years, with a timeless design, unyet, still at the forefront of new technology - even today: In 2001, Zumtobel presented the TECTON continuous-row lighting system to the public for the first time at the ineltec trade fair for the electrical industry in Basel, Switzerland. A major sensation! Equipped with an 11-pole integrated trunking system, the universal continuous-row lighting system already formed the basis for customised configuration of general, safety and emergency lighting as well as lighting control. The particularly fast installation and flexible positioning of the luminaires on the trunking was then, as it is now, one of the main selling points of TECTON. Over the years, technological progress has led to the addition of sensor and IoT components on the trunking. This shows how future-proof TECTON was designed from the outset. We look back at the beginnings and principles of success - and have identified seven characteristics that are crucial to the continued market success of our most popular continuous-row lighting system. Take a look back with us - and see how it all began: "Once upon a TECTON ..."

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