According to Sumitomo Metal Mining (SMM)’s president, Nobumasa Kemori, the company has decided to set up a mass-produce 6-inch diameter sapphire substrates line within its fully-owned subsidiary Okuchi Electronics based in Isa City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. SMM intends to inject the capital investment of ¥1.2 billion (US $120 million) including investment already completed. Through the investment, SMM will construct a continuous production system extending from fabrication of large sapphire crystals to substrate processing. Currently, 2- to 4-inc...

By selecting interior and exterior LED lighting products, City Furniture has reduced its energy usage by more than half.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology, is pleased to announce its inclusion in a new City Furniture superstore. City Furniture, one of Florida’s most successful furniture retailers, selected three energy-saving LED products from Cooper Lighting, to help achieve its initiative for LEED Silver certification for a new 94,000 sq. ft. superstore in Boca Rato...

Russian LED manufacture Optogan has set up partnership with Ledison Patan Ltd, to form a new sales office in Koceali, close to Izmit, Turkey. Ove Sörensen, senior director sales & business development at Optogan, pointed out that ,“For Turkey, we estimate a hundreds of millions Euro market for solid-state lighting luminaries within the next two years. Turkey, being the bridge between Europe and Asia, is a key hub for Optogan. With its strong labour force, biggest GDP growth rate in Europe, and a continuously growing population (with currently over ...

The City of Mountain View has replaced fluorescent lamps at their Community Center with DirectLED from Bay Area LED light bulb company, GreenVantage Solution. EarthLED's DirectLED 4-foot T8 replacements are selected to be installed in classrooms and office areas at the Community Center. The T8 replacements are rated at 15 watts as compared to the 34 watts of the regular 4-foot fluorescent bulbs. The DirectLED FL series is a replacement for traditional T8, T10 and T12 fluorescent tubes, bringing LED technology to environments never before ...

The city of Bozeman intends to replace some streetlights with LEDs. It has budgeted $8,800 to replace 12 to 16 high-pressure-sodium streetlights with LEDs. Installation will take place in January or February. City staff members are still finalizing the specifics, but city engineer Dustin Johnson said LEDs could be installed in streetlights along Durston Road, from Seventh to 11th avenues, and/or along West Babcock Street, from Main to Ferguson streets. Once this winter’s pilot LED project is underway, Bozeman will measure and report potential cost a...

Altatech Semiconductor has released its first product AltaSight LEDMax system to enter into LED inspection market. According to the company, AltaSight LEDMax improves production yields for LED devices by accurately detecting process-induced defects, including those that can result during MOCVD of epitaxial layers, subsequent patterning processes and final inspection. Using Altatech’s patented sensor technology that filters out all background noise, the non-contact system generates images of surface imperfections with resolution down to 1 micron and a u...

SWITCH Lighting™, the only LED company offering a replacement to the incandescent light bulb that gives consumers everything they want in a light bulb, announced that it has been named an International CES Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for its SWITCH75 LED light bulb. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the media to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics products across 32 product categories....

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leading TV brand vendor, stated on Dec. 7 that its TV sales hit a record high of 5.7 million units in November, spurred by the high U.S. sales during the Thanksgiving weekend. According to Samsung’s statement, due to that the sales went up 14% in November from 5 million units in October, the company is certain to secure the number 1 spot for all of 2011. Also, the company said in the statement that it was optimistic about the prospects of meeting its 2011 flat-screen TV sales target of 45 million units. In fact, Sams...

Recently, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Seoul National University have made an announcement that the first LEDs to be fabricated on amorphous glass substrates. As we know, manufacturers may peffer to improve GaN LEDs on silicon substrates (GaN-on-Si) rather than to choose gallium nitride (GaN)-based LEDs grown on crystalline sapphire wafers due to their expensive cost and are not amenable to large-sized wafer arrays. But the research conducted by the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Seoul National University has found that...

Encelium’s ECS™ Contributes to Certification Credits in Multiple Ways   With today’s broad awareness that green buildings offer lower operating costs, increased value and improved ROI, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification has become the framework of choice for achieving sustainability at commercial properties. Lighting, which accounts for 40 percent of energy use in office buildings, often dominates the opportunity for energy savings among all electrical systems and ...

GT Advanced Technologies has released a case study of evaluating the impact of sapphire color on the LED manufacturing process. All studies were conducted using blind samples of GT ASF sapphire material as well as LED grade sapphire from other sources. The case study results were obtained from an independently conducted Glow Discharge Mass Spectroscopy (GDMS) analysis as well as a High Brightness (HB) LED device fabrication study performed using Photo-thermal Common-path Interferometry (PCI) analysis. The studies demonstrated that all sapphire, re...

Puget Sound Energy ,Washington state’s oldest local energy utility, has provide a new instant rebate for up to $10-off LED bulbs for residential electric customers. It is PSE’s first LED bulb rebate for residential electric customers. PSE customers can receive an instant rebate of up to $10-off a variety of ENERGY STAR®-qualified LED bulbs. Depending on the type of bulb, the after-rebate price to customers ranges between $15 and $50. Customers can purchase rebated ENERGY STAR-qualified LED bulbs at participating retailers includ...

Cooper Lighting has supplied its LED products to Florida's furniture retailers,City Furniture for LEED Silver certification for a new 94,000 sq. ft. superstore in Boca Raton, Florida. To meet the illumination requirements, City Furniture chose and installed 3,500 of Cooper Lighting's Halo Stasis LED track fixtures, 18 McGraw-Edison Ventus LED outdoor parking lot fixtures, and 10 Lumark LED Wal-Pak exterior security wall-mount luminaires. With an overall goal of reducing wattage consumption of the general lighting by half when compared to ...

SA intends to become the first African country to phase out and then ban all energy-guzzling light bulbs before 2016. At the 17th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17), Energy Minister Dipuo Peters announced to ban incandescent lights in the next five years. It’s part of a partnership between the UN Environment Programme (Unep) and the Phillips and Osram lighting groups. Although the energy-saving effects have not been quantified, Peters estimated that switching from incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescen...

Recently, Philips has supplied  30 sustainable cooking stoves and 200 solar-driven LED home lighting for 200 households across the South African Ilembe district , to improve the lives of people living in rural communities. According to Philips ,the home lighting system is a complete LED lighting kit that has been designed to provide low-cost, highly efficient bright light for households and small businesses. The central solar panel-charged battery pack powers two LED lights. A full day's charging in the sun (8 hours) will provide enough light for a whole evening...

HPML LED light module a perfect match with reliable light systems   OSRAM, one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world, has successfully provided its trademarked High Power Modular Lamps Advance (HPML AD) light module in the iLite System, an inflatable and portable floodlight.    The iLite’s light head is a high-quality, extremely durable OSRAM 12-volt HPML AD module that is IP66-rated for dust and moisture protection.   The iLite is a mobile, portable, inflatable LED floodlight. It is freestandi...

Wakefield-based LED driver module supplier Harvard Engineering has actively taken actions to tap into the LED lighting market. As Michael McDonnell, sales and marketing director at Harvard , said “It’s an exciting time to be involved in the lighting industry and we’re investing heavily to create in the research and development of our CoolLED drivers.” Recently, the company announced CoolLED Kompact and CoolLED 40W drivers are aimed at the professional lighting sector for powering high-brightness LEDs from a mains supply. The f...

Recently, Panasonic Electric Works has released an LED lighting device to replace high-output high-frequency (HF) fluorescent lamps. According to the company, the new LED lighting device has a brightness equivalent to or higher than those of HF fluorescent lamps. The CRI is 84. A high-efficiency model that is expected to embedded in a ceiling to replace two HF32-type fluorescent lamps has a designed luminous flux of 5,880lm, a rated power consumption of 60.6W on average and an efficiency of 108.3lm/W, which are approximately 14% higher, 31% lower and 27% higher, re...

Electric Lighting Agencies and O’Blaney Rinker Associates are pleased to announce that they have entered into a joint venture to combine their mutual lighting and control system specification efforts in New York City. The joint venture offers the extended client base of both agencies in the lighting and control system specifications and sales, a vast range of experience and knowledge across the complete spectrum of New York’s lighting design, engineering, architectural and distribution communities. The Electric Lighting Agencies, Inc. is the oldest and larges...

Encouraged by the pilot LED project's success on four streets - Harish Mukherjee Road, S N Banerjee Road, New Park Street and Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has roped in Asian Development Bank (ADB) to foot major part of the Rs 50-crore bill to get more LED lights on major roads. ADB has agreed to part-fund KMC's LED project in the first leg of phase II of the Kolkata Environment Improvement Project (KEIP). From February, work on installing LED lights will begin in Bidhan Sarani, Vivekananda...

Toshiba has taken a lighting ceremony to celebrate the illumination of the exterior of the Louvre with its new LED lighting on 6 December. Working in collaboration with the Louvre, Toshiba’s lighting engineers developed and installed six series and ten models of lighting fixtures, including high beam-lamps to illuminate the Pyramid and the palace walls. Toshiba’s ceremony marked the switching on of some 350 light fittings out of a total of 3,200 that will eventually completely replace 4,500 high energy xenon lamps. The remaining facades of the Napoleon Cour...

London office to support growing global LED fixtures demand   Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced the opening of a new EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific) Sales Headquarters based in London, UK, which will begin operations immediately. Located in the historic Leathermarket, a short walk from London Bridge, the office will provide full sales, technical and application support for countries in Eur...

During his visit to the Bavarian state capital Munich, the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang met the managing board of OSRAM AG. The discussions focused above all on questions concerning closer cooperation in the field of light-emitting diodes, in short LED. The chairman of the managing board at OSRAM AG, Wolfgang Dehen, emphasized: “The discussions were of enormous importance to us notably with a view to the great significance of the Chinese lighting market.”   Following its inspection of a pioneering OSRAM test inst...

Seoul Semiconductor has introduced its new product ZC (Z-Power COB), Chip-On-Board (COB) Type of Direct Current (DC) LED. And the recently launched ZC Series will begin mass production in December and will subsequently be available to customers. ZC series, developed based on Seoul Semiconductor’s Z-Power LEDs which are mainly used as a light source of high-brightness and high-power, decreases thermal resistance, resulting in an exponential improvement in LED lighting product life expectancy. The ZC Series is designed as a COB type an...

Lately, Seoul Semiconductor and Royal Philips Electronics have agreed to enter into a cross-license agreement covering patents relating to specific LED technology areas. According to the arrangement, each party gains access to a substantial part of the other party's patent portfolios for various LED level technologies. “We are very excited about our Acrich family of products and especially Acrich2, which was introduced in October 2011. Acrich2 eliminates many of the technical barriers associated with traditional high-voltage and AC-driven LED solutions&...

Taiwan Forepi has ordered an Aixtron CRIUS II-XL reactor in a 19x4-inch configuration to manufacture indium gallium nitride epiwafers for HB-LEDs. The order came in the third quarter of 2011, initially for the CRIUS II-L version, and was immediately converted into Aixtron´s brand new XL-configuration right after its launch. Delivery of the new reactor will take place in the fourth quarter of 2011. The CRIUS II-XL reactor has been acquired for the volume production of InGaN-based high-brightness (HB) blue LED epiwafer materials. One...

The University of Wyoming (UW) recently is retrofitting a research greenhouse’s conventional 600-Watt high-intensity discharge lamps with LumiGrow LED-based systems fixtures. With LumiGrow LED-based systems, UW will reduce lighting-related energy consumption and costs by half. According to LumiGrow, the UW greenhouse retrofit will save more than 13,000 kilowatt-hours of power and avoid the emission of 29,000 pounds of carbon dioxide annually. Additionally, the LED lighting manufacturer projects that this energy savings will translate into $5,666 in ...

Lighting Science Group announced today that the company's LED bulbs have been used to light the Dallas Arboretum's newly christened Nancy Rutchik Red Maple Rill. The 2 acre rill features a collection of over 80 varieties of 200 signature Japanese Maples along the periphery of a circulating brook and winding pedestrian pathway. As opposed to R40 175W mercury vapor lamps that would have required ballast boxes to be mounted to trees, Lighting Science Group worked with Unique Lighting of Texas to illuminate the area with its ultra-efficient PAR30 LED bulbs....

Mexican officials have placed $1M of EG-series solar LED outdoor lighting system from Carmanah's solar outdoor lighting. It’s the company’s largest order to date . The Carmanah EG-series solar LED outdoor lighting portfolio is the company's latest generation of reliable and cost-effective solar LED lighting products designed for cost-sensitive and developing regions of the world. On November 30th, 2011, Carmanah launched the anticipated EG40 and EG80 solar outdoor lighting systems. Offering a top-of-pole integrated design that eases instal...

Groom Energy has supported Millard, a refrigerated warehousing and distribution services company for an LED warehouse lighting retrofit at Millard's Allentown facility. The project is considered as one of the largest LED deployments in the U.S with almost 800 LED high bay fixtures covering more than 629,000 square feet. The implementation will save significant amounts of energy by reducing 3.5 million kilowatt hours in lighting and cooling system operation and eliminating more than 1,700 tons of CO2 into the environment.  ...