Geneviève Rocheleau AUTHOR: Geneviève Rocheleau | CATEGORY: Design

March 31, 2011

How can LEDs provide safer environment for kids of all ages

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During the weekend of March 18th and 19th, Philips Lumec attended the annual congress of landscape architects organized by the Association des architectes paysagistes du Québec (AAPQ – Society of Landscape Architects of Quebec) in Montreal, Quebec. This year’s theme focused on childhood landscapes. The main question was how landscape architects plan and design spaces where children spend time [...]

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Pascale Savard AUTHOR: Pascale Savard | CATEGORY: Technologies

March 23, 2011

LED products: innovation at its best!

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At Philips Lumec, we are always working to design innovative lighting products that will not only improve people’s surroundings, but that will also combine energy savings and lighting quality. And our line of LED lighting products fits that description perfectly [...]

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Pascale Savard AUTHOR: Pascale Savard | CATEGORY: Sustainable Development

March 17, 2011

Being Green. For Real! Part 2.3: The industry

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Here is the third part of our series on sustainable development. After looking at our environmental actions (part 2.1), and how our initiatives have had a tangible impact on the community we work for (part 2.2), it is now time to examine how our work, initiatives, and also our products, have contributed in improving the lighting industry as far as sustainable development is concerned [...]

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Éric Ladouceur AUTHOR: Éric Ladouceur | CATEGORY: Technologies

March 15, 2011

Optical orientation

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After nineteen years working in the office making photometric calculations and managing the photometric team, I decided to apply for a position as a technical representative. So it has been ten months since I have been on the road, and I have to admit: I see strange things on the different sites I go to [...]

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Geneviève Rocheleau AUTHOR: Geneviève Rocheleau | CATEGORY: Design

March 10, 2011

The CLU Foundation: a success story between specifiers and Philips Lumec

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You already know that it is harder and harder for companies to stand out with their product offer as there are so many companies competing for this spot. However, the real challenge is to have a product offer that specifiers will appreciate and that also correspond to their aesthetical requirements. Knowing how to manufacture innovative products is one of the main challenges we face on a daily basis [...]

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