A Chinese company has made it into the world's top 10 LED suppliers for the first time, as European and US companies face increasing competition from China.

A new project by the World Bank is set to bring off-grid solar lighting to more than half a million people in  Papua New Guinea.

Fortune has named Philips CEO Frans van Houten as one of the world's 25 top ‘eco-innovators’, in recognition of the company’s innovation in LED lighting.

LED-based products will make up 23 per cent of the lighting market by the end of the year, according to a new study.

Sales of smart lighting control products are expected to reach $56 billion (€41 billion) by 2020, according to a new report.

Increasing LED light levels boosted pupils’ cortisol levels by the same amount as fluorescent light, and slightly faster, in a study conducted by Fagerhult’s lighting academy.

Philips has mounted a robust defence of its controversial patent and licensing policy in the lighting industry.

The lighting industry could lose out to big IT companies as smart lighting takes off, industry figures have warned.

The light switch will soon be history, once the ‘smart home’ has become the norm, Dominic Meyrick of Hoare Lea Lighting suggested during last week’s International Lighting Fixture Design conference.

Lighting technology could provide a basis on which to build data networks to power other technologies and services, speakers at the International Lighting Fixture Design conference said last week.

Being able to compare manufacturers’ products and trust the specs is more important than the price of a product, lighting designers and end users told Lux in a survey.

Europe’s failure to police its electrical safety standards has made the lighting world ‘the wild west’, says Gareth Jones of testing lab Lux-TSI.

At the Lighting Fixture Design conference in London today, lighting designer Rogier van der Heide, formerly of Philips, asked why lighting is not further down the road of what he called ‘ambient intelligence’.

Several lighting companies have signed up to make products that are compatible with Apple’s new HomeKit app, a ‘smart home’ system which can be operated from an iPad or iPhone.

John Aston, the newly inaugurated president of the Society of Light and Lighting, has called on the lighting industry to promote awareness of links between lighting and public health.  

For the first time ever, lighting professionals expect to install more LED than fluorescent fixtures over the coming year, an American survey claims.