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Light industry are industries that usually are less capital-intensive than heavy industries and are more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as they typically produce smaller consumer goods. Most light industry products are produced for end users rather than as intermediates for use by other industries .
Lemada Light Industries Inc. is an Israeli game manufacturer. It was founded in 1978 by Mariana and Micha Hertzano, the children of Ephraim Hertzano, who invented Rummikub, their most famous game. It is still run by the Hertzano family with their head office located in Moshav Magshimim, near Ben Gurion International Airport.
Kerosine lamps were used in the home for lighting, since electric lighting was only beginning in the late 1800s. [22] Demand for kerosine lamps would continue for decades. By 1920 electricity reached only 35 percent of homes in the United States. [23] Lamps from the 1890s consisted of a stand, font, chimney, and often a shade. [24]
The Kel-Lite was a highly-durable, weather- and shock-resistant flashlight (UK: torch), made of heavy 6061-T6 aluminium. According to company founder Donald Keller, a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff, he began working on the concept in 1964 as he was tired of the lack of durability of the generically available, cheap metal flashlights of the day; the prototype was largely designed by 1968. [1]
In 1958, Benjamin was bought out by Thomas Industries, Inc. The company's factory in Illinois was closed in 1963, and was replaced with a new 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) light fixture plant in Sparta, TN. Biography of Reuben Berkley Benjamin and background history of Benjamin Electric Manufacturing Company / Benjamin Electric, Ltd. London
In 2023, Progress Lighting had revenue of $187.1 million (Hubbell Lighting had revenue of $515 million in 2022) and the sale amounted to $131 million. With this deal, Hubbel has completed its exit from the lighting industry, retaining only ownership of the Scottish niche brand Chalmit Lighting, specializing in LED hazardous area solutions. [11]