Category: Industry News

Canada’s Business Report Profiles Carmanah Technologies Inc.

Robert Graham speaks with CEO Art Aylesworth

Carmanah Illuminates Street Signs in Victoria, British Columbia

Carmanah has received orders from the Town of View Royal, BC and the City of Langford, BC, to install Carmanah's Model R409 LED illuminated street name signs. View Royal will install two signs and Langford will install three signs, as part of the Helmcken Road Improvement Project and the Langford Parkway-Jacklin Road Project, respectively.

Carmanah Receives Additional Airfield Lighting Order for Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan

Carmanah's Aviation Lighting Division has received an additional order from the US Air Force for 72 airfield lights to be installed at the Kandahar AFB in Afghanistan. This order consists of lights for runway, threshold, taxiway, and obstruction lighting applications. Without access to a conventional power source, the Air Base requires a reliable airfield lighting solution that operates using an alternative power source.

Carmanah Receives Contract for Street Name Lighting from City of Nashville, T

Carmanah has received an order from the City of Nashville, TN, to install 34 units of its Model R409 LED illuminated street name signs. The installation is part of the Church Street signal Project in downtown Nashville where the main business and tourist districts are located.

Sun Rises on New Era for Local Bus Shelters

By September, 300 of the city's modern silver-coloured bus shelters will be powered by solar energy. Last week, city staff and Viacom, the company that outfits and maintains the GTA's 4,100 bus shelters, unveiled the first solar-panel retrofitted unit at the Etobicoke Civic Centre. "I think it's excellent," said Ward 3 Councillor Doug Holyday (Etobicoke Centre).

Alternative Energy: Building a Green and Prosperous Economy in Western Canada a Top Priority

Governments must work together to minimize pollution and greenhouse gases, assist industry and consumers to reduce energy consumption, and stimulate the emergence of a competitive alternative energy industry. Canadians are looking ahead into a future where alternative fuel and power sources are common practice.

Carmanah Introduces LED Enhanced Stop Sign

Carmanah has introduced an LED enhanced stop sign to grab the attention of distracted or sleepy drivers. Light from high-flux, high brightness LEDs in the sign frame shine vertically through a clear acrylic sheet and refracts outwards through the sign legend for uniform illumination of the sign face.

Carmanah Added to International Photon Photovoltaic Stock Index (PPVX)

On July 6, 2005, Carmanah was added to the international Photon Photovoltaic Stock Index (PPVX). This German-based index tracks the performance of 18 publicly-traded renewable energy companies from around the world. To be included in the PPVX, more than 50 percent of the qualifying company's sales in the previous year must have come through photovoltaic products or services. The PPVX began on Aug.

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Carmanah Supplies Chicago’s PACE Bus with Lighting System

Carmanah Technologies Inc. received a contract to supply its proprietary i-STOP™ solar-powered bus lighting systems to Chicago's PACE Suburban Bus. The contract, with installation scheduled over the next five years, is valued at up to $855,000. The first $194,000 in i-Stop systems will be delivered before the end of August.