Recently, part of Taiwan's economic stimulus package announced to install 320,000 LED streetlights on the island, as one of a series of measures introduced by vice premier Sean Chen to boost high-tech industry. Datas show that Taiwan's economy grew over 10% last year with 13% growth in exports but it's looking at 4% growth next year with growth in exports of only 5.3% - if the stimulus succeeds. As a result, investment in the LED lighting, is one direction in which the stimulus money is going. The Taiwan government is still fighting for its collapsed DRAM...

Suspended Linear Fixture Optimally Illuminates Both the Ceiling and Work Surface for an Inspiring Indoor Lighting Experience    Lunera Lighting , a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, is pleased to announce the 6460 SERIES has been declared a winner in the Architectural Products , Product Innovation Awards (PIA). The distinctive ultra-thin 6460 SERIES delivers a full-spectrum of near daylight quality LED light and are a high design addition to commercial spaces. “Like a ...

Next Generation Facility Is Foundation to High Quality, High Yield, Large Diameter Sapphire Wafer Market Leadership   Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today marks the first anniversary of the company’s next-generation sapphire crystal growth facility, located in Batavia, IL. The 135,000 sq. ft. facility is used for the production of sapphire crystals which are further processed into sapphire ingots and large diameter sapp...

Everlight has officially launched varieties of A60 series and MR16 series LED retrofits at 40 most popular branches of JHC Group in Hong Kong starting from December 1st. It is first time that use "EVERLIGHT" brand to capture Hong Kong market. This is also the most significant step to EVERLIGHT as well. Currently, LED Lighting already became the pioneer trend and "ECO" marked products in global lighting market. Hong Kong government started to advocate LED lighting few years ago. EVERLIGHT offers multiple disco...

LSI Industries Inc. (Nasdaq:LYTS) announced the introduction of a new specification grade bollard featuring a revolutionary high performance patent-pending Dual Beam LED optical system with state-of-the-art driver technology for unsurpassed system efficiency, control and protection. The innovative Dual Beam optical system, driven by LSI's Crossover® LED technology, delivers advantageous fixture spacing and superior lighting uniformity for enhanced security and improved pathway lighting. With precise lighting control, the XHYP3 projects the right amount o...

Recently, Taiwan Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. and Genesis Photonics Inc. have recevied a big LED lights order from mainland China’s buyers.The orders wil begin delievering this quarter. According to Unity executives , some of the mainland’s top retailers have recently designated it to supply them LED light bulbs on a contract basis. Epi-wafer maker Formosa Epitaxy Inc. is also estimated to benefit from the contracts to Unity since it is a close ally of Unity. For Genesis , it has entered into alliance with IT retailer Potevio Co. to drum u...

Recently,Everlight has taken an active action on fighting a lawsuit against Nichia in Tokyo District Court and said it will unfold the legal action by bringing the patent suits to other countries to counter Nichia’s repeated accusations that Everlight infringes on its patents. In the lawsuit, Everlight asked the district court to stop Nichia from spreading the allegation and appealed for damage claims. Everlight has become the first Taiwanese LED maker to take legal action against Nichia over patent issue. Everlight’s confidence comes from winning the case...

Salina City Commissioners are considering about exploring the possibility of lights replacement in downtown Salina. Commissioners were updated on the project, which is still in the conceptual stage, during a study session on Monday. Philips lighting would provide LED lamp posts including a 10 year warranty in the downtown area. The entire project would cost about $1.2 million. Salina Mayor Samantha Angell said that she would expect Salina Downtown Inc. to help fund the project. Officials believe that the project would eventually pay for itself, though, in energy s...

Vancouver and nearby Langley in southwestern Canada is to install Korean-made LED lamps in February, next year after the certification process. According to the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, Yuyang DNU, a Korean LED producer, will supply 20 units of 50-watt and 80-watt lights without charge to the two cities for a test operation. The deal is to be signed Wednesday. The deal comes as part of the trade agency’s project to help local small- and mid-sized businesses export their products. Korea is said to be the world’s second-largest LE...

Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, announced commercial availability of its latest generation of industry-leading LS, ES, and award-winning RS product families, delivering an increase in efficacy of up to 30% and a reduction of up to 30% in cost per lumen compared to previous product generations. Featuring the largest portfolio of LED arrays in the lighting industry, Bridgelux offers products for lighting applications ranging from the light output equivalent of a 20-Watt decorative lamp to that of a 300-Watt high...

AN award-winning supermarket group has made the switch to LED lighting to enhance the retail experience for its customers while slashing harmful Co2 emissions. Tout’s Budgens in Somerset chose to completely refurbish its Cheddar supermarket with LED lighting after seeing the light quality and energy savings the latest LED technology can provide. They asked experts at award-winning LED lighting specialists MHA Lighting to devise a scheme for the re-launch of their Church Street store which would showcase the fresh, quality produce they are famous for to b...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Asia Ltd. has a new CEO. Louis Lam took over the company’s Asian business at the beginning of December. He is also Vice President for worldwide sales of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. His predecessor Dr Alfred Felder will in future be responsible for global sales of the business unit General Lighting at the parent company OSRAM AG. Louis Lam can look back on more than 25 years of experience in marketing and sales, as well as business development in the opto-semiconductors industry. He was responsible, among other things...

The city of Robertsdale received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. DOE to replace 120 streetlights with LEDs between Central Baldwin Middle School and Baldwin County 48. The money was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy. According to Greg Smith, city engineer ,the power cost for one of the fixtures now on the highway is about $120.90 a year. The bulbs last for about 22,000 hours. In contrast, the new LED lights will cost about $39 a year and last for about 50,000 hours, cutting not only power costs, but the time needed for workers to replace bulbs. Addi...

To have better lighting in Arizona hospital’s parking lot for the security cameras to operate more efficiently, the Facilities Maintenance Department of Kingman Regional Medical Center approached Howard Industrial Sales in nearby Chandler to initiate energy savings comparisons and a lighting upgrade proposal in order to increase the light output in its vast parking lot. The medical center was using 250-watt HPS lamps in 88 fixtures throughout the campus, running on voltage ranges from 120VAC to 277VAC. The poles are mostly around 16-20 feet high, with some in...

For the third time series LayTec was awarded with Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award for Germany and the Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 EMEA Award. With a sales growth of 1062% in the period 2006-2010 LayTec achieved place 8 in Germany and place 144 in the area of Europe, Middle East and Africa among the fastest growing technology companies! CEO, president and founder of LayTec, Dr. Thomas Zettler, explains the successful concept: „To receive this award three years in succession shows that we have successfully positioned LayTec in the ...

Philips’s officials have called for a rapid worldwide switch to LED lighting at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban. According to the company, a tipping point has been reached in the development of LED lighting that can now be used for general high-quality lighting in almost all applications. The switch to LED lighting will help combat climate change, save energy and improve people's lives through increased well-being, safety and productivity where they live and work. At Climate World Summit, Harry Verhaar, Senior Director for energy and clima...

Royal Philips Electronics has installed 149 LED streetlamps in six streets around the Durban International Conference Centre (ICC). The new street lighting is part of a joint initiative by Philips, State-owned power utility Eskom, the Department of Environmental Affairs and the eThekwini municipality, to demonstrate the significant advances being made in energy-efficient LED lighting. The new lighting offers energy savings of 47.4 MWh a year, or 26% when compared with the older 250 W metal halide street lights they replaced, and at the same time provides sup...

Award-winning Manufacturer Prepares to Provide the Next Generation of Commercial LED Lighting Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, is pleased to announce the appointment of Doug Hickey as Executive Chairman of the Board and Michael Keddington as CEO.   Doug Hickey, Executive Chairman of the Board for Lunera, has more than 20 years of operational experience holding senior-level positions in the telecom, Internet and technology space. Most recently, he was a part...

Facility supports rapidly expanding LED fixture manufacturer Lumenpulse Inc. , a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today unveiled its completed Corporate Headquarters located in Montreal, Canada. The office debut was celebrated on the evening of December 1, with an exclusive event titled the "Evolution of Light." A select guest list, including architects, lighting designers, agents and partners, investors and members of the media were treat...

The OLG Karlsruhe and the Landgericht Mannheim has confirmed that 10 of the claims against DOMINANT are not valid. As a result of the proceedings, the Federal Patent Court of Germany have also nullified 4 OSRAM intellectual property rights and the European Patent Office has revoked one. Osram has been ordered to pay court fees. Following the ruling, Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe only considered two OSRAM patents have been infringed. Dominant has filed oppositions against the validity of these patents and is pending. We remain confident in nullify...

Recently, Chien Fu Shieh, the Chairman of LED sapphire substrate manufacturer Tera Xtal(4969), revealed that the company plans to establish crystal-growing and substrate plants in China. The plan will be carried out in 1Q12 at the soonest. Shieh pointed out that LCD TV’s weak demand caused a steep drop in the prices of sapphire ingot and substrate. However, after its August revenue hit a low of NT$ 105 million, Tera Xtal managed to bounce back and increase the revenues in September and October to NT$ 110 million and NT$ 113 million, respectively. Alth...

Recently, Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI) is reported to regained Samsung’s contracts for LED chips used in TV backlights since October, and the South Korean company will gradually move the contracts originally placed with Epistar Inc. back to FOREPI over the next three years. Both Epistar and FOREPI have declined to comment. However, FOREPI executives said that the company has landed more contracts in November than October from South Korean buyers by an unexpectedly high margin. FOREPI used to be Samsung’s major supplier o...

Lately, unusually cold winter has affected the output of agriculture. Plant Grow Lights may be good for the growers to solve this problem ,and Everlight has actively to seize this opportunity with orders from Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, an American herbal plant research organization and several European agricultural equipment suppliers. Mainland China and the United States have issued warnings against unusually cold winter this year. Hebei Provincial Government of China has issued yellow alert for snowstorm while the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospher...

Recently, Hong Kong-listed lighting maker Neo-Neon Holdings has won a two-year contract to supply LED lighting fixtures to mainland China gas stations Sinopec Corp. According to Neo-Neon, it has begun supplying the fixtures to the petro company’s 1,360 gas stations in Shanxi Province as the first step of the provision. The initial provision is estimated to bring in sales revenue of around RMB76.5 million (US$11.9 million at US$1: NT$6.4). In two separate deals, the company singed a two-year contract for its subsidiary, Neo-Neon LED Lighting Inte...

AIXTRON SE has received an order from Arima Changzhi, a JV LED manufacturing company involving Changzhi High Tech Industry Investment Co., China, and Taiwan Arima Optoelectronics, for three 42x2-inch wafer configuration AIX 2800G4 HT MOCVD systems as well as three 11x4-inch wafer configuration AIX 2800G4 HT MOCVD systems. A local AIXTRON service support team will install all reactors.And AIXTRON G4 MOCVD systems will be used for the production of High Brightness LEDs.  ...

Lighting Science Group has received a 2012 International CES Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Award Honoree with its new low cost World Bulb™ – an omnidirectional 60-watt equivalent A19 LED bulb. The Consumer Electronics Association's (CEA)® International CES Innovations Awards recognize outstanding design and engineering advancements across 32 consumer electronics product groupings – Lighting Science Group's product was honored in the Eco-Design & Sustainable Technologies category. Compared with relati...

San Francisco Bay Area-based LED lighting company, Elemental LED, starts a new holiday promotion from December 1st to December 16th, 2011. The company note that the free shipping promotion is not offered on shipments to Canada or anywhere outside the U.S. and that delivery by Christmas is expected but cannot be guaranteed. Orders must be received by 2pm PST on Friday December 16 to qualify for free shipping, and to be shipped by the end of the day. Ground shipping carriers include both USPS Priority mail and UPS Ground. In addition, Elemental LE...

•    Eco-chic tree in President’s Park is adorned with thousands of GE LEDs, the latest in holiday lighting technology   In 1923, families gathered around the radio to listen as President Calvin Coolidge lit the first National Christmas Tree. Only imaginations brought the ceremony, and the tree located in what is now President’s Park, to life. Eighty-nine years later, families are still gathering to witness the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, but 21st century technology is giving them a front-row seat.   At 4:30 p....

Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, announced today that it has been named to Forbes’ prestigious list of America’s Most Promising Companies (AMPC).  Bridgelux was ranked 58th on the list of 100 privately-held companies selected from 22 industries for their innovative business models and strong management teams. Forbes noted that Bridgelux revenue grew 168% from 2008 – 2010. “We are extremely honored to be selected by Forbes for this influential list of high-growth, high-potential compan...

On the occasion of the SIPLACE press conference for the upcoming Productronica trade show in Munich, W. K. Lee, CEO of ASM Pacific Technology (ASMPT), pointed out that the ASM Group is now the supplier with the widest-ranging technology and product portfolio for the electronics industry. ASMPT is the only equipment manufacturer in the world that integrates solutions for all process stages from front-end (wafer design and production) to back-end assembly (chip packaging, bonding, etc.) to SMT placement solutions provided by the SIPLACE team. W. K...