23 Apr 2009 07:00
Enfis and North Star Lighting Announce Strategic Partnership
Bedminster, New Jersey, USA - (23 April 2009) - Enfis (LSE: ENF), a leader in the design, development and manufacture of intelligent high power light emitting diode (LED) arrays and smart light engines, today announces a strategic partnership with North Star Lighting, a lighting equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, USA.
The agreement will see both companies jointly introduce the latest version of the highly popular Enfis Sentinel LED lighting control technology at the forthcoming Lightfair International 2009 Trade Show & Conference in New York.
As white LEDs make their way into the general illumination market, colour consistency becomes critical for acceptance. Most LEDs on the market today show significant colour variations from one white LED to another. The Enfis Sentinel technology provides consistency in colour for the duration of the product, and thereby eliminates the need for costly binning and the potential for colour shifting over the lifetime of the LED lighting system.
Dan Polito, President of Enfis Lighting North America, stated: "Fixture manufacturers and lighting designers have been hesitant to embrace white LED lighting technology for general illumination for the fear of the varying and inconsistent colour temperatures that these products have historically delivered. Our Sentinel technology removes this fear by continually controlling and monitoring each individual wavelength of light."
Tom Rotkis, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at North Star Lighting added, "North Star Lighting views Enfis as a strategic partner who will enable us to develop performance based LED products for the Specification Market. With the Enfis 'Intelligent' LED lighting system we can virtually eliminate the problems associated with traditional white light sources, delivering consistent colour quality from day one, all the way to the end of useful life. Our partnership with Enfis is paramount to our ability to actually deliver something to the market place which will be specifiable and not "just another LED product."
Shaun Oxenham, Chief Executive of Enfis, commented: "This is the first partnership to be signed since we increased our sales function to focus on the highly lucrative US market, and I am delighted that it is with a company of North Star's calibre."
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For further information:
Enfis Lighting Company Contact:
Dan Polito, President
Enfis Lighting - North America
Email: dpolito@enfis.com
North Star Lighting Company Contact:
Tom Rotkis, Vice President of Sales & Marketing
North Star Lighting Group
708-681-4330 ext. 511
Email: trotkis@nslights.com
Media Contact:
Graham Herring
Threadneedle Communications
Email: graham.herring@threadneedlepr.co.uk
Tel. +44 207 653 9858
About Enfis Lighting
Enfis Lighting (LSE: ENF) designs, manufactures and markets intelligent, high-power, 'tunable' LED lighting with a focus on providing cutting-edge solutions that can be easily integrated into luminaires, fixtures and custom projects. The company's expertise covers semiconductor technology, packaging, thermal management, optics, electronic design, software and volume manufacturing.
Enfis 'smart' LED array technology offers luminarie and fixture manufacturers unsurpassed optical white light output. Their ultra-bright, multi-watt, multi-wavelength 'smart' LEDs are designed so that each wavelength can be individually controlled and monitored. Each Enfis 'smart' LED array has active color temperature and heat-sensing components that control, calibrate and regulate the light output of each wavelength on the array for the lifetime of the component.
More information about the company's LED products and solid-state lighting technologies can be found at www.enfis.com.
About North Star Lighting
North Star Lighting was founded in 1972 in Broadview, IL and has served the electrical and lighting industry for over three decades. The latest edition of their catalog features one of the most extensive and complete lines of commercial, industrial, outdoor, architectural outdoor, area, tunnel, bridge and sports lighting available.
North Star has designed and engineered each product to provide the optimum lumen output, energy efficiency and low maintenance demanded by today's competitive marketplace. North Star also offers a full line of options and accessories, lamp and ballast combinations, dimming, as well as full-service Applications Support for even the most advanced lighting layouts. North Star is prepared to meet the demands of virtually all lighting needs. For more information, visit www.northstar-lighting.com.
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