BOYNTON BEACH, FL Xeleum Lighting was selected by the owners of Cusano’s Bakery to provide the lighting for its new 260,000 square foot state-of-the-art bakery facility in Coconut Creek, Florida. Cusano’s Bakery, a 100 year old family-owned bakery known for their bread products, was faced with the need to replace all of the lighting in the enormous new space they converted from a furniture warehouse into a bakery production facility. Xeleum, based in nearby Boynton Beach, Florida was chosen for the project because of its array of products that fit all of their requirements.
In engineering a solution for Cusano’s, Xeleum’s first order of business was to perform an engineering lighting study of the various locations in order to determine the fixture types and quantities best suited to provide the desired illumination at each of the various working surfaces within their facility. The results of the study was that five different Xeleum fixture types would be installed, including the Hercules High Bay, Athena with RF controls, Cronus High Bay, Cobalt troffers with XCO-200 controls, and Zephyr shoebox fixtures. Xeleum installed a total of 805 fixtures.
For the main baking and test kitchen areas in the warehouse, a combination of the 100 watt and 200 watt Xeleum Hercules LED high bay fixtures were used because they are rugged and durable luminaires best suited for the 42 foot high ceiling and wide area working surfaces. In the loading and unloading areas, the Xeleum Artemis fixtures were used because, in addition to their excellent illumination, they are motion-activated, so they are only fully-illuminated when the area is fully occupied; otherwise, they dim down to either 50%, 10% or fully off.
Michael Greco, co-owner of Cusano’s Bakery stated, “It was great working with the people at Xeleum and the new LED fixtures they installed are providing a very high quality of lighting at all locations within our facility.” He added, “Not only is there a great improvement in overall illumination, but the LED technology has made possible a very substantial savings for us in electric energy cost. The annual cost savings of $184,075 will pay for the 805 fixtures and controls that were installed in less than 30 months and, thereafter, Cusano’s Bakery will have the full benefit of the cost savings. In addition, as a result of this conversion, CO2 emission was reduced by 1,000 pounds.”
Jon Cooper, COO of Xeleum stated, “We are thrilled that Cusano’s Bakery selected Xeleum to supply the lighting for its new 260,000 square foot facility in Coconut Creek, Florida and it was terrific working with the Greco family on this project.” He added, “Being able to perform a lighting study on this large facility, along with the opportunity to specify and install five of our LED fixture types was a wonderful chance for Xeleum to demonstrate the depth of its technical capability and product offering.”