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00:00Good morning, it's Monday, June 2nd, and that means two things.
00:18I swear I could say I hate getting caught in the rain, and someone would tell me that
00:24I had moist derangement syndrome.
00:27Anyway, let's get into the news.
00:31The Lighting Industry News Brief is brought to you by Keystone Technologies with their
00:36exit signs.
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00:53All of these still feature the Keystone Technology power supply and their guaranteed performance.
01:00Visit the link in the description if you please.
01:03Let's get into it.
01:05Sienna has bought Veriluz's assets at auction.
01:09This is a bankruptcy deal for the Utah company.
01:12It closed at just over a million dollars.
01:15Havels, an Indian manufacturer, has opened a brand new distribution center in the U.S., in
01:21Anderson, South Carolina, operating as Havels U.S.
01:26One big beautiful bill has become one big beautiful legislation, which means that a number
01:32of energy and efficiency tax credits are gone, but there are also a number of ways to file
01:37business expenses that are entirely new.
01:40Hine has bought Laser Electric.
01:42No details on the Wisconsin area suppliers merging their operations.
01:46Ferguson, a value-added distro service, has declared a dividend, 83 cents per share.
01:53On the tariff side of things, a federal judge overturned Trump's global tariffs, and then a
01:59different federal court reinstated them the next day.
02:03We're also seeing large retailers launching lawsuits over the instability related to this
02:09whole situation.
02:10The Society of Light and Lighting has begun work on TM66, with a new standard for circularity
02:19in lighting coming up.
02:21TED Magazine has been named a B2B Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Business
02:26Publications Editors.
02:28Energy Manager Canada has launched the new EM Honors Awards.
02:32So six categories are open for submissions if you are doing anything electrical in Canada.
02:39We have more on the Signify share buyback, with 78,000 shares coming back to the office
02:45at 20.18 euros each last week.
02:49Southwire has been recognized as a best-managed company in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal.
02:55China SilverTech has delayed their share subscription circular.
02:59They make PCBs and LEDs, and they're postponing that until June 13th.
03:05J.H. Larson has opened a new branch in Rochester, Minnesota.
03:10We have Crawford opening a second branch.
03:12They're a sewn part company.
03:13They're setting up in Caddy, Texas.
03:16Medgar Lighting and Controls has joined the EFC.
03:18That's the Electro-Federation Canada.
03:21They are a new manufacturing menuer...
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03:27I'm very sorry.
03:29Weird words.
03:32As EON is expanding its internal training program, members now have access to the Lighting
03:38Excellence Dojo, CD Alerting Academy, and a new leadership symposium series.
03:43I'm starting to think LS Evolve was less popular because I did not call it the Lighting Thunderdome.
03:49But here we go.
03:51Batteries Plus enhances its partnerships with education facilities, so schools across the
03:57U.S. from kindergarten to post-grad will now be hosting recycling pickups.
04:02We have Technical Safety BC.
04:04We have a new report from them highlighting gray market hazards, showing that unlicensed,
04:10uncertified, and unpermitted work and products are a huge issue for what gets people shocked
04:17on the job.
04:18In legal news, Carolina Architectural Lighting and Design has sued their former president.
04:26The suit alleges that Brent Mediaris has commercialized internal software without actually
04:31having the rights to said software.
04:34Employees form a class-action lawsuit against Century Lighting and Electric.
04:38The case alleges non-compliance with state labor codes.
04:43And AMS Osrem is suing Nature Fresh Farms with certain horticultural fixtures in question.
04:50In sales rep updates, Sesco has bought NextGen.
04:54Mike Chowen has bought Jebco Agencies.
04:57And MBR will be repping BRK, First Alert, and Honeywell Home in Quebec.
05:02The province, not the city.
05:04In events and webinars, DMC is expanding their Near Shoring America series with two trade
05:10expos in January at the Dallas Market Center.
05:13Registration is now open for the IES Street and Area Lighting Conference.
05:18That is September 21st to 24th in New Orleans.
05:22In IOT news, NEMA has published C137.9-2025.
05:30This is a new networked lighting control systems configuration report and standard.
05:36FITE has bought USI.
05:37That is $6 million in a distressed deal.
05:40Savant has partnered with Grid to offer energy products in underserved areas.
05:47Constructor U has exposed skin cells to 5G under varying power levels.
05:55And nothing happened.
05:57Craig DeLuis and Alexa Burr were taught on the Lighting Controls podcast to talk about the NEMA Academy.
06:03We have a deep dive into lighting control requirements with Craig DeLuis himself.
06:07We have Schneider Electric launching the Impact Buildings program with new connectivity projects.
06:13On the research side of things, we now have full-color quantum dot MLEDs.
06:19That's right.
06:20We have new chips that can change color on their own from Safflux.
06:23They're already going to market.
06:24A diet has been linked with eye health.
06:27Eye health, specifically your intestinal microbiome, has been linked with degeneration and inflammation.
06:34This is new research from Dr. Russell Phillips.
06:37Signify has published a new white paper.
06:39This is a new publication with the Climate Group exploring the concept of negawatts, which are the watts you gain when you do projects, not the bad guy from Darkwing Duck.
06:52We have a new meta-analysis on the non-visual effects of lighting.
06:57This is cross-indexing data from 141 peer-reviewed articles by U. Basil in Switzerland.
07:04And LiDAR, the sensor type that allows self-driving cars to self-drive, can damage your phone's camera.
07:13They blast the lenses in these little floating dots forever.
07:17So that's something.
07:18Daylight boosts your immune system.
07:21This is a new study published by Science Immunology.
07:24We have a new thing that glows under UV.
07:27If you remember a few years ago when we constantly discovered animals that were glowing under UV, we have some bird's eggs reacting to the light frequency.
07:37And the National University of Singapore has determined that mangrove crabs communicate with light, not by generating light, just by standing in places that are illuminated and then bouncing that light off their own faces in the direction of other crabs.
07:54The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published their first Make America Healthy Again report.
08:03It is a 73-page document that contains many things that are not relevant to the topic at hand.
08:11But I will say that real, reputable science was referenced in it in terms of light and health, specifically the work of Dr. Martin Moore Eddy.
08:22Not anyone else in the lighting field, though.
08:24So, just him.
08:26Circadian rhythms are seasonal, is a new finding.
08:31And seasonal changes have also been linked with issues for shift workers.
08:35And preterm birth rates are also seasonal.
08:38In the Netherlands, at least.
08:39Probably carries around.
08:40But we don't know.
08:41It's just Dutch data.
08:43We have a new study discussing the circadian elements of cancer growth and cancer treatment.
08:48We have sleep problems being linked with mental health problems in Norwegian teens.
08:52Probably transfers.
08:54It's just Norwegian data.
08:56Maine has proposed a statewide responsible outdoor lighting law.
09:00Law Civellus.
09:01Sorry.
09:02The state of Nevada has launched a state starry size certification.
09:07Bit of a slip there for me.
09:09Rep.
09:09Rep.
09:10Marie Gluenskamp-Perez has called for a limit on headlight brightening.
09:14That's at the federal level.
09:16UV lighting is reducing bird strikes against buildings.
09:19Landscape ecology has named light pollution a threat to habitats.
09:24We have light pollution changing how red jungle fowl signal each other through cries.
09:30The Royal Astronomical Society has issued a warning over low-Earth orbit satellites.
09:37Utah hosted their fourth AstroFest at a number of state parks.
09:42Portland, Oregon Amusement Park is planning a drop tower ride.
09:47But that may be canceled due to light pollution complaints.
09:50We have an update from the Arizona Dark Sky Observatory.
09:53They have a dome now.
09:55That's what happened.
09:56A Lambertville-Pennsylvania bridge rehab project includes a bird safety assessment.
10:02We have more lighting going up on the New Mexico border.
10:05We have what light pollution from the new metadata center actually looks like.
10:10Boulder, Colorado has been named a bird city.
10:13South Korean churches are adopting red LED crosses and the neighbors don't like it so much.
10:20And Washington Heights, North New York City is struggling with sign brightness.
10:25In horticultural news, we have found that supplemental canopy lighting is increasing the potency and yield in cannabis.
10:34A container farm project has won the Wangeningen Award.
10:38St. Louis University of the Philippines has launched a community hydroponics program.
10:43Local by Atta is the biggest vertical farm in eastern Canada.
10:47Terra Viva has planned a 112-meter-tall farm in Algeria.
10:52And the Aurelia Institute is putting gardens into orbit.
10:57In recommended reading, you can find all these links on nailed.org and more.
11:02We have Wall Street's taco theory of tariffs.
11:05We have emergency lighting and building remediation.
11:09We have the smart city transition in Greece.
11:12We have what a lighting designer's career will actually look like.
11:16The difference between accent, ambient, and task lighting.
11:20How printers, professional printers, are switching from D65 and D50 tubes to LED to cure the actual things they print.
11:29We have what it means when you use a smart bulb and a regular switch or dimmer.
11:34We have what insect farms have in common with vertical farms.
11:38We have recapping recent people moves.
11:41Lighting Europe has issued two statements.
11:43One on harmonization, compliance, procurement, and standardization gaps in Europe.
11:48And we also have a statement on the ROHS lamp exemptions, which change which fluorescent lamps are available when and where.
11:56We have a video on rewiring the future, DC power, and transforming building design and performance.
12:02We have a case study, the interior systems, the smart building of Tencent's new towers in Shenzhen.
12:10And we have a case study of the Scripps Research Campus.
12:13That's a new building as well.
12:14In local news, Indiana has launched a new residential energy program.
12:19Prince Edward Island is reducing multiple incentive programs.
12:24Puerto Ricans continue to complain about a lack of street light in general.
12:27Kentucky schools are dealing with $10 million in cuts.
12:31Bozeman, Montana is struggling with broken flagpole lighting.
12:35Santa Monica, California will be reducing decorative lighting downtown.
12:39San Jose Police Department has arrested copper thieves in the act.
12:46Columbus, Ohio is switching their street lights out.
12:48Richmond Heights, Ohio is making progress on their street lighting overhaul as well.
12:53Halifax, Nova Scotia has completed their UV lighting for water treatment project.
12:57We have lighting fits going down at two Montgomery Alamadma schools.
13:02Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota plans a new pedestrian lighting corridor.
13:07Salmon Arm, BC is planning lighting for bike paths.
13:11Hialeah, Florida will be improving sports lighting in parks.
13:14Fulton County, Indiana.
13:15Baseball Diamond is getting new lighting.
13:18Hendersonville, Tennessee is planning to spend $4 million on sports field lighting.
13:21And Smithers, in British Columbia, held a party to celebrate their skate park getting lighting.
13:28And then Tony Hawk showed up.
13:31It took a few minutes for anyone to notice because it's, you know, it's hard to recognize him actually.
13:37That's the meme.
13:39Signify opened their first Whiz store in Pune, India.
13:43Al-Zaidia, Yemen has planted 10,000 new palm trees and then put lights on them with solar energy.
13:50In sports news, Taylor Ward prefers the lighting at Sutter Health Park.
13:56In people news, S. Templeman has been named CEO at Signify.
14:00John Melchie has been named CEO at the ALA.
14:03Steve Volzokay has been named COO at Rob Roy.
14:07George McLean has been picked as the interim president at Sonpar,
14:11which means that Serge LeBlanc has been named interim president at Sonpar Canada.
14:17It's like a hermit crab thing over there.
14:19Um, Desiree Grace has joined Mersin as their VP of sales and customer care.
14:25We have three new executive directors at Available Light.
14:28We have four new VPs at MH Companies.
14:30And Molly Murphy has announced her retirement as a senior VP at Eaton.
14:35And things can make.
14:36A mesh pendant light.
14:38You can turn an NES zapper into a light-based communication system.
14:41You can build an LED matrix for as an M2 interface.
14:46And you can build a foil-laden jar so you can have a crooks tube.
14:50That's a really fun electrical project.
14:53Hi, I've been Scott Wachter, and I want to thank you for your time and attention.
14:56I want to thank our sponsors, Halco, Leadvance, and Olympia.
15:02Until next time, take care of yourself, enjoy your week, enjoy the music.
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