Lighting Industry

The National Lighting Bureau has established a new sponsorship category targeted at for-profit organizations with annual receipts of less than $10 million. The sponsorship fee is $500 per year. Prior to this, the minimum fee was $1,000 during the first year of sponsorship, followed by $2,400 in year two and $3,600 annually thereafter. The new [...]

Edge Lighting has announced that its Monorail products were installed in a project featured in Construction Intervention, a Discovery Channel program about business owners in dire need of renovation but without the money to get it done themselves. They have just days to finish, and rely on donations from various companies to help them complete [...]

Fallon Luminous Products Corp., a manufacturer of lighted signs, has announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. has overturned an earlier decision of the District Court in Cookeville, TN, and ruled in favor of Fallon in its appeal of a patent infringement suit brought against Fallon by iLight [...]

Don’t forget to register for the first Annual IESNYC Volunteer Drive. Spaces are limited and registration closes April 21. Come spend an evening with the New York Section of the IES on Monday, April 26, 2010, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, and learn about the available opportunities to get involved with the Section. Location: Pranna [...]

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As many LightNOW readers know, I write fiction as a hobby, with several novels published, including a psychological thriller, speculative fiction, science fiction and now, horror–specifically, post-apocalyptic fiction–and more specifically, zombies! One of the toughest questions for authors to answer is, “What’s your book about?” Because you only have 25 words to describe something you [...]

The Lighting Quotient, an architectural lighting manufacturer formerly known as Sylvan R. Shemitz Designs Inc. (SRSDI), recently revealed its new brand identity. Founded by industry pioneer, the late Sy Shemitz, the company manufactures luminaires for commercial applications. Sy Shemitz has been succeeded by his daughter, Allison Schieffelin, who is leading a rebranding effort to highlight [...]

LED company Lunera Lighting has announced the expansion of its sales channel to include a comprehensive regional network. Lunera’s sales network is now nationwide and includes the following companies; The Dulanski Group (New York), Associated Lighting Representatives (N. California), Sesco Lighting (Florida), Chicago Lighting (Illinois), and Performance Lighting Systems (S. California). Click here to learn [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) have awarded OSRAM SYLVANIA a 2010 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award in recognition of the company’s continued leadership in protecting the environment through energy efficiency. It is the ninth consecutive year the company has received an ENERGY STAR award. OSRAM SYLVANIA’s accomplishments will [...]