Digital Signage
The Digital Signage market has experienced rapid growth in recent years and is expected to have strong double digit growth over the next three to five years. Digital Signage is quickly becoming a mainstay for retail locations, airports, sports arenas, and quick serve restaurants. Planar participates in most display applications for the digital signage market utilizing a variety of technologies and products.
- Matrix: Planar’s super narrow bezel LCD products allow customers to create video walls for ambience, advertising, and brand promotion. Sold under the Clarity brand, the Matrix is well suited to these applications as it was designed with simple installation and maintenance friendly features.
- Commercial LCD: Planar provides a line-up of commercial-grade LCD displays suitable for a wide range of uses.
- Custom Signage: Planar also manufactures a wide variety of customized LCD solutions for customers with requirements which go beyond those available from off the shelf products. Included in this category is a line of outdoor signage products which are uniquely suited to demanding environmental conditions in mission critical applications such as quick serve restaurants.
Non-Signage
- Video Wall Cubes: The market for control room video wall solutions is driven by the development, expansion, and upgrade of industrial infrastructure such as power plants, transportation systems, communication systems, and security monitoring. Planar provides premium quality displays that meet the customer’s needs for virtually seamless video walls that support 24x7 operations.
- Touch Monitors: Planar markets a wide variety of touch products for use in kiosks and point of sale applications. As touch and interactive displays become more commonplace, the Company expects future opportunities for growth in this product category.
- Custom Non-Signage: Planar designs and manufactures custom LCD products that are generally targeted toward the transportation, military, and medical vertical markets. These displays are typically ruggedized to withstand extreme weather, moisture, dust, and vibration.
- Electroluminescent (EL): Planar leverages its historical core competency in EL technologies to focus on providing customized, embedded and ruggedized displays to Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEMs”) and other system suppliers. EL is used in a variety of applications and industries including instrumentation, medical equipment, vehicle dashboards, and military applications, all of which require functionality in demanding usage conditions such as rugged outdoor conditions, extreme temperatures, instances where shaking or shock is expected, or applications requiring transparency.
- High-End Home: Planar offers a wide variety of high-performance home theater front projection systems, video processing equipment, large-format thin displays, and accessories, largely aimed at the high-end home market. The Company has sold these products under the Runco brand since May 2007 when it acquired Runco International, an industry leader in high-end, luxury video products. Planar’s Runco products are primarily sold to its established network of custom home installation dealers in the United States.
- Desktop Monitors: Planar capitalizes on its strong supply chain, logistics, and distribution partnerships to sell a variety of primarily LCD based displays.
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