Important Announcement: Bloom Unit Service is closing down

Recently we concluded an agreement with one of our largest customers for them to acquire 100% ownership of Bloom Unit Pty Ltd for integration into their own proprietary application platform.

Initially, it was hoped and expected that the Bloom Unit plug-in service would remain available, as it has been for the last 8 years.  

Unfortunately however, we have now been advised by the new owners that after very careful consideration and review, the resources needed for the transition of the current public Bloom Unit system across to their own in-house infrastructure and also to provide the necessary user support would be too large a task for them to carry out alongside their own internal development plans for Bloom Unit.

So we must unfortunately advise of the difficult decision to permanently close down the public Bloom Unit Service on the 9th October 2020.

Going back some 8 years now, Bloom Unit was the world’s first cloud based physically accurate rendering platform for SketchUp and has always remained a leader in this application sector, not only due to its outstanding performance features, but also in the ability to interactively create very high quality and photo-real images, animations and VR output. Unlike any other rendering platform, these world leading capabilities have been uniquely recognised and celebrated within the global lighting industry with the winning of 3 separate international awards providing accolades such as, ‘Enabling Product of the Year’, ‘Disruptor of the Year’ and 'Innovative Lighting Design Software’.

But with enormous sadness, we must now close down our Bloom Unit system, as it’s new owners take this powerful platform to a new level of capability and a new application environment.

So from today, 10th September 2020, the Bloom Unit website will not accept any new subscriptions and existing subscribers will not be able to modify their subscriptions. However for current active subscribers your subscription will be extended until the shut down date, 9th October 2020, and extra hours will be added to your account, all at no extra charge, to ensure sufficient service hours are available.

We do sincerely apologise for the very short notice period given here, but additional time was lost in the considerable effort to find ways to gather together the necessary resources to keep this service running, but it just proved too difficult a task.

Thank you for your wonderful patronage and support over the last 8 years in our Bloom Unit journey that, now sadly, must come to an end.

If you have any questions or encounter any problems with this transition, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Chris Blewitt

e: chris@bloomunit.com