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Not sure where the time has been going the last few months but all we hear is the downturn in business and business closing down, well I have to say that from my side I see that the LED market did take a dip in the first 2 months this year but since then we have been going flat out. The orders and enquires are pouring in and times look to be really good going forward.

We at Carclo have re-organised ourselves and the LED team is now a standalone group within Carclo and this has meant changes in the way we work with the group as now they are our suppliers of the moulded optics, this means we are in the process of increasing our capacity and will have a number of production sites worldwide manufacturing our optics.

This will be a benefit to our customers in we will have even better local support and supply.

We have also been busy at shows with Strategies in Light being the start of the year and LightFair next month closely followed by EuroLED in the UK.

We were also the first company to support the new HTML newsletter from the LED Mag which is just a great place to keep up to date with the LED market as well as Electronics Weekly.

Enough of me rambling on, I have to get back to the e-mails following my break at the Disney World where my family got feed up of me looking at the different LED light fittings they use around the parks and rides for special effects. It would have been nice to have seen them use this technology to reduce the power usage across the general lighting of the parks as well as special effects, I guess in time this will happen.


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Paul Ward
As Opto Product Manager at Farnell, Paul is overseeing the company's involvement in the rapidly evolving and high profile LED lighting market sector.

As well as ensuring that Farnell offers the latest technologies and products related to solid state lighting, Paul is also responsible for ensuring that the resources are in place to make it easier for design engineers to specify and design-in LED solutions for their applications.

Educated in Production Engineering and Design at Sheffield Hallam University, Paul has worked in various engineering, training and marketing roles for companies including C&K switches, ITT Cannon, Cherry and LED specialist Chicago Miniature Lighting.

Away from the world of LEDs, Paul is a Founder of the charity RTTW, Photographer and Harley Davidson rider; he has ridden and snapped across Europe, New Zealand and the USA on his chrome hog!

Gordon Routledge
Gordon Routledge is one of the original pioneers in LED illumination having worked with LEDs in illumination applications since 1996. Currently VP of Illumination at Dialight, Gordon founded Lumidrives in 2001, having previously been managing director at ACDC Lighting Systems. Gordon has a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from university of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

Ian Bryant
ian bryant.jpgIan Bryant is Business Development Manager LED Division at Carclo Technical Plastics. He has worked on and off at Carclo (Formerly Combined Optical Industrial) since leaving school. He has worked through the company from Toolmaking to starting the company on the road of LED optics business some 6-7 years ago, starting with a standard range and more in line with the business of custom optics. In between all this he has worked in engineering and as a works Director for a hydraulics company but kept getting pulled back to the optics industrial. We are able to offer the full solution from idea to parts so have a very good understanding on what is needed. You will see some posts from our design team also under my name.

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