Signify, earlier known as Philips Lighting, launched the world's first service where customers can tailor and order lamps (lampshades and lighting) online. The self-designed lamps are 3D printed and sent to the customer´s home address within 2 weeks. The company uses recycled materials as a basis for production, more specifically 24 recycled CDs.

Overproduction of goods that are produced with heavy raw-materials.

Customers can tailor and order lamps where the base consists of strong high-quality 100% recyclable polycarbonate and are designed to be reused or recycled at the end of their lifetime. The design uses no paint, less parts and screws and no glue.

- The 3D-printed lamp (without electronics and bulb) has 47% lower CO2 emissions than a traditional factory-produced lamp in metal.

- The lamps are made completely without glue, have fewer parts (mono material is always good when the lamp reaches end of life)

- They only weigh 2/3 of a traditional luminaire, which in turn gives 35% in CO2 savings on shipping.

- The only lamps that are produced are the ones that customers in fact design and order. This reduces production costs of excess goods that are not sold, and arguably more importantly, also reduces the footprint that overproduction of stock goods has on the planet. A true “only produce what you will use” mentality! 

- One could also argue that by allowing customers to create their own design, they will be more incentivized to take care of their lamps through an emotional bond with the product and keep them in use for a longer time (stretch lifetime).

Regarding some of the facts in the outcome section: This is of course when compared to luminaire and metal lamps, which is what Signify themselves use to compare the 3D-printed lamp to. All in all, the most important outcome is that Signify's focus on 3D printing means that the customer gets better service, in addition to Signify reducing its own CO2 emissions.