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GE Lighting Legislation Overview
The United States Department of Energy has enacted new energy efficient legislation that impacts the manufacturing and availability of all lamps. Specifically, the legislation will effect certain incandescent A19 lamps as of January 1, 2012 and linear fluorescent, par lamps and U-shaped fluorescent lamps by July 15, 2012...
    
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12/9/11
GE Lighting's Letter to Distributors - Rare Earth Minerals
Due to continuing inflationary pressure in raw materials, especially rare earth elements, the Lighting business of GE – Appliances & Lighting will implement a price increase on Linear Fluorescent lamps only with an effective date of November 7, 2011. The increase for Linear Fluorescent lamps will vary...
   
9/8/11
TCP Product and Pricing Bulletin - Rare Earth Minerals
"By now, there are no secrets within our industry about the significance of recent increases in lamp costs which resulted from Chinese government intervention in rare earth material costs. Most of the major lighting manufacturers...
8/10/11
Our President's Letter to Customers - Rare Earth Minerals
The purpose of this letter is to inform our customers of an unprecedented situation that is occurring with the pricing of fluorescent lamps, such as standard linear lamps, including T8, T5 and T12 lamps and all compact...
7/25/11
GE Lighting's Letter to Distributors - Rare Earth Minerals
Due to continuing inflationary pressure in raw materials, specifically rare earth elements, the Lighting
business of GE – Appliances & Lighting is confirming its previous general price increase announced on
June 1, 2011, and we are further refining it due to the rare earth situation...
6/29/11
GE Lighting's Rare Earth Market Presentation - a powerpoint file
•Unique properties have led to a wide variety of applications and are important economically, environmentally and technologically
•Use of REs in high performance products has significantly increased over last 2 decades
6/01/11