Industry News
Ontario Offering New LED Grow Light Incentives To SW Ontario Greenhouses
The Ontario provincial government announced new funding to help greenhouses switch from traditional lighting sources to LEDs. Ontario’s Ministry of Energy said last week that up to $136 million CAD will be…
IES Publishes The 2022 Progress Report Recognizing Industry Innovation
Image: IES.org The IES Progress Committee has published its selection of 81 products, design tools, and publications for the 2022 IES Progress Report—an annual list covering developments in light and…
Laser Surface Finishing Technology Creates Bio-Inspired, Optical Functional Surfaces
Image: FusionBionic.com A German company, Fusion Bionic, is a spinout from the cooperation between the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS and the Technical University of Dresden. The…
Women In Lighting – Updates
Updates from American Lighting Association’s Women In Lighting & WILD: American Lighting Association’s Women in Lighting Mentor Program is accepting applications for both Mentors and Mentees until November 30th. Mentors…
IES Approves Seven Standards
Image: IES.org The IES announced the publication of seven recently approved standards: ANSI/IES RP-1-22 Recommended Practice: Lighting Office Spaces. Includes New content for Home Office Lighting ANSI/IES RP-27.1-22 Recommended Practice: Risk Group Classification…
DLC Horticultural Lighting Technical Requirements V3.0 Final Will Be Released November 30, 2022
On Wednesday, November 30, the DLC will release the final version of the horticultural lighting Technical Requirements V3.0 to support the acceleration of energy efficient lighting in controlled environment agriculture…
New PoE Consortium Promotes The Benefits Of PoE
Image: PoEConsortium.com Seven smart-building companies are joining forces to bring more attention to the value of Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) lighting and technology. The companies created an industry organization known as the PoE…
Product Monday: Virtual Sky With Moving Clouds
Image: ArtificialSky.com Artificial Sky offers a product, Virtual Sky, that utilizes LED luminaires which appear to be a blue sky with passing clouds overhead, birds flying, and sunrise and sunset…
Southern California Shipping Port Backlogs Gone; East & Gulf Ports Backlogged
The backup of container ships off the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA was one the biggest sources of U.S. supply chain congestion during the COVID-19 pandemic and…
Federal Government Develops Window Film To Prevent Bird Collisions With Windows
It has been well documented that artificial light at night (ALAN) can disorient birds and increase bird collisions with buildings, especially windows. The reflectance of windows can lead birds to…
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