Czech Republic - Robe Lighting enjoyed its best ever year in 2024 and is expecting 2025 to be a continuation of that busy and successful trajectory.
Robe starts the new year with an expanded factory premises, ramped up production capacity and a strong and innovative product portfolio – proudly made in Europe – looking ahead to a year filled with positive energy and great results.
The factory in Valašské Meziříčí has nearly doubled in physical size to 130,000sq.m through the latest phase of its development, one of several elements helping Robe to boost production there at its HQ and also at its Karvina plant. The total output has increased by 100% since 2019.
The most recently launched products include the laser-sourced iBolt – the first genuine replacement for retro 7K+ searchlights – the much-anticipated LEDPointe, the all-new SVB1 and Svopatt fixtures, together with T.5, iT12, T15, T32 and iSpiiderX.
These new luminaires will shortly be joined by six more new products that are already planned for release during 2025.
An active period of acquisitions over the last 18 month means that The Robe Group can offer complete lighting system solutions, from moving lights and LED luminaires for all applications – entertainment through architectural – to lighting and visual media control and integration, power supply and smart distribution.
From the start, Robe has been a fully independent, family-owned-and-run business and intends to stay that way.
Robe is also very committed to its local community as one of the largest employers in the Wallachia area of the northeast of the Czech Republic.
Sustainability is right at the heart of the company and has been for many years already. The main factory buildings now have nearly 2,000 photo-voltaic panels on the roofs with installed power of 1.1 MW peak, which can generate up to 70% of the energy needed to run production. Large investments have also been made into electric vehicles and emission-reducing transport options for staff.
Robe’s ever-increasing factory footprint is developing ‘brown-field’ land along an industrial strip on the outskirts of Valašské Meziříčí, and the latest construction work includes the creation of an 18 x 12m green façade on the front of the main building, with several supporting green columns down the side of the new building, all filled with 700sq.m of plant life.
Robe will be participating in all major trade shows, expos and industry events through 2025. The first large-scale exhibition for Robe will be ISE in Barcelona in the first week of February.
