Prolight Design has announced that its latest version of its Gen-E spotlight is made using 100 per cent post-consumer recycled aluminium.
The company says the move to post-consumer aluminium significantly reduce reliance on virgin materials and energy-intensive production processes and leads to a dramatic reduction in embodied carbon.
It’s also capable of achieving an efficiency of over 190 lumens per Watt. Prolight Design says the quoted ffficiency values are based on real world testing in a calibrated Ulbricht sphere and are based on complete luminaire values.
‘Our next-generation Gen-E luminaires redefine what is possible in sustainable lighting,’ Nick Whitehand, managing director at Prolight Design, told the Circular Lighting Report. ‘Announcing this on Earth Day reinforces our commitment to reducing environmental impact and accelerating the transition to circular design. This is a true game changer.’
In 2025, the Gen-E spotlight was nominated for a Build Back Better Award in the lighting category.
Prolight Design says this latest Gen-E development is ‘another milestone towards a more sustainable future’.
Simultaneously, Prolight Design have taken steps to minimise material content of Gen-E luminaires by applying circular design principles to enable remanufacture and the highest possible levels of recyclability at end of life.
In fact a minimum of 85 per cent of the material content is locally recyclable. The company has taken extensive efforts to ensure that the plastic and 3D printed polymer material is reduced to an absolute minimum due to the high risk of adverse environmental impact at end of life.
‘With the latest Gen-E, we challenged ourselves to take energy efficiency to another level and set a new benchmark,’ says Whitehand.
Gen-E uses CRI 90 LED chips that will render true colours across the entire spectrum while still delivering market leading efficiency. Accurate colour rendering with lighting has in the past required compromise and has often been at the expense of efficiency.
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