EXHIBITION
The ARC Show by
London Paul James
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REVIEW
ENGLAND
colour consistency and long life.
The lighting designers I talked to
at the show unanimously agreed
that, although these LED down-
lighters still have some way to
go in terms of price and perfor-
mance, the technology has devel-
oped at an extraordinary rate and
it won’t be too long before they
start specifying these products.
Other manufacturers are de-
veloping luminaires for other
company’s LEDs. These included
Mike Stoane Lighting (surely the
cleverest stand of the show!) and
Ridi who was particularly pleased
Mizar, now under the distributorship of SKL; Austrian company Prolicht distributed by
to show the ABDR surface/sus- Lumino in the UK; B.LUX showcased its Kanpazar range of exterior lights
pended downlighter, which fea-
tures the very latest FORTIMO LED
technology from Philips.
Another area of rapid LED devel-
opment is the exterior projector
/ street lighting market. Outdoor
lighting specialists Siteco, WE-EF,
Meyer and Sill Lighting all showed
LED versions of their products with
Siteco and WE-EF going down the
LED-only route at the show.
Elsewhere, media façade
technology (the theme of this
issue) is also beginning to make
its presence felt in the industry.
Griven, Traxon and G-LEC all had
stands where this application was
Meyer showed its Superlight Compact Micro LED version; G-LEC’s media façade technology;
Alanod continues its MIRO reflector drive
prevalent. With the media façade
at Pan Peninsula in Docklands (in- Artistic Licence was telling anyone and more. This, despite the fact curtains, blinds and temperature
volving exhibitors Insta and Artistic who would listen about the virtues that Integrated Systems Europe, control systems.”
Licence) recently going live (see of his ‘Zero Carbon Project’ (see a show where control issues are Event Director Cathy Oates was
page 46) to mark London’s first page 44) where the media façade very much the focal point, was obviously very happy with this
big media façade statement this would actually generate electricity taking place at the same time in year’s show: “ARC 2009 proved
medium is increasingly becom- for the grid. Now that’s the sort of Amsterdam. to be the most successful event
ing a talking point. Is it a frivolity innovation we like to hear! Paul Wilmhurst, MD of Dynalite so far, growing both in size and
we could do with out? Or is it a Clever control was another theme Europe, summed it up: “There numbers of visitors. Many exhibi-
legitimate design-led addition to of the show with Dynalite, Artistic is a real demand for integrated tors enjoyed their best show yet
the urban environment? Either Licence, e:cue, iLight, Helvar and lighting control systems that can in terms of business secured and
way, it appears to trend is gather- Litestructures all coming up with incorporate third-party control quality leads, as ARC yet again
ing pace and Wayne Howell of ingenious ways to control lighting elements, such as audio-visual, attracted the influential decision
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