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NEMA HID Lamp Indexes Decline During Fourth Quarter
NEMA’s shipment indexes for high intensity discharge (HID) lamps declined by 11.7%, 17.1% and 0.9% on a year-over-year basis for sodium vapor, mercury vapor and metal halide lamps, respectively. For…
Jim Brodrick on Study Finding Hazardous Materials in LED Products
Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy A number of … readers have written regarding a recent study by researchers at the University of California campuses in Irvine and…
Ceelite Technologies Reverts to Domestic Manufacturing
As Global 100 companies continue to move manufacturing, management functions and jobs overseas, CeeLite Technologies, LLC feels that despite lower foreign labor costs, the reputed benefits of manufacturing in Asia…
Lighting Science Group Pursues Prestigious L Prize with Revolutionary New LED Lamp
Lighting Science Group Corporation recently notified the Department of Energy that it has developed with Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (LPI) a highly efficient, high output and low cost 60W replacement…
NEMA Publishes Two Solid State Lighting Standards
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published two new solid state lighting standards: • NEMA SSL 1-2010 Electronic Drivers for LED Devices, Arrays, or Systems • NEMA SSL 6-2010…
Product Monday: Ridgeview LED by Cooper Lighting
Cooper Lighting’s Ridgeview LED area/roadway luminaire blends a low-profile traditional form with LED efficiency. The luminaire is offered in four LightBAR configurations with a choice of 15 high-efficiency optical systems…
More Than 100 Design Students from New York Schools Enter the Eleventh Annual New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Student Lighting Competition
Peace Bomb, designed by Kevin Lee, an industrial design major at Pratt Institute, won first prize in New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s (IESNYC) annual student lighting…
DLFNY Announces Successful LEDeducation 5 Event
LEDucation 5, produced by the Designers Lighting Forum of New York, hosted more than 1,800 attendees from across North American and Europe at New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March…
NEMA Executives’ Assessment of Business Conditions Improved in February
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions – derived from a survey of senior industry executives – climbed to 69.6 in February, up 6 points from…
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