Lighting

Philips is No.1 in the global lighting market, a position supported by leadership in innovation combined with a systematic approach to seeking out new market opportunities. Philips Lighting strives to improve people’s lives with effective and appealing lighting solutions based on a thorough understanding of people’s needs, desires and aspirations. It wants to be recognised by all its stakeholders as setting the pace in the lighting industry, as the best partner to do business with and as a responsible corporate citizen contributing to the sustainability of society at large.

The division’s products are found all around the world: not only everywhere in the home, but also in a multitude of professional applications, for example, 30 per cent of offices, 65 per cent of the world’s top airports, 30 per cent of hospitals, 35 per cent of cars and 55 per cent of major football stadiums. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, 28 of the 33 venues requiring permanent lighting have their lighting supplied by Philips.

Products include a full range of incandescent and halogen lamps, compact and normal fluorescent lamps, high-intensity gas-discharge and special lamps, fixtures, lighting electronics, ballasts, LED(light-emitting diode)-based lighting and automotive lamps.

• Halogená offers consumers in the U.S. whiter light and a lifetime about three times longer than standard incandescent lamps; it comes with the added benefit of a two-year guarantee.The ALTO T8 fluorescent lamp, which contains the least mercury of all comparable lamps on the U.S. market while maintaining its superior performance, is being installed in all newly constructed Wal-Mart stores in the U.S.
• Ecotone Ambiance, a compact, energy-saving lamp on the European consumer market, has the same shape and gives the same natural soft light as the Philips Softone.
• MASTERColour CDM providing dramatic highlighting effects in product displays and windows.
• The CLEO Natural range of tanning lamps which apply the latest scientific and medical knowledge in providing a sensible, effective tan in a soft and gentle way.
• Carpe Diem luminaires for a dynamic light ambience recreating the natural rhythm of daylight to enhance the atmosphere in a shop or office.
• Metronomis outdoor luminaires reflect a modern vision of architectural urban lighting, in which leading-edge technology is combined with a clear and elegant design.
• The TL5 office lighting system, consisting of the T5 small-diameter (16mm) fluorescent lamp along with efficient TL5 fixtures incorporating sophisticated lighting controls, provides high-quality lighting and minimizes energy demands.
• Latest versions of the UHP (Ultra High Power) lamp: currently the leading product in the market for digital data projection in beamers connected to PCs and for rear projection TVs.
• UV light solutions for producing purer, clearer water in a safe and economical manner
• Electronic ballasts for TL5 and PL-T/C lamp circuits (e.g. miniature HF-Matchbox), and electronic gear for operating HID lamps.
• Xenon automotive lamps, which give more than twice as much light as conventional halogen lamps while using only half the energy; VisionPlus lamps, which increase road safety by giving 50% more light on the road, a 10-20 meter longer beam and better reflections from roads and signs.
• LEDline: a new concept to enhance the texture of walls with colored LEDs.

The division’s extension of its Lumileds JV with Agilent Technologies in the field of LEDs (light-emitting diodes) strengthens its leading position in this field and underlines its confidence in this technology being applied to an increasing range of applications. These include automotive, high-brightness signaling, contour lighting and signs, outdoor illumination and white LEDs for both indoor and outdoor. Lumileds is the global market leader in the area of high-power LEDs with its Luxeon product family in the colours red, green, blue and white.

Philips Lighting employs some 44,000 people worldwide. Manufacturing operations in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Poland, the United States, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Thailand, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, Spain and Mexico.

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