Sector: Lighting

Market Overview: Lighting is one of the easiest ways to realize energy savings in a retrofit and the push to achieve significant savings through innovation and new lighting technologies is greater than ever. The lighting and bulb market—incandescent bulbs, CFLs, fluorescent tubes, and parts and components—has been steadily declining for several years as LEDs have grown from a small market share to being fully dominant over the last decade. While incandescent lighting is still manufactured domestically, it has been relegated to specialty uses and almost all U.S. manufacturing has disappeared. LEDs are supplanting fluorescent lighting as consumers are willing to pay the higher up-front costs to have a more energy-efficient, flexible, and durable product in their buildings. 

Due to this switch to LED technologies, manufacturing opportunities in the energy-efficient lighting fixtures and components sector are growing. Many countries, including the United States, have banned the use of incandescent fixtures. This provides a significant export opportunity for U.S. manufacturers of LED technologies. In general, innovation and the creation of new products such as "smart lighting systems" (which can analyze data and communicate with each other to adjust lights automatically) will be primary factors for growth in this market.

The energy-efficient lighting market is mixed when it comes to U.S. manufacturing content. Imports will continue to be strong for component electronic parts and low-end consumer LED bulbs. Currently, the majority of U.S. demand for lighting fixtures is met with imports—mostly from China. The lighting sector has a highly dynamic and globalized supply chain with some components exclusively manufactured overseas, making it difficult to increase U.S. content.

LED lighting products used for commercial, architectural, institutional, and other large projects tend to have a higher percentage of U.S. content (both parts and assembly) than those used in residential settings. Of the residential products, custom, niche, or higher-end tend to have more U.S. content and assembly than those found on big box store shelves. High costs like tooling, small profit margins and significant competition make it difficult to manufacture affordable U.S.-made products for the average homeowner or tenant.

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Company Location
QSSI Walden, New York
QSSI Memphis, Tennessee
QSSI Vancouver, Washington
QSSI Cerritos, California
Quorum International Fort Worth, Texas
RAB Lighting, Inc. New York, New York
Rayon Lighting Group, Inc. Compton, California
RedBirdLED Atlanta, Georgia
Revolution Lighting Stamford, Connecticut
RLR Industries, Inc. Mableton, Georgia
RP Lighting + Fans Albuquerque, New Mexico
SATCO Brentwood, New York
Saylite Houston, Texas
Saylite Carrolton, Texas
Scott Lamp Company Fairfield, California
Selux Corporation Highland, New York
Sengled USA Alpharetta, Georgia
Shenzhen Snowball Lighting Ltd. El Paso, Texas
Signtex Lighting Grasonville, Maryland
SLG Lighting Stafford, Texas
Solais Lighting Frisco, Texas
SORAA AMERICAS Fremont, California
Sparkle Light Manufacturing Corporation Yonkers, New York
St. James Lighting Columbia, Mississippi
StarTek Lighting America Libertyville, Illinois
Stone Lighting Flossmoor, Illinois
Stone Lighting Broomfield, Colorado
Studio Dunn Rumford, Rhode Island
Summerwind International LLC Grapevine, Texas
Sunco Lighting Valencia, California
Sunpark Electronics Corporation Gardena, California
Swivelier Fort Lee, New Jersey
Tamlite Lighting USA Port St Lucie, Florida
Targetti USA Costa Mesa, California
Technical Consumer Products, Inc. (TCP) Aurora, Ohio
TEKA Illumination Madera, California
Tempo LLC Irvine, California
The Lighting Division Rochester, New York
ThinkLite LLC Natick, Massachusetts
Thomas & Betts Hackettstown, New Jersey
Thomas & Betts Albuquerque, New Mexico
Thomas & Betts Portland, Tennessee
Thomas & Betts Memphis, Tennessee
Thomas & Betts Jonesboro, Arkansas
Titan Aurora, Inc. San Francisco, California
Titan LED, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona
Toggled Troy, Michigan
Topaz Lighting Medford, New York
TopStar International Inc. Ontario, California
Torchstar Corporation Eastvale, California