Acuity Brands Atlanta, Ga.
Industry: Luminaires, lighting control systems and related products. Revenue: More than $1.9 billion in fiscal year 2012.
Brands: Lithonia Lighting, Acculamp, American Electric Lighting, Antique Street Lamps, Carandini, Gotham, Healthcare Lighting, Holophane, Hydrel, Mark Architectural Lighting, Peerless, Reloc, Tersen, Winona, DTL, Lighting Control & Design, Roam, Sensor Switch, Synergy and Sunoptics.
Employees: Approximately 6,000. T
he ornamental street lamps and light poles lining your local main street probably look like they are from a bygone era, but they were probably installed more recently than you expect and might even contain modern LED lights. Tere’s also a good chance they were made by Acuity Brands, Atlanta, one of the larg- est lighting manufacturers in the U.S. and a user of a significant amount of castings.
Te lamps may look antique, but Acuity Brands, which posted net sales of more than $1.9 billion in fiscal year 2012, uses modern methods to produce its lamps,
including a rapid tooling technique that has helped the company shave weeks off of its leadtime for prod- uct launches. A brainchild of Acuity Brands senior design engineer Robert Davis, the technique gives the com- pany an edge in designing and produc- ing custom lamps for municipalities, businesses and universities. “Standard industry lead time is 8 to
Shown is the tooling for the finials of an outdoor lamp. The tools were produced with plastic patterns produced on a 3D printer. Nov/Dec 2012 | METAL CASTING DESIGN & PURCHASING | 21
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