http://www.dialight.com/newswire.aspxThe latest headlines and articles from the world of Dialight.Copyright(c) 2008, Dialight. All rights reserved.5Automated assembly of LED lighting products at Dialight’s Newmarket facility will enable it to exceed the production quality standards demanded by world class organisations York, UK – 23 October 2008 – In response to the continuing world-wide growth in demand for high quality LED lighting products Dialight is moving European production with effect from 28 October 2008 from its engineering and business development base in York to its manufacturing facility in Newmarket. Growing demand for LED lighting has been accompanied by customer demand for higher levels of quality assurance and third party approvals such as UL, ENEC and ATEX. By centralising production at Newmarket all of Dialight’s European manufacture will take place in a facility which exceeds the quality standards now required by world class organisations. These include ISO9001 and TS16949 quality approvals and ISO14001 for environmental management. Newmarket is already the manufacturing base for Dialight’s European LED traffic signals and obstruction lighting products. Over the past few months the company has invested in expanding the production capacity to include new surface mount facilities to enable it to process the latest generation of power LEDs. Gordon Routledge, Managing Director of Dialight-Lumidrives commented: “LED technology is changing constantly and the bulk of electronics assembly is now automated, so we have made investment in surface mount technology in our Newmarket facility where there is already a higher volume throughput from the traffic signal business. This means the extra assembly work can be absorbed at this facility without the need for additional people.” The R&D, sales, applications and engineering team will remain in York, so day-to-day customer contacts will remain the same, but orders will henceforth be shipped direct from Newmarket. http://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=7510/23/2008 12:00:00 AMRS Components, Europe's leading distributor of electronic, electrical and industrial components, has begun a trial installation of Dialight LEDs in its Corby head office. Over 100 Dialight HL16 retro-fit Halo LED units are replacing MR16 halogen down-lighters in the main corridor that leads to all the meeting rooms. The HL16s feature three LEDs complete with heatsink housing comparable to MR16 size and were specified as a replacement for the halogens for several reasons. First of all they are an easy retrofit and at only 3.6 watts power consumption compared to the 50 watt halogens, the HL16s will deliver a huge energy saving. Lighting maintenance can be an expensive matter and many companies prefer to plan their maintenance schedule to avoid unexpected disruption, so they can’t afford to wait until the lights fail before replacing them. For that reason a lot of organisations plan their replacement schedule based on half the expected life of the light fitting, which is 2,000 hours for the MR16 halogen. By comparison the HL16 LED has a lifespan of 50,000 hours, so it requires zero maintenance after installation, delivering another important saving on hardware and technician time. Being semiconductor-based LEDs are built for frequent switching off and on, ideal for integrating with energy saving controls like the computerised switching at Corby; this also substantially extends their lifespan to as much as ten years. Additionally LEDs can be switched off or dimmed when there’s no one in the area, bringing even more energy saving. In office environments their lower operating temperature means there’s less heat output for the air-conditioning to contend with, so it’s yet another winning feature for saving energy. Doug Ollett, Plant and Services Technician at RS Components, who specified the LEDs commented: “People in the office are already very happy with them. They say they like the nice bluey-white light – it’s not so harsh as the halogens and less strain on the eyes.” While HL16s can be retro-fitted anywhere MR16s are used, they are also suited for accent and landscape lighting as well as for display cases, so a few small LEDs are being used at Corby to fill up dark holes not previously illuminated by the halogens. Their ability to focus the light directionally rather than spraying it around like conventional light sources not only makes them more efficient, but it can also reduce light pollution into the sky or into the windows of adjacent buildings. “I’m expecting that these LED installations will pay for themselves in 20 months,” said Doug Ollett, “so I’d like to see them replace all our halogens in the long term.” When it’s finally time to dispose of them, LEDs are safe and easy to recycle, as they contain no mercury or other hazardous materials. With so many benefits LEDs truly are a revolution in lighting technology. Compared to conventional lights, they’re like the iPod is to the gramophone – light years ahead. Both the housed LED units used (RS Stock No. 278323) and the driver unit for a complete solution (RS Stock No. 6452053) are available, ready for next day delivery, through RS. ### Photo attached in high resolution shows LEDs in use at RS head office in Corby. About RS RS Components is a catalogue based distributor of Electronic, Electrical, Electromechanical and Industrial Components. Founded in 1937, RS is part of Electrocomponents plc, and is a global business supporting over a million engineers. It has operating companies based in over 25 countries, including France, Italy, Germany and Denmark, with operations as far afield as Chile, Singapore, Australia and China, and distributes to over 160 countries worldwide. Since it began RS has had the simple objective of providing a part for every job, from research and development though pre-production to maintenance and repair. As those jobs have diversified and became even more complex, RS has developed its offering and services accordingly. The customers it serves are professional users, with many different job functions, within all types of organisations and they require many different types of technical products supplied at high service levels. Whether looking for power tools, process control equipment, transistors, oscilloscopes, plumbing supplies or protective clothing, they can all be supplied from one single source through a choice of purchasing channels and delivery methods - including free delivery as standard. New technology also plays an important part. When RS launched http://rswww.com, it was the first UK plc in its marketplace with a fully integrated transactional web site. Operating in every market, its e-Commerce capabilities have seen over 40% of sales achieved over the internet. RS also provides free technical advice and information on RS products from over 60 technical engineers as well as access to over 110,000 datasheets, ensuring that customers get the support and advice that they need. RS offers customers unrivalled choice, support and reliability underpinned by an unrelenting commitment to service. About Dialight Dialight plc (LSE: DIA.L) is leading the lighting revolution for industrial users across the world. Applying leading edge LED technology it produces retro-fittable lighting fixtures designed specifically for hazardous locations, obstruction lighting, traffic and rail signalling to vastly reduce maintenance, save energy, improve safety and ease disposal. Versions of these high specification luminaires are also produced for more general industrial and outdoor situations. The company is headquartered in the UK with operating locations in the UK, USA, Germany and Mexico. More information is available at www.dialight.com.http://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=749/5/2008 12:00:00 AM<i>Roy Burton is CEO of Dialight, a leading manufacturer of LED fixtures. In late May, he made a presentation to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Scotland.</i> The UK Government has committed to the ambitious goal of reducing CO₂ emissions in 2010 to 20% below 1990 levels, with a longer-term goal of 60% reduction by around 2050. So how can you reduce CO₂ levels without having a negative impact on your bottom line? LED lighting provides opportunities today for cutting CO₂ while saving energy and saving money. Lighting is responsible for over 20% of world electricity consumption, most of which is consumed in non-domestic applications. Investors and futurists love to chat about solar, wind and bio-fuels for energy generation. Energy efficiency gets a lot less attention, but the potential for savings is significant. Wholesale adoption of LED lighting could cut world electricity consumption by 10% — that’s a lot of CO₂. London has over 5000 traffic intersections, each one comprising an average of 10 traffic signals, making ~50,000 signals. If London were to convert those to LED lights the resulting saving in electricity alone, assuming a cost of 6 pence per unit, turns out to be almost £1 million, with a consequent reduction in carbon emissions of more than 9.5 million kg. In addition to the obvious environmental benefit, these lights are guaranteed for 5 years and could be expected to last for up to 10 years. Presently, light bulbs in conventional traffic lights are changed every year, so these new lights would avoid up to 8 maintenance visits over their lifetime and would therefore result in further significant savings for the city. It’s time to throw away light bulbs and to think about replacing them with a controllable, directional light source. We can make much bigger energy savings by thinking differently about lighting. Why are lights at industrial installations on 24/7 through the day? Because light bulbs don’t like being switched on and off frequently. With LED lighting utilizing proximity switches and intelligent control you can imagine the benefits in terms of reductions in cost, CO₂ emission and lightspill. Why should we light tunnels, or empty car parks, or walkways when there are no vehicles or people present? Street lights, for example, could be dimmed when they’re not needed. LEDs switch on instantly, when a person comes into range, and they also provide superior color rendition — important where CCTV is in use or for finding your car in the car park at night. LEDs are highly suited for a wide range of commercial uses and environments, and it's not just their energy saving potential that makes them attractive. Maintenance is expensive, can be dangerous and causes downtime. All other energy efficient light sources don’t last long — they’re too fragile to withstand shock and vibration, and they don’t like being switched on and off either. LEDs are inherently safe due to their low voltage operation, so they’re highly suited to hazardous environments. Long lifetime means you save on replacement light fixtures. It also means we don’t have to manufacture the same volume of fixtures, so we’re saving more energy and CO₂ emissions. What is happening in the UK? By talking about CFL bulbs we are missing the point. The right technology is already here, but we’re not moving to it. Take traffic lights — currently only a small percentage of them in the UK use LEDs, despite the proven efficiencies they deliver, while LED traffic lights are mandatory in many US states. Why not change the existing lights now? An added bonus is that, under Kyoto, a company switching to LEDs can actually generate revenues from the CO₂ emissions it displaces; this pays for the investment in new light sources. And in Scotland, SMEs can get interest-free loans to improve energy efficiency. Dialight has begun discussions with CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment in the UK, to explore the opportunities of trialling LED lighting in specific urban situations for demonstration purposes. We will also seek to work with urban partners and utilities for these joint demonstration projects currently in the planning stage. In terms of Capex savings, the US tends to look for a 1.5 year payback, while in the UK it’s more like 3.5–4 years with a longer payback period being hard to justify. Potentially, banks could offer leasing packages for LED lighting as the lights can last as long as 10 years if they’re not in use 24/7. LED device costs have come down a lot over the last 2 years (and will continue to do so), while the fixture cost is dominant. LED fittings for hazardous locations carry a 30–40% premium, but there’s zero maintenance, so payback is achieved easily. Local authorities will accept payback periods that fall within their political term. Aside from cost, there are other barriers to energy-efficiency investment. There are clearly vested interests in any channel to market, and conventional lighting manufacturers with existing market share have little incentive to reduce CO₂. We have to break though these attitudes. Where there’s a strong value proposition people find a way to get the investment; Dialight has seen this in the US and it’s now starting in mainland Europe. Adoption of standards can help as it allows you to sell around the existing channel. While we can't dictate to people which technologies to use, we can put technology on approved lists showing its whole life costs. We should be lobbying government. The UK's Climate Change bill is pushing for 80% CO₂ reduction by 2050. The public sector will get carbon budgets, and that will be a real driver for change. http://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=697/29/2008 12:00:00 AMSwitching to LED lighting from conventional incandescent light bulbs, HID (high intensity discharge) or fluorescent lighting can bring real safety benefits for the offshore world as well as radically reducing the need for maintenance while increasing energy efficiency. In the first installation of its kind LED-based illumination has been retro-fitted on a drilling rig of a major oil and natural gas producer. With its rugged solid state design Dialight’s SafeSite™ illumination fixture can deliver significant value for hazardous location customers whether in new installations or retro-fitted, offering energy saving and improved safety over other systems while delivering a greater amount of useful light. SafeSite™ offers the additional benefit that it requires no maintenance and is warranted for at least five years. In fact Dialight expects each fixture to last up to seven years, so they’ll probably outlive the rig itself. Dialight’s SafeSite™ illumination fixture was selected for this particular test installation as it has been specially designed to operate in harsh environments like drilling rigs where vibration is the major cause of failure for traditional light sources such as metal halide and high pressure sodium. As a solid-state device with a very robust housing designed to UL Class I Division 2 standards, it is virtually impervious to shock and vibration, making expensive and highly hazardous re-lamping a thing of the past not only for rigs, but also for oil platforms, shipyards, refineries and other hazardous locations. Safety for maintenance workers is a key issue in any oil and gas environment, so LEDs’ long lifespan reduces the exposure risk associated with traditional lamp and ballast replacement. Their low voltage and low operating temperatures also make them much safer for use in combustible atmospheres as well as in extreme temperatures or in wet-wash locations where conventional lamps would shatter under sudden temperature changes. These T4 and T5 rated LEDs have the further attraction of ‘instant-on’ ability, unlike HID (high intensity discharge) lights which can take a while to warm up when switched on. As ‘smart’ lights their ability to achieve full brightness in a fraction of a second makes them ideal as safety lights in low traffic areas where they can be left off or dimmed and triggered to come on by proximity switches when someone enters. Being semiconductor-based they’re built for frequent switching off and on, unlike HID and fluorescent lights, so there’s no need for perpetual 24/7 lighting. This ability to turn the LEDs off when there’s no one there or no need for artificial lighting makes them ideal for integrating with energy saving controls and also substantially extends their lifespan. As safety lights they have the added benefit of superior colour rendition over sodium lights, which make everything look a muddy orange, so LEDs will deliver improved night vision and produce much more useful CCTV footage for security purposes. Another attraction of SafeSite™ is that it utilises the latest LED technology with proprietary optics to focus the light directionally so that it illuminates only the required area, avoiding light spill into adjacent areas as well as upward light pollution. In addition to all these safety features which also make it energy efficient, the 90-watt SafeSite™ can replace traditional HID fixtures that require up to 150 watts for potential power savings of up to 40%. “The drilling rig owner is already extremely happy with this test installation,” says Rizwan Ahmad, Dialight’s hazardous location lighting product manager “and we’re getting plenty of enquiries for more, so it’s clear that customers can see the real benefits that SafeSite™ can bring to the offshore environment.” ### http://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=707/15/2008 12:00:00 AMFarmingdale, NJ (June 19, 2008) - Juno Lighting Group has partnered with Dialight Corp., LED lighting specialist, to develop and launch a series of low profile linear LED lighting systems for the DanaLite brand. DanaLite focuses on lighting solutions for architectural linear lighting applications and undercabinet lighting. This will be the first LED product in the Juno Light Group portfolio to be developed with Dialight. Roy Burton, CEO of Dialight commented: “This is a very significant partnership for us. Juno Light Group is recognized as a leader in high quality and innovative lighting solutions for commercial and residential use. For us to work with them on one of the first LED products in their portfolio is an endorsement of Dialight’s product quality and a sign that important new markets are ready for our LED lighting solutions.” DanaLite’s DL100 linear lighting system, consisting of Dialight’s technology, is designed around the latest LED technology for use in a wide range of lighting applications where its ultra slim ½” profile is a key advantage. These include cove and cornice lighting, shelf lighting, display cases, task lighting and handrails. The fixtures also solve aesthetic problems for architectural linear lighting challenges and can even be integrated into furniture for non-intrusive low level lighting. The new DanaLite LED offering also brings many additional advantages over traditional lamping solutions. With a lifespan of over 50,000 hours, these systems can last up to 10 years operating 12 hours a day, so there is no maintenance burden and lamp replacement becomes a thing of the past. At only 5.3W per module it is low on energy use and uses 24 VDC input voltage, so it is cool to the touch and can be direct mounted on flammable surfaces. Further to this, it is designed for even LED spacing over linear runs, avoiding hotspots or dark spots between fixtures. As an eco-friendly bonus it contains no mercury, unlike its fluorescent counterparts, and produces no IR or UV emissions. “We are very pleased to use the Dialight LED solutions to expand our DanaLite product offering,” said Jeff Spencer, Director of Product Management for Commercial Products. “We are certain these innovative products will be of great interest and appeal for many of our customers.” ### About Dialight Dialight plc (LSE: DIA.L) is leading the lighting revolution for industrial users across the world. Applying leading edge LED technology it produces retro-fittable lighting fixtures designed specifically for hazardous locations, obstruction lighting, traffic and rail signalling to vastly reduce maintenance, save energy, improve safety and ease disposal. Versions of these high specification luminaires are also produced for more general commercial, industrial and outdoor situations. The company is headquartered in the UK with operating locations in the UK, USA, Germany and Mexico. More information is available at www.dialight.com. DanaLite: Architectural Linear Lighting DanaLite linear architectural lighting provides standard and custom length fixtures to meet all architectural linear lighting application needs. Fixtures are available with LED, halogen, xenon or fluorescent light sources. Key product features include ultra-low profiles, swing-out sockets for easy relamping; numerous feed options to source power out either end, back or front (down-tube) and high performance ballasts and transformers. DanaLite fixtures are ideal for undercabinet lighting, display cases, store fixture illumination and architectural coves. About Juno Lighting Group® Founded in 1976, Juno Lighting Inc. is a leader in offering high-quality and innovative commercial and residential lighting solutions. Under the Juno Lighting Group umbrella, the company comprises eight product brands: Juno®, Indy™, Alfa™, AccuLite™, Elate™, Aculux™, NaviLite® and DanaLite. The product brands provide lighting fixtures that are attractive, well-engineered and easy to install. For more information on Juno Lighting Group and its family of brands, visit www.junolightinggroup.com. Juno Lighting Group is a subsidiary of Square D Company and Schneider Electric, the world’s power and control leader. http://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=666/19/2008 12:00:00 AMSwitching to white LED lighting from conventional incandescent light bulbs, HID (high intensity discharge) or fluorescent lighting can bring big improvements in radically reduced maintenance and improved energy efficiency for many organizations, but LEDs actually deliver a lot more practical and business benefits besides. Roy Burton, CEO of Dialight, explains what LEDs can bring to building and facilities management. Zero maintenance lighting with LEDs For many organizations lighting maintenance can be an expensive matter for several reasons. If you’ve got a warehouse or loading bay, maybe an aircraft hangar or vehicle garage or anything with a moving production line, you’ll know what I’m talking about. First of all high ceilings and hard-to-access light fixtures mean that work can be disrupted while maintenance takes place, often involving external contractors. That means you most likely prefer to plan your maintenance schedule to avoid unexpected disruption, so you can’t afford to wait until the lights fail before replacing them. Then there’s the lifespan issue. If you’ve got halogens, they’re going to last about 3,000 hours at most, some fluorescents will give you up to 15,000 hours and high pressure sodium up to 22,000 hours, but they’ll all fail at some point. For that reason a lot of organizations plan their replacement schedule based on half the expected life of the light fitting and of course the maintenance contractors are well pleased about that. Solid state LED light fixtures can radically improve on these lifespan figures. Not only are they guaranteed for 50,000 hours, they’re actually more likely to last for 100,000 and even then they don’t fail, they just fade to about 70%. That means you can fit them and forget them for at least 5 years, so there’s zero maintenance cost and zero business disruption. Another benefit is the reduced exposure risk for maintenance workers associated with traditional lamp and ballast replacement. Multiple ways to save energy On top of LEDs’ zero maintenance needs, organizations can also benefit from their lower energy needs. At Dialight our LED luminaires are warranted for 5 years and at 90W can replace a 150W HID light, saving 40% on energy. Being semiconductor-based they’re built for switching off and on, unlike HID and fluorescent lights, so you save even more power by avoiding the need for 24/7 lighting, being able to turn the LEDs off when there’s no one there. It makes them ideal for integrating with energy saving controls and also substantially extends their lifespan. But that’s not all they deliver and many of these additional benefits become particularly significant if you’re operating in what can be classed as a hazardous environment. These include, for example, areas that handle fuel, utility plants, paint shops, dusty environments or processing plants. We manufacture an LED luminaire called SafeSite™ specifically for such hazardous locations. As a solid state device with a very robust housing manufactured to UL Class I Division 2 standards, it’s virtually impervious to shock and vibration, making re-lamping costs a thing of the past in these demanding environments. Its lower voltage means it’s also safer to use in combustible atmospheres and produces less heat output for the air-conditioning to contend with. LEDs’ lower operating temperature even brings a further benefit for wet-wash environments where the impact of cold water would shatter a conventional light bulb. Smart lights mean no need for 24/7 lighting Some low traffic areas like industrial cold stores can benefit greatly from LEDs’ ability to switch on and off. Cold stores are typically lit with fluorescent lighting, but the lights are left on 24/7 because their tube life is reduced with switching in temperatures of -25°C. Not only is our LEDPAK LED model more efficient in such low temperatures, it can be switched off or dimmed when there’s no one operating in the area, which is often 50-90% of the time, and brings a substantial energy saving. As ‘smart’ lights LEDs have the further attraction of ‘instant-on’ ability, unlike HIDs which can take a while to warm up when switched on. This makes them very practical for use as safety lights in areas like walkways and car parks where they can be left off or dimmed and triggered to come on by proximity switches when someone enters. As safety lights they also have the added benefit of superior colour rendition over sodium lights, which make everything look a muddy orange, so LEDs let you find your car easily at night in a crowded car park and produce better CCTV footage for security purposes. Their ability to focus the light rather than spraying it around like conventional light sources not only makes them more efficient, but it reduces light pollution into the sky or adjacent buildings. When it’s finally time to replace them, LEDs are safe and easy to recycle, as they contain no mercury or other hazardous materials. LEDs truly are a revolution in lighting technology. Compared to conventional lights, they’re like the iPod is to the gramophone. http://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=656/6/2008 12:00:00 AMFarmingdale, NJ - 'In the first installation of its kind, Dialight's new LED based SafeSiteTM illumination fixture has been successfully retrofitted on a major drilling rig, bringing improved safety and decreased maintenance and energy costs to the rig. SafeSite is designed to operate in the harsh and hazardous environment that you would expect to find on drilling rigs where vibration is the major cause of failure for traditional light sources. The SafeSite has a very robust housing which designed to UL Class 1 Div 2 standards and since the LED light source is a solid state device it is virtually impervious to shock and vibration making expensive re-lamping costs a thing of the past. SafeSite utilizes the latest LED technology with proprietary optics to focus the light to illuminate only the required area. The 100 Watt SafeSite fixture can replace traditional HID fixtures that require up to 250 Watts, a potential power savings as high as 60%. Also, LEDs do not require a warm up period and can be operated as ''instant on'' allowing for further savings over HID sources. Dialight plc (FTSE: DIA.L) is one of the world's largest suppliers of applied LED technology. It operates in two principal segments: components using low-brightness LEDs for status indication in electronic equipment and signals/illumination utilizing the latest high-brightness LED technology for traffic and rail signals, obstruction lighting, hazardous location lighting and general illumination applications. More information is available at www.dialight.com. For further information contact Rizwan Ahmad, Dialight Corporation, Farmingdale, NJ; phone 732-919-3119: email: info@dialight.com.http://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=592/29/2008 12:00:00 AMFarmingdale, NJ - Dialight BLP reports that Elster Electricity, Raleigh, N.C., has placed a new order for 200,000 of its PowerPulse™ 200-amp disconnect/reconnect load switch for use in their REX2® smart electric meters. Elster selected the PowerPulse 200-amp switch because of its robust design and proven field experience. The PowerPulse switch design allows for over 50,000 mechanical operations and places the switch fully in an open or closed state. Elster has shipped over 150,000 AMI meters with full service control switches to customers who are actively operating the function. The service control feature gives utilities the ability to remotely disconnect and reconnect electric service to consumers, also enabling tokenless prepayment and demand-limiting capability. "Elster is dedicated to providing solutions that exceed our customer expectations," remarked David G. Hart, Elster’s senior vice president of products and quality. "Customer demand for our smart meters with an integrated service control switch is just one of the reasons Elster has the largest deployment of two-way mesh AMI applications in the world. We currently have 150,000 smart disconnect meters working at various utilities, and based on current demand have just ordered 200,000 more control switches from our supplier, Dialight BLP." For more information, www.blpcomp.com or contact Rizwan Ahmad, Dialight BLP, Farmingdale, N.J.; phone: 732-751-5857; fax: 732-751-3157; e-mail: rahmad@dialight.com.http://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=582/28/2008 12:00:00 AMFarmingdale, NJ - Dialight Corporation recently reached an agreement with Rio Tinto Energy America to install its LED-based SafeSite™ and LEDBright fixtures throughout many of its coal mining and crushing facilities, thus improving safety dramatically and decreasing maintenance and energy costs in these locations. The rugged solid-state design of these newly released fixtures creates a new era where failed lamps and expensive re-lamping costs become a thing of the past. Dialight’s newest illumination fixture, the SafeSite series, is designed exclusively for hazardous locations. Rio Tinto Energy America has begun to replace traditional high-pressure sodium, metal halide and florescent lighting fixtures with the new SafeSite and LEDBright fixtures to achieve a better, whiter grade of lighting with an instant “On” feature so they can be used as needed. These rugged fixtures are perfect for applications such as this, where shock and vibration are present. They provide extremely long life before service is required. With the great reduction in power needed to operate these new fixtures, they will assist Rio Tinto Energy America in efforts to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Specific applications at Rio Tinto Energy America include replacement of Hi Bay Lighting (400-watt HID fixtures) in maintenance areas with LEDBright fixtures; replacement of lighting on drill rigs where vibration shortens the life of traditional lights; and replacement of lighting in wash bays with LEDBright fixtures, thus eliminating the shock of hitting a hot fixture with cold water. Future additional applications are presently being considered within the Rio Tinto Energy America facilities. Rio Tinto Energy America is using SafeSite to replace traditional high-pressure sodium, metal halide and fluorescent lighting fixtures in maintenance areas and on drill rigs where vibration shortens the life of traditional lights. SafeSite’s rugged housing makes it ideal for applications like this where shock and vibration are present. Designed to meet UL Class 1 Division 2 requirements, SafeSite uses state-of-the-art, solid-state LED lighting to create a new era where failed lamps and expensive relamping are a thing of the past. SafeSite incorporates the latest LED technology with proprietary optics to achieve area lighting comparable with traditional light sources. By focusing light where it is needed, SafeSite is the most efficient light source available for hazardous area lighting applications. Doug Woehler, product manager at Dialight, says, “The emergence of LED technology designed specifically for hazardous environments means that companies like Rio Tinto Energy America can use SafeSite to make energy and maintenance cost savings without compromising on their lighting needs. In some environments where coal dust can create a potentially explosive atmosphere, traditional lighting cannot be installed. SafeSite provides a new, safe option to light these areas.” The first of its kind, SafeSite is designed to replace 75W to 250W HID light sources in hazardous location applications. The fixture provides better quality light, higher fixture efficiency and 30% greater energy efficiency than traditional HID light source technology. The SafeSite LED white downlight can be mounted on walls, stanchions and pendent mounts. It provides an instant “On” response so it can be used as needed rather than wasting energy when not required. Rio Tinto Energy America specializes in the production of low-sulphur, sub-bituminous coal, and operates five coal mines located in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado. With a combined workforce of more than 2,400 employees, and with the help of hundreds of contractors and suppliers, the company provides fuel to its energy company customers who generate nearly six percent of the nation’s electricity. For further information, contact Doug Woehler, Dialight Corporation, Farmingdale, NJ; phone 732-919-3119: email: dwoehler@dialight.com.http://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=572/22/2008 12:00:00 AMFarmingdale, NJ - Dialight Corporation has joined forces with two of North America’s leading manufacturers in the transit bus and motor coach market, Hadley and New Flyer, to provide the industry’s first complete LED-based interior lighting system. Dialight LED modules already hold 80% of the North American bus exterior light market, and the new interior LED strip lights build on Dialight’s expertise in this sector to provide a cost-effective and reliable alternative to traditional fluorescent interior lighting. Dialight’s new LED strip lights are set to be introduced into the New Flyer fleet for a 500-bus North American transit property within a Hadley housing. Hadley’s Transit Group markets a variety of products for the transit bus, motor coach and specialty vehicle industry – mirrors, air/electric horn systems, 12V and 24V electric compressors, interior systems and luggage racks, along with mechanical and electronic levelling systems. Laura Hoffman at Dialight says, “We are delighted with this opportunity as Dialight’s interior LED fluorescent tube replacement is ideal for the coach industry. Its unique low profile is perfect not only for new build applications, but can be retrofitted easily into existing housings. Fluorescent tubes are posing users an increasing number of environmental and health and safety problems in terms of potential fire hazards, rising costs of disposal and multiple failures. “The Dialight LED strip is the ideal alternative as it offers seamless light output, longer life, reduced maintenance and does not require a ballast, therefore providing improved safety,” she explains. “It also brings substantial benefits in terms of reduced power consumption –typically 30W instead of 40-56W- improved lighting reliability, lower disposal costs and enhanced safety through the absence of mercury.” Options for use are varied too, covering general interior illumination, underseat and compartment lighting applications. New Flyer Industries is the leading manufacturer of heavy-duty transit vehicles in the United States and Canada. Its products include urban transit buses, hybrid buses, alternative fuel transit buses, electric trolleys, and shuttle buses for airports, car rental and park and ride schemes. Hadley Transit Group designs and manufactures products for the original equipment transit and shuttle bus, motor coach and specialty vehicle markets. For further information, contact Laura Hoffman, Dialight Corporation, Farmingdale, NJ; Phone: 732-919-3119; fax: 732-751-3158; e-mail: lhoffman@dialight.comhttp://www.dialight.com/News.aspx?id=552/21/2008 12:00:00 AM