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• Lighting Breakthrough: New GE LED Module Simplifies Lighting, makes Luminaires Upgradeable

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2010 12:19

  General lighting with energy efficient long-lasting LEDs in directional applications such as recessed downlights, tracks, pendants and sconces becomes as easy as changing a standard light bulb early next year. A new technology "twist" from GE Consumer & I...

• The Marlin LED Streetlight is now available

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 20:22

  The new Marlin streetlight was officially launched in December 2009. This new innovative light, designed and manufactured entirely in Coventry through a technology partnership with Advanced LEDs offer energy and carbon savings of up to 70%. In trials it h...

• Katko Switch to Safety

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 14:50

  The ethical and legal requirements to protect workers from risk of electrocution are stronger today than ever before.  The only way to ensure safety, is by insisting on the use of true Safety Switches in the workplace, rather than ordinary rotary iso...

• Apollo Intrinsically Safe Fire Detection Protects Major Defence Manufacturer

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 14:21

  Apollo intrinsically safe (IS) fire detection technology has been specified to protect a new manufacturing facility at Wallop Defence Systems Ltd site near Stockbridge, Hampshire. A division of Esterline Technologies, Wallop Defence Systems is a world lea...

• Free Guide to EN50191 From Clare

  Created: Sunday, 31 January 2010 12:48

  Details of all the practical issues associated with the EN50191 standard for the installation and operation of electrical test equipment are covered in a newly reprinted booklet from electrical safety testing specialist Clare Instruments. ...

• New features for Collabor8online the Project Extranet

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:12

  Collabor8 (www.collabor8online.co.uk), the recently launched online service for managing project documentation, has now been enhanced with a number of new features. These include upgraded tools for submitting revised documents and drawings to sub-contract...

• Safety Breaker Lock from Fortress Regulates Power

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:25

  The Fortress Interlocks design team has worked closely with ABB to develop an interlock suitable for use on the SACE Emax circuit breaker. Fortress has considerable expertise in designing complex switchgear interlocking schemes and the Breaker Lock forms ...

• Two More Years for EN 954-1 - Transition Period will now Cease on 31st Dec 2011

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 15:59

  The EU Commission has decided to extend the transition period of EN 954-1’s presumption of conformity to the new Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC by two more years. The duration of the extension is now confirmed in an amendment of the Official Journal of ...

• Pilz New Safety Compendium - Now Available in English!

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 15:19

  Anyone dealing with the issue of safety has to get to grips with the corresponding standards and directives. "The new Safety Compendium" is intended as a guide and provides an overview of the subject of machine safety. The Compendium is now also available...

• Peel Submits UK’s ‘Biggest Planning Application’

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:33

  Peel Group has submitted what the property company has claimed is the UK’s largest ever planning application. This is for the East Float part of its scheme known as Wirral Waters, a £4.5bn project which centres on plans for the regeneration of Birkenh...

• Flex Connectors OPEN to New Challenges

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 13:06

  Flex Connectors energy saving lighting control and connection products have been used in an ambitious new youth venue in Norwich. The project is part of ‘myplace’; a 10 year Government scheme which aims to provide improved facilities for young people....

• C-TEC’S Innovative QUANTEC Call Sytem Installed at New Medical Facility

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 12:51

  Quantec, C-TEC’s cost-effective and versatile addressable call system, has been installed at a new £10 million health facility in Todmorden, Yorkshire.Specifically designed to safeguard personnel working in healthcare facilities, Quantec is at the hear...

• OSRAM Demonstrates the Art of Lighting

  Created: Saturday, 30 January 2010 10:43

  Energy efficient reflector lamps from OSRAM’s halogen range have been installed throughout the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford as part of a £61 million development programme. Kevan Shaw Lighting Design turned to OSRAM in order to proc...

• LEDON Lamp: Zumtobel Group enters the LED lamp business

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 12:08

  The Austrian lighting company Zumtobel Group, which specialises in professional light fittings, lighting solutions and lighting components, is set to enter the lamp business. To this end, the Group has founded a subsidiary, LEDON Lamp GmbH, based in Dornb...

• Megaman Highlights Merchandise at Award Winning Psyche Store

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 09:39

  A variety of Megaman lamps have been used in the refurbishment of The Psyche Department Store in Middlesborough, with the aim of reducing energy and showing the merchandise off to best effect. The lamps, which were chosen for the project by Psyche's manag...

• Disano new Minicomfort Ceiling Fixtures

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 09:16

  When it comes to indoor lighting, the most appropriate lighting solution has to be used according to the time of day, in compliance with strict anti-glare regulations.Hence, Disano has developed a range of ceiling fixtures for work environments which comp...

• Thorn D-CO LED a New, Practical Dimension to the Display Scene

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:47

  To help electrical contractors meet the increasing demands for LED display and accent lighting, Thorn has brought out D-CO LED. Competitively priced, the luminaire range combines quality with simplicity of installation and operation, plus all the benefits...

• New WE-EF Lighting Catalogue 2010-2012 now available

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 08:14

  Over 600 pages of comprehensive lighting experience: the new WE-EF catalogue covers all product lines A specialist in exterior lighting, WE-EF LIGHTING offers a wide variety of products for an extremely broad range of lighting applications ranging from i...

• Cooper Lighting New Bollard Luminaires Offer CFL Option

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 07:44

  The Core Bollard range of luminaires from Cooper Lighting offers an extensive choice of models and lamp options. In addition to the more usual high-output 70W SON and MBIT discharge-lamp types, the range includes a highly efficient energy-saving CFL model...

• 80% Energy Saving from Marl MR11/MR16 Downlights

  Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 07:20

  Introducing Marl's new MR11 and MR16 LED downlights, which use 80% less electricity than the halogen equivalents – and are a direct plug-in replacement. The new lights are part of a major expansion of Marl's range of LED lighting, which also includes fl...