Powering a circular economy through lighting innovation redefining manufacturing for a changing global economy
The global economy is shifting from mass-produced, centralised systems to agile, local, and customised manufacturing. 3D printing enables this transformation, allowing products to be created on demand, minimising waste, and slashing transportation emissions.
Shaping a circular economy in lighting
The NYCxDESIGN webinar framed 3D printing as a manufacturing tool and a sustainable strategy supporting future circular design and production models. This perspective places 3D printing at the heart of innovation, bridging performance, personalization, and sustainability.
By reducing reliance on excess tooling, shipping, and overproduction, 3D printing helps usher in a circular economy that minimises material and energy consumption while delivering design freedom and fast delivery.
Sustainable design: Less footprint, more impact
Using recycled and bio-circular materials significantly reduces the environmental footprint of products. Signify myCreation, for example, uses at least 65% recycled or bio-circular plastics, aligning with circular principles. On-demand 3D printing further eliminates both waste and obsolete inventory.
This approach demonstrates how recycled materials and local, on-demand production can deliver beauty, performance, and sustainability in one luminous package.
Signify my Creation: Tailored, sustainable, agile lighting
Signify's myCreation platform embodies this new paradigm. Its easy-to-use configurator empowers customers to design bespoke lighting from shape and texture to smart controls without dependency on moulds or fixed production lines.
Beyond aesthetics, each fixture boasts high energy performance and can integrate lighting controls, such as Philips Hue and Interact, to enhance efficiency and lighting intelligence.
Critically, Signify has redesigned its factory footprint, with U.S. factories serving U.S. supply chains, European factories serving Europe, and so forth, ensuring local production that's both responsive and sustainable.
In today's changing economy, innovation in lighting must go hand in hand with sustainability. 3D printing makes this possible, delivering tailored solutions that reduce carbon emissions, minimise waste, and enable faster and more flexible production. With recycled materials, local supply chains, and integrated performance, Signify's myCreation demonstrates that lighting can be both profoundly personal and environmentally responsible. It demonstrates how freedom, energy efficiency, and sustainability can collaborate to shape a brighter, more circular future.
Discover more on 3D Printed | Signify, to watch the webinar click the link here, https://www.signify.com/global/lighting-academy/browser/webinar/nycx-design-week
Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the world leader in lighting for professionals and consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Our Philips products, Interact connected lighting systems and data-enabled services, deliver business value and transform life in homes, buildings and public spaces. In 2022, we had sales of EUR 7.5 billion, approximately 35,000 employees and a presence in over 70 countries. We unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. We achieved carbon neutrality in our operations in 2020, have been in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since our IPO for six consecutive years and were named Industry Leader in 2017, 2018 and 2019. News from Signify is located at the Newsroom, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Information for investors can be found on the Investor Relations page.
