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Philips to Combine Lighting Units Into Stand-Alone Company
By Jack Keough Philips, the huge Dutch industrial giant, says that it intends to combine its LED and automotive lighting businesses into a new stand-alone company. Philips says that it…
Copper: Another Week, Another Gain – How Long Will It Continue?
By Jim Williams Copper started the week out on a positive note Monday, marking the second straight month of gains on tight supply and hopes of solid demand from China…
The Copper Rollercoaster – What A Ride We’ve Been On [...]
By Jim Williams Depending on what you read, and what day you read it, the future of copper is either extremely bleak, or it is about to skyrocket like something…
LED Lightbars Versus LED Troffer Kits
In addition to high performance fluorescent, LED lightbars and LED troffer kits are two very good retrofit solutions. If anybody wants me to write about LED T8s, I will, but…
Contractor Talks About The Importance Of Relationships With [...]
In this week’s Contractors Corner we reached out to Lindsey Cox at 1st Electric Contractors, Inc. out of Lakewood, Colorado. We asked an open-ended question about contractors and distributors. Here…
China and Chile – Stalwarts in Copper
By Jim Williams The price of copper continued its upward swing – even though only slightly – to start out the week. Experts say the positive movement is a result…
Look at Lighting: LEDs – Pricing No Longer an Excuse
Stan Walerczyk In the last year, LED performance and pricing have really improved. I have been presenting seminars comparing LEDs with high performance incumbent technologies since the 2011 Lightfair. With…