Latest from the lighting market: licht.de news

Here you will find the latest news from the lighting market, compiled by licht.de.

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14.05.2025

German Lighting Design Award 2025

The nominations have been announced

Outstanding lighting designs will be honored with the German Lighting Design Award "Deutscher Lichtdesign-Preis" on July 3, 2025. The competition…

25.04.2025

Light + Building 2026

The world's leading trade fair showcases lighting trends in all their facets

Light + Building will take place in Frankfurt am Main from March 8 to 13, 2026. The world's leading trade fair for lighting and building technology is…

20.03.2025

Salone del Mobile 2025

For the first time with the ‘Euroluce International Forum’ for Lighting Design

The Milan furniture fair ‘Salone del Mobile’ from 8 to 13 April 2025 is expanding its programme to include an event format for lighting design. For…

07.02.2025

Light 2025 – for the first time in a hybrid format

Conference program on “Light with all senses”

The 26th European Light Congress Light 2025 of the lighting societies of Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland will take place in…

06.01.2025

Safety on the road

ADAC recommends: retrofitting LED headlights

According to the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC), it is worth converting your car's headlights from halogen to LED. LED lamps shine…

17.12.2024

Light festivals at the turn of the year and after the New Year

Light festivals throughout Europe

Many people are drawn to light during the dark season: the number of visitors to light festivals runs into the hundreds of thousands. Installations…

12.11.2024

Mining rare earth metals from old lamps

Researchers recover europium from fluorescent lamps

Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule – ETH) in Zurich want to bring rare earths from old…

21.10.2024

If the power fails, the emergency light comes on

New standard for emergency lighting systems published

The new version of DIN EN 50172 VDE 0108-100:2024-10 “Emergency lighting systems” was published at the beginning of October 2024. The normative…

18.09.2024

Batteries for emergency lights

EU battery regulation criticised

The European Union (EU) Battery Regulation (2023/1542) aims to make the market for batteries in Europe more sustainable and cycle-orientated. At…

13.08.2024

Four new Video Lectures of licht.de

Recordings of the speeches at Light + Building are now available online

licht.de is publishing four new simultaneous translations in English of presentations at Light + Building 2024. The 20-minute posts were held on…

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