SIC 3646 Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Electric Lighting Fixtures

Contenidos

• NAICS CODE(S).
• INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT.
• BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT.
• CURRENT CONDITIONS.
• INDUSTRY LEADERS.
• WORKFORCE.
• AMERICA AND THE WORLD.
• FURTHER READING.

SIC 3646

The commercial lighting fixture industry is comprised of establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electric lighting fixtures for commercial, industrial, and institutional customers. Popular industry offerings include hotel and restaurant chandeliers, desk and floor lamps for offices, luminous ceiling panels, and industrial fluorescent lighting fixtures.

NAICS CODE(S)

335122

Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing

INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT

The value of industry shipments in the commercial, industrial, and institutional lighting fixtures industry totaled $3.9 in the early 2000s, compared to $4.1 billion in 1997. Total revenue for the lighting fixture manufacturing industries, including residential, commercial, and industrial fixtures, was more than $4.3 billion in 2003.

About 80 percent of industry output was used for commercial and institutional purposes, while 15 percent was utilized in industrial applications. Approximately 4 percent of production was exported. The largest single market for commercial lighting devices was in office buildings, which purchased about 9 percent of all fixtures produced by both residential and commercial fixture manufacturers; hospitals and parking garages both consumed about 1 percent of production. The remainder of the market was highly fragmented.

BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT

Following Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb in 1879, the use of lighting fixtures in commercial applications gradually became widespread. During the industrial revolution of the late 1880s and early 1900s, electric light fixtures became common in factories, hospitals, hotels, and other commercial structures. Fixtures for fluorescent bulbs, which were introduced in 1938 and were more energy-efficient than previous bulbs, became the emphasis of the industry by the 1950s. The steady market growth precipitated by the post-World War II U.S. economic expansion pushed sales of commercial fixtures past $1.5 billion by the early 1980s.

Healthy commercial development throughout most of the 1980s resulted in an average annual revenue growth of nearly 8 percent for the commercial fixture industry, and by 1990 sales topped $3.0 billion per year. Despite a severe downturn in commercial development in the...