Industry News
DarkSky Approved Residential Luminaires
You’re likely familiar with DarkSky Approved luminaires for commercial applications. However, DarkSky also approves residential luminaries. In both cases, the program approves outdoor luminaires that minimize light pollution as…
Product Monday: Award-Winning High Bay For High Heat & Dirt
NaturaLED’s Millwright Industrial Round High Bay was recognized with inclusion in the 2023 IES Progress Report, an annual publication dedicated to recognizing significant contributions to the lighting industry.…
Guidehouse’s Top 10 Non-Resi Lighting Control Companies
Guidehouse has published their assessment of strategy and execution for 10 nonresidential lighting controls manufacturers. Guidehouse excluded residential / consumer (only) companies, and also excluded manufacturers primarily focused on…
10 Trends In Building Automation Systems
While building automation systems (BAS) have been around for a while, their capabilities are expanding. Here are 10 trends in building automation systems: 1 Growth The global building automation market…
Lamps Plus Shutting Down Pacific Coast Lighting
Lamps Plus, the largest lighting showroom chain in North America has announced it will close down Pacific Coast Lighting, its 45-year-old wholesale brand of primarily portable luminaires / lamps,…
Nearshoring America International Expo For Home Furnishing, Gift, & Fashion Accessories
The Dallas Market Center is launching a new international expo and support initiative to promote nearshoring production services for the gift, home furnishings, and fashion accessories industries. December…
Product Monday: Evluma’s RoadMax RX3 Delivers Unique Value-Added Features
Evluma recently announced the release of their most powerful streetlight model, the RoadMax RX3. I dug into the features and found some of them very interesting: Photocontrol Failsafe: Evluma created…
Seaweed Bioplastic Packaging Comes To Market
Soon California will be banning most petroleum-based plastic packaging from being shipped with products into the state. Five other states have EPR or packaging laws. More information here…
OLEDWorks Announces New Automotive Brand, Atala
For a couple years, OLEDWorks has been developing and supplying cutting edge OLED tail lights to Audi. These tail lights go beyond indicating breaking. They also provide symbols alerting…
Delivery Of New Freighters Could Reduce Shipping Costs & Disruptions
I’ve recently written about how dual crises in the Suez Canal / Red Sea and the Panama Canal have created chaos, rising cargo prices, and delaying supply chains. More on…
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