Lighting Industry

On May 18, LightNOW reported here that Cleveland was considering a 10-year deal giving Sunpu-Opto Semiconductor Ltd. exclusive rights to sell millions of LED lights to the city in exchange for the company making Cleveland its North American headquarters, creating an estimated 350 jobs. The proposed deal naturally irritated GE Lighting, which is based in [...]

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index (LSI) increased 1.1% on a quarter-to-quarter basis during the first quarter of 2010. On a year-over-year basis the index posted a similar increase of 1.2%, marking the first time since the second quarter of 2006 that the LSI has registered an appreciable gain compared to the same period a year ago. [...]

Philips Lighting has announced that it has redesigned the packaging of its ICN T8 Instant Start, IOPA T8 Instant start high efficiency, and ICN T5HE family of electronic ballasts, diminishing the carbon footprint and preserving the environment by reducing the overall carton size by 37%, according to the company. The move is part of Royal [...]

The public, as well as lighting industry experts, are invited to attend a lighting trade show and educational conference set for Tuesday and Wednesday, September 21 and 22, 2010 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. UPDATE: Note that the website says the event will be held Wednesday, Sept. 22 & Thursday, Sept. 23, not [...]

LIGHTFAIR boasted more than 20,000 pre-registered attendees, making this year’s LIGHTFAIR possibly the largest Las Vegas event to date. The exhibit floor certainly looked busy (with more than 475 exhibitors, including 50 first-time exhibitors), and the exhibitors I talked to seemed pleased with the quantity and quality of traffic through their booths.

For the second year in a row, TCP, Inc. has been awarded the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for Lighting Product Manufacturers by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE).  TCP was recognized for its contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by manufacturing energy-efficient lighting products, including CFLs and [...]

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The University of California, Davis has signed co-exclusive license agreements with Wattstopper and Axis Technologies Inc. to commercialize inventions that reduce the cost and increase the reliability of daylight harvesting systems–control systems that automatically adjust indoor lighting to match changes in ambient daylight. The license agreements cover a package of strategies and technologies developed by [...]

GE Lighting has announced that its plant in Bucyrus, OH is expanding manufacture of T8 lamps, partly thanks to Federal stimulus funding and incentives from the state of Ohio. “Expanding our plant in Ohio to add more volume to our production allows us to maintain our current 160 jobs in today’s tough economic environment, plus [...]