Luminii Lighting

This Acquisition Bolsters Luminii’s Focus on Being Easy To Do Business With By Providing Products and Services That Compliment the Company’s Existing Portfolio

Luminii, a leading innovator in architectural lighting solutions, today announced the acquisition of California-based GLINT Lighting. GLINT’s product portfolio was designed and engineered to beautifully illuminate spaces for improved well-being, while also consuming minimal space and resources. GLINT’s products feature a minimalist design profile that nearly disappears into architecture, while providing exceptional light utilization and glare-free visual comfort. Bringing GLINT into the Luminii fold enhances its lighting roster while enabling the company to further innovate new LED lighting technologies and products that service commercial and residential markets.

“We welcome GLINT into the Luminii family,” announced Jeff Parker, CEO of Luminii and a luminary in the lighting industry. “As we embark on this exciting journey with GLINT, we’re not just acquiring a company; we’re fortifying our company vision. At Luminii, our commitment lies in introducing highly discreet solutions that seamlessly blend form and function. The addition of GLINT enhances this commitment, bringing together their expertise in well-being-focused products with our legacy of innovation in architectural lighting. This collaboration propels us to engineer fresh possibilities, both within our current product portfolio and in exciting new solutions on the horizon.”

“GLINTS HERO® product family stands as a testament to empowering lighting designers and architects to achieve adjustable lighting. Jeff Parker further emphasized, “Thanks to its innovative LightShift® optical system, HERO eliminates the need for physical fixture movement or gimbals to change light direction. Additionally, the HERO profiles, with their minimalist and narrow design, seamlessly fit into challenging spaces where other downlight simply can’t, unlocking new possibilities for designing with light in creative ways.”

By integrating the GLINT collection of highly adjustable luminaires, Luminii is poised to unlock a myriad of innovative opportunities for its diverse customer base. With a strong presence in key market segments including Museums, Galleries, Retail, Hotels, Restaurants, Residential, and Casinos, these highly versatile lighting solutions are ideal for environments seeking an effortlessly adaptable lighting approach.

“We are thrilled and see no better collaborator to expedite the success of the HERO product line,” remarked Peter Kozodoy, CEO of GLINT Lighting. “Luminii’s vision and complementary product strategy seamlessly align with ours, making this decision a straightforward one for our team. Fueled by our award-winning innovation and dedicated focus on optical systems R&D, combined with Luminii’s proficiency in linear expertise, we recognize an extraordinary opportunity to propel our products even further in the lighting industry. This partnership not only promises substantial growth for GLINT’s customer base but also brings invaluable benefits, including world-class engineering, robust operational capabilities, manufacturing resources, and a top-tier sales and marketing organization. Together, these elements provide GLINT and its upcoming products with a significant boost towards achieving unprecedented success.”

GLINT Lighting
Founded in 2012 as GLINT Photonics, the Silicon Valley-based company, headquartered in Burlingame, CA, emerged as a leader in innovative lighting solutions. Originally established with a focus on optical systems research, they introduced their first lighting products in 2021 under the brand GLINT Lighting. Led by CEO Peter Kozodoy, GLINT Photonics boasts a high-pedigree engineering organization known for groundbreaking work in optical design. Their mission was to bring revolutionary simplicity to illuminate spaces, emphasizing minimalist aesthetics and visual comfort.

HERO Product Range
GLINT’s flagship product, HERO, offers very low-profile linear adjustable downlights in Recessed, Monopoint, Track, and Architectural, featuring patented and proprietary LIGHTSHIFT and PUREBEAM technologies. LIGHTSHIFT transforms conventional downlight functionality by allowing effortless beam adjustment via a joystick-actuated internal mechanism. PUREBEAM ensures unmatched beam quality and uniformity, maintaining consistency regardless of the angle and throw. The HERO portfolio also features a universal light engine, creating a cohesive and consistent light effect across all profiles within a space.

GLINT Lighting will remain fully operational and will assume business as usual after the close. The teams will remain focused on servicing existing projects and customers. As operations evolve and grow among Luminii’s portfolio of acquired brands, the GLINT brand will increasingly integrate operations to enhance engineering and sales efforts across all product portfolios and regions. For GLINT Lighting, and all other Luminii brands, customers may contact regional sales managers with any questions about the acquisition, pricing, and product availability.

Luminii’s latest acquisition of GLINT Lighting marks its sixth strategic purchase in the past five years, highlighting the company’s commitment to entering new markets and strengthening its global manufacturing and product capabilities as part of its expansion strategy. Previous acquisitions include Optic Arts and Senso in 2019, iLight Technologies in early 2020, and Precision Lighting and RCL Lighting in 2021.

Luminii’s smallest micro-optic product family, STENOS combines the most advanced optics in a minimalist form factor creating quiet architectural lighting accents in a wide range of applications. eaturing an advanced and proprietary micro-optic CSP engine, STENOS delivers superior uniform light output, high CRI, exceptional glare control – and more product solutions, adding smaller and discrete offerings to its downlight and track systems. Imagine something new with STENOS® micro-optic track systems from Luminii. Available in recessed, deep recessed, surface mount, and suspended in standard shape options including Straight, L, U, and Rectangle.

Niles, Ill.—September 18, 2023—Luminii, a Chicago-based manufacturer of industry-leading specification-grade architectural LED lighting systems, today announced the immediate availability of the company’s new STENOS Gen 2 micro-optic platform. STENOS’s ready-to-order, field configurable, and serviceable micro-LED product family is available in both track systems and downlight options, making it easy for lighting designers and architectural professionals to create unique and sophisticated lighting installations for a wide range of applications. With the STENOS platform, lighting professionals do not have to compromise their vision or approximate client specifications, and they can easily adapt and refine their solutions as ideas and environments evolve.

STENOS UNDER THE HOOD

The name STENOS (pronounced /stĕn-ohs/) has ancient Greek origins and means narrow or tight which was the inspiration behind the company’s segway into the micro-optic lighting market. At the heart of the STENOS system is Luminii’s proprietary, ultramodern micro-optic Chip Scale Package (CSP) engine which utilizes the smallest CSP available. Each CSP consists of a single LED die, propriety phosphor blend and customized Titanium Dioxide coating (TiO2), which allowed Luminii to develop an extremely small and narrow native TIR optic. Sized at just 1.7mm x 1.7mm, the STENOS CSP more efficiently extracts and transfers lumens directly because each CSP is only one die vs. die clusters, pushing more light forward and reducing color-over angle (COA) concerns.

“The release of STENOS Gen 2 represents our investment in the future of micro-optics,” said Amy Bonder, Chief Commercial Officer for Luminii. “Our world-class engineering and design teams continue to push the boundaries of this technology with the development of discrete, highly adaptable optics that surpass the performance of anything available on the market today. Designers want flexibility, and advancing our micro-optic technology opens the door to limitless configurations in a minimal aesthetic, giving our customers the ability to tune their spaces with meticulous accuracy.”

STENOS DOWNLIGHTS

The STENOS architecturally designed downlight portfolio is uniquely small, consisting of four discreet micro-downlight profiles available in a 1” square, and 3”, 5”, 12” linear in both trimmed and trimless. STENOS downlights produce an output range of 250-1260 lumens, include 4 CCTs options, and 95+ CRI. All linear downlight options feature a +/- 30º aimable tilt*, perfect beam quality, and magnetic beam shaping accessories, including optic + glare control louvers for 15°, 30°, and 60° beam options, and wall wash for the 5” and 12” profiles. All STENOS downlights are field configurable, featuring a constant voltage design that enables multiple fixtures to operate from a single power supply, resulting in a simplified installation and overall cost savings.

STENOS TRACK SYSTEMS

Sharing much of the same attributes as the STENOS downlight product range, STENOS micro-track systems are offered in prefabricated shapes including Straight, L Shape, U Shape, and Rectangle, and are available in recessed, deep recessed, surface mount and suspended all featuring discreetly small 1×1-inch profiles. STENOS track systems feature an immaculate circular beam quality from a one-of-a-kind micro-optic form factor. All STENOS ambient and directional micro-optic modules secure flush in the track system, creating a seamless architectural effect and delivering up to 1260 lumens per module. The modules offer endless flexibility, and can be added, removed, and repositioned with ease using simple tools even after installation. Additionally, STENOS systems feature a two-channel track enabling a straightforward set-up of two separately controllable zones. Simply remove, rotate, and re-insert the module to change the circuit.

AMBIENT & DIRECTIONAL TRACK MODULES

STENOS Directional (tilt +/- 30°) and Ambient modules support the recessed, deep recessed, surface, and suspended options, delivering beautiful beam quality and high flexibility all from a uniquely small form factor. The modules sit flush in the track system creating a streamlined and highly integrated overall appearance.

STENOS OPTICAL ACCESSORIES

Beam shaping accessories support both the Downlight and Track System Modules. Customers have the freedom to customize their lighting designs with supporting STENOS optical accessories and glare control louvers for 15°, 30°, 60° beams, as well as a wall wash option to light vertical services, all interchangeable and easily adjustable even after installation.

PRODUCT AVAILABILITY

STENOS Downlights and Track Systems are orderable now in a variety of sizes, light outputs, and CCTs. Standard finishes include black and white painted hardware. Customers may view the new STENOS collection on luminii.com or stenos.lighting and obtain inventory details and further guidance by contacting their local sales representatives or emailing info@luminii.com.

So, what’s next for STENOS? Stay in the know to discover what’s next in this space including the addition of a fully adjustable track head designed for the STENOS track system, and dynamic and warm dim variants.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & RESOURCE

STENOS MICRO OPTIC DOWNLIGHTS

• Discreet, minimal, and field flexible micro-optic downlights
• Trimmed and Trimless options in 1-inch square 3-, 5-, and 12-inch linear downlight profiles*
• Exact measurements are just 1.05″ wide for the Linear and 1.3″ or 0.85″ for the 1″ Square profiles
• 1-inch square trimmed and trimless downlights support ceiling thicknesses from 0.5” to 2.0”
• All STENOS optics feature a native 15°optic
• All linear downlight profiles feature an integrated +/- 30° tilt
• Control glare and beam spread with STENOS accessories
  • 15° louver, 30° optic + louver, 60° optic + louver, and wall wash*
• ≥1260 Lumens per ft, CCTs include 2700, 3000, 3500, 4000K.
• 24VDC, Class 2 design allows multiple downlights to operate from a single power supply = simplified installation and cost savings
• All STENOS Downlight profiles are field serviceable
• Title/JA8 Compliant, IC and UL Wet Location Rated
• Finishes: Black and White painted
• Life: 50,000 hours L90

*1” is not aimable
*1” = 25mm, 3” = 76mm, 5” = 127mm, 12” = 305mm
*Wall Wash only available for 5- and 12-inch downlights
* Wall Wash recommended spacing is 2ft from the wall and 2ft on-center

STENOS MICRO OPTIC TRACK SYSTEMS

• Discreet, minimal (1”x 1” profiles), and field flexible micro-optic track systems
• Trimmed and Trimless options in Recessed, Deep Recessed, Surface Mount, and Suspended Systems
• System shapes include Straight, L, U, and Rectangle
• All STENOS optics feature a native 15°optic
• Works in concert with STENOS directional (tilt +/- 30°) and ambient modules
• Control glare and beam spread with STENOS accessories
  • 15° louver, 30° optic + louver, 60° optic + louver,
• and wall wash*
• Attach Stenos modules anywhere along track systems with the freedom to adjust even after install
• ≥1260 Lumens per ft, CCTs include 2700, 3000, 3500, 4000K.
• Two channel track offers separate controllable zones and easy module changes from zone to zone.
• 24VDC, Class 2 power track simplify installation
• Title 24/JA8 Compliant, Damp Rated
• Finishes: Black and White painted
• Life: 50,000 hours L90

*Ambient modules are offered in 2’ = 61cm and 4’ = 122cm
*Directional modules are offered in 3” = 76mm, 5” = 127mm, 12” = 305mm
*Wall Wash only available for 5- and 12-inch downlights
* Wall Wash recommended spacing is 2ft from the wall and 2ft on-center

ABOUT LUMINII
Luminii is an industry-leading, specification-grade LED lighting manufacturer on a mission to enhance architecture delivering high-performance products in a simply brilliant way. We bring unique visions to life through highly modifiable solutions driven by innovation and delivered with simple processes from specification through installation. Whether you are an architect, designer, or contractor, we are committed to delivering premium lighting products and an experience that is efficient, positive, and memorable. Follow Luminii on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest for more information on products, applications and industry events.

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