ENERGY

Dialight’s DuroSite™ LED High Bay helps Frontline

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s a company specializing in cooking oil management solutions, Frontline International is rapidly growing a “green” business in producing equipment for recycling oil as alternative renewable fuels. Dialight’s highly energy efficient DuroSite Series LED High Bay lighting fixtures are helping them meet customer expectations for environmentally responsible sustainable practices. Frontline International, Inc. is a leading global supplier of commercial restaurant equipment for managing cooking oil. Their OilCare™ solutions safely and efficiently contain, dispense, filter and transport oil for initial fresh oil use and immediate on-premise recycling. Frontline’s customers include large restaurant chains, hotels, commercial food processing companies, institutions and universities around the world. The “green” side of their business, focuses on manufacturing and warehousing commercial kitchen equipment that efficiently recycles used cooking oil for use as renewable alternative fuels; this has grown steadily to the point where now all of the equipment they produce is geared toward recycling. As the company expanded, many of their eco-conscious customers began asking about the sustainability and environmental impact of Frontline’s own operations. According to company president John

Palazzo, Frontline felt compelled to explore ways to make their operations more environmentally friendly. “Sixty percent of our operation is assembly work, manufacturing the equipment. So as part of our initial sustainability initiative, one of the first places we looked to improve our practices was in our manufacturing facilities.”

A ROBUST, HIGHLY ENERGY EFFICIENT “GREEN” SOLUTION

At the time, Frontline was in the early stages of designing a new plant facility. In their other facility, they had been using fluorescent and incandescent lighting for the assembly areas. This required a large number of fixtures to get the bright light needed for assembly operations, and energy consumption was enormous. Palazzo and his team began investigating alternative lighting options to reduce the amount of energy that would be required to light their new plant. They evaluated high pressure sodium lights, newer fluorescent technologies and LED lighting solutions. They decided that LED lighting was the optimum eco-friendly solution. After comparing several LED lighting

solutions, Frontline chose Dialight’s High Bay LED lighting fixtures for several key reasons: their robust design and construction, their high energy efficiency, hands-free minimal maintenance and low total cost of ownership over time. Frontline felt they would be ideally suited for their

high-ceiling manufacturing and warehouse facilities.

AT THE FOREFRONT OF LED LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY

With unique highly efficient 11,600 lumens (77lm/w), the Dialight DuroSite Series LED High Bay fixtures combine the latest in (Cree® XLamp® XP-G LED ) high brightness LED technology, precision optics and next generation thermal management practices. The DuroSite High Bay fixtures are able to deliver ultra-bright clear white light uniformly across the facility’s assembly floor. Even though Frontline’s new facility is approximately three times the size of its other manufacturing facility, they were able to significantly downsize the number of lighting fixtures needed in the new plant. They now get brighter illumination with fewer lights running on far less electricity, which not only lowers energy consumption and costs but reduces their carbon footprint, as well, in keeping with their sustainability initiative. “The Dialight High Bay overhead fixtures are a huge improvement, providing light bright enough for assembly work at waist level and even at floor level. The ultra-bright illumination not only expedites assembly, it also makes the work environment much safer for our workers.” – John Palazzo

IMPROVING SAFETY, EFFICIENCY, AND ENVIRONMENT FOR EMPLOYEES

“Our employees love the new brightly

lit facility, joking that it makes the old plant feel like a dungeon,” commented Palazzo. “It was very important for us to

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