New Products at Lighting + Building April-2008 Frankfurt

PRESS RELEASE

Ecomagination at work: GE debuts a host of new energy-efficient, longer-life lighting

Frankfurt April 2008 – GE Consumer & Industrial announces a range of new energy-efficient and longer-life lighting products at Light + Building 2008 6-11 April in Frankfurt (Hall 4.1 D10). The products range from new energy-efficient Watt-Miser lamps and UltraStart Watt–M iserballasts to a new generation of LED products to enhanced life CMH lamps.

"Ecomagination" is a GE initiative to aggressively bring new technologies to market that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges. A number of new products will be debuted at Light + Building to demonstrate GE's commitment to create more environmentally friendly products.

• T8 Watt-Miser™ – More than 10 percent energy savings can be achieved with this lamp and existing fitting and control gear combination. GE’s T8 Watt-Miser lamp has excellent lumen maintenance and has the same colour performance, life and lumen maintenance as the Triphosphor T8. The 32W version will be available in April, 2008, the rest of the ranges will be released throughout the year. All of the lamps are available in 4 colour temperature (3000K-6500K)
• LongLast Biax L lamps – Single-ended, compact design lamps include 40- and 50-watt types with an extended rated life from 12,000 hours to 22,500 hours on a 12-hour burn cycle, plus a new 80-watt LongLast Biax L lamp for applications requiring more lumens.
• UltraStart™ Watt–Miser™ T5 Ballast System – Warm–start ballast offers wattage savings with lumen equivalency compared to standard T5 systems, parallel operation that keeps the unit operational if a lamp fails, fast start times (0.9 seconds) and greater than 80,000 on/off cycles.
• 2D T5 Watt-Miser™ – Provides immediate energy savings of up to 14 percent to users replacing standard 2D T5 lamps in existing fixtures by reducing lamp wattage by 4 watts while maintaining the same lumen output as standard 2D T5 lamps. The lamp has more than a 15,000-hour life rating which could save more than €6 per lamp.

New CMH Lamps

GE's strength in CMH technology and its success in the pursuit of longer lamp life and improved colour performance have resulted in a new generation of high performance, long-life lamps that deliver impressive cost of ownership savings

• CMH Ultra 70W G8.5 and G12 ConstantColor™ CMH lamps – Deliver industry leading lumen maintenance while providing retrofit directly into existing GE format G8.5 and G12 fixtures. The lamps also offer improved colour with Cri of 90+ and brightness for extended periods in retail environments, while saving on time, energy and maintenance costs.
• ConstantColor™ CMH MR16 and Supermini Lamps – New 35W versions of the smallest range of CMH lamps available. The MR16 'Precise' and the Supermini provide two colour temperatures with a unique 4200k offering and the standard 3000k. The new products also have significantly improved colour rendition, each being rated at both 930 and 942 respectively, and outstanding energy efficiency.
• ConstantColor™ – New 20W long life CMH lamp has a life of 12,000 hours, compared to the 7,500 hour span of its GE predecessor. The ConstantColor™ 35W and 70W products now last for 15,000 hours, as opposed to 10,000 and 9,000 hours, respectively. All three ConstantColor CMH lamps are 3000k colour and are the longest life products of this kind in the market.
• CMH Electronic Ballast Systems – CMH ballasts for 20-, 35- and 70-watt CMH lamps are built for quality and reliability to deliver trouble-free performance throughout the 50,000 hours of service life. Lamp life is maximized through the use of 150 Hz square-wave lamp current, constant lamp power and immunity to main voltage transients.

LEDs Knock Down Illumination Barriers

• VIO™ high–power white LED – uses proprietary violet–chip technology to produce less than a 75–K elvin colour shift over a 50,000–hour rated life. Its minimal colour shift overcomes many of the inherent colour control issues of standard blue or red–green–blue LED devices. VIO LED also provides high efficiency at warmer colour temperatures, as well as flexible colour temperature and colour–rendering options.
• LED Refrigerated Display Lighting System – a redesigned LED system incorporates full dimming control and motion sensing to enable further energy savings for retailers in new and retrofit applications.

New Outdoor Luminaires

New street light fittings provide a number of attractive, efficient and easy-to-maintain high pressure sodium, ceramic metal halide and LED options. The lamps come in a range of wattages for a wide variety of road, architectural and decorative applications.

• Iberia Premium LED – Suitable for all architectural and urban environments, the Iberia Premium LED can also be used for regular roadway lighting as a street light LED. These LEDs are weather resistant with a degree of protection IP66 for the optical assembly and IP44 for the ballast compartment. With a wide range of mounting devises, the fixture can be mounted vertically, horizontally and wall mounted.
• DS-100 LED – Outdoor decorative urban sites can now benefit from the latest white LED technology of the DS-100 LED. Dimmable and controllable, these LEDs are highly energy-efficient (with 30 percent less consumption) and allow for all applications in amenity lighting for city beautification. The DS-100 LED offers best-in-class lighting uniformity and available colour temperatures of 3,000ºK, 4,000ºK, 6,000ºK and amber. No maintenance is needed for up to 50,000 hours or up to 11 years.

"GE has always been a leader in providing outstanding performance and reliability, and we continue to be a leader when it comes to energy efficiency," says Edward Guest, Marketing Director, GE Consumer & Industrial EMEA Lighting. "Our newest offerings demonstrate our commitment to provide more options than ever to achieve energy-efficient performance, long useful life and low operating costs."

GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as one of the industry leaders in major appliance, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE) brings imagination to work, selling products under the Monogram®, Profile™, Precise ConstantColor™ Biax™, Biax™ 2D™, ConstantColor™ CMH, Lucalox™ and Starcoat™ T5.

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Press releases:

• GE's new 2D Watt-Miser™ offers improved energy savings without losing light output
• New GE ballasts for T5 and CMH lamps are the ultimate lighting machines with energy savings and reliability to meet any requirement
• GE Consumer & Industrial unveils new 35W options in ConstantColorTM CMH range, consolidating leading role in miniature HID technology
• The key to longer life: GE Consumer & Indistrial’s pioneering development of CMH lamp technology
  
• GE Consumer & Industrial to unveil 'Next Generation' CMH Ultra 70W G8.5 and G12 formats
• Control Freak: LED Refrigerated Display Lighting System adds energy–saving functionality
• GE Consumer & Industrial is introducing a long life fluorescent product portfolio to the market
• Longer life, compact GE Biax™ L now available in additional wattage options to provide relief from high maintenance costs
• GE Demonstrates World's First "Roll–to–Roll" Manufactured Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
• New GE outdoor luminaires provide high luminance at a low cost for street, architectural and decorative applications
• New GE miniature T2 CFL lamps prove that energy efficiency and high lumens can come in small packages
• GE's new Watt-Miser™ advances T5 technology and offers instant energy savings
• On–Off Switch: Tetra® Contour colors now represented both night and day
• Exclusive VIO™ High–P ower White LED Knocks Down General Illumination Barriers