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California Gold!

Discover Ushio’s new line of California Title 20 listed LED replacement lamps. Our most popular lamps, Utopia™ PRO Gold A19, are UL Enclosed Rated and available in soft white (2700K) and daylight (5000K) color temperatures. For your hospitality and restaurant lighting needs, choose Uphoria™ PRO Gold R/BR lamps. These high CRI (90+) lamps are UL Listed and suitable for recessed fixtures.
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Have You Been Seeing Green?

If you walked the Lightfair International Tradeshow in Chicago in May you probably saw our Ushio Architectural Lighting sales team wearing their bright green shoes. If that grabbed your attention then it achieved the desired outcome, but it was also meant to send a message… Ushio is Green!!!
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Excited About Light!

Ushio America imagines the full spectrum of possibilities light can create to make the world a safer and better place. Then we drive these solutions forward and take great pride in the benefits these solutions provide.
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Featured LED

Uphoria™ PRO High Output LED PAR38

Replacement Lamp for High Wattage Halogens Used in High Ceiling

– LED Replacement for 250W Halogen Lamps
– 3000 Lumens
– 9550 Candela
– Suitable for Use in Totally Enclosed Fixtures
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California Title 20

November 13, 2019

Uphoria™ PRO Gold LED PAR

July 29, 2019

Uphoria™ d’Oro LED MR16 (95+ CRI)

January 29, 2019

Uphoria™ PRO Gold LED BR

July 12, 2018

Utopia™ PRO Gold LED A19

Popular LED

September 23, 2019

Uphoria™ PRO HO LED PAR38

June 17, 2019

Ubiquity™ LED T8 Universal

SAL Series Slim Area Light LED Light Fixture

February 4, 2019

Architectural Lighting LED Fixtures

January 31, 2019

Ubiquity™ LED T5HO Direct Wire

January 30, 2019

U-LED™ Filament LED S14

December 17, 2018

Uphoria™ PRO LED BR

April 28, 2017

Ubiquity™ 2 LED T8 Direct Wire

Did You Know?

Edison’s Thoughts on Making Things

Improving the incandescent light bulb and extending its life.
Although known as the king of invention, the truth is that Edison did not actually invent the incandescent light bulb. His great achievement was to improve the light bulb, increasing its life enough for it to be put to practical use. He studied the reasons for the short life of incandescent filaments, and succeeded in increasing it by using slivers of bamboo which he obtained from Kyoto, Japan. He went on to launch the world’s first lighting business in New York in 1881. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This well-known quotation succinctly summarizes Edison’s attitude toward invention.

Newton’s Fascination with Light

Discovery of light’s color spectrum using a prism
In 1668, Newton succeeded in using a prism to divide white light into seven components. He invented the term “spectrum” to refer to the array of beautiful colors that results. Newton’s proposition — “What appears to us as white light is actually composed of many wavelengths” — would profoundly influence the later development of optics and lead to the discovery of light that is invisible to the eye; that is, ultraviolet and infrared. The seven colors of light released by Newton’s prism continue to shine on various corners of society even today, 350 years later.

Growing Plants with Invisible Light

A new solution to the problem of stimulating photosynthesis
Photosynthesis: The process by which plants produce oxygen and nutrients from carbon dioxide, water and the energy of light. Working in the 19th century, the German botanist Engelmann performed experiments to determine which wavelengths of light are most suited to producing oxygen. What he found is that infrared light of longer wavelength plays a much more important role in photosynthesis than does visible light. Through advances in this research, it is now known that whereas red light plays an important role in photosynthesis, blue light affects the formation of leaves. It has also been found that the production of nutrients can be controlled by irradiating plants with light of specific wavelengths during the growth stage. There is great mystery in the relationship between light and plants. We believe that a world of future possibilities can be realized by unraveling this mystery.

Narrow Band-Spectrum Ultraviolet Technology

In a world’s first, Ushio Inc. and the National University Hospital of Singapore have succeeded in bacterial disinfection of pressure ulcer injuries using 222nm ultraviolet light that is harmless to the human body.
USHIO developed a device equipped with an ultraviolet sterilization system that uses a “narrow band-spectrum ultraviolet technology” based on excimer lamps to selectively kill bacteria and viruses without harming human cells or tissue, and the NUH used this device on pressure ulcer patients in a clinical research study. As a result, it was confirmed that 222nm ultraviolet irradiation produced a reduction in seven types of multidrug-resistant bacteria without infliction of acute (such as erythema) or chronic illness. The results of this clinical trial were announced at The 75th Congress of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons held in Seoul, Korea from the 9th to the 12th of November.

Introduction

The lighting industry has been moving at an incredibly fast pace and yet with all the new products and new information available to the distributor it seems to be getting harder and harder to find it. Ushio America has developed an on-line resource that highlights all the latest architectural lighting products and information in a single page.