The world's top ten: lighting

A. GE Lighting

GE Lighting adhering to Edison's spirit of innovation and wisdom, more than 100 years of relentless commitment to extend the life of the light source, increase lighting efficiency, reduce energy consumption of research, a century later today, GE Lighting Group will lead the global lighting change to provide innovative solutions to change the way people light and the perception of the world.

GE Lighting is divided into three business segments: LED, Light Source and Lamps. The LED business segment combines Nichia's expertise in semiconductor materials development and in-depth understanding of the brand advantage to provide a full range of world-class and environmentally responsible LED lighting systems and solutions for various applications such as directional lighting, architectural lighting, transportation lighting, display lighting and general lighting. applications. The Lighting segment manufactures and markets a full range of light sources, including incandescent, tungsten halogen, fluorescent, CFL, high-intensity discharge lamps, as well as automotive and specialty lighting GE Specialty Lighting develops and markets lighting for aircraft and other transportation systems, front and rear projection, video projection, medical, architectural, fiber optic, theatrical, studio, and theatre lighting. The Luminaires business segment covers commercial and industrial lighting fixtures, street lighting fixtures, flood and area lighting fixtures, as well as complementary electronic and electrical products. All of these products have passed the strict 6 sigma process quality control system, providing perfect lighting solutions for hundreds of millions of users around the world, bringing users unlimited light and enjoyment.

Two. OSRAM Lighting

Osram, as one of the world's most innovative lighting companies, has a number of world-leading patents, many of the world's most famous projects have chosen OSRAM's lighting products and programs. For more than one hundred years, OSRAM has been known for its outstanding light source products. Today, OSRAM is one of the world's two largest light source manufacturers. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, OSRAM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens.

Osram has customers in nearly 150 countries and regions around the world. With innovative lighting technologies and solutions, OSRAM continues to develop new areas of artificial light sources, which are used in a wide range of applications in public ****places, offices, factories, homes, roads, as well as in automotive and specialty lighting.

As one of the most innovative lighting companies in the world, OSRAM owns a number of core patents in the field of lighting. Many world famous projects have chosen OSRAM's lighting products and solutions. From the luxurious Dubai Sailboat Hotel to the solemn Tiananmen Square in Beijing; from the classic 06 World Cup Allianz Arena in Munich to the modern Malm? Rotunda Building in Sweden; from the Bird's Nest of Beijing National Stadium in 2008 to the China Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo in 2010... OSRAM lighting products shine in all of them. OSRAM Lighting products are shining among them.

Three. Philips Lighting

Philips, one of the world's largest electronics companies, in 1891, Anton and Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, created Philips. At that time, the company to produce carbon filament light bulbs, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to become one of Europe's largest producers of carbon filament light bulbs. By 1910, Philips had 2,000 employees, making it the largest single employer in the Netherlands.

Philips Lighting is committed to delivering innovative, end-user oriented, energy efficient lighting solutions and applications by providing in-depth insights into the needs of people in their public **** environments and private spaces.

As a global leader in lighting, Philips is working to drive the transition of society to energy efficient solutions. As lighting accounts for 19% of global electricity consumption, the use of energy efficient lighting will significantly reduce worldwide energy consumption and lower harmful CO2 emissions. Philips offers advanced energy efficient solutions for all sectors including: road, office, industrial, entertainment and home lighting. Philips is also a leader in the application and use of technologies that are shaping the future of lighting, such as LED technology, which in addition to being energy efficient, offers many more advantages and a myriad of new and unprecedented lighting solutions.

Four. Panasonic Lighting

Panasonic Corporation is a multinational company with more than 230 companies around the world, employing more than 290,493 people. In 2001, the company's sales totaled more than 61 billion U.S. dollars, ranking 26th among the top 500 manufacturing companies in the world. 

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. was founded in 1918 by Mr. Konosuke Matsushita, who is known as the "God of Management". He established Matsushita Electric Apparatus Works in Osaka City, Fukushima-ku, Okinawa-cho, and began producing light bulb sockets and rotary sockets for double bulbs. At the beginning, it was a small workshop consisting of three people, one of whom was Mr. Tetsuo Izumi, who would later become the founder of Sanyo. Through the efforts of several generations, the company has become a world-renowned international integrated electronics technology group.  Since its founding, SANYO has always been guided by the social mission and corporate program of "contributing to the improvement and enhancement of social life and the development of global culture". In order to realize a richer social life and contribute to the development of society, Matsushita Electric is actively engaged in a full range of global research, development and management activities, from basic technologies and product technologies to new production technologies. 

Panasonic has unified its global brand as Panasonic, and under the brand slogan "Panasonic ideas for life," it aims to realize a "networked society" and a "society with a network of ideas. Under the brand slogan "Panasonic ideas for life," Panasonic will continue to contribute to the improvement of the cultural life of the world's people by realizing the ideals of "a networked society with a multitude of ideas" and "living in harmony with the global environment.

V. Toshiba Lighting

Toshiba Corporation is a world-renowned international multinational conglomerate founded by Hisashi Tanaka in Japan in 1875. In its more than 130 years of development, Toshiba has always been at the forefront of technology as a multinational corporation that is constantly changing and advancing.

The first electric lamp used for illumination was born on March 25, 1878, in the history of Japan. It was a Duboscq-style arc lamp that was first lit at a banquet celebrating the opening of the Central Office of Telecommunications (now Japan Post). Dr. Ichisuke Fujioka, the founder of the Shiratori Company, which later became the father of the incandescent light bulb in Japan, participated in the lighting.

Following the arc lamp, the incandescent lamp was lit for the first time in Japan on June 25, 1884, at the opening ceremony of the Ueno-Takasaki railroad line. At Ueno Station, twenty-four incandescent lamps and one centrally located electric arc lamp were simultaneously lit to welcome the Emperor and Empress of Japan, who had come to attend the ceremony.

At that time, incandescent lamps could not be manufactured in Japan, and Dr. Ichisuke Fujioka was determined to develop a domestically produced incandescent light bulb. After painstaking efforts, he finally succeeded in trial production of the first incandescent bulb using carbon filament in Japan.

On April 1, 1890, Dr. Fujioka, in cooperation with Mr. Shoichi Miyoshi, a famous manufacturer of electrical equipment at that time, established the Hakusha Company in Tokyo to manufacture and sell incandescent light bulbs. This was the birthplace of Tokyo Electric Co. and Toshiba Corporation, the predecessor of Toshiba Lighting Technology Corporation, which was engaged in the general lighting business of the Toshiba Group.

Continuing and building on its history and traditions, the company has continued to explore cutting-edge technologies, first manufacturing fluorescent lamps in Japan in 1940, and since then developing many new products such as LED lamps.

6. Cooper Lighting

As a U.S. Fortune 500 company, Cooper Industries has been committed to scientific and technological progress and development for 171 years, and has grown from an iron foundry in Ohio to a global conglomerate with 50,000 employees. Today, Cooper has a global footprint, with more than 100 manufacturing facilities supplying the world with quality products in eight areas: current protection products, indoor and outdoor lighting, systems equipment, electric and, switchgear and wiring devices, support systems, fire protection and specialty lighting. Cooper Lighting is one of Cooper Industries' primary product areas.

Cooper Lighting originated from the Thomas Edison Company. Edison Company, adhering to the inventor Edison's spirit of innovation and business wisdom, for more than a hundred years relentlessly committed to the development of the lighting business, is the world's most technologically advanced and one of the largest manufacturers of lamps and lanterns, with 20 well-known lighting brands. Cooper Lighting has 40 branches and dozens of production bases all over the world, providing innovative and high quality products and professional and perfect for customers all over the world. Cooper Lighting has a wide range of products for different groups to provide a full range of indoor, outdoor, industrial, and residential lighting fixtures around the world. Cooper Lighting's excellence in the industry has been honored with numerous awards, such as: World Lighting Awards, Environmental Excellence Award, Dedication Award, Teaching Award and Health Award, etc. ...

VII. Crocodile Lighting

Crocodile Lighting Company by British immigrants Daniel-Alligator (Daniel-alligator) was founded in Brandenburg, Germany, in 1906, after a hundred years of continuous leap, crocodile lighting from the original manufacturing workshop has developed into the world's long history, business diversification of multinational scientific and technological enterprises, and its business is all over Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and other places, is one of the world's top ten lighting manufacturers.

Crocodile Lighting Company and its subsidiaries in the world with more than 160,000 employees, more than 180 manufacturing enterprises in nearly 70 countries and regions, serving the global market in the public **** places, offices, factories, homes and automotive lighting in various fields, and its products are up to more than 4,000 varieties, including: LED lamp, fluorescent lamps, compact fluorescent lamps, ceiling lamps, downlights, high intensity discharge lamps Its products include: LED lamps, fluorescent lamps, compact fluorescent lamps, ceiling lamps, downlights, spotlights, high-intensity discharge lamps, halogen lamps, automotive lamps, special light sources and electronic ballasts, etc., which can fully meet the needs of people in the work, life and the special areas of the various aspects of the needs of people, but also for the world's low-carbon, energy-saving, environmentally friendly to provide a scientific solution.

Crocodile Lighting Company has become a leader in providing total solutions in the field of professional lighting, and many famous projects around the world have chosen Crocodile Lighting products and programs, and its high-quality products have won the trust and praise of users around the world. The company's business strategy is to international brands and local brands, in order to meet the needs of consumers at different levels, whether commercial products or civilian products, crocodile lighting company always through market research and timely understanding of customer needs, development and production of products to meet customer needs, in the face of domestic and foreign manufacturers of similar manufacturers of competition, crocodile lighting to serve customers as the main theme of the strategy to obtain a solid customer base.

Low carbon, energy saving, environmental protection is the crocodile lighting company's eternal pursuit.

VIII. Lithonia Lighting

Lithonia Lighting is a large U.S. lamps and lanterns manufacturer, with more than 60 years of fluorescent lamp production history, is the world's largest fluorescent lamps and lanterns manufacturer. Currently the production of lamps and lanterns is not limited to fluorescent products, but also the production of various types of indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures, but its fluorescent lamp production experience and technology to make its energy-saving lamps and lanterns in recent years to stand out in the production of energy-saving lamps and lanterns, and the development of its products in the "Lights of Tomorrow" energy-saving lamps and lanterns design competitions for a number of years won awards. Currently, it is the main supplier of energy-saving lamps to The Home Depot, and many of its products are supplied by Chinese companies on an OEM basis.

Lithonia Lighting was acquired by National Service Industries, Inc (NYSE: NSI) in 1969 and is now a subsidiary of Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. (NYSE: AYI). Acuity Brands Inc. was spun off from its parent company, NSI, in 2001 to become a separate company, focusing on lighting and chemical products. Acuity Brands Lighting currently has 12 lighting and related subsidiaries, of which Lithonia is the largest and best known.

9. Thorne Lighting

As a subsidiary of the Zumtobel Group, Thorne Lighting is a widely acclaimed and globally recognized company, Thorne Lighting is a highly recognized and globally acclaimed company specializing in indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures.

From 1928 Jules Thorn founded the light service company to today, Thorn has been in the global market in more than 100 countries successfully compete, is the world's leading brand in the field of professional lighting, in the field of lighting has a significant market position. Thorne is now doing its best to develop the Asian market and is committed to bringing advanced lighting concepts to China.

Thorne's target customer base spans a wide range of industries and we are committed to providing technologically innovative lighting solutions for them, especially electrical contractors, developers, end users, lighting designers, building code specialists, municipalities, landscape architects, etc., that exemplify the fusion of reliability, superior customer service, high functionality and advanced technological processes. This excellence has enabled Thorne to rapidly gain a dominant position in all of its core market areas. Wholesalers and distributors are important partners to Thorne and play a vital role in the distribution of Thorne products.

X. CREE Lighting

CREE was founded in 1987, is a U.S. listed company (1993, NASDAQ: CREE), for the world's LED epitaxial, chip, packaging, LED lighting solutions, compound semiconductor materials, power devices and radio frequency in one of the famous manufacturers and industry leaders.

Cree is a market-leading lighting innovator and semiconductor manufacturer that adds value by dramatically improving the energy efficiency of solid-state lighting, power and communications products.

Cree's market advantage is based on silicon carbide (SiC) materials and the use of this material for epitaxial chips and related devices. These chips and devices can use more power in less space, while the materials and products emit less heat than other existing technologies.

Cree's return on energy (ROE?) solutions are used in a variety of applications, including brighter and adjustable light-emitting diode (LED) illumination, more vibrant backlit displays, optimal power management of high-current switching power supplies and variable-speed motors, and exciting options in wireless infrastructure for more efficient data and voice communications. Customers range from innovative lighting fixture manufacturers to defense-related federal agencies.