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Plenty of executive appointments over the past two weeks. Here’s Electrical Marketing’s expanded coverage of personnel changes in the electrical market.
Dec. 21, 2012
Wire man John Pasqual and lighting rep Jack Melnick
Dec. 21, 2012
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Electrical product prices remained on their flat trend, showing no change from October and little change in almost all major product categories.
Dec. 21, 2012
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Privately-owned housing starts in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 861,000, 3% below the revised October estimate, but 21.6% above the Nov. 2011 rate.
Dec. 21, 2012
Dec. 21, 2012
Veteran reps form new agency in Raleigh; WinWholesale buys Lloyd Graves in Texas; United Electric Supply expands through acquisition; and more.
Dec. 21, 2012
W.W. Grainger Inc., Lake Forest, Ill., announced plans to purchase Techni-Tool Inc., Worcester, Pa., a 200-plus employee distributor supplying customers in the cable television...
Dec. 21, 2012
Kaman Industrial Technologies (KIT), the industrial distribution business Kaman Corp., Bloomfield, Conn., has built up in recent acquisitions of Minarik, Zeller Electric and others...
Dec. 21, 2012
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered an update on the city’s plans to renovate its infrastructure to withstand future storms.
Dec. 7, 2012

Around the Industry

Rexel's Nedco to sell Lumismart lighting controller in Canada Bright Negawatts Inc., Toronto, a manufacturer of energy efficiency, conservation and demand
Nov. 5, 2010
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Rexel's Nedco to sell Lumismart lighting controller in Canada

Bright Negawatts Inc., Toronto, a manufacturer of energy efficiency, conservation and demand management products and solutions, announced an agreement with Nedco, a division of Rexel Canada Electrical Inc., to be the national distributor of the Lumismart ILC (Intelligent Lighting Controller) in Canada.

The Lumismart ILC, developed by Toronto-based Cavet Technologies, is a Smart Grid-enabled lighting controller that provides microprocessor-driven adaptive control of lighting circuits to reduce power consumption by at least 30% without replacing any existing lamps, ballasts or fixtures. Following 12 years of development, the Lumismart ILC received Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification last week.

CED to move HQ to Texas

Consolidated Electrical Distributors (CED) is moving its corporate headquarters from Westlake Village, Calif., to Irving, Texas, thanks to $1.2 million in incentives from Texas Governor Rick Perry.

According to the Texas governor's office, the move will bring 120 jobs to the Lone Star state and generate as much as $3.3 million in capital spending thanks to funding from the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF), a program to provide incentives for businesses in the state.

GE wins order for 55 wind turbines

GE Energy, Atlanta, won an order from Suncor Energy for 55 1.6MW wind turbines for one of the largest wind power projects in the province of Alberta, Canada. At peak operation, the Wintering Hills wind farm is expected to generate enough clean electricity to power approximately 35,000 Canadian homes. GE has installed more than 14,000 of its 1.5-megawatt turbines around the world.

Massive solar-thermal plant gets green light from feds

The U.S. approved a massive, gigawatt-scale solar-thermal power generation project on federal land in southern California, the largest solar project ever planned on U.S. public lands. The $6 billion Blythe Solar Power Project, to be built by Solar Millennium of Germany, will generate 1,000 mW of power once online.