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Contact: Mike Petrasek (412) 394-6611 michael.petrasek@bm.com Cooper Industries' Products Earn Top Honors in Consulting-SpecifyingEngineer's 2011 Product of the Year Competition
Cooper Lighting, Cooper Notification and Cooper B-Line Products All Recognized By Readers
DUBLIN, January 18, 2012 - Cooper Lighting, Cooper B-Line and Cooper Notification, subsidiaries
of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), a global provider of
electrical solutions, have been selected as Gold and Silver
award winners in Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine's
2011 Product of the Year competition.
The annual Product of the Year awards, created to provide
information on the top new products in the field, allows
readers to choose Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in ten
separate categories.
This year, Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to
delivering innovative products and driving transformational
technology in the lighting industry, was awarded a Gold honor
in the Lighting
Controls Category for its
McGraw-Edison Ventus outdoor LED area luminaireand qualified as a finalist for its Portfolio
LED Downlights. Cooper B-Line, a global provider of
innovative, labor-saving
support systems and enclosure solutions for engineered
facility subsystem applications, and Cooper
Notification, a leading supplier of Life Safety
and Mass Notification System (MNS) solutions, both took home
Silver awards for the
ARISTA Monolithic Solar Racking Systemand
SAFEPATH Mass
Notification System (MNS)in the Electrical
Distribution and Fire, Life Safety and Mass Notification
categories respectively.
Cooper Lighting's Gold award-winning product, the
McGraw-Edison Ventus outdoor LED luminaire, was designed to
provide uniform and energy-efficient illumination for parking
lots, building areas, roadways and for security lighting
applications. The product incorporates modular LED LightBAR™
technology featuring a patented AccuLED Optics™ system
providing a choice of 13 optical distributions to maximize
lighting efficiency and fulfill the exact needs of the
outdoor space. The LED lighting fixtures offer a long-life of
up to 50,000 hours.
Engineered to offer specifiers both a cost and labor savings, Cooper B-Line recently introduced the Silver-winning ARISTA™ Monolithic Racking Systems for solar PV commercial rooftop applications. Featuring pre-assembled hardware, ARISTA racking systems offer quick assembly and eliminate the need for field adjustments. They also offer expansion splice plates to quickly connect rails and include DURA-BLOK™ rooftop supports made of 100 percent recycled rubber to reduce potential wear. The system is now available with integrated module grounding to simplify the installation.
Cooper Notification also took home a Silver Medal for its SAFEPATH Mass Notification Systems (MNS), ideal for a wide range of industries, including healthcare, education, commercial, industrial and government buildings. Compliant with the latest MNS codes and standards, UL 2572 and NFPA
72 2010, SAFEPATH integrates with a facility's addressable fire alarm system to provide a complete
in-building solution. It provides personnel and building occupants with intelligible live and pre-recorded voice messages that communicate what to do in response to an emergency. The system manages all audio and visual notification devices in the emergency communications system and features a
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modular and flexible design to meet the functional requirements of an emergency response plan as well as the complexities of the latest fire codes.
For more information on all winners and finalists in
Consulting-Specifying Engineer Product of the
Year Awards visit
www.csemag.com.
To learn more about Cooper Industries and its comprehensive
range of electrical products and solutions, visit www.cooperindustries.com.
Cooper Lighting, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), is the leading provider of world- class lighting fixtures and controls to commercial, industrial, retail, institutional, residential and utility markets. As lighting technologies have advanced over the years, Cooper Lighting has been at the forefront of the industry in helping businesses and communities leverage the latest technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enrich the quality of the environment. For more information, visit www.cooperlighting.com .
About Cooper B-LineAs a global manufacturer, Cooper B-Line offers innovative solutions that deliver overall lower total installed cost. With numerous time-saving designs, our broad offering of support systems, seismic bracing, electrical and electronic enclosures provide customers with leading brands such as FLEXTRAY™, GRIP STRUT™, ARISTA™, TOLCO™ and RUFF-IN. Customers in government and commercial construction, oil and gas, mining, solar, communications, data centers, and HVACR markets have come to rely on our products to help protect, enclose and support their facility subsystem infrastructures. For more information, visit www.cooperbline.com.
About Cooper Notification
Cooper Notification, a solution platform of The Cooper Safety Division, is comprised of several businesses with decades of experience and innovation in the development of high quality products and solutions. With the ever present need to protect, alert and inform, Cooper Notification is focused on meeting the growing demand for personnel and property safety. We are the source for notification solutions supporting Fire, Security, Hazardous area, Mass Notification, Voice evacuation and Industrial Signaling applications and operating under the powerful global brands of Fulleon, MEDC, Roam Secure, SAFEPATH, WAVES and Wheelock. For more information, visit the web site at www.coopernotification.com.
About Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) is a global electrical
products manufacturer with 2010 revenues of
$5.1 billion. Founded in 1833, Cooper's sustained
success is attributable to a constant focus on innovation,
evolving business practices while maintaining the highest
ethical standards, and meeting customer needs. The Company
has seven operating divisions with leading market positions
and world-class products and brands including: Bussmann
electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG
explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux
lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems
products. With this broad range of products, Cooper is
uniquely
positioned for several long-term growth trends including the
global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the
reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand
for higher energy-efficient
products and the need for improved electrical safety. In 2010
fifty-nine percent of total sales were to customers in the
industrial and utility end-markets and thirty-nine percent of
total sales were to
customers outside the United States. Cooper has manufacturing
facilities in 23 countries as of 2011. For more information,
visit the website at www.cooperindustries.com.
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