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Acuity Brands, Inc., recently announced it has entered into a private label supply agreement with UV Angel to enable Acuity Brands to purchase and resell the UV Angel Clean Air pathogen control system, as well as pursue joint developments of…
Lithonia Lighting Luminaires Receive Product of the Year Awards from Consulting-Specifying Engineer
The RADEAN Post Top area luminaire’s twin copper-core cast aluminum arms support the slender superstructure creating a beautiful sculpture by day which transforms into a beacon of comfort by night. RADEAN has a lumen output from 3,000 to 17,000 lumens…
Acuity Brands Teams up with Violet Defense and PURO Lighting to Expand UV Disinfection Product Portfolio
These strategic agreements will give Acuity Brands access to Violet Defense’s patented UV technology to expand its portfolio of UV disinfection products. PURO and Acuity Brands will also work together on the development of a next generation of UV lighting…
Acuity Brands to Use Ushio’s Far-UVC Light for Human-safe Indoor Disinfecting Lighting
The two companies entered into an alliance agreement that Ushio will supply Acuity Brands with its Care222® UV disinfection module, which generate far-UVC light which is safe to human skin but capable of inactivating viruses and bacteria on indoor surfaces.…
Acuity Debuts Low-Voltage, DC-Powered Option for Linear LED Luminaires
A proprietary DC grid or distribution scheme will enable Acuity Brands to offer more energy efficient commercial & industrial SSL that is also easier to install and includes controls capability. Acuity Brands has announced a new low-voltage DC power technology…
Acuity Brands Announces Acquisition of LocusLabs, Inc.
The LocusLabs software platform supports navigation applications (apps) used on mobile devices, web browsers and digital displays in airports, event centers, multi-floor office buildings and campuses. Visitors employing LocusLabs’ software can easily search, explore and navigate large, complex indoor spaces.…
Acuity Brands Acquires The Luminaires Group
Acuity Brands, Inc. today announced it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire all of the equity interests of The Luminaires Group (“TLG”), a leading provider of specification-grade luminaires for commercial, institutional, hospitality and municipal markets, all of which complements…
Acuity Acquires WhiteOptics
WhiteOptics®), is a New Castle, DE-based manufacturer of advanced optical components used to reflect, diffuse and control light for LED lighting used in commercial and institutional applications. WhiteOptics’ product portfolio includes light guide plates, optical diffusers and innovative micro-structure lenses…
Acuity Peerless Renna LFI 2019 Design Excellence Award
(Commercial Indoor: Troffers, Suspended and Surface Mounted) A simplicity of form provides compatibility with modern architecture, especially open and deconstructed ceilings. The 4” housing width and minimal 1/4” lightguide bezel supports a balance of visual comfort with a minimalist physical…
Acuity Promises Affordable OLED Luminaires in OLEDworks Alliance
While many mainstream LED lighting companies have jettisoned OLED technology, Acuity Brands has continued to hang in there, and now it has signed a deal with specialist OLEDWorks to help it expand its line with what it says will be…
Acuity Brands Partners with OLEDWorks
Acuity Brands, Inc. announced plans to work exclusively with OLEDWorks, a manufacturer of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting technology, on an expanded product portfolio of OLED luminaires. Acuity Brands, using OLEDWorks technology, intends to develop a series of affordable and…
LED Lighting Adds Up to Big Savings for Target
Target’s LED lighting partner is Acuity Brands. Back in 2015, Target kicked off a test at about 100 stores in which it replaced the existing fluorescent light fixtures in its ceilings with LED lights. Flash forward to the present day,…
Acuity Sells Spanish Company Carandini
Acuity Brands has quietly unloaded its $23 million Spanish lighting company Carandini, as it tries to stay steady in what CEO Vernon Nagel described this week as a “challenging lighting market.” The sale came to light when the buyer, Spain’s…
Wegmans Features OLED Lighting Technology
Rochester-based OLEDWorks LLC contributed its Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) lighting installations in select Wegmans stores and worksites, thereby enhancing the Wegmans experience. OLED lighting provides naturally diffused light with unrivaled light quality. OLED Works says OLED lighting produces an…
Now LEDvance Joins Price Rise Wave
LEDvance has become the latest company in North America to announce a price increase. Its traditional non-LED lighting equipment will now be subject to a six to eight per cent hike. The LED products will not be subject to a…
Have Lighting Prices Hit a Turning Point?
America’s biggest fixture manufacturer has surprised the global lighting industry with the first major price rise in the market in years. Acuity Brands – parent of top brands in both North America and Europe including Lithonia, Winona, Holophane, Hydrel, Carandini,…
The Acuity Acquisition of IOTA
Acuity Brands has announced the acquisition of IOTA Engineering, a specialist in emergency lighting technology such as LED drivers with emergency lighting capabilities. The acquisition likely fills a void in the former’s portfolio, although Acuity has long offered the Power…
Global LED Indoor Commercial Lighting Market Will Reach USD 15.87 Billion in 2018
According to the latest report from LEDinside, a division of the market research firm TrendForce, 2018 Commercial Lighting, Smart Lighting and Panel Light Market Report, the global LED indoor commercial lighting market will reach USD 15.87 billion in 2018, accounting…
Chinese Firms Prepare Bids for GE Lighting Ops – Sources
(3/5 Reuters) – At least two Chinese companies are preparing bids for industrial conglomerate General Electric’s remaining lighting assets in a potentially $1 billion deal, according to people familiar with the situation. MLS Co and Foshan Electrical and Lighting Co…
Acuity Brands, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Lucid Design Group, Inc.
An Oakland, CA-based provider of building analytics through its industry-leading BuildingOS® business intelligence platform. The Company believes the combination of Lucid’s BuildingOS platform and Acuity Brands’ large installed base of networked sensors for lighting and building automation controls and its…
