Lighting Industry

I moved to Canada, the homeland of my lovely wife, in 2003 and became a citizen last year. It’s a great place to live and raise a family. Happy Canada Day to all our Canadian readers!

I’m pleased to unveil my new website here. My old website did its job for eight years. It was time for a major update. I hope you’ll give it a quick visit and let me know what you think!

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Supplier Relations US, LLC’s new report “Residential Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and its Foreign Trade [2009 Edition]” to their offering. The 155-page Residential Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing Industry contains complete 2008 data and sophisticated forecasts for 2009, including data and analysis on the [...]

If you’re a dad, I hope you have a great Father’s Day!

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published ANSI/ANSLG C81.61-2009 Electrical Lamp Bases—Specifications for Bases (Caps) for Electric Lamps and ANSI/ANSLG C81.62-2009 Electric Lampholders. Both documents were last revised in 2007. C81.61 and C81.62 respectively cover lamp bases (caps) and lampholders for electric lamps. Both standards were revised to include G24 lampholder and base dimensions. [...]

From the CBC archives in 1993:

Lighting Science Group Corporation and Martin Professional A/S have announced a distribution agreement that will give Martin access to Lighting Science’s X16 DOTZ LED strings for global distribution. The X16 DOTZ LED string will be marketed under the name FlexDOT in Martin’s line of LED video products. FlexDOT is a string of high-brightness RGB LEDs [...]

Braemar Energy Ventures, a venture capital fund making early- to mid-stage investments in the energy technology sector, recently announced a $10 million investment in Fulham, an assembler and distributor of electronic ballasts and drivers for fluorescent, HID and LED lighting. Fulham joins Braemar’s energy efficient lighting portfolio comprised of Laser Light Engines, Nuventix and Luminus [...]

Lighting.com was founded in the 1990s and has since endeavored to serve as a portal for the lighting community. I buy advertising in their newsletter for one of my clients. But all the email addresses for my contacts are no longer working, emails to their general box go unanswered, the phone’s disconnected, they didn’t exhibit [...]