E New Products

Food lighting
Food shops and supermarkets
are increasingly discovering that
architecture and lighting are a
means to differentiate from the
competition. Instead of bland,
primarily cost-effective lighting,
it is now common to use more
sophisticated concepts borrowed
from the architectural scene,
including zoning or vertical lighting.
Some chain stores deliberately
employ avant-garde architecture,
while others experiment
with new ideas in pilot stores.
Even discount stores are refining
their ideas using subtle, yet crucial
improvements in product presentation.
ERCO provides a wide range of
suitable lighting tools for lighting
design in the retail sector that are
both cost-effective and sophisticated.
One such example is ERCO’s
track as a safe investment and
flexible infrastructure; others
include different ranges of spotlights
and recessed ceiling luminaires.
Cost-effectiveness is guaranteed
when using efficient light
sources such as high-pressure
discharge lamps, while superior
light quality and visual comfort
are ensured with ERCO’s exclusive
Spherolit reflectors, which are
used in a wide variety of different
spotlights.
Certain branches of the retail
sector, however, have other, more
specific requirements. While textile
and fashion stores primarily
seek excellent colour rendition
food shops want their lighting
to have a spectral composition
that perfectly matches their various
product groups – fish benefits
from different light to that used
for bread and biscuits. Light for
meat and sausages is again different
to that used for fruit and vegetables.
In extensive studies, ERCO’s
lighting technicians have developed
a food lighting concept that
provides the designer with an
uncomplicated “tool kit” to solve
any lighting tasks in the food sector.
It includes additions to existing
product ranges such as versions
with high-pressure sodium
vapour lamps (HST) and a special
food filter as accessory for many
of the existing spotlights. Different
combinations of the HIT and
HST lamps with the new food filter
are suitable for different product
groups – recommendations are
given in the table at the bottom
of this page.
The new food
filter is an accessory
that fits
many of ERCO’s
existing spotlights.
It changes
the composition
of the spectrum
so that meat and
sausages in particular
look fresh
and appetising.
HIT
HST
400
400
HIT with
food filter
400
HST with
food filter
400
500
500
500
500
600
600
600
600
700
700
700
700
(nm)
(nm)
(nm)
(nm)
Combining the
lamps with the
filters results in
different spectral
compositions of
the light.
Food lighting
recommendations
Meat Fish Bread Cheese Fruit
Sausages Bakery products Vegetables
Metal halide lamps
(R a ) 90)
without food filter
• • •
Metal halide lamps
(R a ) 90)
with food filter
•
High-pressure sodium vapour lamps
without food filter
• • • •
High-pressure sodium vapour lamps
with food filter
•
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