Musco Lighting

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Musco Lighting
Type Private
Genre Sports Lighting, Mobile Lighting, Motion Picture Lighting
Founded 1975
Founder Joe Crookham and Myron Gordon
Headquarters Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States
Industry Musco's primary competitor is Hubbell Lighting SportsLiter Solutions
Employees 1000
Website musco.com

Musco Lighting is an American privately owned Academy Award winning company, based out of Oskaloosa, Iowa that is noted for providing permanent or temporary lighting at major sports events and stadiums including the Super Bowl and Olympics.

The company derives its name from Muscatine County, Iowa, where it was founded and still maintains a large manufacturing plant.

Company projects range from the largest sports lighting project in the world to small Little League parks. In addition to its Academy Award, it has also won an Emmy Award for its providing temporary lighting for night time NCAA games, including games at Notre Dame Stadium, Ohio Stadium and Bearcat Stadium. The company illuminated the Statue of Liberty during its rededication, four Super Bowls, and was the official lighting company for the 1984, 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games[1]

As of 2006 it employed 1,000 people including 350 in Oskaloosa, 350 in Muscatine and 300 worldwide

Among the products of their Sports Lighting system is the Light Structure Green- an energy-saving pole-light system.

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[edit] History

The company was started in 1976 by Joe Crookham and Myron Gordon bought the Muscatine Lighting Manufacturing Co. in Muscatine, Iowa.[2][3]

In 1977 it began marketing its newly created Sportscluster which it says was the first factory-assembled and factory-wired light cluster (previously lights in stadiums et al had to be assembled one at a time).

In 1979 it improved the lighting process by adding aiming components at the factory and then locating serviceable electrical components in an enclosure near the base of the light pole.

In 1981 it launched Musco Mobile Lighting with the Musco Light in which lighting fixtures were erected from trucks. Among its first client was the first night game at Notre Dame Stadium.[4]

In 1983 it lit its first Super Bowl, provided lighting for Space Shuttle launches at Vandenburg Air Force Base, the filming of All the Right Moves.

In 1984 it was the official light supplier for the 1984 Olympic Games.

In 1986 Myron Gordin, Joe P. Crookham, Jim Drost and David Crookham received a Scientific and Engineering Award during the 58th Academy Awards for "the invention of a method of transporting adjustable, high-intensity Luminaires and their application to the motion picture."[5]

In 1998 it created the world’s largest outdoor sports-lighting project when it provided the lighting for the Daytona International Speedway.

In 2001 following the September 11 terrorist attacks Musco provided seven light trucks and staff to illuminate both The Pentagon and World Trade Center[6]

In 2007 it provided the lighting for the Losail International Circuit, the largest permanent outdoor sports lighting project in the world. It also donated $12 million to William Penn University in Oskaloosa to build 200,000 feet of new structures. It was the largest grant in school history.[7]

[edit] Lighting Projects

[edit] Professional baseball

[edit] Professional football

[edit] Major Speedways

[edit] Other

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lithonia Lighting and Musco form alliance - Retrieved December 11, 2007
  2. ^ Musco plans $15 million expansion - Lighting company’s employment could triple in Oskaloosa -Associated Press - August 24, 2006
  3. ^ Iowa Supreme Court Cases - September 23, 1998 - findlaw.com
  4. ^ A History of Innovation - Retrieved December 11, 2007
  5. ^ [http://imdb.com/Sections/Years/1985/academy-awards Academy Awards, USA: 1986
  6. ^ Joe Crookham - National Park Foundation - Retrieved December 11, 2007
  7. ^ William Penn recipient of $12 million - Oskaloosa Herald - November 16 2007

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