1984-2024 A Brief History of Arrant-Light Oy The story of Arrant-Light Oy began in Turku, in 1984 as a supplier of long-life fluorescent tubes and bulbs. Mr. Tarmo Mäkinen established the company and together with his wife Eeva started to run it. His knowledge and long experience in managing wholesale and electrical installation companies led…
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Let’s delve deeper into the topic of common LED lighting myths and how to separate fact from fiction. LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting is still a rapidly advancing technology, and while it offers numerous benefits, it has also become the subject of various myths and misconceptions. Understanding the truth behind these myths is crucial. This…
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This spring we will expand our partnership with Ledil. We have been working with Ledil for years and we have supplied Ledil’s LED lenses, reflectors, and COB holders in the Baltic countries. We are proud to announce that we are now an authorized distributor of Ledil Optics also in Nordic countries. From now on we can…
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This is really unbelievable situation that we are celebrating the 3rd Christmas time in a row under crisis and the unnormal situation in Europe and globally. We were just getting out from the crisis of the Covid virus and suddenly the 24th of February this year we heard from the news that there started a…
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Light+Building exhibition is organized in Frankfurt, Germany every two years. This exhibition is Europe’s leading fair for lighting industry professionals and it gathers all suppliers, manufacturers, and designers together. Arrant-Light Oy took part in the fair first time with its own stand to promote the aLED brand. A long waited Light+Building 2022 is now over…
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A few years ago we released our own borosilicate glass optics series named aLED ALOG100. This series contains six different glass lenses with angles from 20° to 160°. These glass lenses have so many good features, and in this blog post, you’ll understand why aLED ALOG100 is so popular and why you should really consider…
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The first article of this 3-part blog post series was dealing with the near-term history of European directives and regulations related to energy efficiency and different energy-related products (ErP), not only energy-using products (EuP). Starting from Kioto 2005, this process has then proceeded to the situation, where new kinds of regulations have been taken into…
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At the beginning of September, Oskari Viitaniemi started in our lighting component sales team as a category leader for power supplies. He will bring a lot of knowledge of sales and logistics to the team with his great experience in the field. His time will mainly go into sales, but he will be also part…
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In this blog post series of 3 articles, our technical sales Tero Nurmi will tell you about the new EU regulations which will take part on 1st September 2021. In this blog series first Tero will tell you, what are these two different regulations: Single Lighting Regulation (SLR) and Energy Label Regulation (ELR). After that, Tero will…
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Two weeks ago we launched the new product, aLED SUVISPOT, which is all about the greatest color rendering there is. However, sometimes the application doesn’t need great color rendering. We are now talking about industrial lighting and some outdoor lighting like in the sports fields. In these cases, the lumen output is more important than…
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