Story City, Iowa-based Innovative Lighting, one of the first LED fixture manufacturers in the U.S., is excited to continue its commitment to pioneering innovative LED technology as it celebrates 30 years of transformation. When the company first opened its doors in June 1993 in the heart of the Silicon Prairie, it offered one product: a…
Opened nearly 100 years ago as part of the Capitol House building in Melbourne, Australia, the art deco-era Capitol Theatre was designed by American husband and wife architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin and is the oldest movie theatre in that city. The ceiling is particularly notable, with intricate moulded plaster designed to…
GM Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors, has rolled out its initial retail offerings to enable customers to leverage vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional charging technology, stationary storage, and additional energy management products. The Ultium Home product offerings will be the first solutions to be made available to residential customers through GM Energy, and are…
WAC Lighting has added its fourth warehouse and distribution center in the country to provide even greater availability and faster delivery to its customers. The lighting manufacturer held a Grand Opening ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new 140,000-sq.-ft. facility last week in Cedar Hill, Texas. Attending the event from WAC were Shelley Wald, Co-CEO, Dirk Wald,…
With offices in London and New York City, architectural lighting manufacturer Lucent Lighting has taken steps to cut its environmental impact and encourages other lighting manufacturers to follow suit in embracing sustainable solutions for the industry. Lucie Sidwell, Global Operations Director of Lucent Lighting, notes that one of the ways to reduce this impact is…
Sarasota, Fla.-based Wrench Group, LLC – a nationwide provider of home services – has announced that Master Electrical Service of Ogden, Utah, has joined the Wrench Group family of brands. Master Electrical Service’s electricians offer a range of services to Salt Lake City area’s homeowners and businesses, including installation of arc fault breakers and circuits,…
East Taunton, Mass.-based Norwell Lighting — which has a 70-year history of manufacturing exterior and interior decorative lighting primarily for the residential market — has been acquired by Elk Home, headquartered in Nesquehoning, Pa. Only Norwell Lighting will join Elk Home. Its affiliated companies Ilex Lighting and Custom Metalcraft, both of which involve custom domestic…
The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) has announced the recipients of the 2023 Lumen Awards, which were presented at the 55th Lumen Gala held on June 15 at Pier 60 in Chelsea Piers. The Lumen Awards and Gala, a distinguished program of the IESNYC, is a platform that highlights and…
The smart home market continues to expand, and now a large utility has gotten into the category. Houston-based NRG Energy (once part of Northern States Power Company) has centered on energy generation and the retail electricity space for years, with growth coming from nearly one dozen acquisitions of other energy companies. In March, NRG entered…
Glendale, Ariz.-based Barron Lighting Group, a manufacturer of commercial and industrial lighting solutions, is proud to celebrate its 50-year anniversary. Founded in Gurnee, Illinois in 1973, Barron has enjoyed five decades of growth built on its core values of integrity and innovation. From the beginning and through the early 1980s, the Barron Manufacturing Corporation established…
Chatsworth, Calif.-based Regency Lighting (now rebranded as Regency Supply) has acquired AllSale Electric – the largest wholesale electrical distributor in the San Fernando Valley – in a strategic move to grow the company and expand the product line. A statement from Regency Lighting read, “As the lighting world has grown more complex, we have taken…
When World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) employees returned to the company’s Stamford, Connecticut headquarters full-time last month, there were impressive changes in their working environment. California-based Enlighted, a leading proptech company owned by Siemens, was tapped by the WWE to support its vision of a smart, energy-efficient headquarters by implementing an intelligent lighting control system…
Montreal-based LMPG Inc. (formerly known as Lumenpulse Group), a leading specification-grade LED lighting solutions group, has acquired a majority stake in privately held, U.S.-based Vode Lighting, LLC, an LED lighting solution provider focused on interior architectural lighting. Headquartered in Sonoma, Calif., Vode is renowned for its adaptive architectural lighting systems that are easily scaled to…
Stony Point, N.Y.-based manufacturer Lighting Services, Inc. (LSI), has promoted Brian Keilt to VP/Sales; most recently, he was serving as Director of Sales. Keilt joined LSI in 2013, as a regional sales manager. Keilt brings more than 30 years of experience in the lighting design community and possesses an understanding of the intricacies of the…
New Jersey-based Billows Electric Supply, a renowned family-owned supplier of electrical products and services to electrical contractors within the Philadelphia, South Jersey, and Wilmington metropolitan market, has entered into an agreement to become a part of Cooper Electric, a subsidiary of Sonepar USA. Billows will continue to operate under the Billows name. Billows was founded…
Commerce, Calif.-based Nora Lighting has opened its new Learning and Experience Center (LEC) in Los Angeles. The Nora LEC, located at 6505 Gayhart Street, Commerce, CA 90040, showcases Nora Lighting’s full line of products and services, plus provides a space to train sales reps and customers. “We are excited to open this new space in…