Vega Industries Limited is a company in
Porirua
Porirua, ( mi, Pari-ā-Rua) a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. The name 'Porirua' is a corruption of 'Pari-rua', meaning "the tide swee ...
,
New Zealand which manufactures specialised
navigation and signal lights for use in
transportation industries, primarily
marine navigation. Vega has been in business since 1972 when it built a marine guidance system based on a design by
Norman Rumsey.
Throughout the forty-plus years that Vega has been operating it has produced lights, which can be found all around the globe. From manufacturing the first LED lighthouse beacon (VRB-25) installed in the United States, to equipping Lake Balaton in Hungary with inland beacons (VLB-92). They have lighthouse and marine beacons installed in the United Kingdom and PEL Precision
sector lights
A sector light is a man-made pilotage and position fixing aid that consists of strictly delineated horizontal angle light beams to guide water-borne traffic through a safe channel at night in reasonable visibility. Sector lights are most often u ...
found in most major ports and harbours as well as remote locations like Alaska or the discreet US Naval Base Diego Garcia.
The most commonly used Vega navigation lights are the Vega LED Beacons of which the VLB-67 with several solar powered options and recently renamed as the VLB-5 to reflect the 5 nautical mile range is the most frequently installed.
Vega has representatives based in Sydney, Singapore, Munich and Houston.
References
External links
Vega home page
Manufacturing companies of New Zealand
Porirua
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