With 2 out of 3 LED airfield lights worldwide installed by ADB Safegate, the company reinforces its leadership in LED airfield lighting industry
ADB Safegate has achieved a key milestone in airfield ground lighting (AGL) with the installation of the 1.2 millionth LED AGL fixture globally. This achievement reinforces ADB Safegate’s leadership in the airfield solutions industry. The company began LED design, development and production more than 15 years ago, and today more than 750 airports use ADB Safegate’s LED solutions.
The achievement of this key milestone reflects the continuation of universal acceptance of LED airfield lighting as the standard in AGL as more and more airports switch to the energy-efficient technology to meet their sustainability goals. Today, two out of three LED lights installed in airports worldwide are from ADB Safegate. One out of four of these LEDs is an intelligent light, which are also being implemented at a breathtaking speed.
“Since our first LED trials at Brussels Airport, and Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in the U.S., airports around the world have come to realize our experience and competencies with this technology. This makes us the first choice for many of the world’s leading airports as well as a growing number of smaller category airports which rely on our LED offering to pursue their ‘green airport’ strategies,” said Christian Onselaere, CEO, ADB Safegate.
ADB Safegate’s LED-based lights are ICAO and FAA compliant, and offer up to 84 percent in energy savings vis-à-vis conventional lighting, enabling ADB Safegate’s airport customers to reduce carbon emissions by more than 40 tonnes a year (based on 750 medium and large sized airports and an average annual savings of 50kg at one mid-sized airport)
Because LED AGL has a longer life and is resilient in all weather conditions, it requires less maintenance and dramatically improves airfield availability, resulting in decreased costs associated with maintenance and runway shutdowns. Typically, the payback time for LED AGL from ADB Safegate can be two years or even less.
Another milestone for ADB Safegate will be the opening of the world’s largest airfield lighting production facility in Zaventem, Brussels, to meet the sharp increase in demand for LEDs worldwide. The Zaventem facility will be ADB Safegate’s Lights Center of Excellence. It is the largest of only a few such facilities globally.
“This autumn will see the completion of a major project to bring the production of all our lighting products under one roof. We have invested €1.5 million in building a Lights Center of Excellence at our Zaventem plant in Belgium,” said Steve Rutland, COO, ADB Safegate.
The investment focuses on refurbishing several parts of the factory, installing new workstations and tooling for production of AGL, as well as introducing new state of the art assembly processes to increase efficiency and productivity. A new quality lab will be located next to the ensuing goods and production departments which will allow ADB Safegate to strengthen the company’s quality focus.
Once completed, the center will allow ADB Safegate to increase AGL production up to three times the current capacity.
