A revolutionary madein-North Yorkshire lighting system has been snapped up by a shopping chain in the Far East.

The system, called Coveled and devised at Dialight Lumidrives' 30,000 sq ft factory in Wetherby Road, Long Marston, has been used to provide high quality LED lighting in six prestigious stores across the Far East for Royal Selangor of Malaysia, the world's largest pewter designer and manufacturer.

Coveled replaced a traditional halogen lighting system to illuminate display shelves of pewter products.

The system provides low energy consumption of approximately 10 watts per metre and a long lamp life of around 50,000 hours rather than 20,000 with the previous alternative.

Significantly for retail applications, Coveled is cool to touch, avoiding potential health and safety issues if the lamp comes into contact with hands and fingers.

Lighting designers and specifiers were M-Lux of Malaysia and Coveled was supplied by Dialight Lumidrive's Asian partner and distributor, Achieva Electronics of Singapore.

The newly-lit stores are Raffles in Singapore, in Queensbay Mall Penang, Malaysia, in the Pavillion Kuala Lumpur, Mid Valley the Garden, Kuala Lumpur and the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center.

Installation was also carried out at Royal Selangor in Shanghai.

Gordon Routledge, Dialight Lumidrives' managing director, said: "The Coveled system is ideal for use in retail locations. The traditional solution for retail display has been halogen lamps, with attendant high energy useage and short lamp life.

"Now, customers like Royal Selangor are recognising that the quality and performance of LED products like Coveled is an attractive proposition for display lighting in such prestigious outlets."

Dialight Lumidrives is the illuminations division of Dialight Plc, one of the world's largest suppliers in the field of applied LED technology.