One of our favorite questions!

It's no secret that LEDs made energy-efficient, long-lasting, and durable holiday lighting possible. However, this came at the cost of warm, beautiful colors. Today, manufacturing practices have become so streamlined and cost-efficient that many LED sets are being made to standards no more durable than the incandescent sets of the past. To us, this made no sense. Why invest in a new technology if you're still susceptible to the fragility of yesterday's sets while also compromising the warm, rich color?

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When launching Vintaglo, our first and foremost non-negotiable was quality, long-lasting sets. This is why we are so focused on plastic composite development. We've developed all our plastic compositions from the ground up, replicating glass-like reflective qualities in plastic and achieving something never before done in the industry. Because we are reflecting and filtering color through plastics that are millimeters thick—rather than microns for lacquered glass—achieving that imperfectly perfect look is extremely difficult and costly. This is why it was never attempted before in the industry. Additionally, the quality of the LED diode plays a critical role. Developing, and implementing, an extremely high-quality LED in a tiny package to then cap it with a custom composite cap is far too expensive for most manufacturers to even consider.

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Sadly, no matter the quality of colored lacquers or glass, the lenses of current glass offerings still fade in the sun, peel over time, and make decorating more time-consuming and frustrating when you're dealing with fragile glass lenses and bulbs. This, once again, is why we focused so heavily on composites. Our Vintaglo Professional Series mini-lights will not fade under normal operating conditions or shatter during rough installation. Our sets undergo a minimum of 10-season-equivalent UV testing before approval, ensuring they will last, fade-free, for years to come.

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