Selux lighting: product range and EPD reality

Company snapshot

Selux is a Berlin‑rooted lighting manufacturer with North American operations in Highland, New York. Their site highlights a decades‑long focus on design quality, modularity, repairability, and regional production. See their sustainability pages and Buy American guidance for context and compliance details Sustainability and Buy American.

What Selux makes

Selux is not a pure play in one niche. Their range covers outdoor and architectural luminaires for streets, parks, plazas, campuses, facades, catenary, bollards and columns, plus select interior lines for demanding environments like behavioral health. Families such as Aya, Beta, Olivio, Line, VAZ, Peeta, modular columns and vandal‑resistant linear options give specifiers tools across pedestrian, local road, and close‑to‑building applications.

In breadth, the portfolio spans multiple categories with dozens of families and very likely hundreds of individual SKUs when optics, CCTs, lengths, mountings, controls, and finishes are accounted for. That is plenty of coverage for municipal, higher‑ed, healthcare, and corporate campus work.

Transparency today

Selux publicly leans into ingredient disclosure and light‑pollution stewardship. The site promotes Declare labels on select products and frequent DarkSky messaging, which resonates with planners and ecologists. That is smart and credible. It does not, by itself, satisfy buyers who need product‑specific EPDs for embodied‑carbon accounting in building projects.

EPD coverage check

As of December 10, 2025, we could not find Selux product‑specific EPDs listed in the major public libraries from recognized program operators or on their product pages. If an unpublished or project‑specific declaration exists, it was not visible in those registries at the time of writing. Meanwhile, LEED v5 is ratified and in market, and its materials framework continues to reward product transparency like EPDs in the BPDO credit family (USGBC, 2025) (USGBC, 2025).

Why that matters commercially

On projects chasing LEED v5, owners and AEC teams often prefer products with third‑party verified, EN 15804 or ISO 21930 aligned EPDs because it simplifies documentation and avoids conservative default factors. Without one, a luminaire can face a quiet penalty during submittals, which increases the chance it gets swapped for a declared alternative.

A likely missed spec

Take Aya or Beta, both promoted in Selux’s outdoor lineup. If a city requests an area or street luminaire with an EPD, comparable products exist from European and North American peers. Examples include published EPDs for outdoor street and area luminaires in the Environdec library, such as Fagerhult’s Stockholm street luminaire, valid through 2028, and newer entries from XAL and others in 2024–2025 (EPD International, 2023–2025). Another high‑profile peer, Signify, states it has released more than 2,000 EPDs covering 70,000 product variations globally, which makes substitutions straightforward when EPDs are a gate condition (Signify, 2024) (Signify, 2024).

Competitive set Selux meets most often

On municipal, campus, and corporate exterior scopes, Selux frequently lines up against Signify brands like Gardco and Lumec, Fagerhult Group, Thorn and Zumtobel in Europe, ERCO for architectural work, XAL for interior and decorative architectural lines, and in North America against Acuity Brands families for both interior and exterior. Many of these competitors actively publish EPDs, and some market EPD availability as a default attribute for common luminaires in 2024–2025 (Fagerhult downloads, 2025) (Fagerhult, 2025).

Fast path to close the gap

For luminaires, the common PCR reference is the generic construction products rule under EN 15804 A2 as hosted by leading operators. The work has two parts. First, disciplined data capture for one recent reference year across materials, suppliers, energy, scrap and packaging. Second, swift LCA modeling to a program operator’s format, then verification and publication. Operators signal verification queues are stretched, with independent review often cited at several months in 2025, so starting the data pull early is critical to hit bid cycles on time (IBU, 2025) (IBU, 2025).

Prioritization is the unlock. Start with the handful of families that drive most revenue and spec risk in municipal streets and campus pedestrian zones, then add the best‑selling facade linear and a behavioral‑health interior line. That sequence captures the majority of substitution pressure and yields visible wins quickly. A white‑glove data collection approach keeps senior engineering time to a minimum, which is often the hidden cost that stalls EPD programs.

Where Declare still helps

Declare labels remain useful for material‑health narratives and Living Building Challenge projects, and Selux already speaks that language. For many public owners and LEED v5 pursuits, however, EPDs are the ticket for embodied‑carbon math. The most successful lighting manufacturers run both in parallel, which prevents value‑engineer swaps and reduces paperwork friction when submittals hit.

What we would watch next

If Selux publishes EPDs for key outdoor families in 2026 bid season, it strengthens their position in US municipal and higher‑ed capital programs. Watch for new BPDO calculators and addenda under LEED v5 as they continue to roll out, since team workflows evolve fast in the first year after ratification (USGBC, 2025). Given long verification lead times reported by operators in 2025, the teams that begin data gathering now look resiliant when deadlines loom (IBU, 2025).