Last Friday we told you about Ed Hammer, inventor of the CFL, being featured in Consumer Reports.  In one of the questions, Mr. Hammer brought up that until recently, bending of the familiar “spring” lamp shape was done by hand. 

TCP is proud to be the first in the industry to develop a machine that automates the bending of CFLs into their familiar spring shape.   

We can manufacture as many as 1.5 million CFLs every day – a majority of the CFLs on the U.S. market. Each automated machine will allow TCP to produce an additional 5,500 CFLs every day, nearly five times as many as produced by the company’s manual bending process.  Currently, the automated machines make up 15 percent of total CFL production. 

This is a major milestone for the lighting industry with automation enhancing the quality of CFLs and making it easier and faster to fill the rising global demand for energy efficient lighting.