Philips Lights Major Cairo Landmark In COFELY Brings Cofathec And Elyo Together
Energy Efficient LED Lighting Spectactular Under A Single Banner
Cairo, Egypt. - Philips (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG).
One of Egypt’s most famous landmarks, the
Cairo tower, has been given a spectacular new
nighttime look, due to a new, energy efficient,
lighting scheme. The stunning new lighting
effects are created by state-of-the -art color
changing LED technology from Philips, and the
result is an exciting new image for this well-
known Egyptian symbol. In addition the new
lighting offers tremendous potential benefits
including increased civic pride, community spirit,
tourism and investment. Every building tells an GDF Suez has created COFELY, a strong unified brand name for its
ongoing story and new LED lighting can really energy services activities, encompassing Cofathec and Elyo in the UK
bring this to life, and act as a powerful advert and France. The creation of COFELY consolidates GDF SUEZ’s leadership
for the City itself, its culture and heritage. in Europe, increases its visibility and facilitates expansion in the
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif officially growing market for operation & maintenance and energy solutions,
switched on the new lighting scheme, at a where environmental efficiency is of paramount importance.
launch ceremony on 11 April 2009 in Cairo. In the UK and France, the new COFELY name will replace Cofathec and
Philips Lighting CEO in Egypt, Tamer Abolghar Elyo with immediate effect, as the companies merge in each country, so
said ‘We are extremely proud to help promote that Customers benefit from the greatest possible industrial, technical
our nations history and heritage in this way. The and commercial synergies. The new brand will gradually be adopted by
benefits for Cairo in terms of civic pride and increased tourism should the other energy services companies within the Energy Services
be considerable. With our new LED lighting technologies we can now Business Line, including Axima and GTI in Europe.
create night time effects which were never before possible’. With this move, GDF SUEZ is enhancing its ability to offer a unique
The LED lighting technology used is extremely energy efficient and combination of expertise in energy and environmental performance, the
uses on average 80% less than a similar scheme using conventional production and distribution of local and renewable energies, and
lighting technology. This means both cost savings and environmental service integration through multi-technical services, whether in the QUBE
responsibility. Additional benefits of LED lighting include the ability to
fields of engineering, installations, or operations and maintenance.
control color effects, which are clearly visible in the case of the Cairo
More than half of the revenues from the Energy Services Business
tower, a long lifetime with very low maintenance costs, and design
Line, which totalled 14 billion euros in 2008, will be generated under
flexibility.
the COFELY brand name; through 35,000 employees working in more
The Cairo tower itself was built during the 1950s and 60s in Egypt
than 15 countries.
and was designed with its partially open lattice-work to resemble a
"COFELY is currently the leading European brand for environmental
giant lotus plant. It stands 187m tall, some 43m higher than the Great
and energy efficiency services. The new name will support the
Pyramid of Giza. Today it has become a symbol of Cairo and is highly
development of our Energy Services Business Line to better meet the
visible on the Cities Skyline. It has proved very popular with locals,
needs of our Customers, both businesses and municipalities", says
Products
particularly courting couples, and tourists.
Jérôme Tolot, Member of the GDF SUEZ Executive Committee in charge
For further information, please contact: Barbara Neate, Philips
of the Energy Services Business Line.
Lighting, Tel: +44 (0) 4183 293 071,
Enquiries: Niel Scott, Cofely, Tel: 020 7633 2300, E-mail:
E-mail: Barbara.neate@philips.com
Q 065 headoffice@cofely-gdfsuez.com, Web: www.cofely.com
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EMS Radio Fire System Protects Construction
The best just got better with
of Dublin Airport’s New Terminal
EMS Group’s 5000 FirePoint
Konica Minolta colour systems
&
wireless fire system is providing a
flexible and temporary manual fire
Konica Minolta’s top of the Ser
alert and safety system for the
range colour systems just
construction site at Dublin Airport’s
got even better with the
launch of the bizhub C552
new £350 million Terminal 2.
and bizhub C652. The award
vices
The fire protection of major
winning models they replace
construction sites is a significant
were highly successful in the
problem, due to the harsh and
office colour market,
dynamic environment. EMS Group’s receiving the coveted Buyers
radio-based systems are an ideal Laboratory Inc (BLI) Pick of
Guide
solution; as control panels, call the Year awards for
points, beacons and sounders can Outstanding Segment 4
be quickly and inexpensively
Business Colour MFPs.
moved as each construction and fit out phase is completed. There is no
The new bizhub C552 and C652 offer an enhanced feature set,
need to install and continually move expensive fire-rated cable.
demonstrating Konica Minolta’s leadership of the colour document imaging
The systems are being installed by EMS Group’s approved partner, Vision
market, through its policy of continual product improvement. Print speeds
Radio Fire in partnership with Alandale Logistics. The initial installation
are 65 black-and-white and 50 colour pages per minute for the bizhub
consists of 6 radio network fire panels interfaced to 35 call points and 35
C652, and 55 and 45 pages respectively for the bizhub C552. As duplex
combined sounder strobe units. These are protecting the construction of
(double sided) output, has become a common requirement for copying
and printing, the bizhub C552 and C652 have no loss of speed for
the main arrivals/departure building. In the event of an emergency the
duplexing, compared with single-sided production in both black-and-white
Safety Wardens are alerted via an EMS site-wide paging system, enabling
and colour.
them to quickly pinpoint the exact location of the incident. Should it be
Using Konica Minolta’s bizhub Emperon® print controller, the bizhub
necessary to evacuate the area, an audible and visual alert can be
C552 and C652 offer network print, copy and high-speed network
generated using the EMS wireless sounder/strobe units. As the scanning as standard with optional fax functionality. An EFI Fiery controller
construction progresses, further radio fire networks, consisting of an option is also available which uniquely can be run in parallel to the
additional 9 control panels, will be installed in 3 other buildings. standard Emperon controller. This means that the needs of both office and
Commenting on the project, Pat O’Sullivan Managing Director of Vision colour-intensive users can be satisfied simultaneously.
Radio Fire said, “Terminal 2 is the largest and most complex temporary
Performance is greatly enhanced with a new a 1 GHz CPU, a 250GB hard
fire alert system we have commissioned to date. Having completed a
disk and 2GB of RAM memory for both models. The high capacity hard
detailed radio site survey, we were satisfied that despite the large amount
disk means graphics and images can be stored at their full 600dpi
of steel and concrete throughout the building, we could provide a secure
resolution. For the modern office there is even compatibility with 1GB
and stable wireless infrastructure during construction and fit out.”
Ethernet (1000Base-T) as standard.
The flexibility and speed of installation of the EMS wireless systems is a
The introduction of Induction Fusing technology means that the bizhub
major benefit for the site contractors. As the construction of each area
C552 and C652 have one of the lowest energy usage values of machines
nears completion and critical plant and specialist services are tested,
in their class, with power consumption approximately 70 percent below
the Energy Star limit. Technological enhancements also give the two new
automatic fire detection can be deployed. Fire sensors can be easily
bizhubs a warm up time of only 45 seconds from cold.
added to any part of system, again without the need for cabling. EMS has
In addition the bizhubs benefits from using Konica Minolta’s patented
also supplied purpose-built 110 volt to mains power converters, allowing
Simitri® HD Polymerised Toner with smaller, smoother, more uniform toner
the system to operate on a permanent supply, with standby battery back-
particles for fusing at lower temperatures and producing high quality
up in the event of a local power failure. images with a wider colour gamut.
For further product or company information contact: Ken Bullock, EMS For further information contact: Sarah Crumpler, Konica Minolta Business
Group, Tel: +44 (0) 1227 369570 E-mail: enquiries@emsgroup.co.uk Web: Solutions (UK) Ltd , Tel: 01908 200400, E-mail:
www.emsgroup.co.uk Q 067
sarah.crumpler@konicaminolta.co.uk, Web: www.konicaminolta.co.uk
Q 068
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