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NBB has always delivered ’top-of-the-line’-headlights.

Our customers are often in need of having good illumination on their cars or on their vehicle at work, so every product that we offer the market has to meet some of the toughest demands. This places big demands on us and our product development.

Since we have our "ear to the ground" we started looking on a specially big professional headlight, when the customers started requesting one a few years ago. Our product development is time consuming because we build our development on extensive research and testing operation.
We want to know that what we offer the market will meet the highest demands, both in quality and function. By that we mean that the light is optimal in relation
to the field of application and that the light patterns is maximized when it comes to light exchange, ergonomics and focus.

In the autumn of 2007 we launched our latest professionally auxiliary light -
Alpha 225 HID. The name is actually more than just marketing - it means something: Alpha is our series of professionally auxiliary lights for the demanding user, 225 stands for millimeter light opening that with our new "super reflector" gives a better light exchange than ever before and HID because it is a xenon light.

All this to give you as a user more light and better light!

To develop a headlight that is suppose to surpass everything corresponding on the market demands great resources, and already early in the process NBB chose to seek out an appropriate partner.
The choice fell on the Australian company Brown Watson International, more known under the trademark Narva, with whom NBB has a extensive cooperation that has lasted several years.

The cooperation was divided so that NBB answer for design and light pattern
while Narva stands for the mechanical construction. The goal for the cooperation was simple: construct the worlds greatest headlight in the intended segment.
A headlight that works just as good in northern Scandinavia's midwinter cold as in southeast Asia's humid jungles and dry desert heat.

The headlights must in other word work unhindered in a temperature range from –50°C to +60°C , from very low atmospheric humidity to almost tropical rainforest - and this with the same basic construction.

The development and the following tool construction got more extensive than what had been prognosticated, but in early spring in 2006 the first prototypes where ready for a full scale test.
The construction was basically right - the light performance in reality even surpassed the set goals, but a critical change was when the plastic reflector was changed to one in aluminum. The intention was to get at very light construction but aluminum showed to have a better resistance, so after a smaller reconstruction and some detailed adjustments a pre series was produced.

The different versions went through a full scale test in the spring of 2007. In the fall of 2007 the mass production is starting and all finishing assembly and quality control is being done at NBB in Linköping.

Alpha 225 will exist in two versions, one HID/xenon and one more conventional version in halogens and they will have two light patterns; long & thin (pencil)

and broad (wide), which will in combination without a doubt turn night in to day.

More light. Better light. NBB.