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Chicago Miniature Lighting provides its customers with miniature lighting components and LED solutions for a wide range of markets and applications. Working with light since 1910, Chicago Miniature Lighting is a major global player in two business units:

  • Multimarket Lighting
  • Automotive Lighting

Chicago Miniature Lighting is leading in innovative LED lighting solutions and our teams are committed to the design, production and distribution of miniature light source and lighting systems. Our expertise and our worldwide engineering and manufacturing locations allow us to continually exceed our customers requirements.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to be the number one lighting supplier in quality, innovation and customer service. The company's goal is to operate as a vertically integrated, highly automated manufacturer providing "one stop" lighting solutions for its customers' lighting requirements.

A multidisciplinary approach is taken to ensure that each product meets or exceeds critical requirements for light output, functional design, energy consumption and service life in every different market. By combining global resources with local and specialized response, Chicago Miniature Lighting addresses customer needs precisely, completely and cost-effectively.

Continually enhancing design and manufacturing technologies enable Chicago Miniature Lighting to offer its worldwide customer base an ever-wider range of products and services.

capabilitiesCapabilities

Chicago Miniature Lighting is one of the largest worldwide suppliers of miniature lighting solutions. Chicago Miniature Lighting is a vertically integrated designer, manufacturer and seller of the widest selection of miniature lighting systems and components.

Light Through Full Industrial Capabilities

From Research & Development, initial design and raw material purchase to high speed customized manufacturing and worldwide distribution, Chicago Miniature Lighting maintains total control over the entire process.

A combination of Technologies and Engineering Expertise

So as to ever satisfy our customers and to exceed their requirements, Chicago Miniature Lighting focuses on innovation and developing new technologies. Listening to our customers allows us to continually improve our engineering expertise and business practices.

Our engineering teams are focused on sustaining our customers competitive advantages through our use of emerging technologies and methods that provide savings, and improve designs and manufacturing flexibility.

Looking to the future, Chicago Miniature Lighting is leading
in innovative lighting solutions.

mapLocations

Sales/Engineering/Warehouse

147 Central Avenue
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Phone: (201) 489-8989
Fax: (201) 489-6911

18703 Dix Toledo Road
Brownstown, MI 48193
Tel: (734) 287-7227

Sales/Engineering/Warehouse/Manufacturing

Saret Zone Franca, Edifico B
Alajuela Costa Rica

History of Chicago Miniature Lighting

1910
  • Company established as Chicago Miniature Lamp Works
1913
  • First Patent issues for Lighting product
1944
  • Industrial Devices Inc (IDI) established as a Company
1968
  • Industrial Devices Inc (IDI) creates first automotive twist lock
1972
  • Xenell Corporation established as a company
1992
  • Chicago Miniature Lamp acquired by Xenell Corporation. Name remained Chicago Miniature Lamp
1993
  • Chicago Miniature acquires Glowlite Sales
1994
  • Chicago Miniature Lamp acquires Industrial Devices Inc. (IDI)
1995
  • Chicago Miniature Lamp acquires Plastomer Inc.
1995
  • Chicago Miniature Lamp goes public on Nasdaq
1995
  • Chicago Miniature Lamp acquires Fredon Inc
1996
  • Chicago Miniature Lamp Acquires Alba Germany and Alba USA
1997
  • Chicago Miniature Lamp changes name to CML Innovative Technologies and moves corporate headquarters to Hackensack, NJ
1997
  • CML purchases Sylvania Lighting International, including Europe, South America, Asia and Australia
1998
  • CML purchases VCH Inc.
1998
  • CML purchases Socop France
2003
  • CML purchased by DDJ International
2007
  • CML sells SLI division to Havells India
2009
  • CML North American division sold to Revstone
2009
  • North American division changes name to Chicago Miniature Lighting, LLC