The Lighting Industry Association and Recolight have teamed up for the first time to create an event to support lighting manufacturers with the reduction of their environmental impact. The two organisations have come together to launch the Net Zero Lighting Conference 2024, which takes place on...
A number of major lighting companies have reused either most of all of their stands at the Light + Building 2024 exhibition in Frankfurt. Erco, XAL and RZB were among the luminaire makers who sought to burnish their sustainability credentials with exhibition stands that were constructed...
A start-up company is combining the use of AI technology, 3D printing and post-consumer waste to create what it terms ‘luminous works of art’. LumiBuilder is promising that its Waste to Wonder philosophy will allow unprecedented customisation for its customers and lead to hundreds of variations...
A UK firm which prints its downlight range in bio-plastics says it will buy back its luminaires at the end of their first life. LumiAdd has also expanded and updated its Heilis range. It is now available in four sizes in a range of colour temperatures...
Spanish luminaire giant Lamp has unveiled a light renewal and upgrading service aimed at promoting what it terms ‘a genuine circular economy’. Dubbed CircLight, the offer will result of savings of 15 to 30 per cent compared to the expense of purchasing and installing new luminaires,...
The industry’s biggest luminaire maker Signify has been included in an ‘A-List’ of top companies who have exceptional sustainability measures and are open about their climate impact. The company appears on the Carbon Disclosure Project’s climate ranking for the seventh consecutive year. The register– based on data...
TRT Lighting’s tunnel luminaire X-Range has been rated with an ‘excellent circularity’ after it achieved a TM66 score of 2.5. The light – whose rating is verified by the Lighting Industry Association’s assurance scheme – is designed for arduous conditions while still maintaining high luminous efficacy...
Tamlite Lighting has been re-awarded the Planet Mark certification for its commitment to sustainable best practice throughout its operations. The Planet Mark framework offers external verification of Tamlite’s carbon reduction of 13.5 per cent relative to turnover. Planet Mark is a global sustainability certification that recognises businesses...
The lighting industry has completed the latest revision of the rules governing Environmental Product Declarations for light fittings. Trade body LightingEurope says the work to finalise the product specific rules mean that specifiers and others will have access to comparable and verifiable information on the environmental...
The luminaires at Saint Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh have been upgraded on site using a mobile lighting workshop. The chandeliers – which used traditional light sources with halogen technology – were refitted with LED technology by engineers from Stoane Lighting in a truck converted for the...