Craig DiLouie

Cooper Lighting has announced the introduction of one of the industry’s largest LED outdoor product offerings providing relevant LED solutions for Streetlighting, Area/Site, Wall Mount, Parking Garage, Canopy and Pathway applications. The initial rollout includes 16 new energy-efficient luminaires featuring Cooper Lighting’s patent pending modular LightBAR™ technology and AccuLED™ Optics, designed to provide superior lighting [...]

Howard P. Lewis, representing the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), has been elected chair of the National Lighting Bureau. Halco Lighting Technologies welcomes Jan McQuain to the Halco team as National Accounts Manager.

Home theaters are a popular addition to many homes, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, which estimated that by the end of 2004, one-third of U.S. households owned a home theater system, up from about one-fifth at the end of 1999. The addition of a home theater creates special demands on the lighting and controls. [...]

The Taiwan International Lighting Show will be held March 12-15, 2010, with more than 150 exhibitors presenting their products in 390 booths. The event will include market promotion activities including Procurement meetings, Lighting Industry Elite Award, New Products Display and other networking and marketing opportunities. The Forum will feature experts from Philips, GE LED Asia, [...]

My friend and colleague, LED expert Kevin Willmorth, recently told me that he has set an ambitious goal of designing and producing 52 all new solid-state lighting based product designs over the 52 weeks of 2010. “The idea is to demonstrate that LEDs are not only here and now, but far easier to design around [...]

North Star Lighting, Inc. has announced that Tom Rotkis, formerly Vice President of Marketing and Sales, has been promoted to President. In addition to his new responsibilities, Tom will continue to lead North Star Lighting’s market expansion in the areas of solid state lighting, sports and architainment, tunnel, bridge marine and hazardous lighting applications. North [...]

Cooper Lighting has released the 2010 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE lighting education facility is located at Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, and offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its applications. The SOURCE has been servicing the [...]

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions rebounded in January, rising nearly 9 points to 57.1. The index is derived from responses to a survey circulated to senior executives of NEMA member companies, and a value above 50 indicates that more respondents reported that the business environment improved from the previous [...]

Today is Flag Day in Mexico.