Lighting Industry

NEMA’s linear fluorescent lamp shipments indexes continued their year-over-year decline in 2015Q4. After declining for seven consecutive quarters, the index for T12 lamps posted a 4.2% quarter-over-quarter increase, but declined 17.4% from fourth quarter 2014. T8 and T5 shipments also continued to decline, decreasing by 13.4% and 9.3%, respectively, on a year-over-year basis. T8 lamps [...]

Lunera Lighting, Inc. recently announced LightStream Lighting as a Service (LaaS). Available now, LightStream is a turnkey service that allows building owners and operators to upgrade their commercial lighting infrastructure to LED with zero capital expense (CapEx). This approach enables lighting to be treated as a monthly service. LightStream LaaS takes a significant amount of [...]

Royal Philips announced that it intends to sell shares in the lighting business unit via a public offering. This culminates a process started in 2014, when the company announced it intended to sell its lighting unit. Royal Philips initially intends to sell at least 25% of the shares in the IPO. After the IPO, Royal [...]

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Tim McKinney, Product Marketing (Outdoor) North America, Philips Lighting. The topic: trends in outdoor area lighting. I’m happy to share his responses with you here. The interview informed an article I wrote for the March 2016 issue of tED. DiLouie: How would you characterize demand for outdoor area [...]

Eaton has published an article describing the history of recessed and track lighting. Check it out here at the Eaton’s The Lighting ReSOURCE.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Leendert Jan Enthoven, President of BriteSwitch, a utility rebate fulfillment company. The topic: lighting product rebate trends. I’m happy to share his responses with you here. The interview informed an article I wrote for the April feature article for the Lighting Controls Association. DiLouie: How would you characterize [...]

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Shipments Index, a measure of demand for lighting equipment, decreased 2.6% quarter-to-quarter while posting a 0.1% increase year-over-year during 2015Q4. Fixtures, emergency lighting, and miniature lamps, components of the index, gained ground on a year-over-year basis, while ballasts and large lamps abd components recorded year-over-year declines.

“Where the Light Is: Home Lighting Trends” is a major feature article I wrote for the March issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. The 2008 housing-market crash ended the home construction boom. A steady recovery began in 2012, and it continues today, bolstering the U.S. economy. Historically, residential construction averages 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic [...]

Lumenpulse Inc., a manufacturer of specification-grade LED lighting solutions, recently announced it has acquired Fluxwerx Illumination Inc., a privately owned pure-play specification-grade LED lighting solutions provider based in British Columbia, Canada, for a total initial consideration of $60 million. Founded in 2011, Fluxwerx is a manufacturer of LED luminaires, with several innovations including the company’s [...]