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CU Phosco P862

CU Phosco luminaires hit a TM66 score of 2.9

CU Phosco has announced that its P86x street lighting range has achieved a TM66 score of 2.9, one of the highest figures so far for an exterior luminaire. It’s also one of the highest scores awarded by the TSD-012 TM66 Assured Product Verification Scheme run by...

UK retail lighting specialist Shoplight has launched a circular lighting policy dubbed Circu-light.

Shoplight offers £12 for used lights in take-back scheme

UK retail lighting specialist Shoplight has launched a take-back scheme and is offering up to £12 for each used luminaire returned to the company. The take-back scheme is one element of a comprehensive circular lighting policy dubbed Circu-light. Circu-light encourages retailers to 'trade-in' their end-of-life aluminium store...

DW Windsor Light Responsibly campaign

DW Windsor unveils sustainability initiative

Leading exterior lighting solutions provider DW Windsor has unveiled an initiative dubbed ‘Light Responsibly’ to support and promote responsible lighting practices. It aims to provide lighting specifiers with the tools and guidance needed to eliminate light pollution, conserve energy, cut waste and protect biodiversity. The Hertfordshire-based firm...

Fit-out industry’s reuse initiative to include lights

Fit-out industry’s reuse initiative to include lights

The fit-out trade has launched an initiative which will reuse construction products removed from fit-outs, including luminaires. The industry’s representative body, Finishes and Interiors Sector, or FIS, says its pilot project is designed to reduce the environmental impact of the sector and embodied carbon emissions and...

European Parliament backs 'right to repair' laws

Europe’s right to repair law to change luminaire design

The backing of enhanced ‘right to repair’ legislation by the European Parliament could result in significant changes to the design of luminaires for the consumer market. European lawmakers have adopted a proposal on common rules promoting the repair of goods to support the objectives of the European Green...

Egg lighting director Brian O’Reilly

Egg Lighting commits to repair and reuse

Egg Lighting has signed the UK Repair and Reuse Declaration, a landmark commitment to reducing waste and promoting circularity. The UK ranked second globally in 2022 for electronic waste generation, averaging 23.9 kilograms per person. In the lighting sector, 42,000 tonnes of commercial lighting equipment are sold...

Tamlite achieves EcoVadis Bronze

Tamlite achieves EcoVadis Bronze for sustainability

Redditch-based Tamlite Lighting has been awarded the EcoVadis Bronze medal for its sustainability policies and social values. ‘As a group we believe that a business's sustainability and social values should be at the core of its mission and values,’ Richard Wharrad, Tamlite group manager, told the...

LightingEurope mystery shopper founds non compliant lighting products

95% of lighting products bought online are non-compliant – survey

The European Union must crack down on online suppliers of lighting equipment which doesn’t comply with the standards, the manufacturers’ trade body LightingEurope has declared, after it discovered that 95 per cent of products it purchased failed EU standards.  The organisation carried out a so-called ‘mystery...

David Clements of Future Designs

Future Designs offers EPDs for its core luminaire ranges

UK-based luminaire maker Future Designs has announced that it is to supply  Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its core product range. The company says it has committed time and budget over the long term to the EPD certification process. As well as procuring BRE EPD software,...

Chandelier at Victoria House

‘Beast’ of a chandelier is upgraded with LED

A huge chandelier was among the period lights remanufactured at a classical building in central London. Eulum Design converted a range period fixtures and supplied wireless controls at the neoclassical-style Victoria House building in Bloomsbury. Located on Bloomsbury Square Garden in the centre of London, the...

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