Targetti USA appoints O'Blaney Rinker Associates as NYC representative
(USA) - Manhattan-based boutique design agency will represent both Targetti and DuraLamp lines for New York and surrounding metropolitan areas.
O'Blaney Rinker Associates (ORA) is a boutique design alternative lighting agency that provides services from schematic development through the project completion and after-market service for their clients and manufacturers. The Manhattan-based agency provides lighting and control system specifications and sales, a vast range of experience and knowledge across the complete spectrum of New York's lighting design, engineering, architectural and distribution communities.
Marie Paris, US Business Development Manager said:"The NYC and New Jersey area is a primary specification influence for the global lighting industry, as well as a dynamic market for both our brands. As a premier sales representative in the area, O'Blaney Rinker Associates is uniquely positioned to help us communicate our message and manage our continued growth in the US market."
"We are pleased to be represented by such a top-notch organisation that truly understands the specification community."
Caroline Rinker an ORA Principal said: "We are very excited about our new partnership with such an iconic brand as Targetti. Their history in the international market and focus on quality and innovative solutions provides a perfect mix for our U.S. specification customer base."
Kate Wilkins and Sam Neuman join forces
(UK) - London based lighting designers bring together years of collaboration to create portfolio of varied projects and launch new website.
Lighting designers Kate Wilkins and Sam Neuman have joined forces after years of collaboration. Their new web-site KateandSam.co.uk is now live showing a portfolio of projects of different scales using both well-established and cutting-edge lighting techniques and often together.
Much of their work is about lighting as a way to effectively bring out the materiality and details of both architectural interiors and exteriors. Another of their objectives is based around exploring the narrative role of lighting in a space and a physical and psychological feel-good factor that can be achieved through tactical lighting.
Wilkins and Neuman's interests follow lighting as an essential part of a business' identity. Their work for Wahaca restaurant group has explored the notion of brand in this way. Most recently, Wilkins and Neuman completed the lighting scheme for Wahaca Cardiff. This involved the installation of Booo soft rubber pendants each supplied with a 2,700k 650 lumen LED with mains dimming down to 10%. To work with the colour palette and react to the warmer tone light waves, the pendants were fitted with custom yellow and orange flexes. The Booos help bring the room down to a more friendly scale for dining whilst keeping the impressive size.
The studio has also recently completed the lighting scheme for Llanelly House in Wales (pictured right). The building is Wales' finest Georgian house and has been painstakingly restored for public use, incorporating retail, function rooms, exhibition space and a restaurant.
The studio used a lighting scheme in the grand room that highlights important works of art and architectural details, including the original cornices. The role of lighting in conservation and historic buildings is something that they are looking to explore further in the future.
PNLD announces promotions
(UK) - London based architectural lighting practice promotes senior team members Daniel Blaker, Ellie Coombs and Emilio Hernandez to continue growth.
London based architectural lighting design specialists Paul Nulty Lighting Design (PNLD), have announced the promotion of senior members of the team within the award winning practice.
Daniel Blaker has been promoted to Creative Director, Ellie Coombs takes up the role of Director and Emilio Hernandez takes up the position of Associate. Blaker, Coombs and Hernandez oversee a team of lighting designers and are currently heading up projects including Keflavik airport in Iceland, a roof top park and 5* hotel in central London.
Phil Copland, Anna Clara Sandgren and Christina Hebert have also been promoted to senior designers within the practice.
Paul Nulty, Head of Practice said: "Promotions are a proud time for us as a business. These promotions are well deserved and it signals our maturing as a practice whilst continuing to highlight our intent to employ, nurture and develop the best talent within the industry.''
PNLD is now in its fifth year and has a reputation for high quality and creative design work across the commercial, residential and retail sectors. The team has grown rapidly in the four years since it was founded in 2011 and has tripled in size to 26 employees.
Kingfisher Lighting appoints new MD
(UK) - Chris Claydon-Butler brings experience of technical markets to grow business through customer service and product excellence.
Chris Claydon-Butler joins Kingfisher Lighting, the exterior lighting specialist, as Managing Director and her eyes are firmly fixed on continuing to grow the business by focussing on customer service and product excellence.
Coming from a background of consolidating and growing businesses, Claydon-Butler has a proven track record in technical markets and has worked with a range of customers from some of the world’s biggest blue-chips to independent SMEs.
Claydon-Butler commented: “The recent boom in lighting and LED technology is the talk of board rooms up and down the country. Being able to take Kingfisher to the next level in its development against this backdrop is going to be exciting, challenging and rewarding. Kingfisher has the longevity some lighting businesses lack, but with a desire to do things differently and an open mind. In my opinion that’s the perfect reason to be here.”
Zumtobel opens office in Santiago, Chile
(Chile) - Zumtobel Lighting expands market reach by servicing the region with both European and North American products, services and support.
Zumtobel Lighting, a supplier of lighting solutions, announced today that it has opened a new office in Santiago, Chile to support growth in Latin America. The Zumtobel office in Santiago has the ability to provide lighting solutions to the Latin American market with products easily supplied from Zumtobel locations in the United States and Europe.
Zumtobel has the capacity to support the Latin American region with its 110V product lines from North America, as well as 220V systems from its facilities in Europe.
Zumtobel Lighting, Inc. CEO, Kevin Maddy said: "The opening of the Santiago office to include its sales, distribution, service and support capabilities demonstrates our commitment to grow in the Americas."
Maddy continued: "There was a growing need for our presence in the Latin American market in order to best serve our clients and make ourselves more accessible and responsive to our client's needs."
Led by Managing Director, Pedro Rego and staffed by multilingual staff speaking Spanish, Portuguese, English and German, this office provides sales, distribution, service and support capability throughout Central and South America. Additionally, the Latin American team has the support of Zumtobel Group worldwide including the Key Accounts Team located in Dallas and New York, as well as the International Projects Team in the United States and Austria.
Indata InMODULE Strada
InMODULE Strada is a constant current LED module compatible with Ledil Strada-module lenses.
A flexible low/high-bay or street-lighting solution with three basic dimensions - 50mm x 60/110/160mm and 4/8/12 LEDs respectively, allows the assembly of multiple Cree LED types (XP Series, XT-E, XHP), offering up to 6,180lm per module and different maximum power and efficacy. All three boards have an option for temperature feedback with NTC thermistor.
Harvard CLZ 33W EyeNut Driver with ZigBee Dongle
The CLZ 33W EyeNut driver with ZigBee dongle combines CoolLED driver technology with EyeNut monitoring and management system for indoor lighting.
Providing individual luminaire control through a web interface as well as allowing energy consumption management, the 33W driver, which operates at 2.4GHz and offers dimming down to 1%, is available in built-in and remote variants. The ZigBee dongle enables the original platform to be maintained and is SELV compliant. The driver is suited to retail, office and hospitality installations.
Truelux Drivers
Truelux drivers include constant voltage and constant current models suitable for Soraa MR16 and AR111 lamps – both with DALI, 0/1-10V, Phase, and non-dimming options.
The constant voltage drivers offer flawless dimming of the Brilliant and Vivid ranges, while the constant current drivers are designed for the 300mA MR16 lamps, offering a smooth, linear constant current output with no flickering.
Mean Well PWM Series
Ranging from 40W to 120W, Mean Well PWM Series is engineered to dim LED strips via conventional analogue dimming signal or digital DALI command.
Its housing, with IP67 protection, allows use in humid and dusty environments, both inside and out. It meets the most recent LED regulations and for wireless solutions, WPD-06 featuring a rocker/button without battery is most suitable for new and refurbishment projects.
RECOM RCOB Series
The driver series includes eleven models with output voltages between 25 and 44VDC and constant output currents of 350 to 1050mA.
The drivers come with active PFC (>0.95), and achieve efficiencies of up to 90%. A compact design (106 x 67 x 22mm) ensures easy integration into lighting systems. The inputs and outputs are located on the same side, making installation straightforward. The drivers of version RCOB-A come with a one to ten V input and can be dimmed from 0 to 100%.
ROAL Electronics MESO 50
Providing 50W of power in a compact size (105 x 73 x 27mm / 4.13 x 2.87 x 1.06 inches), with worldwide AC input voltage range (120/230/277 VAC) or optional DC power input and a multi-unit wireless programmability feature, MESO 50 is flexible, demonstrated by the driver’s multiple dimming options.
This includes analogue 0 – 10V, digital control via DALI or PWM and push dimming. MESO 50 ensures universal adaptability and delivers lower THD <20%, PF > 0.9 at any nominal input voltage and 5kV surge protection. It is also suitable for harsh environments up to 90°C case temperature.
Fulham ll-in-One LED Driver
The all-in-one programmable LED driver/ emergency battery back up combo unit eliminates the need for a separate emergency system within an LED fixture.
A handheld programmer can be used to adjust output current from 250mA to 1450mA, as well as setting dimming curve (0-10V), voltage, address and more. The emergency power output and run time can also be adjusted. Universal voltage input and compact size allow maximum design flexibility.