Lighting Industry

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 [...]

NEMA’s indexes for high intensity discharge (HID) lamp shipments declined for the second consecutive quarter in 2012Q3. Sodium vapor lamp shipments decreased 14.8% year-over-year (y/y) during the quarter, following a loss of 6.8% during the previous three month period. Shipments of metal halide lamps fell 6.9% and 4.9%, respectively, in Q3 and Q2. Mercury vapor [...]

JESCO Lighting Group LLC and Challenger Lighting Company, Inc. recently announced that each manufacturer’s interior lighting products and systems for use specifically in the FF&E (“Fixtures, Furnishings & Equipment”) hospitality markets, nationally and internationally, are now available to each company’s design-specification and other clients. Challenger Lighting’s product line as a hospitality-market contract-lighting manufacturer includes custom [...]

Lighting Services Inc and Lumenpulse recently announced signing a licensing agreement for “Lumentalk” technology. Lumentalk technology enables digital control of LED lighting over existing power infrastructure to maximize cost and energy savings. By turning electrical wiring into a stable, noise-free high-speed communications link for data, Lumentalk enables LED fixtures to be reliably controlled without additional [...]

NEMA’s T12 lamp shipment index tumbled to 37.5, a decline of nearly 40% on a year-over-year (y/y) basis during Q3 – the first quarter following the implementation of the new efficiency standards for general service fluorescent lamps (GSFL). T8s and T12s also posted double digit declines of 26.9% and 19.9%, respectively. Overall shipments during the [...]