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Luminus Devices and Almeco Group Demonstrate World's First Single-Source LED Street Light Utilizing High Light Output PhlatLight LEDs and Innovative Reflectors

LAS VEGAS, May 12, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Luminus Devices, Inc., designer, developer and manufacturer of high light output PhlatLight® LEDs, today announced a partnership with Almeco Group to demonstrate the world’s first, single-source LED street light. The new street light is powered by a single CSM-360 PhlatLight LED in combination with Almeco’s novel reflector optic. The result is an aesthetically appealing single-source LED fixture that looks more like an HID-based street light than the typical pixelated LED fixtures that dominate the current landscape.

With an emitting area 36 times greater than a 1-watt LED, a single PhlatLight CSM-360 LED can reduce design complexity, reduce cost and increase fixture reliability. Instead of using arrays of LEDs and optics, the single-source street fixture requires only a single optic. Additional cost savings can be realized from the fact that the CSM-360 is a chip-on-board LED, which doesn’t require an expensive metal core PCB typically used with LED arrays.

Almeco’s breakthrough low glare Vega LED98 reflector design incorporating material with the highest values of reflectivity across the visible wavelength spectrum can take the light from the CSM-360 and distribute it onto the street in accordance with industry standards. With a reflectivity of greater than 98 percent, the LED98 reflector optimizes the overall fixture efficiency.

“We are excited by the synergies between Luminus and Almeco, and see the single-source street light concept as an indicator of what is possible in accelerating the adoption of LED technology in the marketplace,” said Keith T. S. Ward, president and CEO, Luminus Devices. “Beyond product aesthetics and cost savings, the single-source solution increases overall fixture reliability by drastically reducing the number of points of failure. It is a perfect lamp replacement option with a large emitting light source, virtually no glare and has a life expectancy of 60,000 hours, reducing the total cost of ownership for our user partners. Almeco is assisting Luminus’ expansion in more outdoor applications with our innovative big chip LEDs.”

“We believe strongly that the partnership with Luminus gives us an ideal opportunity to integrate their big chip LEDs with our reflectors to create the world’s most innovative street light,” said Onorato Fiorentini, CEO, Almeco Group. “Our enhanced selective surface for light sources, particularly for LED optics, enables our development team to work closely with Luminus to generate highly efficient, cost effective street lights for any municipality around the world.”

The Luminus/Almeco street light concept fixture can be seen in Luminus’ booth #979 at LightFair, May 12-14, in the Las Vegas Convention Center. The CSM-360 LED that powers the street light has an energy efficiency in excess of 100 lumens/watt, color temperatures ranging from 3,000K-6,500K and L70 lumen maintenance of 60,000 hours.

About Almeco Group

With its fifty years of experience and production sites in Italy, Germany and France and the Almeco USA Inc. service & processing center in Atlanta, Georgia, and a subsidiary in China, Almeco Group has become a leading supplier to the lighting industry worldwide.

Almeco Group develops and manufactures reflectors for street and industrial lighting, as well as LED lighting, while Anodized and PVD coated Aluminum coils are developed and manufactured for the markets of lighting, decor and solar energy. For more information, visit www.almecogroup.com.

About Luminus Devices

Luminus Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures high performance solid-state light sources — PhlatLight® LEDs – for a variety of lighting applications. Its headquarters and primary manufacturing facilities are located in the Boston greater metropolitan area in Massachusetts, U.S.A. For more information, visit www.luminus.com.

Note to editors: PhlatLight is a registered trademark of Luminus Devices.

SOURCE: Luminus Devices, Inc.