LightSources, Inc.

The LightSources group includes the top leading manufacturers in the lamp and lighting industry in the world.  Our valued partners strive for total customer satisfaction with custom designed solutions engineered for your unique process.  Cerlux is a world leading manufacturer of ceramic bases and sockets, and a valuable addition to the LightSources group. 

LightSources and our affiliated companies use only the highest quality components and follow a strict quality policy.  All parts are inspected prior to shipping to ensure customer satisfaction.   

Experienced Manufacturer of Lamp Sockets and Bases 

Cerlux manufactures tips, washers, electric insulators, resistant grinding cylinders and many more lamp components.  Cerlux manufactures ceramic products with a high temperature kiln reaching 1,000°, using the heat from the kiln to heat the building and water supply.   As with all LightSources partners, Cerlux places high value on green operations, manufacturing with energy efficient operations. 

The glazing process of ceramics production is typically with a white glaze, although Cerlux offers endless color choices with custom color options for your lamp bases, even matching your own logo color. Raise your own brand awareness and increase your market share with lamp products designed for proprietary distribution.  Cerlux produces custom bases with either fully automated processes or a hand-press when required to produce high quality parts that meet your specifications.   

Contact LightSources today to find out how you can gain your competitive advantage with custom designed and manufactured lamps bases, sockets and components. If you need special design or engineering, LightSources will work with you to develop a custom solution that will fit your needs.  We can create custom phosphor blends with additives to achieve the exact wavelength of UV output you require and match that lamp with Cerlux custom color bases for a truly unique product. 

With spring break right around the corner, people are flocking to warm destinations with beaches and sunshine and wanting to arrive already looking sun-kissed and tan.  Get your tanning beds ready with high-performing tanning lamps that incorporate the latest innovative technology. Improve the satisfaction of your clientele and your business operating results with the best tanning lamps available on the market today

LightSources Offers High Quality Tanning Bed Lamps

LightSources is the pioneer in developing tanning lamp technology, providing high-quality, high-performing and long-lasting lamps. LightSources, along with our European partner, LightTech, were one of the first lamp producers to provide tanning lamps with a range of UV exposure from 2.6 UVB to 9.5 UVB.  Offering tanning customers lamps with preferences to their particular skin type gives better tanning results.

LightSources and LightTech are committed to research and development to continually deliver lighting solutions that offer greater energy efficiency with longer lasing, high performing lamps.  

Patented and Proprietary tanning lamp solutions offered by LightSources include:

SolGlass® - Narrow band UVA delivers immediate pigmentation for quick results while short-wave UVB provides pigmentation that lasts.  This combination of our proprietary phosphor blends incorporates high-tech design with new glass technology.  SolGlass offers dramatic improvements in tanning lamps with open glass technology that facilitates more effective UV transmission promoting improved tanning effects.

A-Power™ - Truly extraordinary tanning effects are possible when combining UVA with a strong peak of UVB for long lasting tanning results.  Our A-Power lamps deliver effects typical of a high pressure tanning lamp in a low-pressure model.                  

Peak2 Technology® - Dual spectral peaks with UVA and UVB output is balanced within one phosphor to provide maximum coloring effects.

Multitone™ -  Achieve even and natural tanning without harsh effects from facial units with Multitone technology.  

LightSources is recognized for delivering innovative technology to the lamp and lighting industry, with customized solutions available. We help you to develop your own patented products to raise your own brand awareness.  Our valued partner, Cerlux, offers customized bases in any color or can even match your logo color to improve your market share.

Acne is a widespread problem in the United States, with at least 85% of the nation’s adolescents suffering from this troublesome skin condition.  In some cases, acne continues into adulthood and leaves millions of people scarred when the condition is severe.  Conventional treatments might work for some, but they are not without complications and mixed results.  Antibiotics can be helpful but may build up an antibiotic resistance which has become an issue in the United States.  Topical treatments can be harsh leaving the skin feeling very dried out.  

Light Therapy Proving to Be Effective on Acne

Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, is proving to be a solution for many that have been waiting for a safe, clean and effective acne treatment.  Combining blue light therapy with red light therapy is proven to effectively treat acne, bringing relief to long time sufferers.  Light is broken down into colors, then measured with wavelengths, known as nanometers (nm).  Blue light emitted at 415nm has strong antibacterial effects and is very effective at killing the bacteria causing acne to prevent breakouts.  Red light at a wavelength of 600nm to 700nm is proven to soothe inflammation while stimulating cell regeneration, healing and repair.  

LightSources is a Leading Supplier of Phototherapy Lamps

The LightSources group is recognized around the world for developing high-tech, high-performing lamps and lighting solutions for a multitude of applications, including our phototherapy lamps. Phototherapy is proven useful treatment for a variety of ailments, especially skin conditions.  Light therapy is used to treat acne, psoriasis and eczema to name only a few conditions.  

Phototherapy is also proven as an effective treatment for seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a form of depression that sets in when the daylight hours become shorter.  The LightSources group and our skilled engineers possess vast knowledge of all phototherapy applications, understanding the technology behind the products.  Not all phototherapy lamps are made the same.  Lamp producers must have a full grasp on the effectiveness of UVA, UVB and UVC technology and know which wavelength, or nanometer, is most effective for specific conditions.  

The LightSources group consists of the world’s leading, most forward thinking and innovative companies providing lamps and lighting solutions to companies worldwide.  LCD Lighting (LCDL) is known for high quality, high performing miniature fluorescent lamps. LCDL provides miniature lamps to a wide variety of manufacturers, OEMs, and has even supplied lamps for the U.S. space shuttle.

LCDL’s Hot-Cathode Fluorescent Lamps

LCDL produces cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) and hot cathode fluorescent lamps (HCFL) to a multitude of companies and OEMs around the globe.  LCDL offers a product line of HCFL lamps which include tubular lamps available in a wide range of lengths and diameters.

The smallest size of HCFL lamps start at T2 which means that T stands for the shape of the lamp meaning tubular, and the number 2 stands for an eighth of an inch.  A size T8 lamp would equal a tubular lamp at exactly 1 inch in diameter.  As LCDL specializes in miniature lighting, the largest size available is the T12 which would be a diameter of 1 ½”.  

HCFL lamps by LCD Lighting are used in signs, medical devices, graphic arts, and backlighting displays in various applications.

LCDL’s Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps

Miniature CCFL lamps by LCD Lighting are commonly used in various neon signs and bendable shapes.  CCFL lamps contain an electrode, rather than the filament in the HCFL lamps. Mini fluorescent lamps are used as backlighting in avionic displays, computers, vehicles, military applications and even the NASA space shuttle.

Both CCFL and HCFL lamps contain mercury vapor to enhance the phosphor coating which creates a very pleasing light.  LightSources and LCD Lighting offer a wide selection of standard mini-lamps and provide custom services to create the lighting solutions unique to your application.

The new Ballast Water Treatment Convention (BWTC) went into full effect on September 8, 2017, requiring all ships to have an approved method of ballast water treatment on board their ship.  Ballast water is used to balance the ship as sea water is brought in when cargo is low, or removed when cargo is heavy. When seawater is picked up in one port is discharged into another port in another country or marine environment, the microorganisms wreak havoc in the new water region, acting as foreign invaders.  Invasive species newly introduced to a region upsets the eco-system and can create insurmountable problems.

All ships including cargo ships, tankers and cruise ships were required to comply by September 8, 2017, under the requirements of the new BWTC.

Ballast Water Treatment Methods with U.S. Coast Guard Approval

Ships must be equipped with an on-board ballast water treatment method to meet these new requirements.  While there are a few different methods for sterilizing water, one stands out as superior to the others.  Some treatment methods may work, but come with added consequences that are not always desirable.

Three main approaches are taken to treat ballast water; mechanical, chemical or physical.  Mechanical methods include filtration and separation; chemical methods use chlorination or biocides, while physical methods include electrical currents, ozone and UV radiation.  

Of these three main methods, UV radiation offers the most benefits with effective treatment, low-cost, low-maintenance and is completely safe.

UV Technology for Ballast Water Treatment

UV technology is used to sterilize and treat water in many applications such as waste water treatment plants.  UV water sterilization is proven effective at removing threatening invasive species, with low costs as there is no requirement to purchase chemicals, low maintenance with the right type of long lasting UV lamps, and is completely safe.  

Chemical treatments, on the other hand, require the purchase and storage of these chemicals, and then there is the fact that these chemicals are also released into the ocean which could pollute the water, the very thing the BWTC is aiming to put a stop to.  

LightSources Produces High Performing, Long Lasting UV Lamps for Ballast Water Treatment Systems

LightSources is a leading global manufacturer of UV lamps and lighting solutions, offering our patented Low-Pressure Amalgam Lamp technology for effective sterilization with a small footprint.  We also produce Medium-Pressure UV (MPUV) lamps which are just as effective also with a small footprint.

To learn more about the Ballast Water Treatment Convention regulations, enforced by the IMO (International Maritime Organization), visit Globallast.imo.org, an organization that is dedicated to raising awareness and reducing the harmful effects to our world’s oceans through contaminated ballast water.  

Ultraviolet light is a powerful energy source used in many applications for personal, commercial and industrial purposes.  When UV light is emitted at a specific wavelength, measured in nanometers, it produces various responses. With UV curing lamps, the energy from UV energy instantly dries, hardens and bonds various polymers to create a product that is strengthened and durable. UV curing is also used to create a smooth finish with vibrant colors, instantly drying inks, varnishes, glazes and lacquers.  

High-pressure lamps, or metal halide lamps, are used to cure and strengthen polymers in many industries such as aerospace, automotive, food and beverage, advertising, medical and many more.  Several industrial processes benefit from UV curing technology to improve their product quality and durability.  

LightSources Produces Long Lasting High-Pressure UV Lamps

High Pressure UV Lamps, (HPUV), are used in curing applications at shorter wavelengths which peak at 254nm and range to 365nm.   At 254nm, UVC light is extremely effective in germ killing and sterilizing applications, with curing processes effective anywhere in between.  HPUV lamps are also utilized in reprographics applications producing high quality printed products with vibrant colors and durable inks.  

LightSources employs highly skilled lighting engineers with vast knowledge of the UV spectrum and the technology that goes into each application.  We are not limited to specific lamps or manufacturing standards.  We excel at custom designed solutions by altering the spectral output with proprietary blends of phosphors and additives. LightSources can alter the output with gallium-iodide additives and iron-iodide to produce the perfect lamp for your process which will generate the optimum wavelength for your purpose.  

In-duct air purification systems are used in many settings without you even knowing it.  Purifying and sterilizing the air that we breathe is a health benefit to all of us and is even more critical to people suffering from respiratory disease such as asthma or immune deficiency conditions.  Air purification systems are widely used in HVAC systems in commercial buildings, nursing homes and hospitals, with ultraviolet (UV) energy effectively and safely cleansing the air we breathe.  

UVC In-Duct Air Purification

The energy from UV light is used in a wide variety of applications, and is widely used to sterilize air, water and surfaces.  UV light is broken down into color, measured by wavelengths referred to as nanometers (nm). UVC light emitted at specific wavelengths, especially at 254 nm is proven to be very effective at instantly eradicating harmful contaminants, bacteria and viruses.  UV air purification even eliminates odors caused by contaminants in the air, leaving the air we breathe clean, sterile and odor free.  

UVC air purification systems are ozone free, which is beneficial to HVAC equipment as ozone exposure can erode components of the AC cooling system.  UV air purification technology offers highly effective and completely safe methods to purify air, water and surfaces.  

LightSources Leads the Industry with UVC Air Sterilization

LightSources and our valued partners have vast experience in developing UV lamps used in sterilization and purification applications.  We offer a vast selection of standard lamps and provide custom design features for unique situations.  

We are one of the largest producers of UV lamp products, offering low-pressure and medium pressure lamps, custom ceramic bases, ballasts and quartz sleeves.  Our UV germicidal lamps are found in a multitude of applications worldwide, providing a safe environment with clean air, water and germ-free surfaces.  

When you hear the term OEM, you may know that it stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer, but do you realize the number of items we use in a day that were produced by OEMs around the globe?  From your cellphone, to your computer, tablets or your automobile – manufacturing makes the world go around providing finished products for consumer use. 

Manufacturing firms of all sizes contribute to the final product, with some smaller companies providing components to larger OEMs on a tiered level. The contribution of these small to mid-sized companies is just as important as the large manufacturers, as all components of a supply chain must meet their requirements for success. Small business, which is defined as companies having less than 500 employees, is the lifeblood of the US economy representing 99% of all US employer firms.  While many smaller companies strive to gain more market share, they must also have the support of their suppliers in order to stay competitive and successful. 

LightSources Support OEMs of All Sizes 

LightSources realizes the challenges that smaller to mid-sized OEMs face to acquire the same advantages that their larger counterparts enjoy.  We excel in partnering with small to medium sized companies to design and manufacture standard and customized specialty lighting solutions to a multitude of industries.   

Our vast resources include multi-national corporations with LightSources in the United States and China, LightTech in Europe with a state-of-the-art glass factory, and our partners LCD Lighting, Voltarc and Cerlux for custom designed ceramic bases. LightSources specializes in providing comprehensive solutions including design, engineering, and manufacturing. 

LightSources offers a broad range of lighting including: 

·         medium pressure UV lamps (MPUV)

·         high pressure UV lamps (HPUV)

·         low pressure amalgam lamps

·         specialty fluorescent UVA and UVB lamps

·         mini-fluorescent lamps including backlighting solutions for avionics

·         tanning lamps with several patented lamps for salon professionals

·         UVC germicidal lamps for purification and sterilization

·         UVC lamps used for curing polymers

·         neon signs of any size or shape for indoor or outdoor use 

LightSources and our valued partner, LightTech in Europe, lead the way with innovative tanning lamp technology, providing several proprietary products for long-lasting, high performance.  The LightSources group was one of the first manufacturers to provide tanning lamps in differing strengths from 2.6 UVB to 9.5 UVB.  The fluctuation in lamp strength provides customers with the right tanning lamp for their skin type and tanning preference. 

LightSources partners with our salon professional clients, listening to your needs to develop customized tanning lamps and assisting with patent developments to increase your own brand awareness and market share. The LightSources group is dedicated to research and development of superior ultraviolet technologies, delivering high-performing products to the forefront of the tanning lamp industry. 

Cutting edge tanning lamp technology available from LightSources includes:   

               SolGlass® technology utilizes a proprietary phosphor blend combined with high-tech engineering to deliver the most advanced tanning lamp technology.  SolGlass provides a narrow UVA band for immediate pigmentation and short-wave UVB for long lasting color with the greatest tanning effects available.

           Peak2 Technology® delivers high UVA and UVB emissions balanced in one phosphor to provide dual spectral peaks and maximum pigmentation effect.

           Multitone™ provides tanning customers with an even and natural tan from head to toes, without harsh high-pressure facial units.  

           A-Power™ delivers the effects of a longer lasting dark tan typically achieved with a high- pressure lamp, in a low-pressure lamp with advanced technology.  A-Power utilizes UA and UVB rays peaking at the perfect nanometer for long lasting pigmentation. 

LightSources is dedicated to research and development to continually deliver innovative lighting solutions, cutting edge technology, with energy efficient and eco-friendly solutions.  We strive to provide greater performance at the lowest cost available in all aspects of UV and fluorescent lamp applications.   

LightSources excels at meeting and exceeding customer expectations with proprietary technology, patented products and innovative designs.  We have vast global resources and capabilities and along with valued affiliated companies, we provide custom fluorescent and UV lighting solutions. 

Prototype Solutions for Any Lighting Application 

Our resources allow for quick production and turn-around on prototype designs and mass production runs, with timely shipments from convenient locations.  Our skilled engineers provide sound solutions to your project requirements with years of experience and knowledge of UV radiation and characteristics of various wavelength emissions.  Our prototype solutions perfect your process with long lasting, high performing lamps.   

Our combined resources, years of experience and in-depth knowledge provide the best solution to you for fluorescent lighting, UVC germicidal lamps, tanning lamps, mini-fluorescent lamps and many more.   Partnering with LightSources saves you time and money with our wide selection of high-quality lamps provided at the best possible price to you.   

LightSources Valued Affiliated Companies 

Cerlux is a specialty manufacturer of ceramic connectors and fittings with custom designs and color options available. Cerlux provides excellent customer satisfaction, matching your logo color for increased brand awareness and market share.   

LCD Lighting is a valued partner of the LightSources group, providing innovative lighting solutions including miniature fluorescent lighting and custom designed backlighting solutions. 

Voltarc is a global leading manufacturer of lighted signs with vast resources and decades of experience delivering high quality lighted sign solutions.  Voltarc manufactures signs of virtually any size or shape for indoor or outdoor use, with exceptional customer service and timely delivery.   

LightTech is our European partner with a state-of-the-art glass factory designed to meet the requirements of OEMs large and small, while committing to research and development for continual improvement.   LightTech and LightSources are known for contributing cutting-edge technology to the specialty lamp industry.   

You can save yourself time and worry by contacting LightSources for early involvement in your next project. We assist customers in determining the correct UV wavelength or nanometer (nm) required for effectiveness in your application, wattage and electrical requirements, fitting and assemblies, with standard or custom designed products.   

LightSources in the United States and LightTech in Europe are recognized as the leading suppliers of lighting solutions, providing ultraviolet and fluorescent technology for a multitude of applications.  Dedicated to continual research and development, the LightSources group has developed several patented products and proprietary technologies to enhance lamp performance, customer satisfaction, safety and energy saving green processes.   

Our patented shatterproof technology is engineered to contain any broken glass or hazardous mercury that may pose a health hazard in the case of breakage.  Our shatterproof technology is available in virtually any of our lamps in any shape or size including compact PL’s, U-Shaped, linear, circular and many other types and styles.   

Shatter Protech Adds Value in Food and Beverage Industry 

Shatter Protech provides many benefits including: 

·         Energy efficient design

·         Employee protection

·         Water and aqua life protection

·         Compliant with all FDA and food safety requirements 

Energy Efficient Design 

Our Shatter Protech technology is designed to not inhibit any UV emissions while providing maximum energy efficiency and UV transmission.  Shatter Protech is desirable in restaurants and food buffets to protect consumable food and consumers in the event of a broken bulb.

Employee Protection 

Shatter Protech also protects employees when UV lights are used in commercial and industrial settings such as warehouses, manufacturing facilities, hospitals and schools, ensuring the safety of your workforce. 

Water Protection 

Shatter Protech protects aqua life in aquariums and fish hatcheries, promoting healthy wildlife and keeps water safe in water and air purification systems. 

FDA Approved 

Shatter Protech is compliant with all food safety regulations and is FDA approved, providing added assurances that your lighting system with Protech protection still meets all code requirements.   

Neon and fluorescent lighted signs require high quality components to provide vibrant and long-lasting illumination.  Voltarc Technologies is a valued partner of LightSources, and a leading high-tech designer and manufacturer of lighted signs for any application including architectural design, specialty fluorescent lamps, and ultraviolet lamps with custom holders and wiring devices.   

Voltarc has been a valued partner company since 2009, and brings more than 80 years of expertise and experience in developing neon tube signs, U-lamps, cup-cathode lamps, and fluorescent lighted signs with unsurpassed performance and life expectancy.   

Proprietary Technology and Lighted Sign Solutions

Voltarc delivers vibrant light and long-lasting color with patented products and proprietary technology. Highly skilled engineers and lamp designers bring brand awareness to life with the most spectacular signs available today. 

Proprietary technology developed by Voltarc and the LightSources group include:.   

·         Neon Tubing

·         TriLight™ and TriLight Max™ Fluorescent Lamps

·         TufStraight Lamps

·         TufBend U-Lamps

·         Hyde Neon Fabrication Equipment

·         Xtra Long Lamps

·         Masonite Electrodes

·         Standard and Custom Lamp Accessories  

Voltarc’s cutting edge technology provides energy-efficient solutions with technologically advanced components.  Lighted sign solutions by Voltarc include intricate and complex designs that other manufacturers would shy away from.  You benefit from our years of experience and vast resources, allowing us to provide high quality components at the lowest possible cost, and in a timely manner.   

Voltarc operates with green practices, improving and enhancing upon our energy saving solutions to provide long lasting illumination requiring low maintenance and replacement costs.  Signs by Voltarc are proven to outperform and outlast the competition.  With a wide selection of standard items, the LightSources group is known for developing customized patented solutions for virtually any design imaginable. 

The LightSources group includes valued partners LightTech in Europe, Voltarc, LCD Lighting and Cerlux for custom bases and sockets.  You can custom design your bases in any color available, even matching your current logo or brand. 

Ultraviolet light used for curing polymers is a highly effective and cost-efficient solution utilized in a multitude of industrial and commercial applications worldwide.  UV light is used as a catalyst to cause changes in the properties of photopolymers such as resins, inks, varnishes, coatings and adhesives onto a wide variety of products.   

More and more manufacturers are harnessing the power of UV curing to improve their product quality and internal efficiencies.  UV treatment is a quick process providing many benefits that give a quick return on investment.   

UV Curing Technology

Ultraviolet radiation is proven effective at curing specialty resins and inks in seconds, especially when emitted at 367 to 400 nanometer (nm).  Within the proper wavelength, UV technology will create a strengthened finish on products for durability.   

UV light curing technology is utilized in a multitude of industries and applications worldwide to provide cost efficient processing solutions.  Some industrial and commercial applications that benefit from UV curing include: 

·         Marketing – UV drying of inks creates vibrant displays for raising brand awareness and developing increasing market share

·         Automotive – UV curing of inks on knobs and buttons enhances their strength and durability, ensuring that the inks will last longer when exposed to long term use

·         Medical – The medical industry has long realized the benefits of UV germicidal technology for sterilization and disinfection of medical supplies, equipment and surfaces.  

·         Aerospace – UV technology enhances the strength and durability of parts and components, providing durable parts that hold up even in extreme conditions.  

·         Consumer Electronics – UV exposure helps to cure adhesives and inks on circuit boards and electronic devices

·         Packaging – UV inks dry quickly on various packaging materials, increasing throughput and providing durable shipping boxes that won’t fade or deteriorate

·         Instant bonding of glues, adhesives, glazes, varnishes, inks and coatings used in these and many more commercial and industrial processes

LightSources has vast experience with developing UV curing solutions with the most cost beneficial UV curing lamps available in the market today.  We offer low pressure, medium and high-pressure UV solutions.  Please visit our website to learn more. 

Ultraviolet technology provides very powerful and effective water purification treatment to a number of industries with effective germicidal functions.  UV radiation is proven highly effective at eradicating viruses, bacteria, fungi and harmful microorganisms from water and is utilized worldwide in a multitude of water purification applications.

Some industries realizing the benefits of UV water purification include: 

·         Aquaculture / Marine and Freshwater hatcheries

·         Water reclamation

·         Waste water treatment

·         Shipping industry / Ballast Water Treatment

·         Municipalities and drinking water systems 

Aquaculture and Fishing Hatcheries 

Maintaining the well-being and overall health of our planet’s marine life is critical to sustaining the world’s oceans.  UV technology provides effective disinfection of fish hatcheries and farms, promoting the sustainability of marine life and oceans.  Water preserves, hatcheries and aquariums benefit from the powerful technology of UV radiation.   

Wastewater Treatment and Water Reclamation 

UV germicidal technology is proven highly effective at cleansing wastewater to eradicate contaminants prior to releasing into natural water sources.  Community systems and municipalities in towns, cities and rural areas all utilize the powerful effects of UV radiation to treat their water systems.  

Shipping Industry and Ballast Water Treatment Systems 

The latest edition of the Ballast Water Treatment Convention (BWTC), updated last September of 2017, requires all ships in international waters to utilize some form of an effective ballast water treatment system.  UV radiation is utilized in several ballast water treatment systems, eradicating ballast water of harmful organisms, bacteria and viruses before releasing into foreign ports.  

UV germicidal treatment of ballast water is US Coast Guard approved and meets all guidelines and requirements of the BWTC.   

Municipalities and Drinking Water Systems 

UV germicidal lamps are also used in local water purification and drinking water systems, safety eliminating parasites and bacteria causing illness from water to make it safe for consumption.  UV water treatment for consumption has benefits over other methods such as chemical use by eliminating exposure to hazardous chemicals.   

UV water purification systems are highly effective and will reduce long term costs with low maintenance, and no need to continually purchase and store chemicals.  

LightSources Provides Proven Water Purification Solutions 

LightSources in the United States and LightTech in Europe are dedicated to providing the best lighting solutions worldwide with research and development and continual improvement. LightSources provides proven UV germicidal solutions for water purification to a multitude of industries and applications worldwide.  For the most high-performing and long-lasting UV germicidal lamps available in the market today, contact LightSources to speak with a knowledgeable engineer about our water purification solutions. 

People have a right to breathe clean air in public settings, especially in hospitals, nursing homes and public places.  Ultraviolet (UV) air purification systems are proven highly effective at purifying the air we breathe, eradicating bacteria, viruses and contaminants from the air.  Building owners have a responsibility to their occupants to provide clean and pure air, free from disease.   HVAC air sterilization is common in health offices and medical complexes, with UV air purification systems delivering a higher quality of air in an easy to maintain, proven purification system.  

UVC Germicidal Technology Safely Cleanses Air

UVC technology is proven to be highly effective at cleansing the air we breathe, even eliminating odor and contaminants naked to the human eye.  UVC light emitted at 254 nanometer (nm) instantly eradicates viruses and bacteria without the use of harmful chemicals.  UVC light at 254 nm instantly kills harmful viruses and stopping the ability to reproduce.  

UVC germicidal lamps operate without risks in HVAC systems, with no ozone emitting systems which can contribute to eroding HVAC and cooling systems.  

UV Air Purification Experts at LightSources

LightSources and our valued global partners represent the leading experts in the lighting industry today, offering high quality and long-lasting UV lamps proven effective at eradicating contaminants in the air.  Our UVC germicidal lamps include proprietary amalgam lamps with patented technology providing a higher intensity in a smaller footprint, with longer lasting effectiveness.  LightSources provides UV lamps in standard or custom designs, electronic ballasts, custom ceramic bases in virtually any color, and high-quality quartz sleeves.  

LightSources produces UVC lamps for a multitude of applications around the globe, providing safe and effective solutions to eradicating germs and disease.  You can have confidence in our decades of experience and expertise to develop the right balance of UV energy emitted at the optimum wavelength to produce the most effective purification and sterilization process.  

The LightSources group offers in-depth knowledge of ultraviolet (UV) energy and fluorescent lighting to provide advanced technology to OEMs around the globe.  We work with manufacturers large and small to assist in design and engineering of new projects or renovations of current lighting processes.  Our vast resources include LightSources in the U.S. and China, LightTech which boasts a state-of-the-art glass factory in Europe, and several valued partners such as Cerlux which manufactures custom components, LCD Lighting which specializes in miniature fluorescent lamps, and Voltarc, the leader in lighted sign applications.    

Our team of experienced engineers provide expertise in developing your project with optimum lighting solutions at the proper wavelength, or nanometer (nm) in either ozone free or ozone generating designs.  

Prototype Solutions Developed for Your Patented Property

LightSources partners with you early in your project to develop the most beneficial design for your application.  We provide extensive research and development to assist OEMs worldwide in developing your own patented products to enhance brand awareness and gain market share.  We provide custom lamps and lighting solutions to virtually any lighting application including:

·         Proprietary tanning lamps

·         UV lamps for curing polymers, inks and coatings

·         UVC germicidal lamps for sterilization and purification

·         Specialty fluorescent lamps for neon signs

·         Mini-fluorescent lamps used in avionic display and backlighting

·         UV lamps for screen printing applications

With our global resources including experienced engineers and designers, we offer superior lighting solutions and lamp products at the most affordable cost available.   Our knowledgeable engineers provide reverse engineering, custom designed lamps, and sockets and bases in any color combination.  

LightSources and our valued partner, Cerlux, offer the most customizable lighting solutions available in the industry today.  Cerlux provides matching sockets and lamp components specific to your unique lamp products including tanning, germicidal and fluorescent lamps.  No matter the lamp application, Cerlux has the right solution for you.  

Cerlux is a leading manufacturer of custom bases, with matching lamp components and sockets designed with your unique logo. By designing your lamp bases and sockets with your own logo, we help you to set yourself apart from the competition and increase your brand awareness.  Cerlux offers a wide array of color choices, with the option to custom create your own color to match your logo perfectly.  

Cerlux Manufacturers High Quality Lamp Sockets and Bases

Cerlux manufacturers tips, washers, electric insulators, resistant grinding cylinders, and many more products with a unique stamping process.  Utilizing either a fully automated process or operating a manual hand-press, Cerlux leads the industry with high quality manufacturing of lamp fittings and sockets. Cerlux adheres to strict quality processes to ensure high performing, long lasting products.  

Cerlux has vast experience with specialty ceramic processes, firing at temperatures exceeding 1,000°C.  Cerlux operates with energy efficient, green practices, using the heat from our kiln to heat our water and buildings.  Our glazing process protects the lamp components, and is available in any color of your choice.  

Cerlux is a valuable addition to the LightSources group, adding value to our extensive lineup of high quality lamp components.   Skilled engineers are ready to take your call to assist with any lighting solution, including specialty fluorescent lamps, miniature lighting solutions, UVC germicidal lamps, tanning lamps, and virtually any lighting application.  

Our vast resources allow for fast turnaround on prototype and production runs. Contact the LightSources group today to more about our custom designed and manufactured lamp components, bases and sockets.