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New human centric lighting options help customers navigate the next phase of LED lighting

Fremont, California – October 10, 2019 – Enabling LED industry transformation for over 15 years, Bridgelux today reinforced its focus and commitment to the lighting market with the commercial availability of Thrive™ surface mount device (SMD) 2835 and V Series™ chip-on-board (COB) parts.  Thrive white point options are designed to closely match the spectra of natural light by reducing blue spikes and cyan valleys, and providing full spectrum, human centric LED lighting solutions.

The loss of natural light benefits affects those who spend most of their time indoors, with office workers being one of the groups especially at risk.  According to Harvard Business Review, the “health benefits of access to natural light are causing some firms to re-imagine their workspace and tout this as a recruiting tool.”¹  The lighting industry is moving beyond the efficacy race and towards human centric lighting solutions incorporating circadian elements that may impact well-being for anyone spending extended periods of time indoors.

First announced in March 2019, Thrive uses proprietary chip, phosphor and packaging technologies to deliver a close spectral match to natural light.  The high-fidelity spectral output of Thrive creates stunning environments with excellent color rendering and outstanding TM-30 metrics.  Unlike other high CRI light sources, Thrive has been engineered specifically to provide a close and continuous match to natural light across the visible wavelength range to enable the next wave of innovation in the lighting market: human centric lighting. 

Thrive SMD 2835 1W 9V and V10C are now available for ordering.  Additional SMD 2835 and V Series form factors will be available in late Q4 and early Q1 2020.

“Today’s announcement reflects our pledge to customers to deliver a clear path toward flexible, interoperable solutions to meet lighting requirements that demand natural-looking light, particularly projects in the office, education, healthcare, residential and retail markets,” said Dr. Brian Cumpston, Vice President of Solutions Development at Bridgelux.  “We are a technology partner committed to delivering new LED light source solutions as our roadmap evolves, including an expansion of Thrive white options onto our Vesta® Series and EB Series™ tunable white light sources, and the expanding family of high efficacy SMD products.”

Bridgelux also announced performance upgrades to its SMD 2835 delivering up to 221 lumens/watt (lm/W), and to its SMD 4014, now delivering up to 190 lm/W, both in 4000K 80 CRI with a variety of 80 and 90 CRI color point options available.  These highly efficient light sources are useful for a range of lighting applications including office, retail, residential and architectural lighting, further assisting customers to meet ever evolving regulatory based efficacy requirements. 

SMD 2835 (21M-3DA) and 4014 (11L-3C) are immediately available for ordering.

1.  Source: “The #1 Office Perk?  Natural Light” Jeanne C. Meister.  September 3, 2018. https://hbr.org/2018/09/the-1-office-perk-natural-light

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About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™.  Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of light source, control and driver solutions that allow companies, industries and people to experience the power and possibility of LED lighting.  The company's solutions deliver high quality of light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information, please visit https://bridgelux.com/. 

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design, Vero and Vesta are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.   Bridging Light and Life, Thrive, and V Series are trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Fremont, California – September 3, 2019 – Bridgelux is excited to announce the appointment of Jason Posselt as Vice President of Global Marketing.  Mr. Posselt joins Bridgelux most recently from Intematix.  While at Intematix, he was responsible for leading both marketing and business development activities.  Prior to Intematix, Mr. Posselt held marketing positions at Bridgelux and Philips Lumileds, and product development roles within Hewlett-Packard.

“We are happy to welcome Jason back to the Bridgelux family.  His years of experience working within the lighting industry are invaluable as we continue to develop the marketing function and expand into new markets.  Jason’s ability to foresee trends makes him the ideal leader to bolster the Bridgelux commitment to lighting and the promise of flexible, human-centric lighting solutions,” said Tim Lester, CEO of Bridgelux.

Mr. Posselt began his career focused on developing the first high power LEDs targeted for specialty and general lighting.  Over his career, he held multiple commercial roles in solid state lighting including the areas of product marketing, market development, business segment and marketing management.   Mr. Posselt is now tasked at Bridgelux with leading the overall marketing function, including product management and strategy, corporate positioning and sales enablement in partnership with the global sales teams.

Mr. Posselt is based in Fremont, California.  He received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

For additional information, please contact pr@bridgelux.com.

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™.  Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of light source, control and driver solutions that allow companies, industries and people to experience the power and possibility of LED lighting.  The company's solutions deliver high quality of light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux and the Bridgelux stylized logo design are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.  Bridging Light and Life is a trademark of Bridgelux, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Dedicated service for customized lighting projects now available in areas of central Europe

FREMONT, California – July 16, 2019 – Bridgelux today announced a global agreement with Neumüller Elektronick (Neumüller) for the distribution of its low power, packaged and module products in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Poland.

The expertise of Neumüller to help customers move completely through their project cycle from idea to production means Bridgelux customers will receive customized, future proof solutions for their regional projects.

For over 15 years, Bridgelux has transformed the lighting industry by designing solutions to help companies, industries and people experience the power and possibility of light.  With the agility of a vertically integrated organization, Bridgelux offers the industry’s first 10-year LED light source warranty, ultra-high CRI array products, and a world-class application services team.

“We are very excited to work with Neumüller, a company that shares our values of providing confidence and reliability throughout the entire customer experience,” said Mark van den Berg, Vice President of Sales at Bridgelux.  “Customers in central Europe will benefit from the expertise of Neumüller as they work on projects that have custom design-in requirements.”

Based in Germany, Neumüller is a family owned distributor of electronic components and systems to help customers from inception to design-in.  For over 65 years, Neumüller has worked hand in with customers with passion and dependability throughout the entire design-in process.

For more information about Neumüller and Bridgelux, please visit the following webpages:

• https://www.neumueller.com/en/hersteller/bridgelux (English)
• https://www.neumueller.com/de/hersteller/bridgelux (German)

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™.  Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux and the Bridgelux stylized logo design are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.   Bridging Light and Life is a trademark of Bridgelux, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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EB Series LED products now available with expanded color point options and new form factors

FREMONT, California – July 9, 2019 – Bridgelux today announced an expansion of its EB Series™ LED product family to include increased efficacy of up to 200 lumens/watt (lm/W), new 2700K standard CCT options, new 90 CRI options, and new slim linear and square form factors.  As a customizable emitter-on-board platform using Bridgelux surface mount device (SMD) LEDs, EB Series offers customers choice in form factors, color points and CRI options tailored to their specific project.

Light is at the heart of life.  In today’s lighting market, customization and personalization are expectations, not trends.  Customers demand manufacturers build comprehensive solution platforms that offer choice in efficacy, form factor, color point and light quality. 

Bridgelux EB Series products now include third generation standard linear (280-, 560- and 1120 mm) and slim linear (340-, 590- and 1190 mm) lengths with typical efficacies of 200 lm/W and an expanded CCT range of 2700K – 5700K.  New 90 CRI options are also available for improved quality of light and enable luminaires to be in compliance with California’s Title 24 regulation.  New custom products include eight- and twelve-inch square form factors with increased lumen output ideal for many commercial applications.

“Flexibility and customization are the foundation of today’s lighting solutions,” said Dr. Brian Cumpston, Vice President of Solutions at Bridgelux.  “We are excited to offer customers new form factors with 200lm/W efficacy to meet their increasingly diverse needs, and to be able to do so in a cost-effective manner.”

These EB Series products are now available for sampling and ordering as Gen 3, Slim Gen 3 and Square.

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™.  Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux and the Bridgelux stylized logo design are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.   Bridging Light and Life and EB Series are trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Bridgelux expands distribution reach into central and eastern Europe

FREMONT, Calif. – June 11, 2019 – Bridgelux, Inc. today announced a global agreement with Transfer Multisort Elektronik Sp. z o.o. (TME) for the distribution of packaged products and modules including Vero® Series, V Series™, IB Series™ and SMD products. TME has regional expertise and a worldwide online presence, increasing the opportunity for customers to source authorized Bridgelux parts.

For over 15 years, Bridgelux has transformed the lighting industry by designing solutions to help companies, industries and people experience the power and possibility of light.  With the agility of a vertically integrated organization, Bridgelux offers the industry’s first 10-year LED light source warranty, ultra-high CRI array products, and a world-class application services team.

“We are excited to work with TME and look forward to bringing new LED solutions to TME’s customers,” said Mark van den Berg, Vice President of Sales in Europe.  “As the LED industry penetrates new markets, we believe TME’s regional expertise and solid infrastructure will allow both companies to grow their customer base by providing solutions for new applications.”

Based in Poland, TME is a global provider of electric, electronic and industrial components with over 255,000 products from nearly 1000 suppliers offered in their catalogue.  Established in 1990, TME has over 800 employees and 10 global subsidiaries.

Bridgelux Vero Series and V Series products are now available on the TME website: https://www.tme.eu/katalog/p,bridgelux_1457/

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design and Vero are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.  V Series, IB Series and Bridging Light and Life are trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Bridgelux Vesta® Flex connects life and light through a simple, flexible driver and control system

FREMONT, Calif. – May 20, 2019 – Bridgelux today announced Vesta® Flex, an innovative family of dual channel LED drivers and control modules designed to simplify and reduce the cost of connected tunable white luminaires.  Immediately compatible with industry standard wired and wireless lighting control protocols including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) and 0-10V, the Vesta Flex system enables simplified, future-ready design flexibility for OEM luminaire manufactures to meet the needs of their end customers without requiring redesign or recertification. 

The design flexibility of Vesta Flex includes separate control modules and drivers that are connected using a CAT5 network cable through a robust RJ45 terminal.  This structure allows customers to select their protocol of choice, luminaire manufacturers to quickly react to the needs of multiple lighting projects and allows Bridgelux to expand into additional protocols in the future.  All Vesta Flex control options provide independent tuning of intensity and correlated color temperature (CCT).  Customers will never again feel locked in to a proprietary system or obliged to just one standard or protocol. 

Components within the Vesta Flex family available now include:

• 30W and 60W brick and 60W linear driver options with NFC-programmable maximum currents and dimming curves, including smooth dimming to 0.1% and dim-to-off options
• Bluetooth mesh control module operating on Bluetooth Low Energy (4.2) protocol for industrial grade intelligent mesh networking managed through a mobile app
• Dual mode Wi-Fi and Bluetooth control module for luminaire management and communication with sensors, also managed through a mobile app
• Dual channel analog control module for CCT tuning and intensity dimming using a linear tuning range of 1.0 to 9.0 VDC, compatible with current sourcing or current sinking control devices
• DALI DT8 control module for CCT tuning and intensity dimming functionality, also compatible with industry standard current sourcing or current sinking control devices
• Complete compatibility with Bridgelux Vesta Series Tunable White array and linear LED light sources with tuning ranges from 2700 to 6500 Kelvin (K)

“Providing flexible solutions is all about removing obstacles so people can experience the benefits of human centric lighting.  With Bridgelux as their single supplier, our customers now have access to an interoperable family of plug-and-play control options guaranteed to work with our high quality light engines out-of-the-box and to simplify their entire design process,” said Tim Lester, Bridgelux Chief Executive Officer.  “We expect the Vesta Flex family will work for our customers to save them time and reduce cost and complexity, while enabling high quality of light that is controllable and appealing.”

Vesta Flex will be demonstrated at LIGHTFAIR International this week in the Bill Brown Sales booth (401.)  Vesta Flex driver and control parts are now available for sampling.  Vesta Series Tunable White array and linear light sources are available for sampling and ordering. 

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Product photography: Available upon request to pr@bridgelux.com

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™.  Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design and Vesta are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.   Bridging Light and Life is a trademark of Bridgelux, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Increased efficacy across LED array portfolio marks the latest milestone for Bridgelux

FREMONT, Calif. – May 8, 2019 – Bridgelux today announced the availability of 170 lumens-per-watt (LPW) across the entire Vero® Series, Vero® SE Series and V Series™ chip-on-board (COB) product families for customers that want personalized, high quality of light with increased lumen performance and reduced operating costs.  This improvement is delivered and benchmarked at the popular 3000K 80 CRI color point, with even higher efficacy at other color point and CRI options across the industry’s broadest range of COB products. 

The Bridgelux customer experience built over the past 15 years continues to evolve to meet discerning industry demands.  Customers now require more than just high performance.  They need warranties up to 10 years, clean and consistent high quality of light, excellent customer service and simple upgrade paths to leverage product performance enhancements.  Bridgelux delivers this entire experience.

The new 170 LPW parts include:

• Up to six percent higher efficacy than previous products
• Increased lumens per dollar to further reduce the cost of solid state lighting
• Optical consistency with prior products to enable a seamless upgrade path to simplify the design in process
• 80 and 90 CRI standard options to personalize environments
• Technology compliant with current Bridgelux seventh generation COB LM-80 reporting and warranties

With more efficient light sources available for an entire lighting ecosystem, customers are now better equipped to meet evolving rebate incentive requirements without compromising the quality of light.

“Our strategy is not simply to produce incremental efficacy wins.  We want to ensure that the entire experience with Bridgelux is successful for our customers,” said Brian Cumpston, VP of Product Development at Bridgelux.  “From meeting their rigorous technical specifications to applications design, testing and development, we are proud to offer customers a complete suite of solutions.”

Bridgelux 170 LPW parts are now available for sampling and ordering. 

Contact: pr@bridgelux.com

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Product photography: Available upon request to pr@bridgelux.com

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™.  Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design and Vero are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.  Bridging Light and Life and V Series are trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Bridgelux introduces Thrive, a human centric light spectrum designed to mimic sunlight

FREMONT, Calif. – March 12, 2019 – Bridgelux today announced Thrive, a family of white point options for surface mount devices (SMD), V Series™, Vero® Series and Vesta® Series chip-on-board (COB) products designed to closely mimic the sun and provide a new class of full spectrum, human centric light emitting diode (LED) white point solutions.

Using proprietary chip, phosphor and manufacturing technologies, Thrive closely mimics the spectra of the sun without violet light augmentation.  Thrive produces lower blue light intensity at shorter wavelengths and delivers a smoother spectrum over the visual wavelength range, enabling a close spectral match to sunlight.  Thrive offers:

• full spectrum 95 CRI light quality with similar efficacy compared to 90 CRI light sources
• excellent CRI and TM30 metrics with R1 to R15 greater than 92, Rf 96-98 and Rg 99-102
• lower Circadian Action Factor (CAF) and Melanopic Ratios (MR) in warm white color points, and higher CAF and MR values in neutral and cool white color points, which are optimized for human well-being
• 2700K, 3000K, 4000K, 5000K, 5700K, 6500K CCT options

“We believe Thrive white points may be effective in a variety of applications including hospitals, residential, offices, education, and museums.  So many of us spend a large portion of our time indoors without the benefit of natural light.  Thrive improves our indoor experiences under artificial lighting with its vivid color rendering and close match to the natural light provided by the sun,” said Dr. Brian Cumpston, Vice President of Solutions at Bridgelux.  “With the ongoing awareness and interest in human centric lighting solutions, we believe Thrive will assist lighting manufacturers to incorporate circadian features into their products as the lighting market continues to evolve.”

Thrive white points are now available for sampling on SMD 2835 1W 9V and V Series 10C.  Additional Thrive SMD and COB product options will be available for sampling in Q2.

Inquiries about Thrive can be directed to pr@bridgelux.com or in person at LEDucation in New York on March 12 and 13 in booth AH 3102.

Contact: pr@bridgelux.com

Logo: https://www.bridgelux.com/company/newsroom#logos

Product photography: Available upon request to pr@bridgelux.com

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™.  Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design, Vero and Vesta are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.  V Series and Bridging Light and Life are trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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An industry veteran, Thomas will lead marketing for the expanding Vesta® solutions platform

FREMONT, Calif. – March 4, 2019 – Bridgelux is pleased to welcome Uwe Thomas as Senior Director of Product Marketing, effective immediately.  Mr. Thomas joins Bridgelux from Samsung where he drove business development activities in smart lighting with the ARTIK IoT platform.  Prior to Samsung, Mr. Thomas held marketing positions at LED Engin and Philips Lumileds, and an engineering position at Hewlett-Packard where he started his career.

Mr. Thomas has managed product lines including automotive lighting and camera flash products and led a team of technical support managers responsible for lighting design-in activities.  He is now tasked at Bridgelux with managing the Vesta® Series tunable white array and module product lines, as well as delivering the next generation of Vesta Series power and connectivity platform solutions to assist customers in developing the next generation of human centric smart lighting products.

“We are excited to welcome Uwe to the team and look forward to his leadership as we grow our Vesta Series portfolio.  Uwe has over 25 years of experience in the lighting industry with a diverse background and will be a great asset for reaching our goal of bridging light and life,” said Tim Lester, CEO of Bridgelux.

Mr. Thomas is based in Fremont, California, and received a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications Engineering from University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany.

For additional information, please contact pr@bridgelux.com.

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux , the Bridgelux stylized logo design and Vesta are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.  Bridging Light and Life is a trademark of Bridgelux, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Portfolio expansion gives customers increased design flexibility & personalization options

FREMONT, Calif. – February 13, 2019 – Bridgelux today announced a dramatic expansion of the Vesta® Series family of tunable white and dim-to-warm products to help customers meet the increasing demands for environment-specific, personalized lighting.

Light is at the heart of life.  Dynamic, flexible, high quality of light enable personalized environments, and increased contentment, productivity and well-being.  The growing trend towards IoT and smart lighting sets the stage for increased interactivity with lighting.  Bridgelux has the industry’s largest portfolio of tunable white products, enabling lighting installations that can be optimized to meet the needs of specific environments, applications and inhabitants, a human centric lighting solution. 

Last year, Bridgelux announced the new phosphor dispensed architecture for Vesta Tunable White chip-on-board (COB) LED array products delivering increased efficacy and lumens per dollar.  Today, Bridgelux is bolstering its Vesta Tunable White phosphor dispensed parts with:

• New proprietary packaging technology that significantly improves near field color uniformity and enhances beam quality when used with secondary optics
• Expanded product portfolio to include 15, 18, 22 and 29 mm LES sizes that deliver up to 10,000 lumens, enabling the adoption of color tuning into more applications  
• New color range options across all LES sizes, tunable between 2700 Kelvin (K) and 5000K or between 2700K and 6500K

These new products complement the recently announced Vesta Series Edge, a 570 mm linear solution that delivers a uniform and vibrant edge-lit panel lighting experience with a CCT range of 2700 – 5000K.  Vesta Edge will improve office and commercial lighting where low-glare, dynamic white illumination is specified. 

“Retail, office, education and healthcare markets are increasing their demand for lighting that can be tuned to the needs of their customers, employees, students and patients while adhering to various protocols and standards,” said Aaron Merrill, Vice President of Marketing at Bridgelux.  “We’ve expanded our portfolio to meet these evolving demands and we’re growing our ability to support the evolution toward human centric lighting, the right light in the right place and at the right time.”

Vesta Edge is now available for ordering.  The new Vesta Tunable White arrays in 9, 13 and 18 mm form factors will be available for ordering in March, while the other form factors will be available for ordering shortly thereafter.  For more information, please visit https://www.bridgelux.com or email pr@bridgelux.com.

About Bridgelux

Bridging Light and Life™

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's products and solutions make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design and Vesta Series are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc.  Bridging Light and Life is a trademark of Bridgelux, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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