Engineered for extreme environments, delivering optimal efficacy and strict photometrical control.
Modern municipalities, transit authorities, and commercial developments face a multi-layered challenge: they must drastically reduce carbon emissions and operational energy usage while simultaneously enhancing public safety, pedestrian visibility, and night-time security. Conventional High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) and metal halide fixtures, while once the staple of roadway design, are no longer viable. They suffer from rapid lumen depreciation, high maintenance cycles, poor color rendering indices (CRI), and uncontrolled light pollution that disrupts ecosystems and violates dark-sky principles.
To address this transition, Austar Lighting Co., Ltd. offers highly integrated, high-efficacy LED street lighting and outdoor garden lighting solutions designed to act as the primary infrastructure blocks of future smart cities. Our fixtures are more than light sources; they are thermal-engineered, optically optimized, and IoT-ready platforms built to operate reliably for decades.
"Integrating intelligent municipal lighting controls can reduce local energy expenditures by up to 70% while improving structural public safety metrics. The key lies in selecting lighting systems designed with precise photometry and robust mechanical configurations."
By leveraging advanced solid-state illumination, we deliver an enormous Information Gain to urban planners: detailed photometric files (IES/LDT), reliable thermal simulation profiles, and verified electrical safety footprints that guarantee the success of complex retrofit and new installation projects. Whether the application calls for high-speed expressways, narrow urban residential alleys, historic tourist zones, or industrial transport hubs, our luminaires align performance with environmental stewardship.
Established in 2003 in the lighting manufacturing hub of Ningbo, China, Austar Lighting Co., Ltd. has grown to occupy a dedicated 10,000㎡ production facility, housing over 100 highly skilled employees, including a core team of 10 technicians and 5 seasoned engineers. Our business model is focused strictly on the production of high-performance outdoor luminaires, specifically LED Street lighting, and outdoor garden lighting, generating an annual manufacturing output exceeding 150,000 sets.
Our competitive advantage centers on a profound design philosophy fueled by a long-term collaboration with Italian lighting designers. This synergy merges European architectural aesthetics and compliance frameworks with high-volume, precision Chinese engineering. Today, 100% of our products are exported, servicing projects across 55 countries and regions globally.
To ensure our products consistently meet international quality benchmarks, we operate a ISO9001-14000 certified quality management workflow. Every product is rigorously assessed using advanced optoelectronic integrating sphere systems, electric current test equipment, salt spray environmental chambers, EMC facilities, and custom-designed LED driver-load aging machines.
To survive under harsh environmental stresses—such as coastal salt fog, sub-zero winter temperatures, torrential monsoons, and high ultraviolet exposure—our luminaires employ a state-of-the-art physical and electrical design architecture:
Our street light housings are fabricated from high-grade die-cast aluminum alloys using heavy machinery (1000T, 700T, and 300T die-casting setups). This creates high-density structures that prevent air pockets or internal structural weaknesses. The exterior is treated with a multi-layered electrostatic powder coating that protects the housing against corrosion. This process is validated through continuous salt spray testing, guaranteeing resilience in humid or coastal environments.
LED failure is almost always driven by high junction temperatures (Tj). Austar's structural designers engineer large-surface passive cooling fins directly into the outer casting. This ensures a highly efficient thermal dissipation path from the LED board to the ambient air. Lower operational temperatures secure a lifespan exceeding 50,000 hours with negligible lumen depreciation (L70B10 metrics).
Utilizing high-transmittance PMMA lenses with multiple optical beam distributions (Type I, II, III, and V), our street lights deliver uniform lux values across road surfaces without spilling light onto residential properties or upward into the atmosphere. This conforms to strict Dark-Sky regulations and optimizes pole-to-pole spacing to minimize structural infrastructure costs.
A selection of our core architectural and highway illumination fixtures designed in partnership with Italian engineering principles.
Take a look inside our high-performance production lines, testing laboratories, and assembly stations.
We believe that trust is built on verifiable performance. That is why our quality control workflow does not spot-check; we audit every single stage of production. From initial alloy smelting to final sealing, every batch undergoes mechanical and electrical stress testing.
Our facility is equipped with dedicated testing instruments, including a darkroom for goniophotometric profiling, IPX6 and IPX7 ingress test tanks, thermal shock test units, mechanical impact hammers (IK ratings), and aging racks where drivers are continuously run under full loads to identify and eliminate early-stage component failures. Our standards meet ISO9001 quality management guidelines alongside ISO14001 environmental requirements.
Entering international municipal contracts requires absolute compliance with local regulations. Every market exhibits distinct expectations regarding electrical safety, interference shielding, and ecological impact. Our product range is fully certified under the most stringent international frameworks:
Europe (ENEC, CE, LVD, CB): Our fixtures carry ENEC (European Norms Electrical Certification), representing independent compliance validation beyond simple CE self-declaration. This certifies that our street lights conform to EN 60598-1, EN 60598-2-3 (specific to public street lighting), and EN 62471 (photobiological safety limits).
Oceania & Americas: We offer configurations engineered to satisfy Australian/New Zealand AS/NZS 1158 standards and North American ANSI/IESNA distribution formats. Our design options provide localized CCT (Correlated Color Temperature) tuning—ranging from 2200K (frequently mandated in historic settings to reduce blue-light emission) to 4000K/5700K for high-speed highway traffic applications.
Localized Logistics: Based near Ningbo Port, one of the world's premier ocean cargo points, we guarantee rapid shipping cycles, streamlined customs processing, and predictable supply pipelines. We also manage comprehensive ODM/OEM capabilities, supplying structural components, custom-machined castings, and completely built systems customized to specific tender documents.
The municipal lighting systems we design today are built with future technology expansions in mind. The rise of Smart City initiatives has changed street lights from static fixtures into central connection points for urban data and sensor networks. Austar's engineering roadmap prioritizes the standard adoption of Zhaga and NEMA interfaces across all modern luminaire bodies:
Zhaga Book 18 & NEMA Sockets (3/5/7-Pin): By configuring standard sockets on the upper or lower chassis of the fixture, we allow easy integration of wireless communication nodes (LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, cellular transceivers) and photocells. This permits smart dimming profiles, real-time energy use tracking, and automated maintenance warning signals to the local utility operations dashboard.
E-Mobility Integration: Future structural frames will integrate environmental monitors, CCTV units, and EV charging interfaces, positioning public poles as crucial points for local sustainable infrastructure.
Expert answers regarding our engineering capabilities, supply chain, design, and manufacturing standards.
Our sales and technical engineering support teams will reply within 12 hours on any standard workday. We provide comprehensive technical consultation, and pricing details alongside IES files to keep project designs moving efficiently.
We are a manufacturer. We operate both a dedicated lamp assembly plant and a specialized luminaire pole and metal fabrication factory. Holding direct import and export credentials, we manage the entire value chain from initial design to international shipping.
Our product portfolio focuses on outdoor applications: LED street lights, architectural garden lights, technical plant growth lamps, light poles, architectural wall-mounted lights, and structural garden light columns.
Our products are widely utilized on urban and rural roadways, municipal bridges, community parks, industrial compounds, warehouses, ship docks, and commercial campuses where safety, weather resistance, and high output are required.
Yes. We offer extensive OEM and ODM services. We can construct custom lighting fixtures, specialized mounting adapters, and unique light distribution systems based on mechanical drawings (CAD/STEP files) or physical samples provided by clients.
Our facility occupies 10,000㎡ of production area. We utilize 1000T, 700T, and 300T high-pressure die-casting systems, a fully automated electrostatic powder-spray line, 3 lean assembly lines, and 2 state-of-the-art LED aging lines. This machinery supports an annual output of over 150,000 complete sets.
We are ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified. We inspect materials at every production stage. Finished products are subjected to 100% burn-in and functional tests. Our laboratory is equipped with spectrum analyzers, darkrooms for photometric files, IP ingress testing rigs, drop testing devices, and environmental chambers to test under extreme temperatures.
We employ approximately 100 specialists, including 10 senior technicians and 5 R&D engineers, who oversee quality control, design, and manufacturing safety.
We offer standard terms like FOB, CIF, or CNF. Our standard payment terms are a 30% deposit with the balance payable against the copy of the Bill of Lading (B/L) via T/T. Letter of Credit (L/C) payment is also accepted for verified long-term clients.
We mainly ship by sea from Ningbo Port, which offers direct links to all major global ports. For urgent requests, we can also ship via Shanghai or Ningbo airports.
Our core export markets span Germany, Japan, Spain, Italy, the UK, South Korea, Australia, the USA, and Canada, complying with local standard variations.
Our products are designed by our in-house engineering team and our Italian design partners. We design, manufacture, and test all tooling and molds internally to protect proprietary design values.
We can bring a new luminaire concept from initial sketch to functional sample prototype in under 30 days, speeding up regional bidding processes.
The nearest ports are Ningbo or Shanghai seaports, and the nearest airports are Ningbo or Hangzhou international airports.
From architectural urban park posts to heavy-duty industrial roadway fixtures, exploring our complete product range.
High-lumen solutions engineered to meet highway and express transit certifications globally.
For custom project bids, OEM parameters, or standard price negotiations, contact our technical sales desk. We provide comprehensive replies, photometrical files (IES), and quotations within 24 hours.
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