LED lighting helps Forth Ports win green award In March 2013 Forth Ports was named Edinburgh’s greenest company in awards that recognise the city’s best businesses. Lighting innovations at Leith docks were among the initiatives that helped the UK port operator clinch the prize at the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Business Awards. There was more to the lighting improvement, however, than just its green credentials. The Challenge Even in daylight in Shed 3, a bulk store at Forth Ports’ Leith facility, the 400W SON high bays were struggling to provide adequate illumination. The heat they generated was burning cargo dust onto the polycarbonate lenses and greatly impairing their performance, but lamp replacement was a great challenge as it could only be carried out when the shed became empty.

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