Lighting Industry

This year marks Philips Ledalite’s 30th year of business. Established in 1982–with its humble beginnings with 20 employees working in a 1500-sq.ft. garage–Philips Ledalite has become a leading manufacturer of quality, high performance lighting. Today, the company occupies a 210,000-sq.ft. state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, producing over 30 different product lines which offer more than 2 billion [...]

Acuity Brands, Inc. recently unveiled its new 60,000-square-foot facility for Acuity Brands Canada, combining the Company’s Lighting and Controls offices. Located in Toronto, the new facility includes offices, a warehouse distribution center and a state-of-the art showroom. Twelve offices incorporate a variety of Acuity Brands value stream products to illustrate lighting solutions in office applications. [...]

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index has shown a positive performance in the first half of 2012, as it gained 2.9% on a quarter-to-quarter basis from the first to second quarters of 2012. On a year-over-year basis, the index increased by 6.6%, indicating that aggregate lighting equipment demand has improved appreciably since the recovery began; however, it [...]

NEMA’s shipment indexes for HID lamps returned to positive growth territory during the first quarter of 2012, with each lamp type showing year-over-year gains following negative growth to close out the final quarter of 2011. Sodium vapor lamps increased 2.9%, while shipments of mercury vapor and metal halide HID lamps increased 5% and 0.1%, respectively. [...]

CLASSIFIED AD Kenall, a leading manufacturer of advanced lighting solutions for specialized environments, has exceptional opportunities available at our headquarters in Gurnee, IL. Working together, Kenall has become a champion in manufacturing complex lighting solutions for healthcare, high-abuse, transportation, sealed enclosure and security detention environments. For nearly 50 years, Kenall has been a proud advocate [...]

CLASSIFIED AD Kenall, a leading manufacturer of advanced lighting solutions for specialized environments, has exceptional opportunities available at our headquarters in Gurnee, IL. Working together, Kenall has become a champion in manufacturing complex lighting solutions for healthcare, high-abuse, transportation, sealed enclosure and security detention environments. For nearly 50 years, Kenall has been a proud advocate [...]

CLASSIFIED AD Kenall, a leading manufacturer of advanced lighting solutions for specialized environments, has exceptional opportunities available at our headquarters in Gurnee, IL. Working together, Kenall has become a champion in manufacturing complex lighting solutions for healthcare, high-abuse, transportation, sealed enclosure and security detention environments. For nearly 50 years, Kenall has been a proud advocate [...]

Compact fluorescent lamps are designed to emit most of their light in the visible spectrum, but they do give off small amounts of ultraviolet and infrared radiation, as do all fluorescent lamps. Recent articles purport that CFLs emit enough UV radiation to cause skin damage. According to David Sliney, PhD, Chairman of the Illuminating Engineering [...]

OSRAM SYLVANIA recently announced it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit in Canada against Canadian lighting distributors Lakefront Lighting Inc. of Cobourg, Ontario and Luxlite Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario. The lawsuit, filed in Canadian Federal Court in Ottawa, Ontario, had been brought against the defendants alleging that they were selling and offering to sell electrodeless [...]