The industry was in it’s fledgling stages and although there was great promise of changing the world by building ultra efficient LED Lighting that lasts forever, the product output at the time didn’t even come close to living up to the it’s potential, despite the hype.
IGS’s founder was introduced to LED Lighting by a friend who had recently visited Germany and came back with an LED light, in which he boasted about the energy savings and long life span. At that time, our founder knew that he wanted to get into the “Green Space”, but didn’t know which direction, until the moment he saw that first LED Light Bulb. This was exactly what he needed to see and at that moment, IGS Lighting became the first division of International Green Systems.
IGS Lighting began operations by purchasing as many different LED Lights as possible from all over the world. At the time there were already about 200 manufacturers, mostly in Asia. We quickly learned that although the great possibility of ultra efficient, long lasting lighting was a possibility, it certainly wasn’t yet a reality.
Most of the lights failed quickly and most of them had horrible dingy brown or bright white/blue light output that was worse than fluorescent light. However, our founder was not discouraged and he started dissecting the lights and learned very quickly how to fix these problems. Two years later, our first generation of products were ready to go.
It took over a year to find our first customer. It was the Aloft Hotel in Downtown Dallas. The order was for about 1,000 par 30 light bulbs. At the time the expected lifetime of the bulbs was 30,000 hours. However, our founder was confident that his engineering and choice of quality components would allow the bulbs to live far beyond their expected lifetime.
Here we are now, 13 years later and those bulbs have been running non-stop, 24/7 the entire time without any failures. That’s over 70,000 hours of actual documented use and counting and a true testament to the quality put into every IGS product.
IGS is now into it’s 8th generation of products and is leading the world in efficiency and control systems and, of course, quality and reliability.