• Signify adds more 3D printed office luminaires

    "Eco" and style can go together.
    April 12, 2024
    2 min read
    Computer-generated image courtesy of Signify
    Signify has a good notion of how to combine style and sustainability, as depicted in this image of its 3D-printed Essential office luminaire.

    Showing no let-up in its environmental business ethos, Signify has added a number of 3D printed luminaires to its stable of products for the indoor commercial market that not only reduce new material use, but also demonstrate that “eco” products can come with a design flair.

    The company added three lines to its MyCreation collection of 3D printed products, with two of them printed from what Signify describes as “bio-circular materials” and one from “post-industrial recycled polycarbonate.”

    Bio-circular material comes “from waste and residues of biological origin from agriculture, forestry and related industries,” the company explained. The new Essential suspended downlighting line and the Grand Pendant line are comprised of at least 55% of the stuff, it said.

    The new GreenSpace PerfectFit line of recessed downlights are printed with the “post-industrial” material, which makes up at least 65% of each product, Signify noted. 

    In all cases, the company prints the luminaires to order, offering a range of color and texture choices, and striving for a stylish look, as depicted in the computer-generated images in this story.

    The company did not reveal pricing.

    The new products are the latest in Signify’s 3D printed offerings. Among others, Signify also offers the  Spring Oasis for home use, made from water jugs, and Coastal Breeze, also for the home market, made from discarded fishing nets.

    3D printing is part of an industry-wide trend at Fagerhult, Glamox, and elsewhere toward reducing the use of virgin materials in lighting products. The trend also includes using recycled or sustainably certified materials via more conventional manufacturing methods.

    Signify also introduced new conventionally made luminaires by adding models to its UltraEfficient line for the commercial market.

    The company continues to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and to achieve other environmental sustainability goals.

    Its environmental cred has not necessarily translated into profits, as the commercial indoor lighting segment was still slumping at the end of last year. Signify reports financial results for the first quarter on April 26. 

    MARK HALPER is a contributing editor for LEDs Magazine, and an energy, technology, and business journalist ([email protected]).


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    About the Author

    Mark Halper

    Contributing Editor, LEDs Magazine, and Business/Energy/Technology Journalist

    Mark Halper is a freelance business, technology, and science journalist who covers everything from media moguls to subatomic particles. Halper has written from locations around the world for TIME Magazine, Fortune, Forbes, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian, CBS, Wired, and many others. A US citizen living in Britain, he cut his journalism teeth cutting and pasting copy for an English-language daily newspaper in Mexico City. Halper has a BA in history from Cornell University.

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