Cooper Lighting’s two products, the McGraw-Edison Ventus™ LED Area Luminaire and the Metalux OpticaHP High Performance Parabolic Series, have been chosen as 2010 Product of the Year winners in the Lighting category by Plant Engineering.

The McGraw-Edison Ventus™ LED Area Luminaire took the Silver award, and the Metalux OpticaHP High Performance Parabolic Series took the Bronze award.

Utilizing patent-pending modular LightBAR™ technology, the McGraw-Edison Ventus LED Area Luminaire is able to deliver application-specific uniform illumination, eliminating wasted energy and obtrusive spill light. The Ventus LED Area Luminaire is optimized to deliver energy-conscious illumination to parking lots, building areas, roadways, and security lighting applications, and can provide up to 75 percent in energy savings over traditional high intensity discharge outdoor sources.

The Metalux OpticaHP High Performance Parabolic Series is an energy saving solution for both new construction as well as lighting retrofit and renovation applications for significantly reducing energy usage. The high-efficiency T8 two-lamp design can save over 40 percent on energy costs compared to standard 3-lamp, 18-cell parabolics. It also features a precision-faceted blade design that produces soft, evenly distributed illumination, while delivering optimum light levels.

In its 23rd year, the annual reader-choice Product of the Year awards program was created to recognize top new products in the plant engineering market, with readers choosing Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners in 13 categories. A panel of industry experts chooses finalists in the competition, which are then featured in Plant Engineering. The 2010 Plant Engineering Product of the Year award recipients were honored as part of Plant Engineering's annual Manufacturing/Automation Summit, which took place in Chicago, March 20-22.