About Us

Pierlite. A world class Australian lighting manufacturer

With humble beginnings in the 1930's the Gerard family has journeyed through an exciting path in the electrical industry.At present Gerard Corporation's flag ship brand Pierlite is market leader in Australasia for design, manufacturing and distribution of architectural, industrial, and commercial lighting systems, and with this experience create an even more exciting path as it develops a dynamic global network.

From the home shores of Australia the Pierlite team now extends to New Zealand, Kenya, UK, India, Italy, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Mozambique and Malaysia, with a strategic vision to continue expanding this global network.

With key local and international supply partners under the guidelines of our ISO9001 quality management system, Pierlite create innovative commercial, industrial and architectural lighting products that deliver our customers professional lighting solutions.Our products are technically excellent, exciting and globally competitive.

Our journey continues and with the development of new products and services together with our key supply partners and continued support of our loyal customers, we at Pierlite see a positive future.

Sustained investment in our local and global networks is critical for our success

Working in a global market, Pierlite understand the importance of investing in engineering, quality and production facilities for the specific local market requirements, hence our significant and continued investment in both our Australian operations and our global technical facilities.

Under the guidelines of our ISO9001 quality assurance management system our investment in our design and engineering teams will play an even more strategic component of our future as the lighting industry face the challenges of creating environmentally responsible lighting solutions with a key focus of reducing green house gas emissions.

With our headquarters, manufacturing and engineering operations based in Sydney, Australia, together with regional engineering and manufacturing in new facilities in UAE, India, Mozambique and Indonesia, we believe Pierlite is positioned to take the lead with these challenges.

 

Meeting demands is what we do best

 We are proud to call Australia home and it is where we have been instrumental in working with key lighting design partners to create innovative and dynamic lighting installations such as Adelaide Airport, Sydney's Cross City Tunnel, the world famous MCG and SCG sports grounds, and numerous commercial and industrial projects such as Brisbane Magistrate's Court and the Melbourne South Bank development.We are equally proud to include a rapidly expanding international portfolio with such projects such as Soorty Denim Mill Pakistan, Willis Building London, T5 Heathrow, Changi Prison Singapore, Petrona Tower Malaysia, Dubai Airport Terminal 2 and the ERAP project Mozambique.

With sophisticated design capabilities and world class optical, thermal, electronic and electrical test facilities the investment we have made in our Pierlite technical design team will continue to create innovative, award winning and energy efficient lighting solutions for our customers.

Lighting Solutions take you pick

 From the newest LED suppliers to the technically demanding latest HID Metal Halide lamp sources, Pierlite complement this ever expanding range of light sources with an innovative suite of luminaires created for the domestic, industrial, roadway, commercial and architectural market sectors.Whether your lighting design requires architecturally creative post tops or bollards, sophisticated tunnel and roadway systems, energy efficient T5 fluorescent luminaires, professional stadium floodlighting, high performance high bay and commercial products, technically demanding emergency systems, robust weatherproof fluorescent and bulkheads or innovative downlight creations, Pierlite have the solution for you.

Innovative and energy concious solutions are our future

The Pierlite logo depicted by the sun and moon, two dominant sources of light control, demonstrates Pierlite's vision as we all strive to create innovative and energy conscious lighting systems.With Pierlite's significant and sustained development in state of the art lighting technology and globally competitive manufacturing operations, supported by award winning product designers, sales team and engineers, Pierlite is confident of a progressive and environmentallly concious future.Whether your lighting design challenges are interior, exterior, industrial, commercial, or architectural, we at Pierlite are confident that we have the experience, service locations and design solutions to meet your every need.