About WILA - Qualitätsbeleuchtung für ein ästhetisches Umfeld

“Our purpose as a leading specialist for quality lighting is to enhance the visual environment through high performance energy efficient and sustainable products becoming the company of choice for designers of offices and public buildings”. WILA is your partner for today and tomorrow - “your lighting partner of choice”.  Michael Collett (Chief Executive Officer WILA Group)

WILA Lichttechnik GmbH, Iserlohn, Germany, is a leading producer of specialist quality lighting for office and administrative buildings, public and community buildings, schools and other educational establishments. Formed over 150 years ago in 1857, the company concentrates on high-performance, energy-efficient, sustainable products – providing better lighting and a better working environment in the 21st-century workplace. WILA Lichttechnik GmbH is an international company with a clear focus on the European market and has sales partners in more than 25 countries. The company holds EN ISO 14001 and 9001 certification and has received the ‘Investors in People’ award. In 2009 it became a member of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB).

WILA History / Green Business

1857
Foundation of the company 150 years ago in Iserlohn

1932
Start lumianire production

1984
Innovation driven development of compact energy efficient luminaires

1989
Rearrangement of electronic ballasts (EB) for extension of higher lamp liftetime and more efficient energy usage

1994
Interseroh - Tacking back, recycling and disposal of old electrical and electronic apparatus as well as their wholesale packaging within Germany is undertaken via Interseroh. In the UK this is done by Lumicom

1996
Blauer Engel -  Ballasts E-Connect accredited with Quality Mark for products manufactured to the highest ecological and sustainable standards

1999
Development of linear office lighting program

2004
The WILA Group is generated with the WILA Lichttechnik GmbH in Germany and the WILA Lighting Limited  as well as Mattalex Emergency Lighting Limited in Great Britain

2005
EN ISO 9001 - WILA is accredited with the quality management system EN ISO 9001

2005
RoHS - WILA Products meet the RoHS guidelines (Restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances), Registration number DE93632433

2006
WEEE – WILA Products meet WEEE-guidelines (Waste Electrical  and Electronic Equipment) for electronic waste

2007
IIP -  WILA possess an ambitious program of personnel-development, official certified of the International Quality Center with Quality Mark IIP

2007
Carbon Footprint - WILA Lighting Limited is carbon neutral due to planting 129 trees (= 94,5 t CO2 Substitution)

2007
PEFC -  Print media are printed with printing colours free of mineral oil, and on PEFC certified paper, manufactured from regional and sustainable forests.

2008
EN ISO 14001 - Introduction of environmental management system and accredited with EN ISO 14001

2008
Exportinitiative Energieeffizienz– WILA is part of the export initiative of federal government department for economy and technology with energie-efficient products

2008
Efficiency Plus - Label for light output ratio optimised lighting technique combined with dimmable ECO-ballasts, presence detectors and daylight sensors. Further features:         Reduction of volume and material, minimising of parts, mechanical separability and the use of stable materials which are free from harmful substances, pure and long-lasting

2009
EUP, EnEV - WILA products are designed to meet the following European Standards: EuP (Energy using Products) and the Energy Saving Directive EnEV

2009
DGNB - Since 2009 WILA has been a member of the German Sustainable Building Council

2010
Green Business Management -  first steps to adjust the energy consumption in Iserlohn by using Eco-Power and district heating

2010
Zhaga – WILA is a member of Zhaga (Consortium for the standardization of LED light engines)