Egg remanufactures lights at Kelvingrove bandstand
Egg Lighting has remanufactured the luminaires at Kelvingrove Bandstand in Scotland in a project which has saved 600 kilograms of embodied carbon.
The historic venue required a sustainable solution that would preserve its aesthetics.
With a busy schedule of events, it would a challenge to rapidly remove, upgrade and replace the existing spotlights without disruption.
Initial surveys of the site and a review of a sample spotlight showed that remanufacturing would be the best option.
By choosing this sustainable solution, the project team not only preserved the bandstand’s aesthetics but also avoided the need for entirely new products. This decision saved on new lighting designs, reduced installation work, and minimised costs. Additionally, Egg Lighting corrected several design aspects to meet IP requirements, ensuring a more robust solution.
Egg says its believes that remanufacture is the most sophisticated circular technique and upgrades used lighting to modern performance with minimum waste. Its circular service is designed to turn these problems into opportunities for all involved.
Egg’s remanufacturing is, says the firm, a diligent process guided by the British Standard for remanufacture and is conducted in-line with UK lighting industry and legal requirements.
Its approach joins together waste management, engineering, documentation, testing and manufacture to maximise the value of otherwise waste lighting equipment.
EGG believes that remanufacture is the most sophisticated circular technique and upgrades used lighting to modern performance with minimum waste.
Many organisations are forced to send slow-moving, returned or surplus stock to be recycled. Egg’s circular service is designed to turn these problems into opportunities for all involved.
Recycling, in the view of the circular economy, should be the last resort. It downgrades materials; losing residual component value.
Its approach joins together waste management, engineering, documentation, testing and manufacture to maximise the value of otherwise waste lighting equipment.
And importantly, it gives the business the confidence to offer as-new warranties.
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