When Task Displays Ltd was granted a Carbon Trust loan, it was decided that a proportion of it should be spent on improving the illumination, with energy saving T5 lighting from leading luminaire designers and manufacturers Riegens Lighting.  With 80% of the installation complete, the company are already reaping the rewards and seeing a dramatic reduction in monthly electricity bills.

Task Displays operate from a 40,000sq ft premises in Leicester and boasts a wide range of “well known and high quality” retailers and international cosmetic houses as clients.   Supplying most of the UK’s major shopping centres, the company's team of highly skilled CAD designers, project managers and craftsmen can provide bespoke displays for individual retail outlets or across a wide chain of stores. 

Following a significant increase in day to day running costs and with the company looking to follow a strong environmental policy, similar to that already practised by many of its clients, Task Displays decided to explore the available options.  By looking at their own premises, Task were aware that the lighting could be greatly improved throughout the manufacturing/workshop areas and decided to take advantage of The Carbon Trust government grant.  

The Carbon Trust loan is aimed at assisting medium sized companies with the refurbishment of industrial and commercial premises by providing grants of up to £100m. These grants can be used to assist projects over the next two years with the loans structured to enable projects to proceed with no capital outlay by the borrower.

Part of the refurbishment at Task included new skylights within the workshop areas to make more use of natural daylight.  The new lighting supplied by Riegens included the Saleni range of batten luminaires using either 1 or 2 x 80W T5 lamps. With the original basic batten fitting using 100W lamps, the change to the Saleni luminaire with 80W lamps provides an energy saving of approximately 85W per fitting, this in turn equals 44% energy saving on the load.  

The Riegens luminaires have been connected to sensors that dim up or down depending on the natural daylight available.  Riegens also modified the Saleni fitting with a more robust backing to allow for easy fitting to the existing trunking running throughout the building.

Paul Johnson, MD at Task Displays, commented “At first I did doubt the savings and changes that the new lighting system would bring.  As each area of our facility was refurbished, not only did the lights have an uplifting effect on the workforce but the energy savings have been considerable.  I can now see the potential for other factories to do the same and I am pleased to spread the word and help cut down energy usage.  The last phase of our refurbishment will be to change the lighting within our administration areas using Riegens Mirac range of luminaires”.

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