Summary: As 2024 comes to a close, businesses can take advantage of limited-time bonus rebate programs for lighting upgrades across the U.S. Utilities are offering significant incentives—sometimes doubling existing rebates—to encourage commercial projects before year-end. With 77% of the country covered by active rebate programs, and 22% specifically offering bonuses, now is an ideal time…
Held on the Dallas Market Center (DMC) campus September 17 & 18, ArchLIGHT Summit attracted a record number of exhibitors and attendees from the architectural, specification, and design communities. The two-day trade event and education platform featured 100+ exhibitors, welcomed attendees from coast to coast, and hosted dozens of CEU opportunities, panel discussions, and immersive…
Are you ready to lead the conversation in innovations in smart building and cutting-edge lighting solutions? Light + Intelligent Building Middle East is excited to invite visionary speakers to join us at our upcoming Smart Building Summit and InSpotLight stages, held on 14 – 16 January 2025 at the Dubai World Trade Centre alongside the exhibition. The event brings together a dynamic audience of industry…
Did you know that there are free tools accessible to everyone that can help you prepare for the business challenges ahead? At last month’s American Lighting Association Conference (ALA) in Palm Beach, keynote speaker Gene Marks provided a tailored economic forecast for lighting manufacturers and distributors and shared the resources that he relies on for…
This quarter’s report gathered insights from over 200 respondents across the lighting channel. Key takeaways include: Additionally, the report explores lighting controls, addressing challenges and potential growth drivers in the industry. The Pulse is Barely Beating By David Gordon Our Q3 Pulse of Lighting report had a little more than 200 respondents with about one-third…
ERCO has expanded its Beamer spotlight family to include new sizes and contour optics options. Two years ago, ERCO presented its new generation of Beamer projectors. They brought the perfectly diffused low brightness lens technology of high-quality museum spotlights to the outdoor space. Now the new size L has been added to the existing sizes S and…
RAB Lighting has unveiled its latest product – the High-Output CRX commercial downlights. This new line of downlights offer powerful illumination and versatile features for a wide range of commercial applications. Available in 3″, 4″, 6″, and 8″ diameters, the CRX downlights are ideal for both new construction and retrofit applications. These commercial downlights allow…
Inground lighting has the power to redefine urban spaces, and at The Krog District in Atlanta, GA, Organic Lighting’s FortaCast® is doing just that. Nestled along the bustling Beltline, this innovative lighting solution not only enhances the area’s aesthetics but also transforms an underutilized green space into a vibrant community hub, inviting families, joggers, and…
SMR Gulf Coast will represent Halco Lighting Technologies in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana as of September 1st, 2024. . “Halco is proud to announce our newly formed partnership with SMR Gulf Coast. SMR’s market intelligence, reputation, and relationships will certainly drive distributor sales growth opportunities, margins, and mutual share gains.” Says Don Runyon,…
WAC Lighting announces the latest additions to its Aether Atomic Diminutive Recessed Luminaires. The Aether Atomic family now includes Dim-To-Warm Technology that ranges from 3000K to 1800K for a variety of applications and spaces. By mimicking an incandescent lamp’s dimming appearance, the fixture can shift color temperatures and create a visually comfortable and innately familiar experience…
Illinois-based lighting manufacturer AFX (originally known as American Fluorescent until it rebranded in 2012) changed ownership in the first quarter of 2024 — a transaction that largely escaped public notice. Family owned for more than 85 years by the Solomon family, the company operates a to-the-trade showroom in the Dallas Market Center that targets the…
By Emily Lai, LC Remember in college when you were assigned a group project? You’re put in a group made up of four people from different majors: an English major, a math major, a science major, and an art student. Now you have to do a project together that will make up 40% of your…
Efficiency Of LED With The Look Of A Traditional Bulb Filament SATCO|NUVO has launched its Reminiscent lamps to offer the traditional look of tungsten filament bulbs with the energy savings of LED technology. The gray filaments provide a clean aesthetic, blending in with many current fixture and decor trends. With brilliant, clear glass and a…
Colorful lighting has taken social media by storm, and that’s just the beginning. In fact, many professionals say saturated RGB colors are one of the lighting features most requested by affluent millennial and Gen X clients. This has always presented a challenge for installers and integrators – they have not had a simple, cost-effective way…
Cooper Lighting Solutions today introduced Quick Spec, a comprehensive product portfolio program designed to help lighting professionals stay ahead of demanding project schedules. The new program includes centralized, instant online access to product information to help make it easier and faster to narrow the search for the most popular, readily available luminaires and controls from Cooper Lighting…
MetroSpec Technology has announced the FlexRad FacetLED designed for outdoor fixture solutions. FacetLED enables fast and easy installation into outdoor lighting, including street lights, globes, path lights, bollards and any outdoor fixture requiring power and directionality. This innovative light engine can be custom designed to your specifications with off-the-shelf directional optics. FacetLED adds functionality and…