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terms of innovation, design, and engineering, and
light quality: the American Lighting, Inc. Trulux sys-

tem, and the Blackjack Lighting Seraph chandelier.
These products demonstrate admirable a ention

to detail and the consumer experience, while also

achieving energy e ciency.
From among the Decorative Fixture submissions,

the judges selected two honorable mentions.
These products are the Hinkley Lighting Hadley

3308CM ceiling-mount xture and the LBL Light- Crystorama Holds

ing Torque 27 pendant.
The Functional Lighting category resulted in
Flood Relief
ve winners and two honorable mention distinc-
tions. The winners are the Acuity Brands Lighting

Super LED Garage Light, the AFX, Inc. Slate Pro Supply Drive

Edge, the Ambiance Lighting Systems Lucarne
LED Niche Light, Juno Lighting Group (an Acuity

Brands Company) 4-inch Sloped Ceiling LED W
Downlights, and the WAC Lighting Landscape estbury, N.Y.-based Crystorama Lighting’s o ce sta

Accent Light. The EcoSense TROV LED Linear and warehouse team is holding a ood relief supply

Platform and the AFX, Inc. Carlisle xture received drive of household items to bene t the victims of
honorable mentions, the Carlisle also earning the recent catastrophic ooding in Baton Rouge. The cause hits

distinction as the best product in the Contractor home for Crystorama’s VP/Sales Ryan Ranzino, who was born and
Lighting category.
raised in Baton Rouge.

The judges selected two categories of Special Employees donated baby food, canned goods, diapers,

Recognition this year for Products Filling a Market children’s toys, bo led water, laundry detergent, and cleaning
Need and Value Products. The products awarded supplies needed by families whose homes were damaged or

the designation of Filling a Market Need are destroyed by the ooding. The supplies are being shipped to the
examples of products that are newly available Hebron Baptist Church just outside Baton Rouge, which is hous-

using LED technology or representing product ing and assisting local residents displaced by the storm.

types in which the quality of LED performance has “The devastation that occurred in southeastern Louisiana is
increased noticeably. The four product awards for heartbreaking,” said Brad Kleinberg, President of Crystorama

lling a market need are the Globe Electric Com- Lighting. “It is estimated that as many as 110,000 homes and
pany 73191 B-type LED Vintage Bulb, the MaxLite 7,000 businesses in the greater Baton Rouge area have been

LED Warm-on-Dim BR30 Lamp, the WAC Lighting a ected. Recognizing the profound need for basic household

Landscape In-ground Light, and the WAC Lighting items that residents have while they recover and rebuild, our
AETHER Shallow 3.5'' Recessed Downlight.
employees took the initiative to organize a relief supply drive

The products that are awarded the Value here at our headquarters to assist in the e ort. We are proud to
designation are examples of high-quality lighting
be lending a helping hand.”

at a price point similar to incumbent, less-e cient The oods that swamped the Baton Rouge region with 15 to

technology. Four products are given recognition
32 inches of rain over a 48-hour period in mid-August killed 13
in the Value category: the Acuity Brands Lighting people and have been described as the worst natural disaster in

LED Contemporary Vanity/Sconce, the AFX, Inc. the U.S. since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, according to The Wash-
Sloane, the Globe Electric Company 62591 xture ington Post. So far, more than 100,000 people in Louisiana have

and LED lament bulb, and the MaxLite 3-Way applied for federal assistance and the government has set aside

Omnidirectional A-Lamp.
$127 million to help those displaced nd temporary housing and
For more information about where to purchase pay for home repairs.

these products, and for complete details on the To make a donation for ood relief e orts in Louisiana, please
competition, visit www.lightingfortomorrow.com
visit www.braf.org.

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