Ushio America Inc., under instruction from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), recalled its Indiglow LED T8 backlit lamps with a 4-ft tube, which are a direct drop-in replacement for 30W and 32W T8 fluorescent tubes.
Ushio America Inc., under instruction from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), recalled its Indiglow LED T8 backlit lamps with a 4-ft tube, which are a direct drop-in replacement for 30W and 32W T8 fluorescent tubes.
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We recently wrote a post about why you should choose LED lighting for food processing plants and cold storage facilities.. If that post convinced you that you need LED lights, you may be wondering where to go next. In this post, we'll discuss what specific lights and fixtures you might need in your facility to get all of the benefits we discussed in that last post.
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Food and beverage manufacturers are unique facilities with demanding energy and performance needs. In fact, 15% of U.S. energy consumption is attributed to the food processing and production industry. The sheer size of these factories means more energy consumption, obviously, but there are other reasons too.
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Our new blog series, LED Lighting Everywhere, will take you through a facility type in its entirety and explain each opportunity for LED lighting in that space. First up, grocery store lighting and supermarket lighting.
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Today's LED lights are safe, effective, and so energy-efficient that there's no comparison with traditional lighting methods. But why do some people have concerns about health? We've addressed some common complaints about LEDs below.
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The benefits of LED lighting (energy savings, maintenance reduction and savings, lighting performance improvement...) are now well-documented. But once you make the choice to implement LED lighting, where do you even start? You need our newest resource, a webpage all about Project and Product Criteria.
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You may have seen that we recently published a new website services page, Requests for Proposals, or RFPs. This is not a new service offering for us at Stouch Lighting, but its uptick in popularity, as far as generating and responding to RFPs, prompted us to create the page to provide customers and potential customers with the guidance they need to understand how we can help with RFPs. (This is similar to our new Value Engineering services page, which we also debuted in conjunction with this blog post defining the sometimes confusing term.)
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Is it part of your job description to decorate for the holidays? If you’re a facility or building manager, or if you’re involved in public works, you might dread the holidays. While people enjoy the decorations, they probably don’t realize the hard labor your team endured to beautify your shopping center, school, borough, mall, etc. Did you know that LED holiday lights could make your job easier? Let’s consider the following points about LED holiday lights.
Facility managers at schools, municipalities, and sports clubs are faced with a wide set of challenges. Maintaining several properties, operating on a paper thin budget, and having enough time to get to each task are just a few. While LED sports field lighting might not solve all of your problems, it will go a long way towards improving your sports facilities, reducing your energy consumption and spend, and cutting considerable amounts of time and money from your maintenance budget. Below we present the benefits of LED sports lighting:
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Outdoor LED lighting, such as LED high mast light fixtures, provide some excellent benefits for large areas or sites requiring illumination because of how they generate and distribute light. However, not all LED lighting is created equal, and as such, neither is every LED manufacturer and supplier. We’re not here to throw stones, but we hear a lot of promises about LED lighting and we think it’s important to be transparent about the benefits (and they are many) of LEDs. In this case, let’s talk about the potential LED high mast light benefits.
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