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.

Company Location
Efficient Lighting Anaheim, California
EiKO Global, LLC Olathe, Kansas
ELA Lighting Inc. Corona, California
ELB Electronics, Inc. Arcadia, California
Elco Lighting Vernon, California
ElectraLED, Inc. Clearwater, Florida
Elegant Furniture and Lighting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elemental LED Reno , Nevada
Elong International USA Inc. Carrollton, Texas
EncapSulite Rosenberg, Texas
Encore Lighting Maspeth, New York
Energetic Lighting Inc. Chino, California
Energy Focus, Inc. Solon, Ohio
Energy Light Inc. Lake Zurich, Illinois
Engineered Products Company Minnetonka, Minnesota
Envision LED Lighting, Inc. Bell, California
ESL Vision LLC Salt Lake City, Utah
Espen Technology Inc. Santa Fe Springs, California
ETI Solid State Lighting, Inc. Wheeling, Illinois
Euri Lighting Torrance, California
Feit Electric Pico Rivera, California
Finelite, Inc. Union City, California
Flexfire LEDs Costa Mesa, California
Focal Point LLC Chicago, Illinois
Forum Inc. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
FudakinLED Aurora, Illinois
Fujian Morstar New-Energy Tec LLC Livonia, Michigan
Full Spectrum Solutions, Inc. Jackson, Michigan
Fusion Optix Woburn, Massachusetts
Garvin Industries Carol Stream, Illinois
GE Lighting East Cleveland, Ohio
GE Lighting East Flat Rock, North Carolina
Generation Brands Skokie, Illinois
GM Lighting Tinley Park, Illinois
Good Earth Lighting, Inc. Mount Prospect, Illinois
Goodlite Products Inc. Tinton Falls, New Jersey
Grandlite International Corporation City of Industry, California
Green Creative Sanford, Florida
Green Lighting LED Erie, Pennsylvania
Green Ray LED Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenlite Lighting Corporation Irvine, California
Greentek Energy Systems Lawrencville, Georgia
Gross Chandelier Company St. Louis, Missouri
Haven Lighting Hebron, Kentucky
HD Supply Facilities Maintentance Atlanta, Georgia
HE Williams, Inc. Carthage, Missouri
HeathCo LLC Bowling Green, Kentucky
Hevi Lite Inc. Chatsworth, California
Hinkley Avon Lake, Ohio
Holm San Marcos, California