Sollum Tech wins award for horticultural lighting

Montréal-based Sollum Technologies’ smart LED lighting system won the 2021 Sapphire Award in the horticultural lighting category by LEDs Magazine.

Sollum Technologies lighting
Sollum Technologies lighting
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Montréal-based Sollum Technologies’ smart LED lighting system won the 2021 Sapphire Award in the horticultural lighting category by LEDs Magazine. Winners were revealed at the Strategies in Light conference Aug. 24-25.

“Receiving the Sapphire Award for horticultural lighting is a strong signal of the relevance of Sollum’s technology and a tremendous honor for us,” president and CEO Louis Brun said in a news release. “This award recognizes Sollum’s vision for the future of horticultural lighting and the hard work put in over the years.”

The Sapphire Awards celebrate innovation and advances in the light-emitting diodes (LED) and solid state lighting (SSL) industry. Award winners and their technologies will be profiled in the September 2021 issue of LEDs Magazine.

Sollum Technologies was founded in 2015 to offer greenhouse producers a smart LED lighting solution that recreates and modulates the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. The company works with clients to create recipes adapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. The goals are energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment. Sollum was awarded the Solar Impulse Foundation Efficient Solution label.

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