Musco Sports Lighting
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| Genre | Sports lighting, mobile lighting, motion picture lighting, event lighting, and industrial lighting |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Founder | Joe Crookham and Myron Gordin |
| Headquarters | Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Website | musco.com |
Musco Lighting is a privately owned, American company that specializes in the design and manufacture of sports and large area lighting solutions around the world. Based out of Oskaloosa, Iowa, Musco has been the industry leader for the past 40 years, lighting a myriad of Olympic Games, Super Bowls, and other major sporting events.
Since its beginning, Musco has pioneered systems that have made dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and provided affordable ways to control spill light and glare. Musco is responsible for lighting a full range of sports facilities, from Daytona International Speedway and Emirates Stadium, to thousands of Little League fields around the world. In addition to lighting both Mount Rushmore National Memorial and the Statue of Liberty, it also provides lighting systems for large industrial areas, such as DP World Jebel Ali Port Terminal 1 and Georgia Ports Authority's Garden City Terminal. Musco has also won an Academy Award and an Emmy Award.
When the founders of Musco Lighting formed a partnership in 1968, Joe Crookham was a part of a successful law practice in Oskaloosa, Iowa, while Myron Gordin was working as an engineer at Pella Corp and running a toolmaking business out of his living room. Together they looked to make Myron's startup business venture – G&L Industries – into a stable, profitable company. G&L Industries originally manufactured products that were sold under their customer's brand names, such as Excel Corporation, Snap-on, and Cornwell Precision Tools. In 1969, G&L received its first big break when Brown and Sharpe Mfg. purchased a large quantity of product and provided G&L with enough capital to expand. Understanding the limiting factors of their current business approach, Joe and Myron started seeking out opportunities to grow their company.
In 1976, Joe and Myron purchased the struggling Muscatine Lighting and Manufacturing Company in Muscatine, Iowa. This marked the start of Musco Lighting. Having little experience in lighting, Joe and Myron studied both the factory's product line and the potential market opportunities for them. A year later in 1977, the company released the Sports Cluster® system. This development featured fixtures that were mounted on metal cross arms, rather than the standard wooden ones, simplifying installation and improving reliability. By 1979, through research and development, the company introduced factory luminaire aiming, as well as the remote ballast, simplifying maintenance by placing electrical components in a service box near the base of the pole.
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