Lutron Electronics | Unit 1 13 Palmgate Cres, Southgate Industrial Park, Amanzimtoti, 4126, KwaZulu-Natal

Our Story Lutron is a technology centered and people driven company As a private corporation guided by our founders simple but profound Five Principles Lutron has a long history of significant growth and smart innovations The Lutron story began in the late 1950s in Joel Spiras makeshift lab in New York City A young physicist fascinated by the aesthetic manipulation of light Spira commandeered the spare bedroom in the apartment he shared with his wife Ruth and set out to invent a solid state device that would enable people to vary the intensity of the lights in their homes The very idea was radical. At that time lighting control was a complicated and expensive affair requiring bulky rheostats that used a lot of energy and generated a great deal of heat Consequently lighting controls were used primarily to dim stage lights in theaters Most people would never think of having dimmers in their homes because they were just too difficult to install That all changed in 1959 when Spira emerged from his lab with a sol