THE GROWTH of so-called Cat A+ office fit-outs is leading to a reduction in the number of newly-installed luminaires which end up in waste streams, say insiders. Cat A+ fit-outs are designed to be a middle-ground between basic Cat A fit-outs, often designed simply to lease...
FAGERHULT has reformulated its popular Discovery luminaire, replacing much of its traditional plastics with materials based on renewable biological oils from pine trees and industrial frying. The Discovery Evo features reduced fossil raw material in the production of polycarbonate plastic. Instead, an ISCC-certified material based on...
A TEAM of scientists in Belgium is trying to create high quality bio plastics for the lighting industry. Researchers at the University of Paderborn, the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, and the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials have teamed up to develop optical technologies that are...
SIGNIFY has won a design award for its range of lamps 3D printed from discarded fishing nets. The ‘Coastal Breeze’ collection of sustainable pendant luminaires has won a Gold IDEA 2022 design award. Up to 46 per cent of ocean plastic consists of fishing nets, lines and...
A LEADING insurance company has reused 1,400 luminaires in a refurbishment at its City of London headquarters. Standing 127m and 30 storeys tall, 51 Lime Street, also known as the Willis Building, is one of the most distinctive building on the capital’s skyline. It was the first...
Kent-based FUTURE Designs is probably the UK biggest reconditioner of luminaires. Here Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony speaks to its chief executive, David Clements, about the company’s success in this market and how it got started. They also discuss projects such as the upgrade and...
A REUSE marketplace which matches donors and recipients of used construction products and materials is seeing an increased amount of lighting being transferred. Globechain is currently listing large quantities of bedside lights, modular 600x600s, glass globe pendants, freestanding floor lamps, wall lights and track systems. The platform,...
THE ZUMTOBEL Group of lighting companies has been exploring potato starch as a possible source of composable packaging. The company, whose brands include Zumtobel, Thorn and Tridonic, is trialling a material which looks like an ordinary reinforced cardboard carton but is, in fact, constructed from potatoes. The...
COMPLIANCE schemes for waste luminaires and lamps across Europe have called the European Commission to address the problem of vendors selling non-compliant luminaires and lamps over the internet. EucoLight, the European association of lighting WEEE compliance schemes, commends the European Commission for its propose of the...
A SET OF luminaires from the 1960s have been reused and reconditioned in a lighting upgrade at a prestigious school in Scotland. Dollar Academy, a private school in Clackmannanshire and regarded as one of the top schools in the country, was keen to preserve the style...