Lighting Industry

SEATTLE CITY LIGHT Job Title – Lighting Design Lab Manager (Mgr I – Utils) Location – Various – Seattle area Salary – $32.45 – $48.67 POSITION DESCRIPTION: Seattle City Light (SCL), a department of the City of Seattle, is one of the nation’s largest municipally owned utilities in terms of the number of customers served. [...]

The Txchnologist, an online publication sponsored by GE, has published a short article stating the incandescent lamp had not one, but multiple inventors–22, in fact. Click here to learn about 10 of these inventors.

I’m a little late on this story, but better late than never … Task and decorative lighting manufacturer WAC Lighting recently announced that the company honored October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month with donations to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and a “Pink Dress Down Day.” WAC hosted a “Pink Dress Down Day” [...]

Lighting design firm Lightswitch has redesigned its site for easier use on mobile devices, better showcase its projects and help users become acquainted with the firm’s designers. Check it out here.

Lighting Science Group recently announced that it has received more than $100 million of LED lighting product orders this year—an increase of more than 100% as compared to the same time last year.

NEMA’s shipment index for incandescent lamps increased for the second consecutive quarter in Q2 2011, showing an improvement of 5.6% over the same period last year. Conversely, the index for compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) declined for the fifth consecutive quarter. Moreover, the rate of decline in the shipments index accelerated to 18.5% on a year-over-year [...]

IndustryWeek.com has reported that Baotou, the world’s largest rare earth producer in China, said it has halted shipping for a month from October 20 as China seeks to boost prices, which have been stabilizing. What this means: an increase in prices of rare earths used in lamps and LEDs. Get the story here.

NEMA’s sodium vapor high intensity discharge (HID) lamps shipment index declined for the fourth consecutive quarter on a year-over-year basis, retreating 15.8% during Q2 2011. The index value of 77.7 is the lowest reading on record for the series. Mercury vapor and metal halide HID lamp indexes performed better during the quarter, increasing 2.5% and [...]