ALLED Lighting Signs Fifth Dealership in Less Than One Year
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City, PA: As of April 1, 2017, ALLED Lighting Systems has officially signed five dealerships to convert their old, outdated Metal Halide fixtures to the ALLED APL5 fixture.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 that their APL5 (area and parking) fixture can replace a 1000-watt Metal Halide with 168 watts for four months – should the customer be unhappy, [...]
Ellwood City cleans up at manufacturers’ awards
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 days a week, 24 hours a day to make sure we got the product out the door," sales engineer Scott Donley said. The bridge, which [...]
Appalachian Lighting to take LEDs overseas, license its technology
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 day,' ” Vaccari said. By the fourth day, the light had used one kilowatt of electricity, he said. Mercury-vapor street lights that were in use [...]
A Bridge to Somewhere Again: New Second Street Overpass Opens Friday
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, will reopen that day for traffic. The return will alleviate traffic difficulties from during the roadwork that shut off the most used bypass around Ellwood [...]
With New Leadership, EC Company Branching Out
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 Lighting Systems, is testing a solar-powered LED streetlight that could eventually be installed in Australia. Wassel is testing the light to ensure that it can [...]
2015: ALLED Update
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 now devoting full time to SSL Energy Solutions. Jim Wassel, founder and Chief Technical Officer, has been focused since day one to create some of [...]
ALLED device finalist for national lighting award
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 coming out on top. In the first of what is expected to be an annual event, LEDs Magazine presented its Sapphire Awards last week in [...]
LEDs Magazine announces finalists for inaugural Sapphire Awards
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 enabling technologies and lighting products in the solid-state lighting (SSL) sector. The recognized products were selected by panel of judges representing a broad cross-section of [...]
Ellwood City, PA celebrates its 8th year since replacing Street Lights with LED Fixtures
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. […]
State reps visit local manufacturing facilities
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, including co-chairmen Reps. Eli Evankovich, R-54, Murrysville, Westmoreland County and John Galloway, D-150, Levittown, Bucks County, toured factory sites Friday in the Ellwood City area. [...]
General Motors Completes First Major Led Lighting Conversion With Alled® High Bay Series
ALLED High Bay with built-in wireless control system saves Lordstown Complex $780,000 annually The General Motors Lordstown Assembly Complex became the first GM facility to complete one of the world’s largest conversions to LED lighting, converting its entire 815,000 sq.ft. Stamping Plant to ALLED High Bays. The Stamping Plant has been able to reduce its energy consumption by over 80% by replacing (1,328) 1000 watt and (283) 400 watt Metal Halide fixtures with (1,246) ALLED High Bay lights ranging from [...]
Bright Ideas
Lighting upgrades among GM investments in Lordstown plant The Lordstown General Motors complex will be on summer shutdown for the next two weeks, but that doesn’t mean things won’t happen inside the sprawling plant. Having already converted about 1,600 Halide fixtures to more efficient LED lights, Steve Rhoades, GM Lordstown’s engineering director, said workers will be ready to continue the process with about 4,000 more fixtures when the plant empties out for the summer break beginning Monday. […]
General Motors Completes First Major Led Lighting Conversion With Alled® High Bay Series
ALLED High Bay with built-in wireless control system saves Lordstown Complex $780,000 annually ELLWOOD CITY, PA –MAY 14, 2013—The General Motors Lordstown Assembly Complex became the first GM facility to complete one of the world’s largest conversions to LED lighting, converting its entire 815,000 sq.ft. Stamping Plant to ALLED High Bays. The Stamping Plant has been able to reduce its energy consumption by over 80% by replacing (1,328) 1000 watt and (283) 400 watt Metal [...]
The Top 10 Tech Companies to Watch in 2013
Each year Pop City raises a finger to the entrepreneurial wind and suggests some of most promising companies in the region to watch in the coming year. Sizing up the success of innovative technologies is always a bit of a gamble. Companies will come, companies will go and the slightest shift in the economic weather could change everything. […]
LED streetlights already paying off
WELLAND – About half of Welland’s city streets are now lighted by the glow of LED bulbs. And the city is already reaping the benefits. Dave Ferguson, the city’s parking and traffic manager, said the city’s old 70- and 100-watt high-pressure sodium streetlights used a little more than 100,000 kilowatt hours a month. “Since we’ve installed the LED lights, it’s taken us down to now 24,000 kilowatt hours,” he said at Tuesday’s city council meeting. […]