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CBT Increases Safety With Innovative Cloud-Based Lighting Alert System

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CBT’s Certified Lighting Professional, Jason Self, worked with a refining facility out of Northwest Ohio to design and implement a cloud-based lighting safety alert system for their facility.

WEBINAR: Risky Business - 9 Hygienic Design Mistakes to Avoid

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In the Food and Beverage industry, perfection is the standard. When 99.99% food safety compliance is considered subpar, having a hygienically designed plant floor can mean the difference between maximum production or costly recalls. Join Larry Hecker, CBT’s top Sanitation Specialist, as he shares the most common hygienic design mistakes that occur on the plant floor and, more importantly, how you can avoid them.

New Incentives Could Cover the Cost of Your Lighting Project

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When the CARES act was passed on March 27th of this year it opened up the possibility for lighting upgrades to be 100% written off in the year installed, meaning that the federal government would be subsidizing any improvement by the amount of the companies federal tax rate.

CBT's New Lighting Certified Professional

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CBT is excited to announce that one of our very own was recently recognized as a Lighting Certified Professional by the National Council of Qualifications for the Lighting Professionals (NCQLP). 

Electric Exit Signs VS Lumaware Exit Signs

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Your costly, outdated electrical signs can easily be replaced with the innovative photoluminescent technology from CBT partner, Lumaware.

Sanitation Tech Tip: Antimicrobial Lighting

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Upgrade your current lighting fixtures with the state-of-the-art antimicrobrobrial lighting technology from CBT partner Hubbell. This innovative equipment drastically reduces the risk of product contamination and can easily retrofit over your current ballasts.

Go Green With LED Lighting

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Happy Earth Day! CBT encourages you to do your part in giving back to our planet today and everyday. One way to reduce waste in your plant while cutting energy costs and increasing efficiency is to upgrade to LED lighting. LED lighting uses between one-half and one-third of the energy required by legacy technologies, and in many cases, even less than that.

How the New Tariffs are Affecting the Lighting Industry

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The LED lighting market has been dominated by Chinese manufacturing.  The good news in this is that the price for LED fixtures keeps getting better but, on the downside, domestic lighting manufacturers have had to look closely at how they go to market.  One of the largest lighting manufacturers in the U.S. recently had to consolidate their operations, citing predatory pricing from China as the cause.