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Paramount's first Craft Lite^® lens was fabricated by B. R. Bailey, the founder of our company, in the kitchen of Juanita Bailey in early January, 1947. Craft Lites were marketed by Floodlight Service, Inc. of Flint, Michigan until Paramount Industries was incorporated in 1949.

Paramount has, for over 55 years, been an innovator in the lighting industry. We were the first to design and manufacture industrial lighting fixtures to be installed in the floors and assembly line pits of the automotive plants. We created the first parabolic louvered fixture in 1958. We were the first manufacturer to address the problems of veiling reflections in radar screens with our fixture designed for the FAA Control Centers in 1959.

We introduced the first industrial T5 troffer in North America.
And recently we created the first paint booth lite with independent adjustable reflectors on each lamp, to direct light to the task.

Our lighting products are in the tunnels and on the station platforms of subway and elevated trains in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, San Diego and Atlanta.
We have produced special luminaires for prisons, schools and
the military's shock zone test areas. Many of our NSF approved luminaires for Food Processing areas are custom designed and fabricated from stainless steel.

We build Cleanroom lighting for electronics manufacturers and laboratory work. We have illuminated the mesocosm research area at the Smithsonian Institute, duplicating the Chesapeake Bay. We build Hazardous Location lighting used in refineries (Class I, Div. 2) as well as pharmaceutical capping rooms (Class II, Div. 2). We have designed and developed luminaires for accelerated aging of pharmaceutical drugs, each unit having up to 56 lamps, three dimming control circuits and climate controlled housings for optimal lumen output.

Paramount offers a full line of Marine lighting for ships and vessels. We were also contracted to produce luminaires for the oil rig Odyssey, largest in the world, which was manufactured in Japan and towed to its location in the Gulf of Mexico.

All Paramount luminaires are UL Listed and cUL Listed, and are crafted by IBEW union workers.

If ever there is a need to design and produce a luminaire for a tough application,
please think of us. Turn to Paramount for High Performance Lighting for Specialized Environments.

This page was last updated 9/14/2004

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