Shining bright at Seawork
Seawork 2024 was a first show turn out for DCbright, a European commercial lighting company based in the Netherlands.
Since 2015, the company has made great strides, branching out from the mining sector to construction sites, commercial vessels, ports and storage locations.
Unique to the market
On display at DCbright’s stand was a new line of floodlights made from 316L stainless steel to counter corrosion and designed to last longer than their traditional aluminium counterparts.
“These lights come with a 20-year warranty. They are both maintenance free and environmentally friendly because we can guarantee their longevity,” Niels Woelders, CEO and managing director, DCbright, told Maritime Journal.
“Away from the huge efficiency and maintenance savings you can make because they are LED lights, the housing can last 50 years because it’s made from stainless steel.”
The floodlights can be fitted with many options, such as fog battling yellow lights and light spectrum changing LEDS.
DCbright’s light operation system makes it possible to control the lighting remotely using a LoRa Mesh. The lighting can be switched on/off individually, but also dimmed.
Mr Woelders points out that these features have an added benefit both above and below the water for wildlife.
Animals fare better with the yellow LED, rather than a blue light, as it better mimics moonlight and the natural environment at night.
One of DCbright’s showcase projects has been to equip the Offshore Elevator Vessel, HLV Gulliver, owned by Scaldis SMC in Antwerp.
The vessel, which was equipped with DCbright Barracudas, is used for offshore infrastructure work such as construction and dismantling activities for the oil and gas industry and the installation of offshore windfarms.
DCbright has also made a name for itself in the port sector.
The company worked on a landmark contract for Mammoet which saw it supply and install five large of its largest 800W Orca lights on cranes at the DFDS terminal in Rotterdam.
