Lighting Industry

HID Lamp Indexes Decline During First Quarter 2015

Craig DiLouie August 20, 2015

NEMA’s shipment indexes for high intensity discharge (HID) lamps continued to decline at the start of 2015.

Sodium vapor lamp shipments fell 11.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis compared to the same period last year. Shipments of mercury vapor lamps retreated by 18.4% year-over-year (y/y). Although the index for metal halide lamps registered a modest year-over-year increase of 1.2%, shipments were still below the level during calendar year 2014.

Sodium vapor lamps gave back 2.4 percentage points, decreasing to a share of 30.1%, while mercury vapor lamps declined marginally to 3.5%. The market share of metal halide lamps increased to a new high level in the series, at 66.5% for the quarter.

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