2024: A Year of Innovation, Growth, and Recognition at Kirlin

As we reflect on 2024, we’re proud to share the milestones that have defined a big and exciting year for Kirlin. From groundbreaking product launches to industry accolades, this year has been one of innovation, collaboration, and inspiration.

Product Launches: 30 New Solutions for Your Projects

This year, we introduced 30 new products to our catalog, designed to meet the evolving needs of lighting specifiers:

  • 11 Ambient+ Fixtures: Combining static white lighting with vibrant static color, these fixtures offer six narrow-band wavelengths to create dynamic environments, perfect for healthcare and architectural spaces.
  • 15 SmartLED MRI Color-Changing Fixtures: New RGBW color-changing downlights, cylinders, and sconces enhance the MRI lighting family, offering the ability to change colors during scans and integrate seamlessly with existing products.
  • 2 Strait Secure Wall Slots: Designed for behavioral health and other robust applications, these ligature- and vandal-resistant fixtures offer static white or RGBW color-changing options and can feature scenic patterns or images, matching the Strait Secure Slots family.
  • 2 Strait Slots: Versatile linear fixtures offering static white, tunable white, and RGBW color-changing options with direct distribution and asymmetric capabilities, delivering up to 1500 lumens per foot in static white.

New Tools for Seamless Specification

We launched 3 new configurators on the Kirlin website to streamline the specification process:

  • MRI Configurator: Ensures all necessary components for remote-driver MRI systems are specified for a turnkey solution.
  • Symphony Configurator: Simplifies specification for Symphony’s remote-driver systems, ensuring seamless integration.
  • Scenic Configurator: Helps visualize artwork and patterns, making it easier to specify and customize Scenic product designs.

Awards and Recognitions

Kirlin received 6 major awards this year, celebrating our products and people:

Sustainability and Inspiration

Kirlin continues to prioritize visual inspiration with the release of 4 new brochures and information sheets:

Leadership and Team Growth

In February, we welcomed Logan Gerhard as President, bringing his extensive industry experience to guide Kirlin into an exciting future of innovation and customer focus.

Color Coordination and 2025 Preview

We expanded our custom color lineup, introducing options that perfectly coordinate with Scenic pattern images. And this is just the beginning—new colors are already in the works for 2025!

As we close out 2024, we want to thank you for your continued support and collaboration. Together, we’ve made this year one to remember, and we’re excited to share what’s next in 2025. Stay tuned for even more innovations, tools, and inspiration from Kirlin!

2023 Kirlin Best Practices Webinar Series

We’ve been asked when we’re going to do another series of 20 minute Best Practices webinars on nine key areas around the hospital, and the answer is 2023! 

We’re updating our original series with new products, new vignettes, and new information and will run from March to November. Come for one, come for all and learn some tricks of the trade.  Check out our Events page for all of the webinars, and sign up while you’re there.

Spotlight: Kirlin Super Shallow Downlights for Restricted Plenums

Lighting for Special Environments

Super Shallow Downlights Resolve Pickles in the Plenum!

Ever since the 1940s, when Ivan Kirlin introduced recessed lighting to the world, architects and engineers have encountered crowded spaces above the ceiling line. When that happens, look no further than Kirlin’s super shallow recessed LED downlights, with 2¾” housing depth. Check out three recent projects below to learn how Kirlin solves the challenge of limited plenum depth, creating delightful transitional space between indoor and outdoor areas.

LRR-04006 @ Norman Central Library

This beautiful modern library in Norman, OK features our 4” Type IC super shallow downlight with regressed lens (LRR-04006) along the exterior soffit, which surrounds the elegant structure. The wet listed luminaires provide ideal light levels at night, while highlighting the library’s striking linear forms.

LRR-05438 @ Hyde Park Village

This upgraded shopping district in Tampa’s historic Hyde Park neighborhood features Kirlin’s 5” flare downlight (LRR-05438) in multiple trim finishes, enabling the lighting to seamlessly blend into the canopy space surrounding many notable retail establishments. Dark bronze (option -37T), black (option -38T), and standard white finishes were used in various locations around the district to match the many unique materials selected by the architect.

LRR-05440 @ Ingenuity Commercial Office Building

This commercial office building features several outdoor balconies, decks, and covered terraces, all illuminated by LRR-05440, Kirlin’s 5” super shallow downlight with flat trim. At 2500L, these fixtures provide wide flood illumination in spaces that are open to the Central Florida elements, including the occasional bout of driving rain and gale-force winds. With a UL wet listing and corrosion-resistant housing, tenants can rest assured that the LED illumination in these transitional spaces will stand the test of time.

Like all Kirlin Architectural luminaires, our super shallow products have been engineered to the highest standards of quality for indoor and outdoor use:

  • Super shallow 2¾” housing exceeds 1,000-hour ASTM salt spray corrosion test
  • Fixtures are UL listed for wet, damp, and dry locations
  • Available in medium flood (MFL), wide flood (WFL) and narrow flood (NFL)
  • Five CCT options: 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4100K, 5000K
  • 1000L (Type IC), 1500L (Type IC), or 2500L
  • Many optional trim finishes to match any installation aesthetic

Spotlight: Kirlin Natatorium, Pool, and Spa Expertise

Lighting for Special Environments

Pool & Natatorium Expertise from America’s Water Wonderland

Since the early 20th century, Kirlin has been illuminating pools, natatoriums, water parks, and other aquatic endeavors from our Detroit, MI factory – a stone’s throw from the Great Lakes. All our Latitudes series luminaires are engineered to resist rust and corrosion (exceeding 1000 hour ASTM salt spray test), and are available with a Natatorium option (-NAT) to ensure safety from shock hazard and maintenance-free operation in a wet, chlorinated, halogen gas environment.

Simply Add Option -NAT on Kirlin’s “Latitudes” Products

From the discreet 2” pinhole downlights (LRR-02007) installed over the beautiful pool at One Manhattan Square to our high-output 16,000L asymmetric square (LRS21605) used along the perimeter of the pool at Royal Oak High School here in Michigan, Kirlin offers natatorium-rated LED solutions to meet any need. On any product from the Latitudes collection, simply add option -NAT for our tested and trusted natatorium rating.

All Kirlin natatorium-rated luminaires sport natatorium requirements of:

  • Corrosion and rustproof: exceeding ASTM 1000-hour salt spray test
  • U.L. Listed Wet Locations: suitable in moist and wet environments
  • Electrically isolated and gasketed trims: safety from shock hazard
  • Sealed LED printed circuit board: protected from corrosive halogen gas environment