GE closes incandescent production plant

As announced more than one year ago, GE Lighting’s Winchester Lamp Plant in Winchester, Virginia, where a variety of traditional, household types of incandescent light bulbs are manufactured, will officially close on September 24. Due to changing customer preferences, and as energy regulations that establish lighting efficiency standards are implemented in the U.S. and other countries, familiar lighting products that had been made at the Winchester Plant will be phased out.