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Featured on Just One Product with Inside Lighting at LEDucation 2026

DMF Lighting’s Samantha Orzel, senior director of commercial growth, recently joined Inside Lighting founder Al Uszynski for a Just One Product conversation at LEDucation 2026, exploring how the company is extending its modular engineering leadership into the linear luminaire category with the Premier 0.5 Linear. The discussion highlights a thoughtfully integrated approach to lighting, where the concealed linear solution is precisely color-matched to DMF Lighting’s downlight and cylinder families, enabling a unified, layered lighting solution across an entire project.

Meticulously engineered to deliver seamless, continuous, dot-free architectural illumination, the Premier 0.5 Linear achieves over 400 lumens per foot with impressive efficacy, while embodying DMF’s signature modular philosophy. Balancing high performance with practical innovation, the system features a solder-free, modular design that streamlines installation and provides tool-free field adjustments, while enabling straightforward, long-term serviceability.

Specifier demand has consistently revealed a critical gap within the linear category —solutions tend to favor either design flexibility or performance, but seldom both. The Premier 0.5 Linear eliminates this trade-off, uniting architectural-grade output with modular adaptability and precise color consistency across all lighting layers. The result is a cohesive, high-performance system that supports a fully realized design vision.

Engineered within an ultra-compact ½-inch profile, the Premier 0.5 Linear delivers continuous illumination without compromise. With broad dimming compatibility, efficacy exceeding 100 lumens per watt, 2000K to 3500K color options, and a high 93 CRI, it ensures both energy performance and visual quality.

A universal wiring design further enhances flexibility, allowing wire entry from the side, end, or back of the fixture. Serviceability is equally advanced, enabling component-level maintenance rather than replacing entire runs.

Watch the Just One Product Interview

https://www.youtube.com/live/cF-czzjbwSI. 

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See the TM-30 Reports for our products below

What is TM-30?

TM-30, developed in 2015 by the Illumination Engineering Society (IES), is an advanced method for measuring the color rendering capabilities of light sources. It addresses the limitations of the older Color Rendering Index (CRI) by providing a more comprehensive and accurate evaluation of how well a light source renders colors.

TM-30 is particularly beneficial in environments where precise color rendering is essential. It allows designers and lighting professionals to make more informed decisions, ensuring that the chosen lighting enhances the desired colors and ambiance of the space.

2400K to 4000K

M Series Residential, Downlight	750-1000 lm	750-1250 lm	1500 lm
M Series Residential, Adjustable	750-1000 lm
M Series Commercial, Downlight	750-1250 lm 750-2000 lm	1500-2000 lm	2500-3500 lm
M Series Commercial, Adjustable	750-2000 lm	2500-3500 lm
X Series, Downlight	750-1000 lm	750-1250 lm	1500 lm
X Series, Adjustable	750-1000 lm

Warm Dim
3000K-1800K

M Series, Downlight & Adjustable	1000 lm
X Series, Downlight & Adjustable	1000 lm

T1 Tunable LED
4000K-1800K

M Series, Downlight	1000 lm
M Series, Adjustable	1000 lm
X Series, Downlight	1000 lm
X Series, Adjustable	1000 lm

T2 Tunable LED
6500K-2700K

M Series, Downlight	1000 lm
M Series, Adjustable	1000 lm
X Series, Downlight	1000 lm
X Series, Adjustable	1000 lm

Linear
2000K-3500K

Concealed Linear

400 lm

To learn more about TM-30, click here.

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C Series named Top Building Product by BD+C

A distinguished jury of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) professionals, alongside the editors of Building Design + Construction (BD+C), has recognized DMF Lighting’s C Series as one of the industry’s top building products in the publication’s annual 75 Top Building Products report.

Celebrating the “best of the best” in new and enhanced building solutions for 2025, the C Series stood out as the only recessed downlighting system honored among the six lighting luminaires selected — an achievement that underscores its innovation and impact within the category.

Winners were chosen by a panel of 11 practicing AEC professionals and three BD+C editors. Eligible entries, which are open to product manufacturers serving the U.S. and Canadian commercial, institutional, industrial and multifamily building markets, were evaluated against rigorous criteria, including:

• Overall benefit to potential project teams— Solve a critical challenge, streamline installation, enhance design flexibility or accelerate construction timelines
• Usefulness to clients, owners and developers— Performance, durability, aesthetics, return on investment and maintenance considerations
• Impact on building occupants— Contributions to health, wellness, safety and productivity
• Product category innovation— Represents a first-of-its-kind advancement or meaningfully elevates its category

DMF’s C Series 4- and 6-inch commercial downlights are engineered for exceptional flexibility and long-term performance, featuring a modular, tool-less, plug-and-play design that seamlessly integrates the housing, LED light engine module and trim. With drivers embedded directly within the modules, maintenance and upgrades are completed entirely from below the ceiling — eliminating the need to tear out the ceiling and significantly reducing labor time and cost.

Each module includes a field-adjustable lumen switch (1000, 1500 or 2000 lumens), enabling a single SKU to accommodate varying ceiling heights across a project, streamlining specification and delivering measurable savings. An integrated emergency bypass port supports both standard and emergency housings, simplifying installation while minimizing compatibility concerns.

Designed with project efficiency in mind, the modular system allows housings and modules to ship separately. Contractors can install housings early in the construction cycle — before final lighting selections are finalized — reducing on-site storage demands and helping keep projects on schedule without compromise.

The C Series’ selection reflects its measurable benefits across design, construction and lifecycle performance — affirming its position as a leading solution in today’s commercial lighting landscape.

The C Series is showcased in BD+C’s November/December issue and on the magazine’s website (#23).