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Beacon Lights for Safety & Automation
In the industrial environment, reliable lighting meets a growing array of tasks. It improves safety and allows the smooth flow of automation in several areas. Beacon lights often rise a little more than just illuminating a dark environment. In modern factories...
What Makes Loading Bay Lights Essential?
Loading docks with enough loading bay lights make it easier and safer for people to load and unload trailers, so these devices have become an essential safety tool on loading docks, far and wide. Loading Bay Traffic Lights Increase Safety And Productivity The most...
A Guide on Crane Warning Devices
Warning devices for cranes are essential, due to their tall construction. They give a message to people nearby, those who are passing beneath the crane, and also to nearby aircraft. Speed up Construction The erection of sturdy high-rise structures has never...
Stacking Beacons and Their Application
Stacking beacons are also known as indicator lights, signal tower lights, industrial signal lights, warning lights, Andon lights, light towers, and tower lights. They are most commonly used on equipment in process control...
Audible Warning Signals – Defeating High Noise
How can audible warning signals defeat high noise in a particular area? Sending a clear message to the public amid high dB levels becomes possible with the warning signals. Workers must be able to hear audible noise in spite of background noises. The conventional...
Installation & Maintenance of Visual Warning Beacons
Since warning signals are emerging as a necessity in the community, it is also essential to be sure about their installation as well as the proper way to maintain these devices. When installing hazard warning beacons, they should be placed in the most...
How To Choose The Right Warning Signal?
Choosing the right warning signal for a particular environment is easy if you know where to start. Different Warning Signal Applications Warning signals are generally used to increase safety in a certain area or location. They also help to prevent accidents in...
The Benefits of LED Lamps
LED lamps are becoming increasingly popular due to their efficiency and durability. They are mostly utilized as beacon lights due to their powerful illumination capabilities along with other promising advantages. LED Lamps: Explained LED – also known as Light Emitting...
The Importance of Amber & Yellow Beacon Lights
Yellow or amber beacon lights can be seen in numerous places, covering a wide range of different applications. They are also frequently found in roads and airport runways, among other places. Flashing Amber Lights For Road Safety Yellow or amber beacon lights are most...
Types & Usage of Industrial Warning Lights
Industrial warning lights are almost everywhere, but what exactly are they for? Flashing Strobe Lights A strobe light, also known as a stroboscopic lamp is used to emit regular flashes of light. Flashing strobe lights feature a high signalling effect through bursting...
Live Below the Line
D. G. Controls Ltd has always been run according to the highest ethical and moral values, and is well-aware of its wider social accountability; to use the correct terminology, its “Corporate & Social Responsibility” or CSR. Being a long-established business, but...
Tech Thursday – REACH (for the stars!)
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) REACH came into force on 1st June 2007, essentially an environmental and health & safety initiative to...
Congratulations to the team!
D. G. Controls Ltd has been an “Investor in People” since 2000, and has always recognised the importance of having well-trained staff in its teams. Internal and external training-providers are used, and all staff are encouraged to develop themselves within their...
Tech Thursday – Light Part 3 – Colour
This is the final instalment in our short three part series discussing Light. In the first part we will briefly looked at what we define light to be and went on to discuss some of the photometric units that are typically found in photometric measurements. In the...
Tech Thursday – EN54-23
What is EN54-23? EN54-23 or to give it its full title “Fire detection and fire alarm systems – Part 23: Fire alarm devices – Visual alarm devices”, was produced to standardise the requirements, in terms of construction, robustness and performance of warning beacons...
Tech Thursday – Light Part 2 – Luminous Intensity and its measurement
This is the second instalment of a short three part series discussing Light. In the first part we briefly looked at what we define light to be went on to discuss some of the photometric units that are typically found in photometric measurements. In this second part...
Light – Part 1 – Units and definitions
This is the first instalment of a short three part series discussing Light. In this first part we will briefly look at what we define light to be and go on to discuss some of the photometric units that are typically found in photometric measurements. In the...
D.G. Controls Limited gets a Twitter Boost from Theo Paphitis
Swadlincote based D.G. Controls Limited gets a Twitter Boost from Theo Paphitis A Swadlincote based firm received a business boost from TV Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis. Last week, Jon Whiten, Managing Director of D.G. Controls Limited, tweeted Theo about his...
deegee @ Tekniikka 2012 – Jyväskylä, Finland
Electronics - Automation - Maintenance - Energy - Environment - NEW Nanotecnology Professionals of the industry from all over Finland will meet again at the Tekniikka 2012 exhibition at the Congress and Exhibition Center Jyväskylä Paviljonki. Organised since 1979,...
deegee @ Alihankintamessut 2012 – Tampere, Finland
The international Subcontracting Trade Fair will be held between 18th and 20th September 2012 at the Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre. The subcontracting trade fair event of industry that Tampere has hosted since 1988, will now be held for the 22nd time....
deegee @ Skydd, Stockholm Sweden
Toleka, the Swedish distributor of the deegee beacon brand, are exhibiting at SKYDD at the Stockholmsmässan in Stockholm, from 18th to 21st September 2012. In addition to the fire and emergency DUPLEX products, almost the full deegee beacon and sounder range will be...
deegee @ Mittalaitepäivät 2012 – Helsinki, Finland
The deegee brand is to be represented at Mittalaitepäivät 2012 by long-standing partner Elektro-Tukku. The show runs from 29th to 30th August 2012 and the products may be found on Stand H-6.
Website Launch
For us, this is probably the most exciting news in quite some time. After many, many weeks work, we today launch our new consolidated website. As well as a fresh theme, we have integrated the various sites and news postings into a single site for easy navigation. One...
Hannover Messe 2012
Back in Hall 8 for 2012, D. G. Controls Ltd are looking forward to welcoming you to see the full range of deegee beacons and sounders at Hannover Messe between 23rd and 27th April 2012. You can find us in Hall 8, Stand C29. Follow the link...
ISO 9001 : 2008
The same week in November that some of the deegee team were exhibiting at SPS/IPC/Drives in Nuremberg, the rest of the business hosted a UL auditor for the triennial ISO9001:2008 audit. During triennial audits the complete Quality Management System is interrogated,...
deegee @ SPS/IPC/Drives 2011 – The stand is ready!
SPS 2011
Given the success of the previous 2 years, SPS/IPC/Drives in Nuremberg has become a regular feature on the deegee exhibition calendar. This years show takes place from Tuesday 22nd to Thursday 24th November 2011, at the Nurnberg Messe. SPS/IPC/Drives is an exhibition...
deegee sponsors First Aid Course
Deegee was the proud sponsor of a Basic First Aid Training course recently, run by the Diocese of Derby. Hosted by St. George & St. Mary’s Church, Church Gresley, deegee sent 2 employees for refresher and 3 for beginner First Aid training. The remaining 12...
deegee expands support team as sales soar
Everyone at deegee is delighted to welcome Jo Lovatt to the team. Jo started with us a couple of months ago and was really thrown in at the deep-end when the other members of the sales team manned the booth at the Hannover Messe, leaving Jo to “hold the fort”. Jo’s...
International Firex 2011
Exhibiting is such an expensive affair, both in time and money, that we always try and evaluate the benefits of brand awareness and value of new contacts, versus the cost of attending and manning the stand. International Firex 2011 is a show which took us by surprise...