Lighting Industry

LUX has an interesting article about GE’s strategy of transforming its lighting business from focusing on lamp sales to regarding luminaires as a part of an intelligent package offering a broad range of capabilities, not just light. Interesting take; read it here.

Acuity Brands, Inc. recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Juno Lighting LLC (Juno Lighting Group), a manufacturer of track and downlighting for both the residential and commercial markets, in a cash deal worth $385 million. Juno Lighting Group, a unit of Schneider Electric, serves customers throughout North America. Juno operates [...]

Xicato recently published on its website TM-30-15 Color Rendering results for its entire product range of XTM and XIM modules. See the results here. Hubbell Lighting has launched a competition to challenge the design community to create lighting brilliance—the 2015 LitePro DLX Design Competition. The competition is open to lighting design professionals and students internationally [...]

Demand for lighting equipment, as measured by NEMA’s Lighting Systems Shipments Index, increased by 2.2% year-over-year (y/y) and by 0.4% quarter-to-quarter during the second quarter of 2015. The increase was driven by emergency lighting and luminaires, which gained ground on a year-over-year basis, while the ballast and lamp–large and miniature–components offset these gains with year-over-year [...]

Another linear LED lamp recall following Cree’s announcement earlier this year. This time, it’s OSRAM SYLVANIA. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled OSRAM SYLVANIA’s instant-start T8 LED SubstiTUBE lamps due to overheating and melting. No injuries have been reported. The lamps were sold through distribution between December 2014 and May 2015. An estimated [...]

LUX recently posted an article identifying the top 10 trends transforming workplace lighting: 1. Retrofits 2. Controls 3. From T5 to LED 4. The end of the louver 5. New working patterns 6. Personal control 7. Wellbeing and productivity 8. Monitoring 9. Li-Fi 10. Internet of Things Retrofit, controls, LED, different shielding (due to LED [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this year, I interviewed Chris Brown for tED Magazine. The topic: the impact of SSL technology on electrical distribution. Reprinted with permission. Christopher Brown is CEO of Wiedenbach-Brown, a national full-service lighting and electrical solutions distributor. Prior to the company’s acquisition by USESI in 2006, he was president and chairman of the board for [...]

NEMA’s shipments indexes for consumer lamps saw mixed results during 2015Q1, as year-over-year (y/y) declines were registered in two of the four lamp types. This market is changing fast. With availability impacted by energy regulations, incandescent A-line lamp shipments decreased by 89.4%. Compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) shipments also dropped 9.4% as consumers show preference for [...]