Industrial & Manufacturing LED Lighting South Africa | Factory & Production-Floor Design, Supply & Install

Ex-rated

Hazardous-area kit

ATEX / IECEx fittings specified to the zone classification.

Docs first

Compliance pack ready

Datasheets, certs and warranties before procurement asks.

CRI 80-90+

Specified to the task

Higher colour fidelity where inspection and QC demand it.

Phased

Install around production

Shift-pattern aware, the line keeps running.

Tall pallet racking aisles at Libstar Montagu Foods lit by high-bay LED, a Lamphouse LED Solutions install

Proven on a food-grade line · Montagu Foods

Libstar Montagu Foods:
lit to the process.

A food-production and distribution facility where the light has to stay clean and even, from the production line to the top of the storage racking, and survive the demands of a working plant. Lamphouse LED Solutions designed and installed it across the floor. Real project, real photographs, and we'll connect you with comparable references under NDA where the client requires it.

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· On the floor

Real industrial
projects.

Defy in KwaZulu-Natal, MPACT's packaging plants, CTP and Montagu Foods: production floors, warehouses and process areas, lit and photographed on real Lamphouse LED Solutions projects. Not stock.

High-bay LED over a long warehouse aisle at the Defy facility, KZN — Defy, KZN · warehouse aisle

MPACT Detpak packaging plant after the LED retrofit, brightly and evenly lit — MPACT Detpak · retrofit, after

Brightly lit racking and aisle at the MPACT Atlantis plant — MPACT Atlantis · racking & aisle

Linear LED over the print and finishing floor at CTP, Cape Town — CTP, Cape Town · print floor

01 · The factory problem

Why a generic grid
fails on a plant.

A factory isn't one lighting job, it's a dozen. The general production floor, the fine-assembly bench, the CNC station, the welding bay, the QC inspection table and the hazardous zone each carry a different lux level, a different glare limit, sometimes a different ingress and explosion rating. Drop a uniform high-bay grid over all of it and you over-light the gangways, under-light the inspection benches, and put non-compliant fittings into a classified zone, which is a safety finding waiting to happen. Our designers zone the building to the process and the activity, spec the right fitting for each, and hand you the documentation that proves it. That's the difference between lighting a shed and lighting a plant.

02 · The technical envelope

Designed to
SANS 10114.

Manufacturing lux is driven by the visual difficulty of the task, the finer the work, the more light and the higher the colour fidelity. Typical maintained-illuminance design targets below, aligned to the SANS 10114-1 framework. We tune them to your process, machinery and inspection requirements, and rate every fitting for the zone it sits in.

Zone / task	Maintained lux (typical)	What drives the spec
General production floor	300 lux	Movement, material handling and general assembly. Uniformity and glare control across the open floor.
Machine / CNC stations	500 lux	Task light at the machine, controlled reflections off metalwork and screens.
Fine assembly	500-750 lux	Small-component work. Higher CRI to read colour-coded parts and wiring.
QC & inspection benches	750-1000 lux	Defect detection and finish checks. High CRI (90+) and a dedicated task layer.
Welding & fabrication	300 lux	Robust, impact-rated fittings; glare and arc-flash considerations on the bay.
Hazardous / classified zones	Per zone	ATEX / IECEx Ex-rated luminaires matched to the gas/dust zone. Spec follows the area classification.
Plant rooms & circulation	100-200 lux	Safe movement and maintenance access; emergency egress lighting to SANS 10114-2.

Lux figures are typical maintained-illuminance design targets for guidance, aligned to SANS 10114-1. Hazardous-area lighting is specified to the documented area classification (ATEX / IECEx). Final values confirmed per site against the process, mounting height, surfaces and maintenance factor. Ask for the Relux report and compliance pack with your proposal.

03 · Where it applies

Six plant jobs
we do regularly.

FMCG, food & beverage, automotive, heavy fabrication, pharma and chemical, the process changes but the discipline doesn't. Design to the task, rate to the zone, document for compliance.

A / Production

General production floors

Even, glare-controlled light across the working plane for material handling and general assembly, sized to the ceiling height and the process flow.

B / Machine task

CNC & machine stations

Task-grade light at the point of work, with reflections off metalwork and HMI screens controlled. Often a layer on top of the general floor.

C / Inspection

QC & inspection lines

High-lux, high-CRI task light for defect detection and finish checks. The brief most generic quotes underspecify, and the one that costs you in rejects.

D / Hazardous

ATEX / Ex-rated zones

Explosion-protected luminaires matched to the gas or dust zone classification. We spec to the area drawing and hand you the certs, no guesswork in a classified area.

E / Food & pharma

Hygiene & wash-down areas

IP65+ sealed, food-safe fittings that survive daily wash-down and meet hygiene-zone requirements for food, beverage and pharma processing.

F / Controls

Emergency & controls

Statutory emergency and egress lighting to SANS 10114-2, plus occupancy and daylight controls on the floors where the payback is real.

04 · Our customers

Names on our
factory floors.

A few of the manufacturers, processors and FMCG producers we've lit across South Africa.

+& more

A selection of clients we've supplied and/or installed for.

05 · Why Lamphouse

Independent specifiers,
not a single factory.

We don't make one fitting and bend every brief to fit it. We import the best kit from the manufacturers worth importing, and spec the right one for your process. That independence is the difference on a plant where the wrong fitting is a safety finding.

A designer takes the brief

Every job starts with one of our lighting designers running the lux model, the task zoning and the area-classification check, then we spec the kit. You get the Relux report and the compliance pack alongside the quote.

B-BBEE Level 2, docs ready same day

Listed manufacturers, BEE-graded supply chains and public-sector procurement can buy from us without an exception process. Certificate current, documentation in your inbox the day you ask.

Installed around your production

Our project manager phases the install around your shift pattern so the line keeps running. Crews work to our commissioning standard, with a maintenance SLA on the table if you want one.

06 · In the field

Plant retrofit, the brief most quotes get wrong.

Case study · Manufacturing

Before-and-after of the MPACT Detpak LED retrofit, dim metal-halide versus bright, even LED — MPACT Detpak · before vs after

"The inspection line went from squinting under tired fluoros to catching defects we'd been shipping. The energy saving was almost a bonus."

A typical manufacturing retrofit isn't a like-for-like swap, it's a chance to fix lighting that was never zoned to the process in the first place. The general floor was over-lit and glaring; the inspection benches, where it actually mattered, were starved of light and running low-CRI fluorescents that washed out colour-coded faults.

Our designer split the building into task zones, dropped the general floor to a comfortable, even level, and layered high-CRI task light over the inspection and assembly benches where defect detection lives. Hazardous-area fittings were specified to the plant's classification drawing, with certs in the compliance pack. Energy fell on the general floor; quality rose on the benches.

Whether it's a food line, a fabrication bay or a chemical process area, the approach is the same: zone to the process, rate to the area, document for compliance. Brief us on your plant → (Representative of typical Lamphouse manufacturing retrofits, happy to walk through a specific named project under NDA.)

Got a plant that's
lit like a shed?

Send us the basics: a floor plan if you've got one, the ceiling height, the processes on each area, any hazardous-zone classification, what's currently up there and your capex envelope. We'll come back inside the week with a zoned lux model, a costed bill of materials, the compliance pack and an install plan phased around your shifts.

Brief our team → Call Joburg · 011 608 2565 → Call Cape Town · 021 551 6322 → Call Durban · 031 564 0710 →

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Libstar Montagu Foods:lit to the process.

Real industrialprojects.

Why a generic gridfails on a plant.

Designed toSANS 10114.

Six plant jobswe do regularly.