Lighting Industry

Acuity Brands, Inc. recently announced it has acquired eldoLAB Holding B.V., (eldoLED), a manufacturer of intelligent LED drivers. Founded in 2003, eldoLED is a privately owned company headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. eldoLED offers a wide range of readily available LED drivers using advanced drive, networking and control [...]

Lighting industry executive C. David Tebbs and associates have formed The Tebbs Group, LLC as an incorporated business, working with public- and private-sector corporate clients throughout the greater Northeastern United States, the company has announced. The Tebbs Group functions as overall lighting consultants for any size or range of client project whether new lighting installation, [...]

Career Opportunity with Meyda Custom Lighting: Meyda seeks a “Mechanical Engineer” with solid experience in the lighting industry. Adept at creating shop drawings and engineering specs for a wide variety of decorative lighting fixtures. Strong knowledge of materials including metals, glass and acrylics, as well as lighting sources ranging from incandescent to LEDs. Contact Meyda [...]

Oldenburg Group Incorporated recently announced it has received the LEED Certified designation from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for its Technical Center built in Kingsford, Michigan. Lighting for the project was provided by the company’s Milwaukee-based Visa Lighting. The Technical Center is a build-to-suit office facility for the Oldenburg Group’s Defense and Energy segments [...]

IKEA recently announced it will be converting its full lighting range to LED by 2016, meaning IKEA will sell only LED luminaires and lamps. Additionally, IKEA is changing more than one million light sources inside the IKEA stores to LED and other more-efficient lighting.

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index increased in the fourth quarter of 2012 after a decline in the third quarter, growing 1.9% on a quarter-to-quarter basis and by 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. Lighting equipment demand has struggled to gain traction since the recovery began and remains well below the levels observed during the previous economic expansion. [...]

LED product manufacturer Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc., formerly Nexxus Lighting, recently announced it has acquired Seesmart Technologies, Inc. for approximately $20 million. Seesmart, based in Simi Valley, California, is an LED solutions provider with products serving the commercial, industrial and institutional lighting markets. Seesmart’s exclusive network of more than 50 distributors has completed hundreds of [...]

CITY OF SEATTLE Energy Marketing Development Coordinator – Lighting Design Lab SALARY: $33.22 – $38.68 Hourly LOCATION: Lighting Design Lab – 2915 4th Ave South, Washington JOB TYPE: Classified Civil Service, Regular, Full-Time SHIFT: Day DEPARTMENT: Seattle City Light BARGAINING UNIT: PTE, Local 17 – Professionals CLOSING DATE: 03/05/13 04:00 PM Pacific Time POSITION DESCRIPTION: [...]

NEMA’s index for traditional A-line incandescent lamps increased 20.2% during Q3 2012 rebounding from a slide of 18.2% in Q2 2012. Meanwhile, the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) index registered a decline of 3.3% compared to the previous quarter. Halogen A-line lamp shipments gained momentum, increasing by 83.3% on a quarterly basis. The index for halogen [...]