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Thorn today announces the launch of PopPack LED, the latest addition to its popular PopPack batten range. BESA ready with identical fixing and connection points, PopPack LED is suitable for new and refurbishment projects with convenient point for point replacement.
For glare control and uniformity, PopPack LED features a textured prismatic diffuser. It also has a special anti-fly diffuser design to avoid black spots caused by insect ingress throughout the product lifetime.
PopPack LED has a 4000K colour temperature and a very high colour rendering index of more than 80. It is available with a fixed output or DALI dimmable ballast for further energy savings.
As well as the time and cost savings associated with being BESA ready, through wiring is possible to substantially reduce installation costs. 3-hour emergency versions are available.
Purchase the Thorn LED PopPack here, or give us a call to discuss volume pricing: 0208-540-8287
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Zumtobel has bought the UK-based LED lighting maker acdc for an undisclosed sum in a move which gives it an offering for the hospitality sector.
The company described the purchase as a ‘strategic addition to its product portfolio’ which is expected to give Zumtobel an entry into the leisure and hospitality sector, an area in which it and its partner brands have traditionally been weak. acdc, for instance, has a range of popular LED downlights aimed at hotels and restaurants. The acquisition would also boost acdc sales through the Zumtobel Group’s global sales network.
Zumtobel has bought 60 per cent of the British company with an option to buy the remaining 40 per cent. Acdc will remain an independent brand and join Tridonic and Thorn in the Zumtobel portfolio. The company started as a supplier of cold cathode lighting but made the strategic switch to LED in 2001 and benefitted from high growth of the technology. It is based in Barrowford, north of Manchester, and specialises in the architectural façade and hospitality segments.
In 2014 acdc sold £12.5 million (17 million euros, US$19 million) worth of LED luminaires and systems. It has around 120 employees. acdc’s long term CEO and majority shareholder Gareth Frankland will continue to head the brand.
‘The acquisition is an excellent strategic addition to our existing brand and product portfolio,’ said Zumtobel Group CEO Ulrich Schumacher. ‘Architectural façade and hospitality lighting are precisely the areas where we see major growth opportunities, which we can leverage with the new setup. Furthermore, the acdc team has a highly developed innovation culture, which enables them to provide a fast and dynamic response to market requirements. This culture will also inspire the employees of the Zumtobel Group. It is our declared aim to retain acdc’s dynamic innovation culture and their excellent customer relationships. For that reason, acdc will be managed as an independent brand and, in terms of our organisational structure, will be integrated into the Zumtobel Group as a flexible individual unit.’
The key markets for acdc are currently their domestic UK market and the Middle East, along with a selective presence in other European countries and the US.
‘For Zumtobel, there’s a real strategic benefit as we are very strong in hospitality and regionally we’re strong in the Middle East. Zumtobel has bought the factory in Barrowford and that’s a fundamental part of what acdc is and it’s a critical skillset. Our long-term success is due to design skill and having that in the UK.
‘We’re a speedboat and Ulrich recognises that. What Zumtobel bring to us is a scale which will deliver real value in terms of things like purchasing and in their sales network.’
Frankland points out that ‘ninety five per cent of our product range doesn’t overlap with Zumtobel’. Indeed, Acdc’s downlight range in the 600 to 1000 lumen class, which is aimed at hospitality applications, would complement Zumtobel’s higher power Panos downlight range, which is aimed primarily at commercial applications.
Frankland expects the full integration – including decisions about how the brands go to market in various territories – would be finalised by the Light + Building show in March.
Today Thorn Lighting is pleased to announce the release of their new trade contractor guide. The popular catalogue has been updated to include the latest outdoor and indoor products.
- An eBook – so you can access whenever you are online.
- A printed catalogue – for those that prefer a paper copy, all major stockists will have catalogues on their Trade Counter.
- Lastly, for the first time the contractor guide has been produced as an app – The Thorn Lighting Contractor – once synched it can be accessed anywhere on the go, without the need for internet connectivity
The NEW Thorn Lighting Contractor App
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Gordon Routledge, lighting expert and publisher of Lux, investigates a widely held belief about insects’ lighting preferences.
Ultraviolet light has been exploited for years to lure flies to an early death by electrocution – as can be seen in the bug traps at any supermarket’s fresh meat counter. Over the years I have heard from numerous sources that, because LEDs don’t emit ultraviolet light, they don’t attract insects.
“Given a choice between no light and a white light, do insects give up and go home, or do they fly merrily around your head, laughing at your feeble LED fittings and making the occasional landing on your neck to suck your blood?”
At first glance the statement seems to pass the common sense test. I didn’t start to really question it until I left a retrofit LED bulb switched on to test in the garage for six months, during which time the diffuser accumulated a significant number of corn flies. If there’s no UV, what is it about LEDs that’s so irresistible to insects?
The search for truth
Spend a little time trawling the internet and you will quickly unearth a wealth of articles, reports and anecdotes on UV light, insects and LEDs, frequently contradicting each other and sometimes with a strong smell of snake oil about them.
A few calls to the Royal Entomological Society put me on a clearer track, and I was directed to some useful papers on insects and light. Perhaps the most pertinent was undertaken in 2005 at the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad, Pakistan, titled ‘Insect orientation to various colour lights in the agricultural biomes of Faisalabad’.
The research was carried out by erecting a number of illuminated one metre-square screens in two separate locations, each six metres apart, and collecting the insects that became trapped on each panel at half-hourly intervals.
The study found that 60-70 per cent of insects preferred light at the blue end of the spectrum. But that doesn’t mean the others stayed at home – insects, as it turns out, have a wide variety of preferences. Eighteen per cent headed for a white light, another eight to 10 per cent went for yellow and two per cent headed straight for the red light district.
This is all very interesting, but what if you’re the only light in town? Little research has been carried out in the area of general lighting, and more specifically LED. Given a choice between no light and a white light, do insects give up and go home, or do they fly merrily around your head, laughing at your feeble LED fittings and making the occasional landing on your neck to suck your blood?
Bugged out
After the success of the North Yorkshire garage LED trial, I took the opportunity to extend the study to my brand new LED-lit kitchen. Leaving the doors open last week, I can report that the local midges are more than happy to hang around on a wall under an LED downlight, where they are soon joined by a selection of moths and flies.
“It appears that insects, like humans, have quite complex and diverse tastes in lighting, and may well spend hours debating the colour rendering of a dung heap under different sources”
And with lower levels of radiated heat than traditional light sources, they are far less likely to get burned in the process. It’s only a matter of time before word gets around in the insect community about this cool new hangout.
It appears that insects, like humans, have quite complex and diverse tastes in lighting, and may well spend hours debating the colour rendering of a dung heap under different sources.
But, also like humans, they’ll make do with what light there is. I’m sure the option of hanging around in a dimly-lit Starbucks and divebombing freshly-made cappuccinos is preferable to the risk of being spattered across a truck windscreen on the M25 while trying to find a nice, white HID lamp.
So next time Snake Oil Bob drops in to hawk his wares on the basis of their anti-bug properties, send him packing with an LED torch to Faisalabad, and he can explain to the local insects himself that it doesn’t emit any UV – if they’ll stop biting him for long enough to listen.
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Thorn Aquaforce II LED: An IP65, dust and moisture resistant, LED luminaire. Electronic, fixed output control gear. Class I electrical. Canopy: light grey polycarbonate. Diffuser: polycarbonate with linear prisms. Toggles: stainless steel. For surface or suspended mounting. Quick-fix brackets supplied for surface mounting. Mounting kits for conduit, chain suspension and catenary suspension are available as accessories. Complete with 4000K LED.
Available in 2 outputs:
– 42W, 4300LM, 1300mm L, 96241869
– 62W, 6400LM, 1600mm L, 96241871
Integral 3HR Emergency versions of both products are also available
Buy it now from Novel Energy Lighting – see product listings here.
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Thorn Lighting – New Cetus LED Luminaire!
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Thorn’s Cetus range of recessed downlights is now available with LED for an energy efficient low maintenance alternative to compact fluorescent equivalents.
• Replaces 1x26W and 2x26W CFL
• Up to 65% energy saving
• 80Llm/W – exceeding building regulation requirements
• 50 000 hours rated life, equivalent to 13 years at 14 hours per day operation
• IP44, suitable for use in bathrooms without the need for separate attachments
• Remote driver for ease of installation
• 88mm height allowing installation into low and restricted ceiling voids
• 5 year product warranty
Watch the product video below for more details:
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