Customer Profile:

Since 1926, Graco Inc. has been a leading provider of premium pumps and spray equipment for fluid handling in the construction, manufacturing, processing, and maintenance industries. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graco works closely with distributors around the world to offer innovative products that set the quality standard for spray finishing, paint circulation, lubrication, sealant and adhesives dispensing, process application, and contractor power equipment.

Goal:

Graco’s huge manufacturing facility in Rogers, Minnesota had over six hundred fluorescent 6-lamp highbay fixtures. Maintaining over 3,600 fluorescent T8 lamps and over 1000 ballasts was a painstaking process. Graco was hoping Premier could find them an LED solution that would reduce this long-term maintenance while saving on energy costs and improving the lighting.

Solution:

Given various LED options, Graco opted for entirely new LED fixtures that would replace the fluorescent highbays that had been there for years. These LED highbay fixtures use half the wattage per fixture and were set to last 100,000+ hours. This would essentially eliminate all the maintenance work Graco had been doing in keeping up with their existing fluorescent lighting. In addition, motion sensors were included resulting in even greater savings and longer life than they had with the fluorescent fixtures.

Results:

In replacing their 6-lamp fluorescent high bay fixtures, Graco saved over 50% on energy costs and the light levels improved 20% overall with the new LED fixtures. In addition the light was more uniform and consistent compared to the fluorescent that had faded over time and the LED highbay fixtures will last 3-5 times longer than the fluorescent fixtures they had. To top it all off, Graco was eligible for huge rebates in going to LED which resulted in a payback of around 3 years!

Before: Fluorescent T8 Highbay Lighting

After: New LED Highbay Fixtures

Summary:

• Reduced Energy Usage
• Increased Light Quality
• Increased Light Levels
• Improved Quality Control
• Longer Lasting Products = Reduced Maintenance Costs
• Light Level and Color Uniformity
• Enhanced Image
• Environmental Impact
• Rebates

Premier Lighting:

Our mission at Premier Lighting is to provide our customers with the optimal and practical lighting system. No matter what the industry – hospitality, health care, educational, retail, industrial – we can deliver solutions to every vertical market. We understand the needs of your organization and have served others like you in the past. If you are interested in the optimal lighting solution for your facility, complete this form and we will promptly reply.