Labsphere Opens New Manufacturing Facility in China

Labsphere ready to serve growing Chinese light measurement market

Labsphere, a global leader in light metrology, has expanded its presence in Asia with the opening of a new sales and service facility in Shanghai, China. Operating under the name Shanghai Lanfei Optical Equipment Co. Ltd., the wholly owned foreign enterprise is now positioned to provide light measurement products and customer support at a local level.

Labsphere opened its first sales office in China in 2007 and has since expanded its team to include applications engineers, manufacturing staff and administrative personnel. The company supplies LED, laser and traditional light source light measurement systems critical to China’s developing solid state lighting industry.

The 450-square meter Lanfei facility is equipped with state-of-art spray coating equipment for on-site coating of integrating spheres. The Lanfei team will also provided off-site coating services for spheres and accessories requiring Labsphere’s proprietary near-Lambertian diffuse reflectance coatings. The Lanfei sales and application engineers are available for ongoing systems support of all Labsphere’s products, enabling fast service and upgrades to meet evolving LED and solid state lighting market needs.

Labsphere, a Halma company, is a world leading designer and manufacturer of precision radiometric and photometric test and measurement products addressing the specific needs of the aerospace, electronic imaging, LED, lighting, medical imaging and optics industries. The company offers a broad line of integrating sphere systems, uniform calibration sources, spectroscopy accessories and diffuse reflectance materials and coatings.

Source: Labsphere