My contribution to the March issue of The Electrical Distributor tackled a big subject–trends in LED outdoor luminaire design. Reprinted with permission. Offering higher efficacy, longer life, greater optical control, good quality of light and greater control flexibility, LED lighting stands poised for major penetration in the outdoor stationary lighting market. These luminaires may be [...]

LG Display recently announced that it will supply OLED panels to ilroom, a specialized home furniture brand of the Fursys Group, a leading office furniture company in Korea. The desk light uses OLED light panels as the light source and provides a prominent example of how OLED lighting can be integrated with furniture. The new [...]

LED A-line lamps posted another strong showing in 2015Q3, surging 237.2% during the quarter on a year-over-year basis. Halogen A-line lamps posted a year-over-year increase of 33%. In contrast, incandescent A-line lamps decreased by 31.5% while compact fluorescents lamps dropped 28%. Compared to 2015Q2, LED shipments rose 17.2%, while halogen A-lines increased 4.6%. CFL shipments [...]

OSRAM continues to positioning the carve-out of its general lighting lamps business with rebranding to the name LEDVANCE. Jes Munk Hansen, who has already been at the helm of the lamps business for one year after previously heading OSRAM’s Americas business, is leading the company. The product portfolio of LEDVANCE covers traditional lighting, modern LED [...]

GE has announced it will discontinue manufacturing compact fluorescent lamps for the U.S. market and focus its consumer lighting efforts on LED replacement lamps by the end of 2016. According to GE, about 15% of consumers have tried LED. By 2020, with steadily declining costs and superior performance compared to CFLs, more than 50% of [...]

Acuity Brands, Inc. has acquired for cash certain assets, including all proprietary technology and other intellectual property, of GeoMetri, LLC, a provider of a software and services platform for mapping, navigation and analytics. “GeoMetri technology brings a key component into our digital lighting platform, augmenting our positioning services which now include over 10 million square [...]

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Shipments Index, a measure of demand for lighting equipment, increased by 4.8% year-over-year and by 4.4% quarter-to-quarter during 2015Q3. The increase was driven by the fixtures component of the index, which gained ground on a year-over-year basis, while the emergency lighting, ballast and lamp – large and miniature – components recorded offsetting [...]

EcoSense recently announced that it has acquired the assets of Journée Lighting, a privately owned, CA-based lighting company that specializes in the design and development of specification-grade lighting. This acquisition allows EcoSense to enter the downlight and track lighting market and leverage Journée’s IP for future product development efforts. “Journée’s specifier-grade product portfolio is a [...]