GERMANY is to ban the illumination of public buildings from 10pm to 6am for the next six months. The prohibition, designed to cut the country’s dependence on the importation of Russian gas, comes into effect in September. Additionally, advertising spaces should not be lit during these times. Exceptions...
THE LIGHTING industry is turning to a recent crop of bioplastics as an environmentally friendly alternative to current materials. Interest has especially been raised by Durabio, a corn starch-based polycarbonate with excellent optical properties from Mitsubishi. Recently, a light-diffusing grade was introduced, pictured right, and a number...
NVC Lighting has announced that it has become carbon neutral for its UK operations. The company has partnered with Carbon Neutral Britain, a consultancy and offsetting organisation, to achieve the milestone. With its help and using international standards, NVC calculated its greenhouse gas emissions in the period...
A SCOTTISH leisure centre operator has had lights from of its venues remanufactured and moved to a second venue seven miles away. Edinburgh Leisure asked local firm EGG Lighting to remove 40 low bay luminaires from its centre in Gracemount, remanufacture them to ‘as new’ standard...
A SWISS firm has unveiled a series of sustainable microprismatics for luminaire optics made from 90 per cent recycled PMMA. Zurich-based Jungbecker says its Greenline will make an important contribution to sustainability in the lighting industry. Crucially, the hot-embossed microstructures made from recyclate retain the highly transparent...
ORLUNA has unveiled a range of downlights manufactured to circular economy principles and supplied with a 20-year repair and reuse guarantee. The company says that’s approach with the Origin and Origin Natural downlights has been to save virgin materials. It has reformulated its entire business along circular...
A UK start-up has began using bio plastics to print luminaires to order. Leeds-based LumiAdd uses polylactic acid, or PLA, for the bodies of its lights, a material which produces 97.5 per cent less Co2 emissions than aluminium sourced in the Far East and 92.7 per...
SIGNIFY has launched an ultra efficient LED tube with an efficiency of 210 lumens per Watt. The MASTER LEDtube UE meets the criteria of the ambitious new EU energy labelling and eco-design framework for an A rating. Under these updated rules, lighting products need energy efficiency of...
In an invited contribution, Erco proposes a reappraisal of the approach to lighting design in a time of high energy. Its manifesto is based on a laser-like focus on the 'effectiveness' of the light, and putting light only where human perception demands it, and nowhere...
AN ITALIAN start-up has unveiled a range of streetlights made from bio-based and recovered polyethylene, which is ultra resistant to corrosion, pollution and extreme weather. Lorelux says its lights are vandal-proof, 100% eco-sustainable and have a lifetime of at least 50 years. The material allows infinite custom...