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A Guide on Energy Management for Commercial Buildings from Dynalite

A guide prepared to assist designers and managers of commercial buildings to appreciate the potential for positive change.

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Featured Product:
EMEX Central Power Supply Systems - Power when you need it

Emergi-Lite Safety Systems have extended their range of EMEX Power central power supply systems to provide high performance, low maintenance emergency lighting solutions to meet the most stringent design and operational requirements.

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New LED Module Product Line Brings Cree TrueWhite™ Technology to Lighting Manufacturers

Cree Module Makes LED Lighting Design Faster and Easier

Cree introduces a new class of products designed to accelerate the adoption of LED lighting by traditional lighting fixture manufacturers and speed time-to-market for their new LED-based fixtures.
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Sustainable Street Lighting with LEDs

iGuzzini designs OSRAM Opto Semiconductors LEDs into highly efficient streetlamps

With iGuzzini’s new Archilede, street luminaire designed and produced for Enel Sole, LEDs are being used on a large scale for the first time for street lighting in Italy.
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Venture Launch ePOD…A New Design in Control Gear Technology

Leading Metal Halide manufacturer Venture Lighting Europe has launched ePOD, a control gear capsule designed for mounting above the luminaire, eliminating the need for a traditional high-bay housing.  Utilising Venture’s popular Ventronic control gear, the e-POD is suspended vertically on top of the luminaire, to provide a streamlined effect.

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With T8 Substitube OSRAM Provides a Long-lasting LED Alternative to T8 Fluorescent Lamps

Replace T8 lamps easily with LED
Saving energy could hardly be easier – existing lighting installations with regular T8 36W fluorescent lamps and conventional control gear can now be switched to economical LED technology with OSRAM’s high-performance T8 Substitube.

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Hadar and the Future of Hazardous Area Lighting

Hadar Lighting have developed what they believe is the first Zone 1 LED Floodlight. 
 
The HDL106 LED weighs only 6.0 kg yet can generate as much illumination as a much larger input SON or MBI alternative.

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E.ON Lighting The Way to Energy Savings

Staffordshire village street lights begin low carbon journey
Whittington has become the first village in the county to benefit from the energy efficient LED street lights developed by E.ON’s Sustainable Energy business and Advanced LEDs Ltd.

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Zumtobel Relies on Quality with a Five-year Guarantee

 Zumtobel’s products are distinguished by outstanding design and superior quality. In order to emphasise this claim, Zumtobel has extended its product guarantee to five years

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PHILIPS Expands Range of LED Replacement Lighting Solutions

Philips is to expand its portfolio of functional and decorative LED replacement lighting solutions for general lighting applications in public spaces and homes, adding a breakthrough 60 watt-equivalent LED bulb amongst the new introductions to be showcased for the first time at Light + Building 2010.

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New from JCC Lighting the CombiLED Calculator

A quick and easy way to check your lighting requirements

The latest addition to the JCC website is designed to make life easier. The CombiLED calculator will help you to check how many CombiLED fittings can be used in combination and which CombiLED Power controller you will need to run them from.

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