Craig DiLouie

LED-Linear North America, Toronto – LED-Linear GmbH has announced the creation of LED Linear North America. LED-Linear North America will operate as an independent entity with representatives available in every major market in both the United States and Canada. Upon launch, more than 20 major Canadian and American territories have been introduced to LED Linear [...]

Grainger, the $6.9 billion broad line distributor of facilities maintenance products, recently announced it signed and closed an all-cash acquisition of Alliance Energy Solutions. Grainger anticipates the transaction should accrete to earnings in 2010 by approximately $0.01 – 0.02 per share. Other terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alliance Energy Solutions, headquartered in Connecticut, [...]

Peerless Lighting and Acuity Brands Controls, both of whom I’m proud to call clients, have joined forces to launch Lighting for Learning, an online tool that helps school designers design optimal lighting for classrooms. First, the designer inputs the characteristics of the classroom and desired lighting features, such as light level, color quality, aesthetics and [...]

Italian lighting company Leucos USA has announced the launch of its new website at leucosusa.com. This site serves as a portal to the individual websites for the company’s three brands: Leucos, ITRE and the FDV Collection (muranodue, Alt Lucialternative, Aureliano Toso, Gallery).

Don’t know about you, but this song from my childhood always gets me in the mood for Christmas. http://www.youtube.com/v/QjtniSxl2zI&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

More than 400 lighting professionals met November 15-17 in Seattle, WA for the 2009 Annual Conference of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES). The theme of the three day event was “Realizing the Future—Research to Applications.” Presenters focused on both recent developments and some of the big ideas that will affect the future [...]

On Business Week Magazine’s website, this interesting item: East Japan Rail spent $170,000 in October to install special LED lighting on 29 station platforms along one of its busiest routes. The reason? They believe the blue light will reduce suicides of people jumping on the tracks. Check it out here.

In the wake of an extended global economic slump, local communities are pushing ahead and expanding their green building programs. More than one in five U.S. cities with populations greater than 50,000 surveyed by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) report having a policy to promote green buildings, accounting for more than 53 million people. [...]

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