Dialight plc is a British-based electronics business specialising in

light-emitting diode A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons. The color of the light ( ...

lighting for hazardous locations. It is headquartered in London and operates in North America, the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, Australia, Asia and South America. It is listed on the

London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange in the City of London, England, United Kingdom. , the total market value of all companies trading on LSE was £3.9 trillion. Its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St Pa ...

and is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap and FTSE techMARK Focus indices.

History

The business was founded in 1938 and became part of the Dutch company

Philips Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters is ...

in 1963.Share Crazy
/ref> In 1990, through a management buyout, it became part of Roxboro Group, which was first listed on the

in 1993. In 2005, it was renamed Dialight.

Operations

The company has three divisions: * Signals and Illumination (traffic and rail signals as well as obstruction lights) * Solid state lights (low-energy lighting technology) *

Optoelectronics Optoelectronics (or optronics) is the study and application of electronic devices and systems that find, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, ''light'' often includes invisible forms of radiati ...

References

External links

Official site
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