Hardy Schmitz – With LOOP®, Brumberg offers the first certified LED installation housing made from 100% recycled ocean plastic

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More information on Hardy Schmitz: https://www.hardy-schmitz.de + With a very broad and deep product portfolio of over 300,000 branded products from well-known manufacturers, one of the largest cable warehouses in Germany, our branch network and a comprehensive range of services, we offer the best quality, innovative products and reliable, fast delivery. With our company motto ELECTROLOGISTICS WITH SERVICEPLUS, we guarantee our customers tailor-made solutions and the best results in the implementation of their projects.

In addition to first-class and constantly expanding ranges of electrical engineering and industrial electrics, we guarantee our customers a reliable network of suppliers.Our sophisticated storage and logistics system also enables not only a 24-hour delivery service, but also, if desired, just-in-time deliveries directly to production, to the machine or to the construction site.

Our distinctive customer orientation as well as our range of exclusively high-quality products and a comprehensive portfolio of innovative services are the key to our success.

Progress is a tradition for our company and as an innovative system service provider, our customers benefit from individual, tailor-made optimization processes in procurement. We attach great importance to recognizing the special requirements of our customers and offering them individual solutions that we implement effectively together.

Our goal is to make procurement processes along the entire value chain efficient. Preserve existing values and create new ones for and with our business partners. Therefore, we maintain a sustainable, partnership relationship with our customers, suppliers and employees.

In addition, HARDY SCHMITZ plans and manufactures individual low-voltage switchgear and controls. And we are competently at your side in the areas of cable logistics, KNX project planning, e-mobility and lighting planning.

More information on Jan Schmitz (Managing Partner & Chairman of the Management Board, Hardy Schmitz): See the full profile on EMR Executive Services

More information on BRUMBERG Leuchten: See the full profile on EMR Executive Services

More information on Benedikt Brumberg (Managing Director, BRUMBERG Leuchten): See the full profile on EMR Executive Services

More information on Johannes Brumberg (Managing Director, BRUMBERG Leuchten): See the full profile on EMR Executive Services

More information on LOOP® by BRUMBERG Leuchten: https://www.brumberg.com/en/loop/ + Plastic waste in the ocean is a global catastrophe that we must do something about. We are making an important contribution with the first luminaire whose plastic content consists of 100 % “Recycled Ocean Plastic”. With LOOP® we are setting new standards for sustainable lighting solutions on the global market that reflect high quality, functionality and aesthetics. Because sustainability is not just a fleeting trend. For more and more consumers, exactly this is an important factor in their purchasing decisions.

More information on RCS Certification: https://www.scsglobalservices.com/services/recycled-claim-standard + The Recycled Claim Standard (RCS) is an international, voluntary standard that sets requirements for third-party. It is a chain of custody standard to track recycled raw materials through the supply chain. It uses the chain of custody requirements of the Content Claim Standard (CSS).
The Recycled Claim Standard is intended for use with any product that contains at least 5% Recycled Material. Each stage of production is required to be certified, beginning at the recycling stage and ending at the last seller in the final business-to-business transaction. Material Collection and Material Concentration sites are subject to self-declaration, document collection, and on-site visits.
The RCS standard is a single attribute certification and does not take into account social or environmental aspects of processing and manufacturing, quality, or legal compliance.

The goal of the RCS is to increase the use of Recycled materials in products and supply chains.

• Alignment of Recycled definitions across multiple applications.
• Tracking and tracing Recycled input materials.
• Providing customers (both brands and consumers) with a tool to make informed decisions.
• Providing assurance that materials in the final product are actually recycled and processed more sustainably.

SCS Global Services is a globally recognized, third-party certifier of recycled content claims. SCS Global Services has been a global leader in third-party environmental and sustainability verification, certification, auditing, testing, and standards development for more than three decades.

More information on Jim Knutzon (President and Acting Chief Executive Officer, RCS): https://www.scsglobalservices.com/about/our-team 

More information on Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI): https://www.dali-alliance.org/ + The DALI Alliance is the global industry organization for DALI®, the internationally-standardized protocol for digital communication between lighting-control devices. DALI is the Digital Addressable Lighting Interface.
Building on the long-established benefits of DALI, the DALI-2™ certification program brings the promise of significantly improved interoperability along with more features and functions including sensing and data gathering. Meanwhile, D4i™ enables DALI for intelligent, IoT-ready luminaires. We have also introduced different connectivity options over wireless and IP-based networks and added the new DALI+™ brand.
DALI-2 refers to the latest version of the DALI protocol.
Compared with DALI version-1, there are many new commands and features in DALI-2. While DALI version-1 only included control gear, DALI-2 includes control devices such as application controllers and input devices (e.g. sensors), as well as bus power supplies.
DALI-2 is focused on interoperability of products from different vendors, and the DALI-2 certification program confirms compatibility of products with the relevant specifications.

More information on KNX (KNX is an Abbreviation for the Word Konnex): https://www.knx.org/knx-en/for-professionals/ + Whether you want to control lighting, shutters, security systems, energy management, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning systems, signaling and monitoring systems, interfaces to service and building control systems, remote control, audio and video control,… All these functions work via an uniform system. This is called the principle of interworking. This is home and building control made easy. This is KNX.

In May 1999 members of the following associations founded KNX Association cvba:

• EIBA ( European Installation Bus Association)
• EHSA (European Home Systems Association)
• BCI (BatiBUS Club International)

The Association is the owner of the Worldwide STANDARD for Home and Building Control: KNX and also the owner of the KNX trademark logo worldwide. KNX Association is a non-profit-oriented organisation governed by Belgian Law. Members are manufacturers developing devices for several applications for home and building control based on KNX like lighting control, shutter control, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, energy management, metering, monitoring, alarm/intrusion systems, household appliances, audio/video and lots more. Next to manufacturers also service providers (utilities, telecom, …) can become a member of the KNX Association.

Next to its members, KNX Association has concluded partnership agreements with more than 75.000 partners in more than 164 countries worldwide.

EMR Additional Notes:

• LED:
  • LED stands for light emitting diode. LED lighting products produce light up to 90% more efficiently than incandescent light bulbs. How do they work? An electrical current passes through a microchip, which illuminates the tiny light sources we call LEDs and the result is visible light.
  • A light-emitting diode is a semiconductor light source that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons.
• LED vs. Halogen:
  • Halogen bulbs, while lasting longer than incandescent bulbs, only last up to 2,000 hours. In contrast, LED bulbs can last up to 25,000 hours, and LED tubes are rated for up to 50,000 hours. LED bulbs can use as much as 80% percent less energy than halogen bulbs.
  • There’s obviously a clear winner when it comes to LED vs halogen lighting. LED lights are more energy-efficient, have a longer lifespan, and offer more choices in color temperature. They do cost a little more, but their extremely long lifespan easily offsets the higher upfront cost.
• microLED:
  • Compared to widespread LCD technology, microLED displays offer better contrast, response times, and energy efficiency. They are also capable of high speed modulation, and have been proposed for chip-to-chip interconnect applications.
  • MicroLED prototype displays have been shown to offer up to 10 times more brightness than the best OLED panel while being significantly more power efficient, making them an exciting new technology in the world of displays.
• OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode):
  • This refers to the panel that’s used inside an OLED TV – or any other kind of OLED screen. So it’s the OLED panel makes OLED TVs stand out in comparison to other types of panels. You’ll also find CRT (cathode ray tube), LED (light-emitting diode), LCD (liquid crystal display), or QLED (quantum dot).
  • LED LCD screens use a backlight to illuminate their pixels, while OLED’s pixels produce their own light. You might hear OLED’s pixels called ‘self-emissive’, while LCD tech is ‘transmissive’. The light of an OLED display can be controlled on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
  • OLED TVs should offer better overall eye comfort than QLED and any other LCD-based screen, because OLED produces significantly less blue light than LED-backlit QLED TVs.

• IP Ratings (Ingress Protection):
  • A two-digit number established by the International Electro Technical Commission, is used to provide an Ingress Protection rating to a piece of electronic equipment or to an enclosure for electronic equipment.
  • The protection class after EN60529 are indicated by short symbols that consist of the two code letters IP and a code numeral for the amount of the protection.
  • Example: IP65 (NEMA 4)
    The two digits represent different forms of environmental influence:
    • The first digit represents protection against ingress of solid objects.
    • The second digit represents protection against ingress of liquids.
  • The larger the value of each digit, the greater the protection. As an example, a product rated IP54 would be better protected against environmental factors than another similar product rated as IP42.

• IK Ratings (Impact Kinetic):
  • IK Rating or “Impact Protection” (the K is from ‘Kinetic’ to differentiate from IP rating) is defined in international standards and indicates the level of resistance an electrical enclosure provides against mechanical impact.
  • K09 rated items are protected against 10 joules of impact, which is the equivalent of a 5kg mass being dropped from 200mm above the product.

• Lumen (lm):
  • In LED lighting, lumens measure the brightness of a light. This is different than Watts, which measure the amount of energy in a light. The term lumen means “light,” which makes sense when you understand what this measures. In other words, lumens measure the amount of light your LED light puts out.
  • Each lumen emits approximately the same amount of light as one candle.
• Kelvin (K):
  • Kelvin is a measurement used to describe the color temperature of a light source. This is the specification that gives a description of the warmth or coolness of a light source.

• Color Rendering Index (Ra) – CRI:
  • CRI, an extensive noun, is the acronym of color-rendering index, while Ra is the marked symbol of “General Color Rendering Index”.
  • The colour rendering index defines the ability of a light source to identify colours, and is measured on a scale of 1 – 100. On this scale a rendering of 1 is monochromatic light, and a rendering of 100 is natural sunlight, so you can think of the scale as a measure of the quality of light produced by the source.
  • Quantitative measure of the ability of a light source to reproduce the color of different objects faithfully in comparison with an ideal or natural light source.