By JAN NORMAN

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Brea-based GlowZone, Inc. showroom is a rarity. It's best visited in the dark.

GlowZone, Inc. is a research and manufacturing firm that specializes in ways to infuse photoluminescence – glow-in-the-dark compounds – into products and fabrics, not merely making lighted items that stick on top of other products or that reflect light.

Whether you want a ladder that you can find in the garage at night, firefighting tools that can be seen through thick smoke or decorative tiles that light up in the dark without batteries, they're on display in GlowZone's showroom. Its basic bread-and-butter product is exit signs. To appreciate how all these products differ from competing products, founder Joe Bloomfield turns out the lights in the windowless room.

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