Ellwood City, PA: As of April 1, 2017, ALLED Lighting Systems has officially signed five dealerships to convert their old, outdated Metal Halide fixtures to the ALLED APL5 fixture. After several failed attempts at landing dealership projects, a pilot project was created to give one ‘lucky’ dealership the chance of a lifetime. Let ALLED prove [...]
FRANKLIN TWP. -- When the Liberty Bridge in Pittsburgh caught fire on Sept. 2, commuter traffic was thrown into chaos. And Hall Industries was thrown into action. The Franklin Township-based manufacturer, which fabricates steel fixtures with an emphasis on the airline and bridge industries, manufactured reinforcement plates to repair the span. "We worked seven [...]
The first time Ellwood City hooked up one of James Wassel's LED street lights in 2006, the experimental device didn't register any energy usage for three days. Dom Vaccari, manager of the Lawrence County borough at the time, called Wassel and told him something was wrong with the light. “He said, ‘Give it another [...]
ELLWOOD CITY -- At the Second Street overpass' south end, a Mekis Construction truck sat Tuesday afternoon blocking both lanes to keep people from trying to use the new bridge -- which looks finished but isn't. By Friday, the truck, construction equipment, signs and pylons are expected to be gone. The overpass, closed since March, [...]
WAYNE TWP. -- Blinding light blazes from a cluttered work bench in Jim Wassel's research and development office at the ALLED Lighting Systems Facility -- and just like the sun, you shouldn't look directly at it. The device looks almost as science-fictional as it is. Wassel, chief technical officer for ALLED, also known as Appalachian [...]
ALLED is growing! Based on the success of the RAYdiant LED Lighting Line [5th generation product line] product roll out, ALLED Lighting Systems (ALSI) has expanded their Senior Management Team. Al Iagnemma, acting President, has come on board to oversee ALLED Operations. The former CEO (Dave McAnally), CFO (Mike Dolan), and VP-Operations (Rob McAnally), are [...]
ELLWOOD CITY -- In less than a decade since Appalachian Lighting Systems began operating here, the company has beaten out some of the world's largest LED manufacturers for contracts with Pittsburgh International Airport and General Motors. Wayne Township-based Appalachian Lighting, also known as ALLED, took on solid-state lighting's big dogs again recently and narrowly missed [...]
With competition across 13 categories, the 2015 LEDs Magazine Sapphire Awards program features the best in solid-state lighting technology ranging from the enabling technologies used by product developers to the finished products that serve the broad general lighting application space. LEDs Magazine has announced the finalists in the inaugural 2015 Sapphire Awards program for both [...]
In January 2006, Ellwood City, PA made the decision to replace its existing Street Lights with ALLED™ solid state lighting fixtures manufactured by Appalachian Lighting Systems, Inc. (ALSI). ALSI is a Southwestern PA manufacturer of energy‐efficient, high quality commercial‐grade LED lighting fixtures. […]
As David Barensfeld looked around the meeting room in Ellwood City Forge Friday morning, he was encouraged by one element of the collection of state representatives sitting around the table. Those representatives — members of the state House Manufacturing Caucus — are members of one of Harrisburg’s few bipartisan caucuses. Several members of the caucus, [...]