… has always been a basic necessity. For early hominids it meant safety and orientation. Flickering campfires in stone-age caves represent the beginning of human cultural history.

Today our work and living environment could not exist without light being continually available. As a consequence a large proportion of our need for energy comes from the need to turn night into day.
With all of the known consequences for our environment and our climate.
 

The development of light from the original torch to the LED has seen huge leaps and bounds mainly during the last 200 years. The functioning of an oil lamp remained for the most unchanged over 10,000 years, but technological milestones have been reached in quicker intervals since the late 18th century. At one stage the extremely luminous petroleum lamp replaced candlelight in homes, in the 19th century gaslight illuminated both public and private buildings and, for the first time, streets until the 20th century finally brought the triumph of electric light.

Thereafter the development wasn’t any less stormy.

Although the basic need for bright light can be fulfilled relatively easily, increasingly the concepts of economy, durability and having the right colour of ligth in each situation.

For a time "neon tubes" prove to be a perfect utility light, bulbs in lampshades offer a wide dispersion of pleasant light, until the more economical halogen lamps manage to jump from car headlights to interior lighting. Three 20 watt halogen lamps shine brighter than one 60 watt light bulb. From now on several sources of light can be aimed and gradually become creative elements of design.

Today the question of economy is pushing to the fore. Facility management and climate protection are the keywords: Lamps are needed that require little maintenance and as far as possible conserve worldwide energy resources in the interests of environmental protection. LED technology is a convincing answer to that need. Neither has halogen lighting exhausted all its potential. Take a look for yourself …