Lighting manufacturers are fighting a proposed ban on polystyrene as a packaging material in France. The trade body LightingEurope has written to the European Commission about French legislation called ‘Loi Climat et résilience’, which introduces the possibility of a ban on the use of styrenic polymers...
Salvaged luminaire supplier Skinflint has teamed up with London based sustainable design consultancy Dodds & Shute to get its reclaimed lights into hospitality projects. The strategic partnership will see Skinflint products on Dodds & Shute’s approved roster for specification to its clients. It will also sell...
A family of three suspension lamps made of recycled plastic has been unveiled by fashion brand Diesel. The Reglobe is made by Lodes using rotational moulding to assemble variously-hued plastic grains to create a terrazzo-like effect. These speckled accents feature random chromatic variations that render each design...
A set of outdated spotlights from a Manchester department store have been reused in an art school in a remanufacturing project by Scottish firm EGG Lighting. The lights were transported to the company’s Glasgow factory where the company disassembled each spotlight, cleaned it, inspected it, and...
A German chemical firm has unveiled a special plastic made from post-consumer and post-industrial waste which it says is suitable for lighting diffusers for cars and other applications. In what the company is describing as an industry first, Mocom has launched diffusing compounds based on recycled...
Arup has teamed up with luminaire remanufacturing business The Regen Initiative to reuse the lights in a refurbishment of its Manchester offices. The fluorescent gear and lamps have been replaced with LED modules and drivers, and some additional luminaires were repurposed from a Category A fit-out...
Signify has unveiled a pendant made from the recycled plastic of water coolers. The material is processed at the company’s specialist plant in Maarheeze, the Netherlands, and then 3D printed in Turnhout, Belgium. Signify says that 3D-printed luminaires represent up to 76 per cent lower emissions from...
Following on from its successful launch last year, the Sustainable Design China Summit returns to Beijing for 2023, this time with lighting a key component. The event, an evolution of Design China Beijing, is held at the Beijing Exhibition Center from 21-23 September 2023 and is aimed at designers, architects, developers, and...
UrbanVolt, the Lighting-as-a-Service market leader, has announced a £19 million investment from leading European specialist growth investor, Verdane. This significant investment means the company has raised over £170 million in debt and equity to date, and it will further power UrbanVolt’s in the Irish, UK...
A team of experts is working on the next version of the lighting circularity metric TM66 and hopes to have it published later this year. TM66, the standard for measuring the circular economy impact of a luminaire, has been in beta development for some time. This autumn,...