ETAP Lighting

ETAP Lighting

ETAP Lighting is a Belgian company manufacturing lighting and located in Malle. President of the Board is Christ’l Joris, who is also president of Agoria Flanders and of Flanders Investment and Trade.

History

The company started with the production of ship's lighting in Antwerp in 1949. In 1960 the company moved to Malle in the Flemish Campine region.

The ETAP name is derived from Electro Technische APparaten, roughly translated as Electro Technical Apparatus.

Expansion from its traditional domestic Belgian/Dutch market started in the '70s with France, '80s into Germany and the '90s into UK and Portugal. ETAP now also have offices in Spain and partnerships in Sweden and Norway.

ETAP prides itself in making exceptionally high performing & quality light fittings for the commercial and industrial lighting markets also including healthcare, education, local government and retail. ETAP has also moved into the building lighting controls system market with the launch of its Excellum range. This provides the company with complete energy reduction solutions.

The company employs approximately 500 people, produces approximately 330,000 luminaires annually and has a turnover of approximately €60 million per annum.

The company is still family owned & re-invests 6 - 7% of its annual turnover for research and development.

In 2006 ETAP won the prestigious Best Interior Product at the Lighting Design Awards [http://www.lightingawards.com/Welcome.asp] with its exceptional UM1 MesoOptic®.

ETAP also owns LDI (LED Design Innovation) [http://www.leddesigninnovation.com/] and Alter [http://www.alter.fr/accueil.html]

ETAP Lighting also has a sister company ETAP Yachting. [http://www.etapyachting.com/index.php?lang=en] These yachts are designed to be unsinkable, unlike the Titanic! [http://www.etapyachting.com/index.php?pageID=264]

ETAP Hotels have no association with any of these companies.

External links

* [http://www.etaplighting.com/ ETAP Lighting]

Lighting Industry Federation [http://www.lif.co.uk/site/manulist.asp?ni=1]

ICEL [http://www.icel.co.uk/site/manulist.asp?l=e&ni=2]


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