Lighting Industry

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 [...]

GE Lighting has signed an agreement to acquire Boulder, Colorado-based Albeo Technologies Inc., a privately held LED fixture manufacturer established in 2004. Albeo Technologies’ LED systems–high-bay, low-bay, linear, surface mount and undercabinet fixtures are installed in commercial, warehouse, industrial, cold storage, office, data center, food processing, parking garage, school, sporting and correctional settings. Its solutions [...]

Soraa recently announced that as of November 1, the company’s full spectrum GaN on GaNTM LED MR16 lamps became available through Ushio group companies and its subsidiaries in Japan, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Europe. Ushio, the largest distributor of MR16 lamps in Japan, is selling Soraa’s LED MR16 lamps under the [...]

The Electrical Distributor (TED), the official publication of the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED), has honored Fulham Co., Inc. with two 2012 Best of the Best Marketing Awards for its COMPREHENSIVE LIGHTING GUIDE. This global catalog won in both the Publication and the Literature/Selling Tool categories.

Rebates and incentives offered by electric utilities and regional energy-efficiency organizations are currently enjoying a major upswing, providing a significant resource that can reduce the cost of investing in energy-efficient lighting. According to the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE), energy-efficiency rebate and incentive programs reached $6.8 billion in 2011, up 26% from 2010 ($5.4 billion) [...]

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 [...]