New low-watt Citizen LED light engines from Marl enable the creation of replacements for fluorescent strip lights – offering well over 25% better efficiency and at least four times longer lifetimes. An array of five of the chips matches the light output of a 1.2W fluorescent tube.

The announcement means LED lighting is now the low energy lighting of choice – a position held by fluorescent technologies for some time. "With the announcement of the latest generation of Citizen devices LED lighting is more efficient and longer lasting than any other lighting technology, and can match the light output of all but the most specialist lights," commented Marl Managing Director Adrian Rawlinson. "It is also more robust than fluorescent, and eliminates the risk of broken glass tubes coated with poisonous phosphor based chemicals."

The highly flexible chip-style packaging for these Citizen devices lends itself to the creation of a host of innovative lighting effects. They can be mounted to form circles, squares or other shapes as well as in linear arrays. Like all LED lighting, the new Citizen CL-824 series delivers directional illumination in a downward cone over a 120° arc. This eliminates wasted light.

Available in the UK from Marl, Citizen CL-824 series LEDs are ultra-compact high efficiency devices in a robust chip-type packaging. A linear array with certain chips can deliver a final efficiency of 74 lumens per Watt – compared with around 56 lumens per Watt from a typical fluorescent fitting. Rated life for the LED chips is 40,000 hours, compared to 10,000 hours for a standard fluorescent tube.

A new catalogue has been launched enabling easy browsing of the extensive range of Citizen LED light engines available from Marl Optosource. To download, please visit:
http://www.leds.co.uk/pdfs/citizencatalogue-issue1.pdf (PDF)

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Lord Young visited Marl International earlier this month, in interest of our successful training and Apprenticeships programme. Marl designs, manufactures and supplies energy efficient, high performance, innovative LED devices to the industry.

Lord Young said: "It is encouraging to see a successful company taking advantage of the demand for energy efficient, low carbon products. Marl International has a clear commitment to ensuring there is an abundance of high level skills in this sector for years to come, and should be an example to all."

"The success of Marl International can lead the way for other businesses in West Cumbria to make a contribution to the UK's short and long term energy, environmental and economic policy goals, transforming its own economy in the process."

David Ford, Commercial Director at Marl International, said: "Today's investment in apprentices is tomorrow's prosperity. We're always appreciative of Government ministers visiting to experience life at the coal face."

Marl International also offers opportunities to graduates to take up work in design and manufacturing, design and development, general engineering, product engineering and sales and marketing. The company currently has an apprentice training in finance and accountancy.

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Following a successful trial introduction in September last year, Marl has finalised agreements to distribute the Lumotech Lumoluce range of LED architectural lighting products for commercial and domestic applications. Manufactured in the Netherlands, Lumoluce LED lighting solutions are attracting a fast-growing following due to their remarkable colour consistency and exceptional energy efficiency.

The Lumoluce range is characterised by outstanding performance and quality at a competitive price point, and is fully assembled and manufactured at Heerhugowaard in the Netherlands utilising high quality LED light sources and LEDs. Unique features of the range include sub-binning, where each colour supplied is tested and hand-sorted into a further nine sub-bins to provide an exact colour match across each individual LED supplied to a customer. Lumoluce also designs and manufactures its own drivers to maximise the performance and efficiency of its LED lights. As a result, it achieves power factors of better than 0.9 and very low harmonics. Lumoluce LEDs are widely used in major airports, supermarkets for food illumination as well as restaurants and offices throughout Europe. Its focus on delivering premium performance and quality at competitive pricing is leading to year on year growth in annual turnover of over 50% for Lumoluce.

Adrian Rawlinson, Managing Director of Marl International, commented, "Lumoluce shares Marl's culture of achieving high levels of quality and performance by keeping control of the design, assembly and manufacturing processes. We believe that there will be strong market demand for this product range from customers who appreciate a consistent and high quality product at an affordable price."

Peter Snoeck, Sales Director of Lumoluce, added, "Marl has excellent relationships with our key target customers in the UK, and helps these customers make the most of our very special product characteristics. The fact that they have their own manufacturing operation too helps them appreciate how our products are set apart."

Marl will offer the full Lumoluce series, which is a modular system based on aluminium construction with a 2.3W LED module, driver and connectors. These assemblies deliver the same light output as a 25W - 35W halogen bulb but use 90% less power - and even save 35% of energy costs of standard energy saving lamps. The Lumoluce range includes an extensive selection of fittings in different shapes and sizes, with different configurations of LED lamps, to meet every conceivable lighting requirement and application.

About Lumoluce

Lumoluce was founded in 2006 by Lumotech as a specialist subsidiary to exploit the growing demand for energy efficient light sources such as LED lighting. Lumoluce designs and manufactures high quality LED fixtures, LED strips, LED boards, and LED drivers as well as plug-in replacements for less efficient lighting technologies. The success of Lumoluce is based on a strong technical foundation: its immense knowhow of the electronics and other related techniques required to create effective, efficient and long-lasting LED lighting solutions. Lumoluce products are therefore conceived, created and manufactured under one roof at its Heerhugowaard headquarters in the Netherlands, from initial sketches to finished end product. Lumotech is a manufacturer of semi-finished products and was founded in 1978. For more information, please see the Marl LUMOluce product pages

Marl have launched a downloadable, printable product catalogue to facilitate easy browsing of the extensive range of CITILED™ LED light engines from Citizen Electronics Co Ltd.

Distributing the components under the Optosource brand, Marl offers the ground-breaking range of Citizen light engines to the UK market.

Specifically designed for the most demanding of lighting applications, the surface mount, spotlight and linear packages from Citizen range from low watt all the way up to the amazingly bright new 13-watt class of light engines - all from just 1 LED light source.

This introduces high volume LED lighting applications that were previously thought very difficult if not impossible to achieve, such as street lighting. Other applications include sign illumination and MR16 halogen replacements.

Whether you are looking for the highest lumen output, the highest efficiency, or prefer a balance: there is a CITILED™ light engine to suit your requirements, with no compromises on quality.

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Marl have been awarded the Passenger Comfort Innovation of the Year award for our 'Sci-Light' LED lighting technology, at the 2009 Railway Interiors Expo 'Innovation & Excellence' Awards, held on 25th November 2009 in Cologne, Germany.

Accepting the award, Adrian Rawlinson, Managing Director of Marl International said, "We are delighted to receive this award and for the judges to recognise the significant developments we have made with our new intelligent Sci-Light technology, which provides passengers with an ambient and comfortable environment, whilst reducing energy consumption and maintenance costs. The Railway Interiors Expo and the associated awards attract a very high calibre of entrants each year and we were extremely proud to be one of the winners."

Jon Lawson, editor of Railway Interiors magazine, part of UKIP Media & Events Ltd, organisers of the event, commented: "The 2009 Railway Interiors Expo has been the best so far and the award entries this year have been of a very high standard. Passenger comfort is an extremely important factor in rail travel and we felt that the efficient Sci-Light technology was an all round winner." Other winners were: London Underground, Great Western, Amtrak and Dubai Metro.

Marl's winning Sci-Light LED lighting has been successfully trialled by Porterbrook Leasing Company on a Class 323 unit used in the West Midlands area. The Sci-Light system replaces a 36W or 40W fluorescent tube with an intelligent LED system with a maximum power rating of 21W. Multiple high speed sensors in the carriages dim the interior lights when they are not needed, and the control software ensures the change in light level is unperceivable by passengers. It's estimated that the average power consumption can be reduced by 40% to 60% depending upon the configuration of the controller and the actual operating environment (time of year, weather conditions and time spent in tunnels, or deep cuttings).

About Railway Interiors Innovation and Excellence Awards

The Railway Interiors Innovation and Excellence Awards are designed to recognise and reward the increasing sophistication of railcar interior design, equipment, technology and furnishings. The awards cover every class of passenger rail vehicle from local light rail to intercontinental high-speed services, and nominations can be put forward by anyone working in the sector.

The jury is made up of up to 30 internationally renowned independent industry journalists, passenger representative groups and consultants. Full details of the exhibition and awards are available here: http://www.railwayinteriors-expo.com/awards_news.php

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