Lighting Industry

GE Current, a Daintree company (Current) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hubbell Incorporated to acquire Hubbell’s commercial and industrial (C&I) lighting business.

My most recent contribution to ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talks about the Trusted Warranty Evaluation Program, a program recently introduced by the National Lighting Bureau to provide greater confidence and transparency with LED product warranties.

LightFair recently announced the 11 mentees in its first annual mentorship program, a six-month program which enables emerging lighting professionals to connect with experts in the industry to learn about lighting design and architecture.

The Illuminating Engineering Society will host a webinar, “Meeting the Moment: Lighting and Value,” on August 12, 2021 at 12:00 PM ET.

LD+A recently published an Illuminating Engineering Society survey about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lighting industry. The survey was conducted among the IES membership with 1,083 responses from across the industry.

Like many industries, the lighting supply chain is largely globalized. While this produces high volumes of LED products, it is vulnerable to macroeconomic shocks such as tariffs and the COVID pandemic. To better grasp these supply chain issues, it is worthwhile to understand how the lighting supply chain changed over the past decade.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report that characterizes the global manufacturing supply chain for LEDs and LED lighting products. The report investigates the economic impacts of this supply chain on the United States and identifies opportunities for increased domestic manufacturing.

Component shortages, price increases, and shipping delays resulting from the COVID pandemic are disrupting the lighting supply chain.

Acuity Brands, Inc. recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase ams OSRAM’s North American Digital Systems (DS) business. Acuity said it expects the transaction to close during the summer of 2021.