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Emilia School, Häljarp, Sweden
As part of its commitment to meet the EU’s target to increase energy efficiency by 20 per cent by 2020, Landskrona Municipality has opened what it claims is the most energy efficient school in Sweden, Emilia School in Häljarp.

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St. Oswalds, Austria
Thorn on top – and saving money for St. Oswald’s residents
Austria: The municipality of St. Oswald, in a major improvement programme, has substantially reduced its maintenance and energy costs for residential street and footpath lighting by switching from mercury light sources to LEDs.

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Newcastle United Football Club
Energy saving refurbishment on the ball
Newcastle United’s St James’ Park, the oldest football stadium in North East England, has just been given the latest LED treatment.

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Thorn narrows the energy and knowledge gap
Up and up goes the price of electricity, and now they’re telling us yet again that is still much too cheap. One way to fight rising energy costs is, of course, to use LED lighting.

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International Children's Games, Lanarkshire
In August of this year the 45th International Children's Games was hosted jointly by North and South Lanarkshire Councils. This was the first time that the world's biggest youth sporting event had been hosted in Scotland. A total of 1,300 competitors and coaches representing 77 cities from 33 countries worldwide had a great time competing and making lots of new friends during their stay in Lanarkshire for the International Olympic Committee-recognised 3 day event.

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TES – three small letters, one big idea

Thorn Energy Solutions, or TES, was created at the beginning of the year to deliver customised, cost-effective energy solutions to businesses and public institutions in the UK. We caught up with sales director Nick Clark, 39, to find out more.


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Enter the 2012 Zumtobel Group Award Now
Entries for the highly anticipated 2012 Zumtobel Group Award are now open, which means you have until Thursday 1 December 2011 to submit your project(s) online at http://www.zumtobel-group-award.com/.

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Thorn Lighting 2.0 - A New Thorn Responding to a changing industry
7th June 2011
The lighting industry is changing at a rate none of us have seen before. New entrants from the global economy are changing the supply chain, technologies are transforming design and sustainability issues are driving the need for low-carbon solutions.

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Thorn Academy of Light hosts information day for local factory workers
7th June 2011
Last month employees from neighbouring supplier Remploy visited the Thorn Academy of Light in Spennymoor to see where and how the lights they help make are developed and tested.

Photo of Remploy Employees from left to right; Joanne Ward, David Pattison, Nigel Mackie, Stephen Avery, Robin Leaver, Keith Stephenson


Paul Coggins repositions the company for growth
10th June 2011

Paul Coggins, Managing Director talks to Lux Magazine about the future of Thorn Lighting UK. 


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Thorn to light Durham's Lumiere festival
Lumiere Festival 2011
Durham’s winter wonderland light festival, Lumiere, is to benefit from Thorn sponsorship, increasing the chance of it being yet another spectacular success.

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And the winner is…
Hundreds of electricians from across the country tried Thorn’s “FixExpress” trial when the firm’s exhibition van visited their premises or local stockist. They raced against each other to see who could fix the all-new PopPack fluorescent batten in the quickest time.

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Chris Atkinson: ‘The Pursuit of Quality and Success’
Quality is not a level of achievement for NG Bailey. It is a culture, a commitment to making tomorrow better than today. You may never actually arrive, but are constantly pursuing improvement. Thorn Lighting spoke to Chris Atkinson, Electrical Quality Control Manager at Salford and the driving force behind NG Bailey’s quality of work in the North West, to ask his views on quality and his recent visit to Thorn’s laboratory in Spennymoor, near Durham.

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Thorn moves UK headquarters to Spennymoor, County Durham
12 October 2010
Thorn Lighting today announced proposals to relocate its UK headquarters from Borehamwood, Hertfordshire to the award winning Thorn plant in Spennymoor, County Durham, which houses 500 staff. The move is designed to improve service levels for Thorn's customers and sales force alike.

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Change at the top
Grant Daniels, one of the best known figures in the lighting industry, has retired after 23 years service. He is succeeded as Managing Director of Sales for Thorn UK & Ireland by Paul Coggins who previously served as Director Professional Luminaires – UK for Philips Lighting.

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Minister announces £4.3m investment in Thorn PLED technology
The largest UK pure research project in the area of printed lighting panels continues to expand with more than £4m of new funding and three new partners.

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Thorn Academy of Light, Spennymoor celebrates its first birthday
The Thorn Academy of Light (TAL) in Spennymoor has just celebrated its first birthday since opening in February 2009.  Built at the front of Thorn’s factory the Competence Sharing Centre has a floor space of 3,000 sq m on two levels. Up to 100 people can experience lighting techniques in practise, view exhibitions and attend training courses.

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Aalborg University
Base LED acclaimed for energy savings
Like all universities, Aalborg is concerned with cutting energy use as far as possible without reducing the quality of its facilities. Indeed Danish building regulations (Bygningsreglementet) require a reduction in consumption of 10 and 20% from 2006 levels by 2011 and 2013 respectively.

Disposal of industrial batteries
Thorn Lighting is fully committed to fulfil its obligations as a Producer* of Batteries used in emergency lighting applications, which are classified as Industrial Batteries under the UK Regulations.

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Thorn lights the way at UN Climate Summit
Hosting a global sustainability summit calls for sustainable lighting. That’s why Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the venue for the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) this December, is one of the earliest locations for the Thorn Adelie lantern.

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Thorn Lighting crowned Britain's Best Factory
23 September 2009
Thorn’s Spennymoor factory near Durham has been named Factory of the Year for 2009 at the Best Factory Awards (BFA) run by Cranfield School of Management in partnership with the magazine Works Management.

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Rugby Union World Cup 2015
The 2015 Rugby World Cup will be the eighth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial rugby union world championship. The tournament will be hosted by England from 4th September to 17th October 2015.

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Illumination levels at Wembley
The illumination levels at Wembley National Stadium were recently measured by Thorn Lighting Engineers Pat Holley, Baris Gursen and Noel Whiffin after 3 years usage.

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Goodbye Switch Start, Hello High Frequency
1 September 2009 |  Roadshow dates [PDF/19KB]
Thorn is today launching a major energy saving campaign, urging small and medium electrical contractors to change from installing glow-starter switch (magnetic) driven fluorescent fittings to high frequency (HF) electronic versions, which consume about 20% less power and hence reduce CO2 emissions.

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Spennymoor attains ISO 14001 certification
As part of its commitment to sustainable development, Thorn has another production plant certified in accordance with the environmental management standard ISO 14001. The environmental audit at the lighting brand’s largest luminaire production facility - at its home base in Spennymoor, northeast England - was successfully completed during the summer of 2009.

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New Application Guides now available
Thorn are pleased to announce the issue of a new range of application brochures.
Guides on Logistics & Distribution Centres, Hospitals & Healthcare and Railways have
all been published in an electronic format which you can download from our website.

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Brighter Pupils’ Application Guide.
Visit our new Thorn UK education website where the Brighter Pupils Application Guide is available to download.

http://www.brighterpupils.com


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New Search facility for Thorn’s E-Catalogue
Finding just the right product has been made even easier!
Thorn’s Electronic Catalogue has been improved with new, powerful search functions to make it quicker and easier to find exactly what you need! Visitors can now apply various filters to search the catalogue content according to specific criteria, such as application area, mounting type, ballast type and much more.

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Energy-Efficiency MEP visits Thorn
Lib Dem MEP for the North East, Fiona Hall, an energy efficiency specialist on the European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy Committee, visited Thorn's Spennymoor plant on Monday 18 May 2009, to hear about their continued commitment to both developing energy saving light fittings and also educating the professional market on the benefits of energy saving products, in the company’s drive to take the least efficient energy using light fittings off the market. 

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Winners of LightLinks urban lighting competition announced
Lighting Urban Community International (LUCI) has announced the winners of its second global LightLinks Competition at an awards ceremony held at the Lumiville public lighting trade fair.

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Thorn's Gateshead scheme wins prestigious energy saving award
Thorn is celebrating after winning the most prestigious category in the 2009 EMILAS awards. The ‘Energy Management and Innovation in Lighting Award Scheme’, reinstated by the Lighting Industry Federation after an absence of 18 years, are recognised as the premier energy-efficiency awards for the UK lighting industry. The winning schemes were announced on 19th May at the Federations’ AGM in London.

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Thorn Sustainability Brochure
Click here to download the Thorn Sustainability Brochure. [PDF/4MB]
Thorn Lighting’s mission is to improve quality of life by lighting people and places. As a contributor towards a healthy and comfortable society, Thorn has an important role to play in achieving this goal, sustainably. As such, and with a background of growing customer concern, we’ve produced the Thorn Lighting and Sustainability brochure

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Thorn Academy of Light Opening
'Fantastic,’ says MP
When the MP for Bishop Auckland, Helen Goodman, opened the Thorn Academy of Light at Spennymoor, County Durham today, she described it as 'fantastic news.’ Helen Goodman, who was welcomed by Andreas Ludwig, CEO of Thorn’s parent company Zumtobel Group said: "I am particularly pleased that the new site will include the Academy of Light training facility, which will help to maintain skills.”

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Recession worries? Cut those costs with Cetus
Cetus brochure [PDF/2MB]
With firms and municipalities finding their budgets frozen the introduction of Cetus could hardly be more timely. For Thorn’s brilliant new compact fluorescent downlight is inexpensive to buy, and enjoys low installation and running costs over a long life.

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Organic Light-Emitting Diode Project Progresses
1st December 2008
Dr Geoff Williams, OLED Group Leader of Thorn, today unveiled the first samples of his next generation lighting technology which is set to revolutionise the way we live.

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Thorn helps Glacier keep its cool
Thorn has upgraded its Glacier II pendant range to perform a wider variety of roles. While retaining its predecessor’s reputation for design flair - note the cool-looking cone styling and clean colours - it gains more reflector options, more lamp choices and easier fixings. There are two sizes for commercial and contract lighting use.

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Cruz Control
Cruz: is a new range of technically advanced die-cast aluminium downlights, which gives class leading light outputs with great glare control. It offers an extensive choice of luminaires that combine low running costs with ease of installation, high performance with aesthetic design.

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DG One Leisure Complex
Thorn lights up swimming pool.
Built by Kier Northern, with electrical contracting by Haden Young of Glasgow, Thorn was commissioned early on to help design lighting for this £12.75m leisure complex.

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Mount St Mary's
Champion lights athletics showpiece
When Mount St Mary's College chose Champion floodlights for their Grade 1 Athletics Stadium, they made a choice that helped them gain selection as an official London 2012 Pre-Games Training Camp Facility.

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Emergency Lighting Design Guide
Thorn's brand new Emergency Lighting Design Guide is now available.

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“CalcExpress” Lighting Calculator
CalcExpress is the new online tool that quickly allows you to calculate the number of indoor luminaires needed for a room, using the most up to date data from the Thorn Product Catalogue.

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Thorn refurbishment
In line with our objective of growing our Outdoor business we have significantly invested to upgrade our showroom at Marwood Electrical.



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Thorn lights Heathrow T5
Under the largest individual lighting contract it's ever had, Thorn has just lit the biggest freestanding building in the UK.

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Variety is keynote of new Jupiter luminaires
Thorn’s revamped Jupiter II linear fluorescent widens the choice for office and school illumination. While retaining its predecessor’s reputation for performance and slimness (41mm deep), it gains more optics, additional lamp types, greater flexibility in the variety of mounting combinations available and lighting control “intelligence”.

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Southwell’s “amazing looking school’’ lit by Thorn
‘‘I think the new school looks amazing…’’ That’s how Year 10 pupil Liz, describes Southwell’s new £34 million Minster School.

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How to Install Primata II
Installing Primata II isn’t as hard as you think. A 14m continuous run can be achieved in 64 minutes!

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Thorn support Primata Offer
Many customers will be aware that Thorn has recently made improvements to its Primata pre-wired trunking system so that it’s easier to install, easier to save money with, and easier to look at. Few, however, will know much about how its made or the support on offer. Well, that's about to change!

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The dizzy heights of success
Thorn lights Leeds’ tallest office building
Thorn has lit the one of the tallest office buildings outside London. At 32 storeys and 137 metres high, Bridgewater Place is Leeds’ tallest mixed office and residential development, requiring over 3,000 modular luminaires, all of which were specially made.

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New Civic takes control
Thorn’s re-designed Civic lantern opens up a new world for designers and installers of street lighting. Apart from the essentials of good road lighting – high performance and durability - Civic now integrates sustainability and energy saving with quick and easy installation and operation.

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Piazza II.
No ordinary bulkhead
If you are looking for exterior wall lights that deliver security, surround and accent illumination with a touch of style, then look no further than Thorn’s redesigned Piazza.

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Key New Additions Strengthen the Concavia Range
The stylish Concavia high bay range now includes the options of high output Venture lamps and standard 3 hour emergency versions.

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Green Scheme Stops Lighting Going To Landfill
04 September 2007
Office lighting at Gateshead’s Civic Centre is turning green - thanks to a major programme to replace and recycle its existing office lighting units.

And thanks to the replacement programme, Gateshead Council has become the first local authority in the UK to recycle its redundant lighting equipment since the introduction this summer of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive).

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Thorn’s Spennymoor Factory Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony
3rd September 2007
· Work starts on building a new 40,000 sq.m lighting factory
· Zumtobel Group makes a long-term commitment to Spennymoor

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Dual Colour office lighting may influence our biological clocks
03 August 2007
Field studies are examining the hypothesis that cooler, blue light can affect our biological clocks and hence our feeling of mood and alertness. Now Thorn, with its MenloSoftSR Dual Colour luminaire, offers customers the ability to trial this technology by providing ultra cool fluorescent lighting for the workplace.

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Thorn OLED Project
19th July 2007
Thorn OLED Project has the potential to replace conventional lighting.

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Thorn fully complies with the WEEE Directive
19th July 2007
View our information explaining the directive and everyone’s different roles

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Thorn wins Sales Promotion Award
Thorn Lighting’s trade promotion, 'Free Football Stuff' has won top prize in the Institute of Sales Promotion Awards.

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Alu - Bay
Alu-Bay comes all in one box
A high bay discharge luminaire packed complete with housing and reflector to facilitate ordering, stocking and customer convenience

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Explorer Vision
In an emergency the call is for Explorer
Explorer Vision is a control, test, and monitoring system, which automates the often onerous and expensive task of manually checking the integrity of numerous self-contained emergency lighting luminaires