Lighting Industry

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 [...]

Alera Lighting, a manufacturer of architectural and specialty fluorescent luminaires for offices, schools, and institutional buildings, recently updated and expanded their express program including T5 standard lamp products, OSRAM 0.88 and 0.71 fixed-output programmed-start rapid-start ballasts, and dust covers for T8 or T5 standard products where applicable. Alera Lighting also provides “for record” drawings in [...]

Sea Gull Lighting has announced that with the June Dallas Market, the company will be welcoming customers and industry friends to a new location on the fourth floor of the Dallas Trade Mart building: showroom 4400. For the June 2010 Dallas Market, features will include new and emerging technology in the Ambiance Lighting System line, [...]