Let there be light – with EBV Elektronik

Munich, March 2006
EBV Elektronik, an Avnet (NYSE:AVT) Company, launches an European team of lighting specialists to promote LED (Light Emitting Diodes) technology in lighting applications.

With LEDs, lighting designers benefit from a new-found freedom, as LEDs enable them to realise a new world of lighting that can change our daily lives and our environment as well as meet the practical requirements of a service life of up to 100,000 hours.  LED lighting is simple and ‘in’.

Having spotted the enormous potential of LED technology for applications in lighting technology, EBV Elektronik has set up a special General Lighting Competence Team exclusively for the use of LED technology in lighting applications. The EBV team knows every detail of the semiconductor market and technologies, has access to the leading LED manufacturers, and benefits from a strong external partner network.

LED solutions are usually specific to each application, as every lighting task is different. Ultimately, what lighting architects want is the design freedom provided by the highly flexible LED technology. With LEDs, light can be generated in almost every colour of the spectrum and altered as desired: from light profiles that automatically change colour very slowly over the day (e.g. red in the morning, blue at noon and red again in the evening) to precisely defined colours that can be (re)programmed in accordance with customer requirements.

While ready-made LED lighting systems can be assembled by every experienced electrical installer, developers and manufacturers of LED lights need the technical support of electronic specialists, and this electronics and system knowledge will now be supported by the General Lighting experts of EBV Elektronik. EBV’s General Lighting Competence Team helps lighting manufacturers and their development service providers find the optimal solution.

EBV Elektronik gives helpful advice to lighting manufacturers looking for an external partner, such as a firm of engineering consultants, to develop the control electronics for an LED lighting system. However, EBV Elektronik itself sells only ‘naked’ LEDs and other electronic components, while the system integrators of EBV’s partner network take care of the relevant value creation. These external partners then provide the necessary engineering services – in the fields of electronic design, thermal management and, if required, visual design.

“We make sure that the lighting architects can convert their creative lighting concepts into reality on an LED basis, by supporting the developers in realising the appropriate control electronics,” says Cordula Carlin, explaining how the new General Lighting Competence Team operates at EBV. “With 37 years of electronics experience and annual sales of over EUR 1 billion, EBV knows the market inside out. EBV’s new team of lighting experts utilises this knowledge to enable the creation of innovative lighting solutions.”

EBV is by far the largest supplier of optoelectronics technology in European semiconductor distribution, with a market share of over 40%. Awards from, for example, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors as ‘European Distributor of the Year’ in 2004 and 2005 underline EBV’s leading role in this sector.

Customers can obtain more information by e-mail, from:
generallighting@ebv.com

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