Day: 2 May 2019

UK lighting company Luxonic has been bought by US firm Glamox in an initial £10.15m deal.

Established in 1986, Luxonic is a UK based lighting company with its own manufacturing plant located in Basingstoke. It boasts a strong brand, working with all the big port companies or customers needing warehouse lights, including Amazon, The Hut Group, Shop Direct and Asda.

Glamox, which has been present with its own subsidiary in the UK since 1967, carries out a lot of maritime and offshore projects.

The acquisition strengthens both providers’ combined position in the UK market with complementary sales reach and product offering. They say it means a very big product range of highly energy efficient lighting products and a large support framework.

Luxonic had revenues of GBP 16.7m in 2018.

Pictured are Luxonic MD, Nick Tavare (left) and Glamox President & CEO, Rune Marthinussen

 

 

UK lighting company Luxonic has been bought by US firm Glamox in an initial £10.15m deal.

Established in 1986, Luxonic is a UK based lighting company with its own manufacturing plant located in Basingstoke. It boasts a strong brand, working with all the big port companies or customers needing warehouse lights, including Amazon, The Hut Group, Shop Direct and Asda.

Glamox, which has been present with its own subsidiary in the UK since 1967, carries out a lot of maritime and offshore projects.

The acquisition strengthens both providers’ combined position in the UK market with complementary sales reach and product offering. They say it means a very big product range of highly energy efficient lighting products and a large support framework.

Luxonic had revenues of GBP 16.7m in 2018.

Pictured are Luxonic MD, Nick Tavare (left) and Glamox President & CEO, Rune Marthinussen

 

 

Kögel will be showcasing its NOVUM trailer generation at transport logistic in Munich next month, using the slogan “Innovations made for you! – Kögel NOVUM: Light & Strong”. Visitors to the fair can see the new variant of the NOVUM-generation Kögel Trucker Trailer (KTT), as well as the even lighter Kögel Port 45 Triplex container chassis in the atrium at the east entrance. At the Kögel stand 205/306 in Hall A6, visitors can enjoy finding out about the expanded range of services for trailers, as well as Kögel’s original spare parts and the NOVUM-generation Kögel Cargo Rail. In addition, Kögel customers can benefit from lots of exciting trade fair offers in the above-mentioned product and service ranges.

In the atrium: the Kögel Trucker Trailer and the Port 45 Triplex
Kögel is presenting two trailers in the atrium at the east entrance. One of these is a new variant of the Kögel Trucker Trailer. The KTT is the outcome of an opinion poll that Kögel conducted with professional drivers at the Truck Grand Prix, the Wolfsmeile festival and at motorway services, when the company asked what makes the perfect trailer for truckers.

The newly developed lightweight semi-trailer container chassis with a central extension can also be seen.

At Kögel stand 205/306: Kögel Cargo Rail and Kögel services
The third exhibit is the new NOVUM-generation Kögel Cargo Rail. This rail-loadable variant also has the optimised external frame profile and the improved body that characterises the NOVUM generation. As well as making the Kögel Cargo Rail even more robust, these features simplify handling in daily use.

Further highlights at the stand include the expanded service offer for trailers, including financing, full service, breakdown service, and telematics.

Drive specialist Nord Drivesystems has created a mobile commissioning and service solution for all of its drives.

In a mobile age, customers increasingly expect mobile solutions for efficient handling of the installed drive technology directly on site. Nord Drivesystems has catered for this requirement and has developed an app for diagnosis, analysis, monitoring and parameterisation of NORD drive systems. The new NORDCON APP together with the NORDAC ACCESS BT Bluetooth stick provide a mobile commissioning and service solution and give users new options for control and optimisation of their NORD drives. This speeds up commissioning, simplifies maintenance and enables faults to be remedied faster. With this, down times and costs can be reduced.

The dashboard-based visualisation is useful for drive monitoring and fault diagnosis. With a help function and rapid access to parameters, parameterisation of drive units is simple and easy. In addition, the app has further practical features such as a backup and recovery function for simple handling of drive parameters, as well as an individually configurable oscilloscope function for analysis of the drive. Video tutorials and the possibility of direct contact with NORD Support additionally assist users in their work.

The NORDAC ACCESS BT acts as a bridge between the drive system and the app. The stick is connected to the software via Bluetooth and is used directly on the frequency inverter. Users therefore have practical access to the drive data and remain in full control of access. The NORDAC ACCESS BT can also be used without the app, for example to save parameter data. If the frequency inverter is damaged or the the drive has to be replaced, the original parameters can be easily uploaded from the stick. Parameter transfer between a drive and a PC is also possible.