Lighting Industry

H.E. Williams, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Platformatics, Inc., a provider of network-based systems for the smart building Internet of Things (IoT) industry.

Distributor-focused website ElectricalTrends.com’s Q418 Pulse of Lighting survey found that lighting manufacturers selling direct was frequently mentioned as a market dynamic among respondents. Not only are smaller companies engaging in direct sales but larger, well-known companies as well, respondents said, potentially marking it as a trend. Citing examples such as Acuity, Cree, and LSI, the [...]

Zhaga and the IoT Ready Alliance recently announced that they have agreed to align their efforts and to proceed as a single organization under the Zhaga Consortium. The objective is to foster a harmonized, global set of interface specifications for sensor-to-luminaire integration and to remove confusion in the industry.

Today, Cree, Inc. announced the execution of a definitive agreement to sell its Lighting Products business unit (Cree Lighting), which includes the LED luminaires, lamps, and corporate lighting solutions business for commercial, industrial and consumer applications, to IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC.

ELECTRICAL WHOLESALING recently published an article contributed by Egret Consulting’s Ted Konnerth, which evaluated the results of a company survey of lighting manufacturer reps. Key conclusions include the big firms have gotten bigger, firms are adding more lines and dealing with greater complexity, and major manufacturers are prioritizing projects over a stock-and-flow business.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) recently published NEMA LSD 80-2018 Installation Guidelines for Outdoor Luminaires—Grounding Considerations. This white paper addresses the application of the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) as it pertains to the grounding of outdoor luminaires and recommends installation guidelines.

In this week’s featured episode of Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, hosts Greg Ehrich, LC, former President of NAILD and owner of Premier Lighting, and Michael Colligan, an entrepreneur and inventor, acknowledge and call out common biases that occur in the lighting industry.

For this roundtable, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talked to six leading manufacturers and experts to measure the pulse of lighting technological change and what this change has in store for electrical contractors.

CSIL’s recent research publication, The Lighting Fixtures Market in the United States (July 2018, 190 pages, EUR 1,600), estimated that consumption of luminaires few at an average annual rate of 4.6% between 2012 and 2017, resulting in a $20 billion industry.