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Will You Allow Winter to Derail Your Transit Operations
June 18, 2021JW Speaker’s SmartHeat allows transportation managers to improve public transit safety While northern hemisphere countries are entering warm, summer months, many urban transit authorities are looking ahead to prepare their fleets for winter conditions. With good reason: winter storms deliver a dual punch of ice and snow to metropolitan areas […]
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Manufacturing remains a male-dominated profession. Here’s how local employers hope to change that.
April 19, 2021Attention to detail and concentration are skills required to be a nurse. But they’re also skills required to be a welder, said Karen Feliciano, a welding instructor at Waukesha County Technical College. “Instead of working on humans, you work on metal,” said Feliciano, the only female welding instructor at the […]
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Latest Equipment That Keeps Tow Operators Safe
March 23, 2021J.W. Speaker’s new Model 529 Big Red Stripe Warning and Safety Light projects a long red line to alert approaching motorists at a far distance. While the year 2020 created many challenges for the industry, it also brought some great enhancements to help keep tow operators safer and make their […]
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Shining a Light on Mining’s Hazardous Environment
March 2, 2021J.W. Speaker has disrupted the status quo for lighting technologies, becoming the go-to company producing many of the world-first LED lighting solutions seen on today’s mine sites. India-born essayist Eden Phillpotts once wrote, “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” Such insight […]
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J.W. Speaker Lighting Tower Trial Success
March 1, 2021This proudly South African franchise offers top-quality rental equipment to the construction, industrial, mining, farming, and maintenance industries, since 1993. The company has since expanded to over 100 franchised stores throughout Southern Africa. Their extensive equipment for hire ranges from lighting towers to light-duty compressors, available for hire. Whether it […]
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J.W. Speaker Adaptive Motorcycle LED Headlights – Science, Not Hope
January 11, 2021We are bombarded with science, engineering, and technology today. That’s a good thing, whether we’re talking about medicine or motorcycles. Science can help us solve a range of problems. While it doesn’t completely replace hope and faith in our lives, science can help your customers ride with more confidence. And […]
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J.W. Speaker Introduces New Model 234 Flash LED Tail Lights with SmartHeat®
April 8, 2020Offers simultaneous or alternating flash patterns, a two-in-one dual function strobe and is available in two new color options Germantown, Wis., April 9, 2020 – J.W. Speaker Corporation announced the newest LED tail lights for transport, industrial, construction, agriculture and specialty vehicles: The Model 234 Flash. This drop-in replacement for four-inch, round LED […]
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J.W. Speaker Introduces New LED Warning Light with Camera for Transport, Bus, and Industrial Vehicles
March 11, 2020With its compact design and high-quality camera for wide-range visibility, the Model 272 CHMSL is the latest addition to J.W. Speaker’s 360-degree lighting offerings Germantown, WI., February 5, 2020 – announced its newest LED stop/tail light with a built-in backup camera, the Model 272 CHMSL. As part of J.W. […]
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Case Study – “No-Go Zone” Lighting Solution Elevates Safety for Glencore Goedgevonden
October 16, 2019CHALLENGE In the mining industry, safety is of the utmost importance. Glencore Goedgevonden JV (GGV) values operational excellence and takes special care to provide a safe and healthy work environment for all of its employees. In order to maintain optimum working conditions, GGV needed a safety lighting solution for its […]
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Six Reasons Why The EVO J3 Is Next-level, Jeep LED Headlight Technology
July 31, 2019It’s time to escape the standard with the EVO J3™, the first street-legal Jeep® LED Headlight with turn signal built-in for Wrangler JKs.
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