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

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.

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.