Lighting Industry

NEMA’s HID lamp indexes for each of the major lamp types (sodium vapor, mercury vapor, and metal halide) increased on a year-over-year basis during the first quarter of 2010. HID sodium lamps posted a 7.5% gain while mercury lamps showed a more modest gain of 1.3%. Metal halide lamps rebounded from a record low set [...]

Got this email the other day. Looks like a great opportunity! DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY / LIGHTING CONTROLS CLEVELAND, OH Our client is multinational, diversified organization which is consistently ranked at the very top of the Fortune 500. For over a century our client has provided the world with a broad range of consumer, commercial, industrial [...]

Fallon Luminous Products Corp. has announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. has reaffirmed its April 20, 2010 decision in favor of Fallon’s appeal of a patent infringement suit brought by iLight Technologies. The Court denied iLight’s request that the District Court’s judgment be reinstated and ordered that [...]

Today is the first day of summer.

Zumtobel Lighting US has announced the launch of its new e-catalog, accessible by clicking on the “E-catalog” button at the bottom of the www.zumtobel.us homepage, or by going directly to www.zumtobel-ecatalog.com. In addition to being more user-friendly, the new e-catalog was designed to reflect the sophisticated aesthetic of Zumtobel’s products, as well as the company’s [...]

Lighting Services Inc, a luminaire manufacturer, has introduced a new channel on the popular website YouTube. The first five-minute video features the LumeLEX Series and demonstrates its features as well as the benefits of remote phosphor LED technology. Check it out here. BE sure to subscribe if you’d like to be automatically alerted about new [...]

NEMA’s T8 lamp shipments index increased 7.2% during the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period a year ago. Moreover, the 2010Q1 reading for index reading is nearly 4% above the level for all of 2009. T12 lamp shipments posted year-over-year growth of 5% for the quarter. Shipments of T12 lamps have remained [...]

From a recent email from the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD): Please be advised that the State of New York has determined that the lighting design services that our members typically provide to customers are subject to sales tax in New York. The Department’s conclusion applies to ANY lighting design firm providing services in [...]

Today is Memorial Day.