Clinitex: lighting for colour-critical production and lower energy use

The Clinitex project was not a simple replacement of old luminaires. The company works with medical and hygiene textiles, where colour, material detail and differences between batches matter in everyday production.

The goal was therefore broader than energy savings. The new lighting had to improve visual conditions for work, create a more stable daytime layer and reduce operating costs across offices and production halls.

1. Starting point: production where “enough light” was not enough

In medical-textile production, people often make decisions based on small visual differences. A standard LED or fluorescent setup can meet a basic norm and still fail to provide comfortable, accurate working conditions.

For Clinitex, the brief combined light quality, consumption, simple control and the ability to use available daylight without making the system difficult for users.

2. The design: Bright Light, high CRI and daylight regulation

For production areas we designed a Bright Light solution with a fuller spectrum and high CRI. The aim was to improve colour perception, contrast and detail where textile materials are handled and checked.

The project also included automatic daylight regulation and touch scene control. This keeps the environment stable during the day while reducing unnecessary energy use where daylight already contributes enough.

3. What changed in daily operation

The new lighting created a clearer working environment and better conditions for recognising colour nuances. For this type of production, that is a practical advantage: good light reduces room for error and improves confidence during material checks.

For facility and management teams, the operating impact was just as important: around 50% energy savings and payback within 3 years.

• full-spectrum Bright Light in production
• automatic daylight regulation
• touch scene control
• 50% energy savings
• payback within 3 years

4. Why Clinitex matters for other industrial projects

Clinitex shows that industrial lighting is not only about output and consumption. In many operations, light directly affects precision, quality control, safety and long-term comfort for people.

For paint shops, printing, textile production, laboratories and quality-control spaces, spectrum, colour rendering, glare and control logic should be part of the design from the start.

5. What this means for decision-making

Strong industrial lighting projects are not built by choosing a luminaire from a catalogue. They combine measurement, design, operating needs and economics. Clinitex shows that better light can be more comfortable, more precise and more efficient at the same time.