Current
Development and production of
    UV- and special lamps
    customer specific LED projects
    tubes for the Solar thermal

2016 Dezember
discontinuation of the production of general lighting
discontinuation of the production of own glass tubes

2015
Introduction of LED lamp Semicon Light SL-T5 Generation II

2013
New electronic LED lab inauguration, in-house LED tube production kick-off

2012
Accreditation of the measurement laboratory according to ISO/IEC 17025 by DAkkS for the measurement of spectral and integral irradiance

2011
Certification of the company according to DIN EN ISO 13485:2010

2010
QM system aligned to comply with US FDA Quality System Regulation (QSR) - 21 CFR Part 820 for medical devices.
Production of UV lamps for medical and technical applications

2009
Certification of the company according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008

2007
Production of vacuum tubes for use in solar thermal technology

2005
“DeNOx” technology introduced in the glassworks
New TA Luft regulations for emission limits from 2012

2004
Modernisation of the glassworks

2000
JW Holding, Europe’s leading provider of tanning lamps, acquires a majority shareholding

1997
Production of T5 fluorescent lamps begins

1995
Production of tanning lamps and compact fluorescent lamps

1991
The company is relaunched after a management buy-out by several employees of the former company

1981
Two automated production lines for fluorescent lamps go into operation

1972
Production of glass tubes for fluorescent lights in our own glassworks

1969
The Narva brand name is used for all lamps produced in Brand-Erbisdorf

1966
The company is founded in Brand-Erbisdorf as part of the Berliner Glühlampenwerk in order to increase production of fluorescent lamps