Customer Profile: Ecumen Parmly LifePointes in Chisago City, MN has been serving senior citizens since 1904 when a 23 acre site was acquired and an 18 room senior home was built. Since those early years, the campus has grown to include everything from independent town home living to memory care, and a state of the … Read more
Saving energy and money for what matters most, thanks to Minnesota’s Conservation Improvement Program Recently we sat down at The Edge Christian Worship Center in Brooklyn Park with Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and Representative Melissa Hortman to share our story about the positive economic impact of energy conservation in our organizations. In 2007, Minnesota’s … Read more
Do LED light bulbs emit UV? How viable are LED black lights? Are there LED tanning bed lights? With the rise in popularity of LED bulbs, many questions are asked as to how the cutting-edge technology will fare in certain applications. Black light technology is a cinch for LED. LED’s can be designed to produce … Read more
Customer Profile: The City of Saint Paul was known as the Pig’s Eye Settlement until in 1841, when the first Catholic priest in the area, Fr. Lucien Galtier, dedicated his log chapel on the bluff to Saint Paul, requesting that the settlement adopt the name as well. The Cathedral of Saint Paul is now a … Read more
Part of Green Creative’s new PL Edge series includes LED PLL lamps designed to replace high watt CFL PLL lamps with a 2G11 base. Green Creative’s 14.5W LED PLL replaces 36W CFL lamps and the 17W LED PLL retrofits the 40W CFL PLL. Direct plug and play, utilizing the existing instant start or programmed start ballast … Read more
Lunera Susan LED lamps are a quick plug-and-play method to retrofit any metal halide lamp to LED. No rewiring or fixture modification is required thanks to Lunera’s BallastLED technology. Save 60%-80% on energy with this long-lasting 50,000 hour lamp. Available in E26 medium base (for the 50W/70W/100W/150W/175W metal halide replacement) and in E39 mogul base … Read more
Customer Profile: Smiths Medical is a leading global manufacturer of specialty medical devices, and has been in business for over 65 years, operating in 30 countries with sales to 120 countries. They employ nearly 8,000 people in six continents. Goal: Smiths Medical’s growth led the company to seek larger space for their Minnesota-based world head-quarters. … Read more
The standards by which lighting manufacturers have been designing their luminaires has changed once more. DLC, otherwise known as the DesignLights Consortium, has created the the DLC Premium Rating, an even higher classification than the standard DLC we have come to know over the last several years. This new classification is sure to attract the … Read more
If you read our post on LED Combo Drive technology from a few months back, you know that there are LED T8 Tubes and LED PL lamps that are able to work on the existing ballast as well as without the ballast. So you can install these lamps into fixtures without changing the ballast, and … Read more
Customer Profile: Since 1926, Graco Inc. has been a leading provider of premium pumps and spray equipment for fluid handling in the construction, manufacturing, processing, and maintenance industries. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graco works closely with distributors around the world to offer innovative products that set the quality standard for spray finishing, paint circulation, lubrication, … Read more