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USHIO America, Inc. is constantly challenging the global market by providing new and better lighting for the future, today. Since its establishment in 1967, USHIO America Inc. has developed its product technology to include a wide variety of light sources used in many different markets. Here at USHIO America Inc., our primary product focus is on discharge and halogen lamp technology.

As a specialist in industrial light sources, USHIO America works in partnership with many advanced companies to develop new and innovative products. Our goal at USHIO America, Inc. is to meet the comprehensive needs of our customers through market-directed product engineering, manufacturing process control and breadth of product offering.

Company size and philosophy drive strategy. We are small enough to react to specific Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) requests while large enough to have the design and production system expertise essential to making sophisticated light sources, coupled with a high degree of repeatability over large volumes.

As we've grown we often find the OEM asking us to provide distribution for the "tailored" lamps that are used for the replacement in their equipment. To do that we have established aftermarket programs geared to the specialty niches and designed to fully support those organizations that distribute USHIO lamps. Beyond that, distributors have asked us to broaden our line so that USHIO could be their "one stop shopping source" for all their specialty lamps. We've listened and responded. The results are seen in our