Lighting Industry

By Ted Konnerth, Egret Consulting Group There’s a lot of buzz about disintermediation lately and most of it is directed towards Lighting. And there is a very good reason why Lighting takes the brunt of it…. It’s the most complex electrical product vertical. I’ve often said that Lighting is the only product that has 300M [...]

CSA Group, a provider of testing and certification services and a standards development organization, recently announced it opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory in Seattle, offering testing and product development services for commercial and residential lighting and optical products. The new laboratory is 17,600 square feet specializing in the testing of lighting products including energy efficiency [...]

Eaton recently announced the launch of The Lighting reSOURCE, an online hub providing lighting industry professionals with information, news and original content designed to inspire and educate. The site features educational content including energy and LED tool kits, incentive maps, energy savings calculators and original content about lighting industry trends, regulations and innovations, in addition [...]

LUX has an interesting article about GE’s strategy of transforming its lighting business from focusing on lamp sales to regarding luminaires as a part of an intelligent package offering a broad range of capabilities, not just light. Interesting take; read it here.

Acuity Brands, Inc. recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Juno Lighting LLC (Juno Lighting Group), a manufacturer of track and downlighting for both the residential and commercial markets, in a cash deal worth $385 million. Juno Lighting Group, a unit of Schneider Electric, serves customers throughout North America. Juno operates [...]

Xicato recently published on its website TM-30-15 Color Rendering results for its entire product range of XTM and XIM modules. See the results here. Hubbell Lighting has launched a competition to challenge the design community to create lighting brilliance—the 2015 LitePro DLX Design Competition. The competition is open to lighting design professionals and students internationally [...]

Demand for lighting equipment, as measured by NEMA’s Lighting Systems Shipments Index, increased by 2.2% year-over-year (y/y) and by 0.4% quarter-to-quarter during the second quarter of 2015. The increase was driven by emergency lighting and luminaires, which gained ground on a year-over-year basis, while the ballast and lamp–large and miniature–components offset these gains with year-over-year [...]

Another linear LED lamp recall following Cree’s announcement earlier this year. This time, it’s OSRAM SYLVANIA. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled OSRAM SYLVANIA’s instant-start T8 LED SubstiTUBE lamps due to overheating and melting. No injuries have been reported. The lamps were sold through distribution between December 2014 and May 2015. An estimated [...]

LUX recently posted an article identifying the top 10 trends transforming workplace lighting: 1. Retrofits 2. Controls 3. From T5 to LED 4. The end of the louver 5. New working patterns 6. Personal control 7. Wellbeing and productivity 8. Monitoring 9. Li-Fi 10. Internet of Things Retrofit, controls, LED, different shielding (due to LED [...]