AkzoNobel Asia Pacific Headquarters Lighting Solutions

Background of the project

AkzoNobel is a leading global industrial company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, providing a wide range of sustainable solutions for global customer development including China. Its core businesses include decorative paints, high-performance coatings and specialty chemicals, and it is the world's largest paint and coatings company. Dulux is well known as one of its brands. Tomorrow's Answers TodayTM is the company's brand slogan and reflects AkzoNobel's values ​​and business strategy.

Customer Name : AkzoNobel Asia Pacific Headquarters

Project Location : International Center, 1788 Nanjing West Road, Shanghai

Architecture / Interior Design: DTZ

Lighting design: Philips

Lighting purpose and requirements

[Design tenet] The spatial separation of the project is based on the effective use of curved space. One of the characteristics of the indoor space is that the five different floors are used to increase the floor recognition, and the color is repeated at various levels. It fully reflects the pride of the world's largest paint company. Our design philosophy is also to focus on its brand positioning, providing green, intelligent, creative and sustainable lighting solutions.

【reception area】

The layout of the LED downlight LuxSpace is simple and bright. The crossover design of the continuous light strip further enhances the space atmosphere. The application of LED spotlights on the brand wall side naturally highlights many of the company's dazzling brands.

【Open office area】

The suspended ultra-thin LED lamp SmartPanel is arranged in a curved space, which is like floating white clouds, and achieves more than 30% energy saving. For each layer of the theme color column, the LED wall washer is illuminated from below, and the theme color is repeated with the changed light to highlight the company brand color.

【meeting room】

With Savio suspension luminaires, high-quality light guides create a soft and even lighting environment, and ceilings are complemented by LuxSpaceLED downlights, providing a comfortable and bright meeting environment that is 60% more energy efficient than CFL. At the same time, the entire conference room is equipped with a dimming control system, and the user can select a speech mode, a conference mode, a rest mode, etc. with one button, which greatly improves the efficiency and achieves energy saving and context control.

【CEO's office】

Using the latest LumiStoneLED luminaires, the natural round stone's smart shape incorporates the latest LED technology. It is the most efficient and comfortable suspension LED luminaire, which can easily create a light and high-end office style.

【staff canteen】

Customized circular fixtures are randomly scattered on the ceiling to create a harmonious communication and dining atmosphere. At the bar, a light trough was used to smudge the facade level, while the round hanging luminaire Rotaris was used to create a warm atmosphere.

APM Dc Source System is designed to meet customer`s high power/voltage/current command. User can quickly and easily operate the DC Power Supply with its rotary knobs and buttons. Besides, free monitoring software for you to remote control the Adjustable Dc Power Supply.This series is applicable to multiple sectors such as electric, lighting and aviation sectors and it could be applied to enterprise's  production test as well.

Some features as below:


  • With accurate voltage and current measurement capability.
  • Coded Knob, multifunctional keyboard.
  • Standard RS232/RS485/USB/LAN communication interfaces, GPIB is optional.
  • Remote sensing line voltage drop compensation.
  • Equips with LIST waveform editing function.
  • Use the Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation(SCPI) communication protocol.
  • Have obtained CE certification.


600V DC Source System

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