Lighting Design projects
Just like the facilities and the living creatures of your business, lighting is an asset that should be carefully considered for investment with the right design and equipment.
Orphek works closely with curators, engineers, LSS experts, researchers and companies providing technologies and suppliers to public aquariums and venues to help them achieve their goals.










Orphek Aquarium LED Lighting
Orphek is an international company developing and selling the widest range of LED aquarium lighting solutions with IP67 certification in the world, along with settled worldwide reputation.
We provide perfect intensity/efficiency and spectrums to all shapes, sizes, depths of aquariums to:
- Impressive private tanks in Homes & Offices
- Public Aquariums, Zoos & Aquatic Venues
- Palaces, Hotels, Casinos
- Airports, Shopping Malls
- Hospitals, Health Centers and Resorts & Spas
- Universities & Research, Educational Centers
- Conservation, Rescue, Care & Rehabilitation Centers
- Coral farms and Shops
Orphek Expertise
Our expertise is to develop, customize and deliver LED lighting solutions for perfect lighting design projects, involving any biological need of a wide range of organisms, coming from different types of habitat and geographic zones, while meeting both the architectural aesthetics desired and entrepreneurship budgets and goals.
What Orphek solutions & customizations can do for your venue:
- Orphek offers customization of spectrums to meet the specifications of your projects.
- Provide more natural, easy-to-adapt and healthier environment to the curated inhabitants.
- Enable you create a memorable genuine experience to your visitors and healthy, safe environment to both visitors and staff.
- Provide the natural look of your venues when exhibited in virtual or augmented reality and videos.
- Help to prevent, reduce and overcome maintenance challenges and costs.
- Facilitate to meet energy consumption/reduction strategies and goals.
“Together we protect Nature’s Biodiversity for generations to come.”
Loving Nature as we do and being environment sustainably conscious, Orphek only develops products with a significant positive impact in everyone’s life, therefore we only offer the best environmentally friendly solutions that combine the most advanced & efficient technology and, most importantly, aiming the well-being of animals and humans all together, for now and for generations to come.
Orphek is the first company and leader in the market of developing and offering LED lighting solutions that have UPGRADE possibility of their control systems and LED PCBs for minimum waste and environmental impact. Not to mention the financial cost reduction of not having to change the entire lights within time!
Orphek creativity, innovation, technology developments and customizations
Creating ecosystems with genuine biological narrative, either small or gigantic, simple or complex, implies challenging responsibilities for adaptation, conservation and welfare of the animals in the captive environments created. It also brings challenging financial investment in structure and maintenance.
Multiply the existing challenges when introducing centers for animal rescue, care and rehabilitation; scientific research, education and conservation…
And even more with behind-the-scenes, virtual tours, virtual and augmented realities that are in high demand these days!
By developing products specifically for public venues, Orphek delivers perfect solutions build only with the best quality raw materials and sealant solutions & IP 65/67 certifications, offering LED light solutions that are solid, resilient and build to excel in performance even in extreme environments. They are also very easy to install and to perform maintenance.
Orphek understand the challenges to meet energy consumption/reduction strategies, therefore its quality control systems guarantee that all our products will provide extraordinary energy efficiency, minimum environmental damage with a considerable annual reduction of energy consumption.
Orphek innovation: Reality/ augmented virtual reality/ online live shows/ video tours
The virtual or augmented realities and live shows are excellent solutions to continue to engage schools and families. They became a must-have not only as a way of education, but also as a powerful marketing tool.
Innovating, Orphek has been researching and developing customized products to provide the natural look that aquariums have in reality, while exhibited in both virtual and augmented reality, online live shows and video tours.
Latest Groundbreaking Technology:
Orphek latest launch – Atlantik iCon series – brings a Lunar program that will mimic an entire natural lunar light cycle for better coral spawning.
The 10,000% dimming control will also ensure that corals and other photosynthetic animals get the proper rest and can process their night time biological functions.
Orphek is the first and only company in the world offering 10,000% dimming control system 0-100% and 0.001-1% for Lunar Cycle!
To read more about it: Orphek advanced dimming control
Orphek Catalogue:
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Orphek Latest Project Partnerships:
- Nausicaá Public Aquarium (Boulogne-sur-Mer, France)
- Biarritz Aquarium (Biarritz, France)
- Chengdu Public Aquarium (Chengdu, China)
- Burj Al Arab Aquariums (Dubai, UAE)
- The Lost Chambers Aquarium & The Ambassador Lagoon (Dubai, UAE)
- National Aquarium Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
- The Kuwait Scientific Center TSCK (Kuwait)
- Aquatic Fisheries Research Center (Al Khor, Qatar)
- Oman Aquarium (Muscat, Oman)
- National Aquarium Den Blå Planet (Kastrup, Denmark)
- Cairns Public Aquarium (Cairns, Australia)
- AIMS Australian Institute of Marine Science (Australia)
- MERL The Minderoo Foundation Exmouth Research Lab (Exmouth, Australia)
- James Cook University Aquarium (Townsville, Australia)
- National Zoo & Aquarium (Camberra, Australia)
- The Aquarium of Western Australia (Hillarys, Australia)
- Heron Island Research Station – The University of Queensland (Qld, Australia)
- Whitsunday Airport Heart Reef Aquarium (Whitsunday, Australia)
- The Maritime Museum & Aquarium Gothenburg (Sweden)
- Tropicarium Kolmården (Sweden)
- XPLORE Entertainment Center (Athens, Greece)
- Palma Aquarium (Palma de Maiorca, Spain)
- Sea World Prague (Prague, Czech Republic)
- Aquatika Freshwater Aquarium Karlovac (Karlovac, Croatia)
- Unity Park – Grand Palace in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
- Kula Wild Adventure Park (Fiji)
- Tynemouth Aquarium (Tynemouth, England, UK)
- Vancouver Aquarium (Vancouver, Canada)
- The Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada (Toronto, Canada)
- Sea Life Caverns – West Edmonton mall, (Edmonton, Canada)
- Georgia Aquarium (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
- St. Louis Public Aquarium (St. Louis,USA)
- North Carolina Public Aquarium (North Carolina, USA)
- Loveland Living Planet Aquarium (Utah, USA)
- Aquarium of the Pacific (CA, USA)
- The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center (VA, USA)
- The Butterfly House & Aquarium (South Dakota, USA)
- Albuquerque BioNational Aquarium (New Mexico, USA)
- Shark Research Institute (NJ, USA)
- Marine Exploration Center (St. Petersburg, USA)
- Sea Turtle Inc. Rehabilitation Center (Texas, USA)
- Cameron Park Zoo (Waco, Texas, USA)
- Indianapolis Zoo (IN, USA)
- The Maritime Aquarium (CT, USA)
- Atlantis Aquarium (Paradise Islands, Bahamas)
- Douglas Island Pink and Chum Salmon Hatchery (Alaska, USA)
- AquaMundo of Sambil Mall (Santo Domingo, Domenican Republic)
Interesting links to read about our projects and partnerships:
Find below more detailed info about some of our projects for Public Aquariums & Venues:
Chengdu Public Aquarium LED Light Project
Orphek was chosen as sole supplier of LED lighting solutions to Chengdu Aquarium due to its long settled worldwide reputation and because the construction of this project demanded the most advanced technologies available in the market This amazing Aquarium has entered to the Guinness World of Records! Visitors coming to the Oceanarium will experience a unique architectural wonder: The largest acrylic viewing area in the world with 10,000 m³ of water storage with over ten thousands of marine organisms from all corners of the Earth!…When greatness is presented, only Orphek can handle the job!…Read More

Nausicaá Public Aquarium Orphek LED Light Project in France
In 2018 Nausicaá built its largest expansion becoming the largest aquarium in Europe with a gigantic tank with the capacity of 2.6 million gallons/11.819.834 liters of water. The equivalent of 04 Olympic sized swimming pools! This 200ft/61m long, 115ft/35m wide and 26 feet/8m deep marine tank is actually 100% the recreation of the sea bed of this marine sanctuary in Colombia, and mirroring this site, the High Seas goal’s is to become a place for preservation of endangered species. It is indeed the biggest bay window in Europe, with 22,000 additional animals, including the hammer head sharks. Orphek was chosen as sole supplier of LED lighting solutions to Nausicaá due to its long settled worldwide reputation and because the construction of this project demanded the most advanced technologies available in the market…Read more

Burj Al Arab Aquariums LED Light Project
Orphek was chosen to be their sole supplier of LED lighting solutions for the Burj Al Arab hotel’s aquariums due to its long settled reputation in the Middle East, due to its challenges and its ambitions to reflects on the quality of living with wealth and because the construction of this project demanded. This seven stars hotel has chosen Orphek due to its stellar quality, performance and professionalism!… Read more
Cairns Public Aquarium Project – Queensland, Australia
This is the home of the largest freshwater tank in Australia (containing 400,000 liters of water)! Orphek was chosen to be the supplier of LED lighting solutions for its long settled worldwide reputation proven to be the only leading company in LED lighting for aquariums with a true passion for design, developing products and solutions that not only answers to the needs of the living creatures in captive aquariums, but also able to offer solutions where the integration of light sources, conceptual design and architectural elements are desired. Since Cairns Aquarium is designed for close viewing of reef and rainforest animals offering an incredible visitor experience while offering optimal living conditions for their aquatic fish, corals and animals… Read more

Danish Blue Planet Public Aquarium Project
Orphek was chosen to be the supplier of LED lighting solutions for the northern Europe’s largest aquarium due to its long settled reputation in Europe. Not only that! Orphek has also proven to be the only leading company in LED lighting for aquariums with a true passion for design, developing products and solutions that not only answers to the needs of the living creatures in captive aquariums, but also able to offer solutions where the integration of light sources, conceptual design and architectural elements are desired. … Read more
Ripley Public Aquarium of Canada lighted by Orphek
Opened in October 2013, the Ripley Aquarium of Canada aquarium is located at the base of the CN Tower and features 13,500 different species of sea animals. Containing over 5.7 million litres of water, the 12,500 square meters (135,000 square foot) interactive aquarium immerses guests in a thrilling underwater adventure that showcases more than 16,000 marine animals and freshwater habitats from around the world… Read more
Whitsunday Airport Heart Reef Aquarium, Australia
Completed in 2019, the Whitsunday Coast Airport terminal expansion project included a 30,000 liter aquarium, including a moulded coral ‘Heart Reef’ and hundreds of Great Barrier Reef fish to enhance the visitor experience as they arrive and depart the Whitsunday Coast Airport. The aquarium – part of a larger $15-million terminal upgrade – opened in July 2019. The aquarium features a 10-meter-long FRP Tank containing 30,000 liters of water and over 100 different species. AAT rock work and theming artists also created 4 tonnes of authentic-looking coral which doubles up as a visual treat for viewers and a non-toxic simulated habitat for the animals. Orphek was chosen as a supplier of LED lighting solutions for Whitsunday Coast Airport aquarium due to its understanding of how to develop lighting to create a more natural, more easy-to-adapt and healthier environment to any kind of installation and animals, but it will also help clients deliver the beauty that a proper atmosphere can bring a lounge.

Oman Aquarium of Mall of Muscat, Oman
Oman Aquarium, Oman’s first indoor aquarium, takes you on a fascinating tour of marine life and other nautical wonders. Located at the ground and first floor of Mall of Muscat, the aquarium spans a whopping 8,000 square meter space. The multi-story, 5,600-square-meter aquarium has a 1,800,000-liter main tank viewed through a 9-meter x 7-meter viewing panel that weighs 30 tonnes. Based on the adventures of the famous 15th Century Arabic explorer Ahmed Bin Majid, the aquarium features aquatic creatures he encountered during his travels. Displaying over 200 species and 30,000 colorful marine animals, the collection includes popular attractions such as three species of sharks, and penguins! Orphek is already the light supplier for the Sambil Mall aquarium in Santo Domigo, Domenican Republic and it was chosen for its ability to understand shopping mall environments and the challenges of recreating a natural look for a reef aquarium located inside other types of public venues.
AquaMundo of Sambil Mall, Domenican Republic
Located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, this is an original concept designed and built by ICM. AquaMundo was specifically created for a shopping center, to provide a unique experience for mall visitors. The aquarium features 72 exhibits in seven different themed zones. Aquamundo is the first aquarium in the Dominican Republic that is geared toward education and conservation. Motivated by the environmental problem of waste in our oceans, AquaMundo created the initiative “Saving the Ocean (Salvando El Oceano),” an organization that frequently sponsors beach cleanups, educational lectures, and activities related to the conservation of our oceans. Orphek was chosen to be the supplier of LED lighting solutions for its long settled worldwide reputation proven to be the only leading company in LED lighting for aquariums with a true passion for design, developing products and solutions that not only answers to the needs of the living creatures in captive aquariums, but also able to offer solutions where the integration of light sources, conceptual design and architectural elements are desired.
Located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, this is an original concept designed and built by ICM. AquaMundo was specifically created for a shopping center, to provide a unique experience for mall visitors. The aquarium features 72 exhibits in seven different themed zones. Aquamundo is the first aquarium in the Dominican Republic that is geared toward education and conservation. Motivated by the environmental problem of waste in our oceans, AquaMundo created the initiative “Saving the Ocean (Salvando El Oceano),” an organization that frequently sponsors beach cleanups, educational lectures, and activities related to the conservation of our oceans. Orphek was chosen to be the supplier of LED lighting solutions for its long settled worldwide reputation proven to be the only leading company in LED lighting for aquariums with a true passion for design, developing products and solutions that not only answers to the needs of the living creatures in captive aquariums, but also able to offer solutions where the integration of light sources, conceptual design and architectural elements are desired.
Kula Wild Adventure Park Orphek LED Light Project in Fiji
Orphek was chosen as a supplier of LED lighting solutions to Kula WILD Adventure Park due to its long settled worldwide reputation and because the construction of this project demanded the most advanced technologies available in the market, due to its challenges and its ambitions to reflect Fiji’s spectacular natural resources…Read more
With an eye towards reducing the electrical consumption and still demanding results client selected the Orphek PR72 to light the new farm…Read more



















