ballast manufacturing founded 1943 headquarters nashville tennessee united states key people pat sullivan ceo products lighting & lighting controls number of employees 2 330 2011 website www.unvlt.com universal lighting technologies is based in nashville tennessee and is part of the panasonic family of companies . they design and manufacture high efficiency lighting ballasts and control systems and produce electronic and magnetic ballasts for cfls linear fluorescent bulbs and hid lighting as well as digital and analog dimming systems . the company acquired vossloh schwabe s north american operations in 2009 . this allowed them to also offer a full range of hid products ignitors clarification needed transformers lampholders capacitors and other components . 1 contents 1 history 1.1 triad utrad 1.2 universal manufacturing company 2 universal lighting today 3 references 4 external links history edit universal lighting technologies originated about 60 years ago from the combination of two lighting industry corporations universal manufacturing company and triad utrad energy savings incorporated . universal manufacturing company was one of the first companies to manufacture lighting ballasts and triad utrad was the first company to introduce the electronic lighting ballast . triad utrad edit triad utrad was founded in 1943 2 and with the installation of electronic dc ballasts in the mass transit industry was the first in the industry to introduce the electronic ballast continuing on with later introductions of ballasts for t12 t8 and compact fluorescent lamps . universal manufacturing company edit this section contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information . please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject s importance use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance . november 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message founded in 1947 universal manufacturing is known for setting many standards in the lighting industry . it was one of the first ballast manufacturers to implement a technical engineering services tes department that gave advice on ballast selection installation and on the job troubleshooting and is still renowned throughout the industry today . 3 it was also the first to develop hid ballast retrofit kits that included ballasts with color coded leads making retrofits fast and easy . in 2002 universal lighting technologies acquired certain assets from energy savings inc. esi . with the addition of lighting dimming and controls universal has enhanced their product offering to include energy efficient lighting system solutions and introduced the technology for low profile and universal input voltage 108 305v ballasts . universal lighting today edit universal lighting s product brands are under the universal triad vossloh schwabe and signa brand names . they have over 65 patents in lighting tech and have worldwide distribution and operations . 4 a key strategy of theirs continues to be research and product development with r & d facilities in austin tx huntsville al and schaumburg il . references edit vossloh schwabe news ; http www.vossloh schwabe.com images news application pdf 101 1 1112 . pdf ; 2009 triad magnetics profile page ; archived copy . archived from the original on march 26 2012 . retrieved june 27 2011 . 2009 lighting controls association lca ; archived copy . archived from the original on august 20 2011 . retrieved june 19 2011 . universal website ; archived copy . archived from the original on november 3 2011 . retrieved june 19 2011 . external links edit www.unvlt.com v t e panasonic subsidiaries current matsushita seiko panasonic avionics corporation panasonic cycle technology panasonic electric works acquired 2012 sanyo acquired 2009 anchor electricals acquired 2007 universal lighting technologies former jvc spun off mca inc. sold brands eneloop kdk lumix national phased out panasonic quasar technics varicam products list consoles 3do interactive multiplayer panasonic m2 panasonic q jungle other bicycles camcorders cd interface hospi lenses lumix cameras mn103 panapet panasonic jr 200 panasonic toot a loop radio toughpad panasonic tr 005 formats and standards d5 hd m 3di standard microp2 mii p2 vhs viera cast vx people toshio iue konosuke matsushita hirofumi hirano other gamba osaka panasonic panthers panasonic wild knights panasonic cycling team panasonic toyota racing panasonic gobel awards panasonic impulse category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title universal lighting technologies & oldid 739302435 categories lighting brandspanasoniccompanies based in nashville tennesseehidden categories wikipedia articles needing clarification from november 2011articles with peacock terms from november 2011all articles with peacock termsarticles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 22 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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