Traffic Signaling Suppliers LumiLeds Lighting and Swarco Futurit Start Far-Reaching Cooperation.
Source: LumiLeds
Swarco Futurit Will Assemble LED Signal Aspects for Lumileds and the Two Companies Will Joint Market in Europe, Middle-east, Africa
San Jose, CA. Fueled by increasingly demanding market requirements for both safety and economic performance, traffic signaling technology has become more advanced and complex over the last decade. As a consequence, the two market leaders in this industry have decided to join forces to leverage each other s competencies. LumiLeds, a Philips Lighting/Agilent joint venture, is the global leader in LED based traffic signals. It has a separate division committed to this technology and application. Swarco Futurit is one of the world s leading traffic signal unit manufacturers.
The first tangible proof of the agreement will be an entirely new, jointly developed LED based signaling product, especially designed for the European, Asian and South-American retrofit markets. Its major benefits are huge energy savings (up to 90 % lower electricity consumption if compared to conventional systems), and sharply lower maintenance costs due to a longer lifetime.
Moreover, the use of LED-based signals reduces the so-called phantom effect (visual disturbance caused by sunlight reflection, creating an "on" impression in an off-state) to an improved class 4 level. Thus, the new product also clearly outperforms conventional systems from a safety point of view. Its compliance with European CEN norms, its compatibility with most existing load switches and conflict monitors, and its physical shape which makes it fit into all existing signal housings make it a convenient and attractive retrofit option for much of the present European and Asian traffic signaling installed base. The product s rollout is scheduled for December 2000.
About Swarco Futurit
As part of the road safety-minded SWARCO group, SWARCO FUTURIT s core competence is the continuous development and improvement of optical solutions for its visual information products. Pioneer and meanwhile market leader in the manufacture of high-quality polycarbonate signal heads for road and rail, SWARCO FUTURIT has developed patented optical systems with the aim of further optimizing the revolutionary and highly economical light qualities of LED-based signals.
>From its brand-new "Visual Information" Competence Center in Austria, which houses modern production lines, measuring and testing equipment and injection molding machinery, state-of-the-art traffic signals and variable message signs are exported to 60 countries. All SWARCO FUTURIT products are subject to ISO 9001- certified quality management procedures. They comply with international standards and have been approved by independent test institutes such as BASt and INTRON.
For more information on SWARCO FUTURIT, please visit www.swarco.com
About LumiLeds
LumiLeds Lighting is the leader in high power LEDs, dedicated to developing innovative solid-state lighting solutions in the automotive lighting, traffic signaling, signage, and general lighting markets. The company is vertically integrated, producing core LED material, LED packaging, and light source solutions. LumiLeds is one of the few companies with LED material producing capabilities in all three base colors- Red, Green, Blue. LumiLeds Lighting, headquartered in San Jose, California, is a joint venture company between Agilent Technologies and Philips Lighting. LumiLeds maintains a global infrastructure including operations in Best, The Netherlands, Penang, Malaysia, and sales offices throughout the world. For more information on LumiLeds, please visit www.LumiLeds.com
Contact: LumiLeds Lighting, San Jose Doug Silkwood Tel: 408/435-6031 Doug.Silkwood@LumiLeds.com
LumiLeds Lighting, San JoseDoug Silkwood
Tel: 408/435-6031
Doug.Silkwood@LumiLeds.com
E-mail: Doug.Silkwood@LumiLeds.com
Web site: http://www.LumiLeds.com
