26 March 2012

Luminus achieves ISO and OHSAS environmental and health/safety certifications

Luminus Devices Inc of Billerica, MA, USA, which manufactures PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LEDs for illumination applications, has announced two certifications for its Massachusetts facilities. ISO 14001:2004 recognizes the firm’s ability to meet rigorous international criteria in the management of environmental and sustainability processes. OHSAS 18001:2007 is awarded to companies meeting occupational health and safety management system specifications. The firm is also ISO 9001:2008 certified for quality management processes and has recently been accredited to the ISO 17025:2005 laboratory standard.

“These new certifications, integrated into our quality management systems, demonstrate with clarity to customers that they will receive superior, innovative products made by people from a company dedicated to global professional standards as well as the environment,” says president & CEO Keith T.S. Ward. Luminus currently holds more than 144 patents and patents pending for ‘big chip’ LEDs.

The firm also announced recently that 100% of the electricity at its manufacturing facility in Woburn, MA is being purchased with Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). Luminus says that the RECs will help avoid the emission of 946 metric tons of CO2 in 2012.

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