Redditch lighting manufacturer secures award win for product designed with ‘local supply chains’ in mind

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Peter Davison

Tamlite Lighting won Energy Efficiency Product of the Year at the Electrical Review & Data Centre Review Excellence Awards

A product that is manufactured entirely in the Midlands and is designed with local supply chains and energy efficiency in mind, has scooped an award win for Energy Efficiency Product of the Year at the Electrical Review & Data Centre Review Excellence Awards.

The awards, which are held annually, celebrate outstanding achievements within the electrical and data centre industries over the past year.

The winning product, CIRCA, was designed, manufactured and brought to market by Redditch-based Tamlite Lighting’s in-house Product Development Team.

It was recognised by the Judges for its ability to deliver high levels of efficiency and performance - as well as its low environmental impact design.

CIRCA is a low profile, high-performance circular luminaire for the retail sector. Offering 154 lumens per circuit watt, it is able to deliver impressive energy savings.

It is designed so that the fitting itself can have components replaced rather than the entire luminaire be removed and replaced – meaning less manufacturing, less materials used, and less waste. The luminaire is also complete with lighting control systems to maximise energy efficiency, allowing for daylight dimming and presence detection, as well as emergency options – a truly all in one solution.

Eduardo Oliveira, Tamlite’s Product Development Manager, said: “We are absolutely thrilled that our new CIRCA luminaire has been recognised by the Electrical Review & Data Centre Review Excellence Awards judges.

"This is wonderful news for our team, it demonstrates our leadership in the field of sustainable design. We feel this product marks a real milestone for our industry, and certainly it sits amongst Tamlite’s finest achievements to date.

“Right from the start, the brief was to find a way to respond to the increasing customer demand for a luminaire that combines both high-efficiency with low environmental impacts. The result is a truly impressive product that can be made entirely in house and localised within the Midlands.

"Our award is proof that Tamlite is constantly looking towards the future. We have set environmental and circular economy aims that we intend on following as we move forward.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.