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By Derek Bobbitt and Geoff Ling, Merrimack Group The first 100 days of the new U.S. administration have been tumultuous to say the least. The tariff war has caused major disruption to supply chains, caused significant stock market volatility, and stoked fears of inflation and recession. For lighting business owners, this environment has introduced a [...]

By Bill Chan, President at LiteController Inc. We know how nighttime light affects Melatonin production – but do we truly understand how light exposure during the day influences our circadian system?  Current circadian lighting metrics do not fully capture the biological effects or circadian entrainment of daytime light exposure. The two circadian lighting metrics (CS [...]

By Chelsea Jones, Digital Marketing Manager at LED Lighting Supply External influences will continue shaping the commercial and industrial LED lighting market in 2025, from an AI-powered landscape to local market compliance, timber scarcity for poles, and tariff surges. Environmental forces, lighting advancements, and supply chain factors require facility managers, building owners, utility contractors, and [...]

By Todd Louthain, Owner/Business Development, Coex 3D 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has emerged as a transformative technology, revolutionizing the way products are designed, developed, and ultimately brought to market.  By enabling the rapid and cost-effective creation of physical prototypes, 3D printing empowers innovators to iterate quickly, reduce development time, and ultimately bring [...]

By Bagwat Mohan, Technical Operations Manager, DesignLights Consortium As energy efficiency and sustainability continue to shape the future of commercial buildings in the U.S., Networked Lighting Controls (NLC) have emerged as a transformative technology in the lighting industry. The 2020 Lighting Market Characterization Study, published by the Department of Energy reports that lighting consumes approximately [...]

By Nam Cho, Director of Advanced Development at Cooper Lighting Solutions Traditionally, lighting design could be considered a tedious process, often involving physical mockups, time-consuming calculations, and static renderings using multiple software tools. With advancing technology, these traditional methods are giving way to more sophisticated tools that enhance precision, speed, and visualization. On the downside, [...]

By Franco D’Ascanio, Founder of Coastal Source, Nick D’Ascanio, Landscape Architect, D’Asign Source and Franco D’Ascanio Jr., Architect and VP of Construction at D’Asign Source. The experience of outdoor lighting is undergoing a significant change, reframing the way lighting designers think about the outdoor space – as not one overarching space with uniform lighting needs [...]

By Patrick Treadway, President, Syndesis LLC “UL is a government agency” the supplier was trying to explain to me over the phone, “we don’t want to break a law,” he concluded. If anyone has been engaged in product development using offshore manufacturing long enough, he or she has likely heard similar remarks. Another comment heard [...]

  By Dr. Jonathan Melman & David Shiller Japanese researchers led by Osaka University have published the discovery of a family of significantly more efficient organic, rare-metal-free, phosphorescent materials: thienyl diketones. Room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) without using rare metals has been an area of intense research. Most commercial RTP materials today utilize iridium or platinum, [...]