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1983 Company renamed [[PED]]. | 1983 Company renamed [[PED]]. | ||
1988 | 1988 A subsidiary of North American Philips when it was acquired by [[Cambridge Electronic Industries]]<ref>The Times, August 24, 1988</ref> | ||
1990 Became part of the [[Roxboro Group]] | 1990 Became part of the [[Roxboro Group]] | ||
Revision as of 10:31, 26 September 2020
Dialight of Newmarket is a company specialising in light-emitting diode lighting for hazardous locations
1938 Company founded in Brooklyn, NY, producing instrument panel lights for aircraft
1952 Magnetic Devices set up
1971 Introduced its first LED devices
1977 Magnetic Devices joined with Pye Electro Devices (solenoid manufacturers)
1983 Company renamed PED.
1988 A subsidiary of North American Philips when it was acquired by Cambridge Electronic Industries[1]
1990 Became part of the Roxboro Group
1992 PED merged with Belling Lee, a manufacturer of fuses, fuse holders, filters and connectors, to form BLP Components
BLP became part of the Dialight plc group of companies.
2000 Dialight, the US subsidiary of Roxboro Group, was responsible for about half of the profit of the Roxboro group. The company provided components for mobile phones[2]
2005 Roxboro sold its other businesses to concentrate on the applied LED business and changed its name to Dialight
2006 BLP Components Ltd adopted the new name of Dialight BLP
2011 Dialight BLP Ltd was renamed Dialight Europe Ltd; Dialight plc moved the headquarters of the group to the Newmarket site and merged Dialight Lumidrives Ltd with Dialight Europe Ltd.
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Company web site