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New Civic delivers uniform street lighting
(17/01/2008)

Thorn’s re-designed Civic lantern opens up a new world for designers and installers of street lighting. Apart from the essentials of good road lighting – high performance and durability - Civic now integrates sustainability and energy saving with quick and easy installation and operation. The new aluminium Civic has a number of improved features. It has been specially designed to take the latest generation of metal halide lamps and digital dimm... [more]

Thorn makes improvements to its Primata pre-wired trunking system
(16/01/2008)

Thorn has recently made improvements to its Primata pre-wired trunking system so that it’s easier to install, easier to save money with, and easier to look at. The company recently invited 35 participants - contractors, wholesaler branch managers and representatives - to tour one of its many manufacturing facilities, in Dornbirn, Austria, where they saw the back up available to them. According to Giles Day, Branch Manager of Edmundson Ele... [more]

Piazza II with improved optics and wider lamp choices
(14/01/2008)

Thorn’s redesigned Piazza, the Piazza II, retains its reputation for toughness and durability, while gaining improved optics with wider lamp choices, greater flexibility in the variety of combinations available and better looks. Designed for use with compact fluorescent or discharge lamps (from twin 18W to 85W), the precision crafted prismatic lens controls glare (70W HPE-I versions are E3 zone compliant) and increases the lighting levels on t... [more]

Thorn lights Leeds' tallest office building
(27/12/2007)

Thorn has lit the one of the tallest office buildings outside London. At 32 storeys and 137 metres high, Bridgewater Place is Leeds’ tallest mixed office and residential development, requiring over 3,000 modular luminaires, all of which were specially made. Thorn evolved the lighting in close co-operation with m&e contractor, SES (Shepherd Engineering Services), and building services engineering consultants, Operon. Designed by architect Aeda... [more]

New wall-mounted cylindrical floodlights from Thorn
(12/01/2007)

The new Cesar range from Thorn is a highly versatile collection of wall-mounted cylindrical floodlights. Two types are available, one with dual light emission (up/down), which can be independently switched, and the other up or down only. This flexibility enables the projector to ''wash'' the front of a building or direct the light down onto the pavement creating pools of light without glare. There are four sizes covering seven different lam... [more]

Primata pre-wired trunking system allows for easier installation
(15/12/2006)

Thorn Lighting has introducing a new version of its Primata pre-wired trunking system - and making improvements so that it’s easier to install, easier to save money with, and easier to look at. Primata II features a simple, tool-free, ‘snap-on and turn’ mounting system that provides instant electrical connection. And when there’s rapid fixing, there’s less cost and less labour. Another ‘plus’ is that the array of luminaires, optics and acce... [more]

LED spotlight with flexible optical system allows for beam adjustments and image projection
(26/11/2006)

Thorn’s Milo spotlight meets the requirement for an LED spotlight which has a flexible optical system allowing for beam adjustments and image projection. With a 50mm diameter, lens-type aperture, the slim cylindrical spotlight permits the shaping of the beam from 10 to 24 degrees with very little light spill outside. To achieve this, simple Allen key controls are built-in on the front of the fixture. A further bonus is the gobo holder accesso... [more]

Luminaire enables lighting schemes for display screen areas
(22/10/2006)

Thorn's new MenloSoft SR luminaire now enables lighting schemes for display screen areas to be designed with complete compliance to Lighting Guide LG3: 2001 and LG7: 2005 ceiling and wall illuminance ratio recommendations, using just one fitting type. MenloSoft SR is a semi-recessed modular fluorescent with a suspended optic (only 82mm below the ceiling), designed to deliver an efficient light output (63%) with excellent glare control (1500cd/... [more]

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