THORN LIGHTING has announced that it is committing itself to achieving climate neutrality by 2025. The company says that this will take the form of developing more sustainable products and solutions as well as finding ways to improve its processes in a bid to reduce waste,...
A FRENCH company has unveiled a lighting concept which combines a street luminaire and a tree-like frame of growing foliage. The Linné from Valmont is effectively a combination of public illumination and horticulture, designed to bring greenery and biodiversity into urban environments. Composed of a modular structure...
A row has broken out over the sustainability of London’s remaining 275 Victorian gas lamps. Westminster City Council is said to be exploring the viability of converting its historic lamps to LED. Advocates of the change argue that the lights are responsible for significantly more carbon emissions...
Schneider Electric has unveiled a range of electrical accessories made from discarded fishermen’s nets. The Merten M-Pure Ocean Plastic is made from 50% regular plastic and 50% from discarded fishermen’s nets. The company – which showed the range of switches, dimmers and sockets at Light + Building in...
We mark your card for a visit to October’s Light + Building exhibition in Frankfurt. Bega Hall 3.0, C91 Bega is promising both indoor and outdoor luminaires inspired by nature, including numerous additions to its Studio Line series. New track spotlights, linear wall lights and downlights with...
THE DATE and venue for next year’s Circular Lighting Live have been named by the organiser Recolight. The event – which sold out – will move to a bigger venue, Royal College of Physicians in London, and take place on Thursday 21 September 2023. Recolight says the venue will...
THORN Lighting has announced that all its products in its ThornECO range will be fully plastic free by the end of the year. The company says the challenge has been to remove single-use plastic without negatively impacting on user experience. It says it has seen the challenges...
The UK lighting industry appears to be increasingly uniting behind TM66 as an agreed measure of the circular principles of a luminaire. The metric received repeated endorsement at a gathering of leading manufacturers and specifiers at the inaugural Circular Lighting Live event in London last week...
Designplan Lighting says it has managed to reduced its usage of plastic packaging since 2017 by 77 per cent. The UK-based firm – part of the Fagerhult Group – achieved this through what it terms ‘smart box design’. Introducing crush zones removes the need for plastic bumpers,...
A SLEW of circular lighting initiatives and projects have been recognised in the latest lighting category of the Build Back Better Awards. Speirs Major’s lighting design for the Our Time on Earth exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London was awarded both a Build Back Better...