Sports Facility Lighting

Perfect lighting for sports facilities and playing fields with MH floodlighting

Floodlighting is essential for sports venues of all sizes, from major stadiums to local clubs. While LED solutions are popular, they don’t always provide the best return on investment for every facility. That’s why we continue to manufacture and supply high-quality metal halide (MH) lamps under our BLV STATURION® brand. Produced in our own facility, these lamps remain the ideal choice for replacements, refurbishments, and cost-effective alternatives to LED floodlighting—offering reliable performance without the high upfront investment.
HQI lamps - Metal Halide Lamps (MH) - Why they are still so popolar

HQI lamps / Metal halide lamps (MH)

Why they are still so popular

Metal halide lamps, also known as HQI lamps, have been in use since the mid-1960s. They are still widely used today and belong to the group of high-pressure discharge lamps.

Their continuing high popularity is due in particular to their excellent photometric performance: They offer an extremely high luminous flux of up to 230,000 lm, a very economical luminous efficacy of up to 115 lm/watt, and an excellent colour rendering index (Ra / CRI) of up to 90 compared to other discharge lamps.

All this makes them a perfect alternative to LED lighting for sports facilities that, for example, have shorter switch-on times and do not exceed an annual lighting duration of approx. 400 – 500 hours. Or for clubs that need a high-quality lamp replacement for existing installations, or for whom the high investment costs in an LED floodlight system do not pay off.

Optimal and standard-compliant lighting and illumination of the sports facilities for pure sports use can still be achieved with conventional lighting – effectively and cost-saving!

Conformity of the lamps

Use of HQI / MH lamps possible without restrictions

For conformity with Regulations (EC) No 245/2009, (EU) No 347/2010 and (EU) No 2015/1428:

Since the introduction of LED solutions, there have been repeated incorrect statements that all metal halide lamps (HIT lamps for short), also known as HQI, HRI or HPI lamps, are banned by the EU under Regulation (EC) 245/2009. This statement is incorrect and does not correspond to the current European legislation: On the one hand, it is confused with the general ban on mercury vapour lamps, better known as HQL lamps. On the other hand, the directive only refers to lamps that do not comply with certain requirements, e.g. in terms of energy efficiency.

BLV STATURION® metal halide lamps, which are still manufactured today at the company’s headquarters in Germany, are also not affected by the current Energy Efficiency Regulation (EU) 2019/2020, which came into force on 01 September 2021.