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EU directive spells end for Halo Phosphour Tubes

In a drive to reduce Carbon Emissions on a pan European level, The European Commission has put into effect new directives to phase out energy inefficient lamps.

These directives cover all lighting areas, including T8 Halophosphor lamps with effect on April 13th 2010.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 245/2009 with regards to Eco Design requirements for fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast, for high intensity discharge lamps, and for ballasts and luminaries able to operate such lamps requires fluorescent lamps to meet specific performance criteria including lumens/Watt, lumen maintenance, power factor and colour rendering.

Based on the above requirements our current standard (15/18/30/36/58Watt) T8 Halophosphor tubes fail to meet the requirements.

This means that manufacture of this category of lamp will cease on 13 April 2010, and supply will diminish as any existing stocks are depleted.

An alternative tube type, T8 Tri-Phosphor does meet the requirements, and is compatible with all Invertec lighting systems.

Many of Invertec’s lighting systems already include the Tri-Phosphor lamps as standard.  Those that do not will now be upgraded.

The benefits of Tri-Phosphor lamps include the following: