LED lighting for better visual effect

              Electricity for lighting is accounted for a large portion of the total power consumption for garment industry. Along with local lighting standard, owners of export orders also impose their lighting requirement to ensure product’s quality and productivity.
 
 
          A typical garment factory in Vietnam is lightted by T8 flourescent tubes. To achieve requred 500 lux at each workstation, factories are using hundreds of flourescent tube just for each production line. At 36-38 watt consumption of each tubes, electricity for lighting is not a small number. Worse, with this method, general lighting is excessive only to meet the minimum lighting requiremnet for production. This is the opportunity for factories to save more power for lighting.
 

GARCO 10, a leading company of the industry, has pineering to try out different way of “area lighiting” that gurantees lighting requirement at each work station and at the same time keep general lighting at adequate. LED lighting back then was also an option but not a solution yet due to level of LED technology (in 2009) and quality of light fixture.
 
 
    
 Until June 2011, HIPOWERTECH – a member of HIPT Group – worked along with GARCO 10 to develop a LED lighting solution applied at each work station and at a minumum power consumption of 3W. For a single production line of in Hanoi factory, LED lighting allowed GARCO 10 to cut down 40% of fluorescent tubes and save thousands of US dollars on electricity.
 

 
  Currently, GARCO 10 has been deploy LED solution on large scale for different factories in her system. GARCO 10’s showrooms for more luxury products are also using LED lighting for better visual effect and thus quickly lead to higher business performance.
 
 
      With early sucesses at GARCO 10, DUGACO, VIET DANH, HIPOWERTECH takes small steps to introduce  LED lighting to diferent users with different applications as small but practical contribution to energy saving – a simple but essential for the country to develop with sustainability.
 
Sourrce: Vietnam Potential Magazine

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