Lighting Industry

Juno Lighting Group recently announced the grand re-opening of its Des Plaines, IL-based lighting education center. The center, which is designed to provide architects, interior designers, lighting designers, engineers, contractors and builders with information about the changing nature of lighting technology, is made up of three facilities: As light sources have evolved over the past [...]

Brownlee Lighting recently announced the completion of a 16,000-sq.ft. building expansion. The new addition, located at 4600 Dardanelle Drive, has doubled inventory storage capacity and is home to an additional wet spray and a new powder coating system. Office space was also increased with multiple new offices, including a larger conference room and two R&D [...]

NEMA’s shipment index for halogen A-line lamps showed a continued acceleration in growth during Q1 2012, improving by 110% on a year-over year basis. Halogen A-line lamps garnered a share of 2.8%, double their share during the same period last year. This increase was preceded by gains of 90% and 98% during Q3 and Q4 [...]

GE Lighting recently announced it is aligning its Lighting Solutions sales and applications solutions teams with its North America professional sales teams under a single structure and single leader. Jaime Irick, who has been leading GE Lighting Solutions–GE’s LED and lighting fixtures business–isnow be responsible for all sales activities of all lighting technologies in GE [...]

Sunoptics recently opened its renovated Sacramento-based facility and new Daylighting University training center with an additional 12,000 square feet of offices and training facilities. The new 1,600-sq.ft. daylighting training facility, where the company will host monthly training seminars and customer presentations, will open September 1. Founded in 1978, Sunoptics Prismatic Skylights is a manufacturer of [...]

Demand for lighting fixtures in the U.S. will increase 7.5% annually to $25.3 billion in 2016, recovering from the declines of the 2006-2011 period, according to Lighting Fixtures, a new industry study by The Freedonia Group. An expected rebound in building construction activity and improved outlook for motor vehicle production will be important drivers for [...]

American Lighting, a specialty lighting manufacturer, recently announced the addition of its Entertainment & Professional Lighting Division (E-PRO) to accommodate the growing needs of the entertainment and architectural sectors in the club installation, mobile DJ, event, live show production, church, theatre and stage lighting markets. The E-PRO division will offer American Lighting’s lighting brands – [...]

Eaton Corporation and Cooper Industries recently announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Eaton will acquire Cooper in an $11.8 billion deal. At the close of the transaction, which is expected in the second half of 2012, Eaton and Cooper will be combined under a new company incorporated in Ireland, where Cooper [...]

After seeing ebbs and flows in each of the four prior quarters, NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index gained 5.2% on a quarter-to-quarter basis during 2012Q1. On a year-over-year basis, the index increased by 3.7%, indicating that aggregate lighting equipment demand has improved appreciably since the recovery began; however it remains well below the levels observed during [...]