our lighting business in North America and globally

Wennerstr’m has also brought a little sky into the showroom as a further demonstration piece. A rectangular ceiling cut-out with an opaque cover, made to look like a skylight, is used to demonstrate the positive effect of tunable white light in a room without daylight. The led high bay light effect enables the entire white light spectrum from cold white through neutral white to warm white to be produced by a luminaire. It can be used, for example, to simulate changes in natural light throughout the day.CSA Group’s acquisition of Orb Optronix is at the core of our commitment to accelerate our market presence and breadth of offerings for the lighting industry,” says Richard Weiser, Vice President, U.S. and Mexico, CSA Group. “This purchase is in keeping with our overall strategic growth plan as we continue to expand our lighting business in North America and globally.”

The new design for the Wennerstr’m offices will benefit not only the customers of this lighting distributor but also its employees. The lighting concept for the offices combines bright friendly background lighting from recessed ceiling downlights with task lighting from pendant luminaires. The T5 fluorescent lamps in these pendant luminaires are switched and dimmed under daylight and presence control. The necessary input values are provided by SMART sensor. Lamp operation is managed by PCA EXCEL one4all digital dimmable control gear with xitec II technology. The uplight in the pendant luminaries is controlled by DALI and the downlight can both be manually adjusted via remote control and by DALI. This all together makes the lighting control very flexible, smart and efficient.

The acquisition of Orb Optronix provides CSA Group with state-of-the-art, LED and lighting metrology testing capabilities; accelerating and enhancing the CSA Group’s Solid State Lighting testing capabilities globally. CSA Group has an established presence in the United States with a 30,000 square-foot testing facility in Atlanta, Georgia providing testing and certification of LED and lighting products to more than 75 different standards as well as required led flood light  LED Lighting Facts?, and DesignLights Consortium testing. The organization also provides energy efficiency verification (EEV) services in Cleveland, Ohio and Toronto, Canada. To service lighting manufacturing clients based in China, CSA Group’s Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shanghai labs provide LED lighting testing and certification services as well as EEV services.