Lighting Industry

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I am pleased to announce that my latest novel, Tooth and Nail, will be published by Schmidt Haus books in April 2010. This is my first work of horror, or rather, post-apocalyptic fiction and was a lot of fun to write. Hope you’ll check it out when it becomes available!

Cree released its earnings for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010, announcing a record revenue of $199.5 million. This represents a 35% increase compared to revenue of $147.6 million reported for the second fiscal quarter last year and an 18% increase compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2010. See the complete announcement here.

GE Lighting, a unit of GE Appliances & Lighting, has announced the establishment of GE Lighting Solutions, a combination of the company’s LED business unit, Lumination, based in Cleveland, and its commercial and industrial fixture group, GE Lighting Systems, based in Hendersonville, NC. “This change reflects our strategy to serve as an industry-leading solutions provider [...]

In its new brochure, “Lighting Upgrades for Energy Conservation,” manufacturer Lighting Services Inc demonstrates that replacement of luminaires can save energy while maintaining performance. The brochure focuses on replacement of halogen luminaires with ceramic metal halide and LED luminaires. Click here to download the brochure as a PDF file now.

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Ruud Lighting Inc. has settlement in a copyright infringement lawsuit against Elcast Lighting, Inc. of Addison, IL. Ruud Lighting’s complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleged that Elcast Lighting illegally distributed promotional sales brochures containing large portions of BetaLED copyrighted works, including copying a registered brand (THE EDGE®) [...]

Philips has confirmed that it will be combining its lamp and ballast organizations into one, presenting a single contact to distribution for customer service, warranty resolution, shipping, marketing and sales. More on this as information becomes available.

HUNT Dimming has announced that it has begun celebrating its fiftieth year as a lighting control manufacturer and technology development company. The invention of the transistor in 1956, which launched the dawn of the modern-day electronics age and earned its inventors the Nobel prize for physics, would have a far-reaching impact on lighting control. Four [...]