Cooper Lighting
Customer First Center
1121 Highway 74 South
Peachtree City, GA 30269
T: (770) 486-4800
www.cooperlighting.com
News Release
Contact:
Karin Martin, Karin Martin Communications
(630) 513-8625
Kmartin41@aol.com
Cooper Lighting Introduces a Proprietary Linear LED Platform
New internally developed LED technology expands company’s indoor offering across five brands.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA, May 17, 2011 – At its industry-leading LED Innovation Center, Cooper Lighting,
a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), has internally developed and recently launched the
ALM 1.0, a patent pending linear LED platform designed to integrate into 32 luminaires within the
company’s historical linear fluorescent brands. The proprietary low-power, low-brightness LED module
assembly offers exceptional optical performance, equivalent to or greater than fluorescent systems, with
the enhanced benefits of LED lighting, including energy savings, an extended system life, a reduced
carbon footprint and 15 to 20 percent reduced power density (watts consumed per square foot). The new
extensive interior product offering is represented across Cooper Lighting’s Ametrix, Corelite, Fail-Safe,
Metalux and Neo-Ray brands and provides application solutions for recessed, surface or direct-indirect
general illumination and wall wash solutions.
The unique synthesis of technology and design in the ALM 1.0 provides soft, crisp white light while
delivering excellent light diffusion characteristics. The system, available in three color temperatures
(3000K, 3500K and 4000K), features excellent color rendering (85 CRI) and provides the general
characteristics of a traditional fluorescent light source without unsightly socket shadows. The lowpowered system design provides better luminous efficacy and a preferred low brightness for enhanced
visual comfort. The product’s cool operation eliminates the need for bulky and obtrusive heat sinks,
ensuring an easy fit into new or existing fixtures, while the low-profile design adapts into the smallest
luminaires.
The ALM 1.0 features a dense array of low-powered (.25 watt) LEDs, which deliver a system life of
50,000 hours and creates the ideal conditions for delivering high lumens per watt (lm/W). The constant
DC current built into the ALM 1.0 platform technology drives each LED to less than half of its maximum
rated wattage, enabling up to 88 lm/W in some products, which meets or exceeds most fluorescent lumen
packages.
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The efficiency and performance improvement roadmaps of LED technology guarantee the availability of
higher lm/W packages in the future. To address future retrofits of higher performing packages,
Cooper Lighting has designed critical features into the linear LED module design to allow for simple
physical replacement of the module. This future-proof module design includes plug-and-play connectors
for quick and simple wiring, and serialized LED modules to ensure color matching for replacements.
Cooper Lighting offers a range of indoor, outdoor and specialty LED lighting products and corresponding
accessories, all of which are specifically designed to maximize energy and cost savings. For additional
information, visit www.cooperlighting.com/led.
About Cooper Lighting
Cooper Lighting, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), is the leading provider of innovative,
high quality interior and exterior lighting fixtures and related products to worldwide commercial, industrial,
retail, institutional, residential and utility markets. As lighting technologies have advanced over the years,
Cooper Lighting has been at the forefront of the industry in helping businesses and communities leverage
the latest technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enrich the quality of the environment. For
more information, visit www.cooperlighting.com.
About Cooper Lighting’s LED Innovation Center
Cooper Lighting’s 60,000-square-foot Innovation Center opened its doors in 2009. The multi-million dollar
facility is home to the research, development, design, validation, and manufacturing of proprietary LED
and other advanced lighting technologies. Teams of highly skilled Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal,
Optical, and Reliability Engineers work hand-in-hand with Industrial Designers, Lab Technicians, and
Manufacturing personnel to accelerate the development and commercialization of relevant industryleading LED solutions.
About Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) is a global electrical products manufacturer with 2010 revenues of
$5.1 billion. Founded in 1833, Cooper's sustained success is attributable to a constant focus on
innovation, evolving business practices while maintaining the highest ethical standards and meeting
customer needs. The Company has seven operating divisions with leading market positions and worldclass products and brands including: Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG
explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison
power systems products. With this broad range of products, Cooper is uniquely positioned for several
long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the reliability
and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient products and the need for
improved electrical safety. In 2010 fifty-nine percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and
utility end-markets and thirty-nine percent of total sales were to customers outside the United States.
Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 21 countries as of 2010. For more information, visit the website at
www.cooperindustries.com
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