Halifax-based LED Roadway Lighting, a maker of innovative streetlights, has announced that founder Chuck Cartmill will step down as CEO on January 1.

LED Roadway Lighting began as a business Cartmill founded in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 2002, manufacturing the equipment that was used to build LED streetlights. By 2007, the LED bulbs had become efficient enough to replace then-commonplace sodium lights, prompting Cartmill to begin manufacturing and selling the new lights out of Halifax.

He previously told Entrevestor that the company had learned how to master supply chains.

“We still manufacture in Amherst, but we’ve got supply chains in Asia and now India to support Amherst,” Cartmill told Entrevestor.

The company now has customers in more than 60 countries.

After his departure, his son Ken Cartmill and Dave Scott will take over as Co-CEOs. Both new CEOs have been integral to the company’s growth and bring a wealth of experience and a strategic vision, the company said.

Ken Cartmill is the leader of the Liveable Cities project. Its key innovation is selling internet-of-things enabled add-ons that can be installed in most streetlights.  

Last year, Ken Cartmill told Entrevestor the company has added sensors to lighting controllers to enable speed monitoring for road safety, traffic monitoring, air quality monitoring and some video analytics with AI and computer vision applied to the video camera.

Cartmill Senior said the company’s success is: “… a testament to the hard work, dedication, and innovation of every member of this organization.”