OSRAM
OSRAM creates lighting solutions for countless areas of modern life – for illumination, visualization and sensors as well as highly specialized applications like water purification using ultraviolet light. Our portfolio includes lamps and optoelectronic semiconductor light sources such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), LED systems, control electronics and light management systems.
With artificial lighting currently consuming some 19 percent of the world’s electricity, energy-efficient lighting solutions can play an important role in cutting energy consumption and CO2 emissions. A comprehensive approach to environmental protection requires that product components and manufacturing processes also meet the highest quality and environmental standards. Here, our 48 production facilities in 17 countries are an industry benchmark. Setting the pace, our plant in India received the Siemens Environmental Award in 2007.
OSRAM Art Projects: Screens featuring more than three-quarters of a million high-power LEDs outside our Munich headquarters capture the excitement of today’s most advanced lighting sources. The video installation “Alice in Wonderland” was designed by artist Diana Thater.
Energy-saving lighting solutions have always been one of our top priorities. For example, in 1985 we invented the first lamp with all its electronics integrated into the base for improved energy efficiency. Our most recent energy-saving products include halogen bulbs that use up to 30 percent less electricity than conventional models, energy-efficient electrodeless lamps and the world’s first infinitely dimmable lamps. We’re constantly refining our products for office and street lighting, areas in which intelligent solutions can cut electricity consumption by up to 80 percent. In 2007, we became the world’s first lighting manufacturer to receive UN approval for a Clean Development Mechanism. Our model, which is based on the Kyoto Protocol, will enable the lighting industry to replace millions of incandescent bulbs with energy-saving lamps in developing and emerging countries over the next few years.
To capture an above-average share of the double-digit growth in today’s booming market for energy-saving lighting solutions, we’re taking major steps to boost our production capacities. For instance, we’re now building a second production facility for energy-saving fluorescent and compact fluorescent lamps in India, adding a second opto chip factory in Malaysia and expanding our existing chip factory in Germany. To extend our lead in light-emitting diodes – the energy-saving light source of tomorrow – we invested 13 percent of our sales from optical semiconductors and LEDs in research and development in fiscal 2007.