MyLED Group, Malaysia’s solid state lighting (SSL) and LED manufacturer, will achieve more than RM2 billion in sales for its lighting components over the next five years with sealing sales Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with 15 international and local companies. MyLED signed sales MoUs with six Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) from Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia. Three of the OEMs, Amprex International Sdn Bhd (Japan), Light-Trend Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd (Taiwan) and Osram Opto Semiconductors (Germany...

Lighting Science has designed the BayLight industrial LED light to replace existing High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting, matching the performance of conventional 400W HID systems, while offering up to 35% reduction in energy usage. The BayLight provides an L70 rated life of over 60,000 hours at 40°C and more than 100,000 hours at 25˚C. It is available in higher and hard to reach applications, such as large storage areas, where re-lamping can be costly and time consuming. Features as following: •    LEDs help to improve efficienc...

Light pollution has become a big problem in Hong Kong as the new generation of dynamic LED and LCD advertising screens coming flood. Carl Gardner, Director of CSG Lighting Consultancy Ltd’, was recently invited by the city authorities in Hong Kong to advise them on ways that the city and its local businesses can reduce the problems of light nuisance and light pollution. Hong Kong has some of the densest living conditions in the world – high-rise residential blocks are packed tightly together, to maximise land use, and upwards light spill from lighting at...

Nordson ASYMTEK announces that it has won the 2011 Global Technology Award in the category of LED Production Equipment for its Spectrum S-922 LED jetting system for dispensing silicone. The award recognizes the best new innovations in the printed circuit assembly and packaging industries. The award was presented at the Productronica Trade Fair in Munich, Germany on November 15th, 2011.  This was the fourth time Nordson ASYMTEK has won a Global Technology award. Nordson ASYMTEK's jet dispenser enables sticky silicon phosphor to be di...

Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth is to get an LED makeover, and currently it is under the process of test. According to Sundance's marketing director, there are more than 7,600 feet of LED cable to outline about 18 buildings, primarily along Main Street. It has taken workers about 5,000 hours to install the lights and 100 hours to program them. If testing goes well, the lights will be switched on after the Parade of Lights on Friday. The system is computer-operated and has 16 million color options with unlimited program combinations, such as lighting seque...

Stamford-based LED lighting manufacturer Solais Lighting, has raised $1.8 million, according to a new filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company founded in 2008, and investors including FreshTracks Capital, Long River Ventures, and Gorann. It dedicates in making LED lamps with the lightweight, output, focused-beam and full-dimming features capable of replacing halogen reflector lamps. It designs its LEDs for track and recessed fixtures in commercial, museum, retail, hospitality and high-end residential applications. In Janu...

San Francisco Bay Area-based company Elemental LED will discount its entire inventory of products by 35% on Cyber Monday, November 28th. It’s the second year that the company will participate with online retailers in Cyber Monday, following last year when it also discounted products by 35%. The LED Lighting Cyber Monday sale will begin on November 28th at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and end on November 29th at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. The company expects call volume to be high and has allocated extra personnel to assist customers over ph...

LED lamp manufacturer MSi, has supported Furniture retailer Talsma Furniture to replacing more than 700 traditional incandescent light bulbs in the Holland Michigan store with new LED bulbs. Benefits from LEDs, total energy savings are estimated at about 5,054 megawatts per hour every year, the equivalent of planting more than 1253 trees. The LED lamps have an expected life of 10 years, reducing landfill disposal....

Fairchild Semiconductor has designed developed the FODM8801, part of the OptoHiT™ series of high temperature phototransistor optocouplers. These devices use Fairchild’s proprietary OPTOPLANAR® coplanar packaging technology to achieve high noise immunity and reliable isolation at high operating temperatures. The FODM8801 consists of an aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs) infrared light emitting diode optically coupled to a phototransistor. The device provides a guaranteed Current Transfer Ratio (CTR) for both saturated and non-saturate...

Taiwan National Tsing Hua University has established a new compound semiconductor laboratory for the development of new chip components that will support alternative green energy sources. Cheng Keh-yung, dean of NTHU's College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the inauguration ceremony,said that the lab represents the first project in Taiwan to fully integrate semiconductor component research. According to Cheng, the lab will cover passive and active component development from the epitaxy process to chip component manufacturing and testing. T...

Halifax based LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., a private company , has acquired the innovative intellectual property of Streetlight Intelligence Inc. of Victoria, B.C. According to Ken Cartmill, LED Roadway’s vice-president of business and product development, said in an interview , the acquisition of Streetlight’s wireless light management technology gives the company the ability to offer customers a full package that includes lights, lighting controls and energy monitoring systems. Cartmill wouldn’t disclose what LED Roadway paid for the Streetl...

The city of West Asheville is under the process of upgrading Phase II of a streetlight with LED bulbs, from Monday to Thursday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. with no expectations of traffic disruption. Date back to the spring of 2010, the City has successfully installed 700 lights in River District and Kenilworth neighborhoods in Phase I of the street light upgrade project. Phase II has a broader reach and will involve 2800 streetlights across West Asheville, Kenilworth and Oakley. Phase I of the four year initiative began in May 2011 and has generat...

Recently, Greensboro-based LED Retailer Fresh Market has won LED Retailer of the Year from GE Lighting  at GE’s third annual LED & Energy Efficient Lighting Trends for Retail conference in Ohio. The criteria for the LED Retailer of the Year award included having retrofitted at least 20 percent of fleet stores to LED lighting, being able to demonstrate at least 20 percent energy savings as a result, and customer recognition of improved store appearance. According to Fresh Market’s energy manager Paul Poole, the company has in...

Samsung Electronics America has rolled out seven lighting products, the first LED lighting solutions for the U.S. consumer market. Samsung's initial product lineup for U.S. households including A19, PAR20/30/38 and MR16 bulbs--all designed to easily replace traditional incandescent, halogen and CFL bulbs throughout the home are available through Lowes.com and at select Lowe's home improvement retail stores nationwide. Several features as following, A19 Bulbs is a directional bulb that is sized to easily replace a conventional incandescent bulb in any ...

AWARD winning LED specialist MHA Lighting has saved Newcastle International Airport 70% on its car park lighting costs. The forward-thinking firm triumphed over other national lighting firms to transform the lighting in the airport’s busy car parks with 370 Perimeter Lights (PL). Greater Manchester-based MHA Lighting created a powerful solution to replace 150 watt SON fittings (170 watt with ballast) with their PL40 fitting - which is just 45 watts inclusive of ballast. The lights were fitted to 6.5 metre high poles spaced at 18-21 metres to pro...

There is Philip’s new range of handheld inspection lights suggested for Christmas gifts. Philip’s latest range would make a great stocking filler, particularly for car and their mechanical functions enthusiasts. The so-called ‘baby’ of the range features six LED lights. The ‘baby’ also features a ‘seventh’ light at the top of the pen so that it can double up as a torch. This waterproof, damage resistant (Philips’ inform us that it endured a 1.5m test drop without sustaining any damage), pen-sized inspection light provides a ...

The River Walk, the City of San Antonio’s treasure and one of Texas' top attractions, will install more than 1.76 million multi-colored LED wrapping the trees and lining the street bridges along its banks. Local lighting consultant and renowned artist Bill FitzGibbons, developed the LED lighting plan for the City of San Antonio. Apart from the minibulbs, the eco-friendly lights incorporate the addition of multi-color programmable holiday accent lighting on all 22 street bridges at the River Walk. The lights will be wrapped on 170 trees lining the river...

LED solutions provide efficient lighting in sustainable building design. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided its Halo LED downlights to the University of Kansas for use in its new award-winning sustainable Center for Design Research located in Lawrence, Kansas. The ENERGY-STAR® -qualified Halo LED recessed downlight housing with an All-Pro RL7 LED module-trim were select as the ideal solution for a building designed to be...

A project funded by the EU,  known as IMOLA (Intelligent light Management for OLED on foil Applications), will put a focus on the development of large-area OLED-based lighting modules with built-in intelligent light management. These OLED-based lighting modules will be used in future energy-efficient wall, ceiling and car dome lighting, where the light intensity can be adjusted intelligently, e.g. according to the time of the day or weather conditions.   OLEDs are paper-thin, flexible and lightweight electronic devices that consist of organic materi...

Columbia based UV LED maker Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETi) has developed a strategic partnership with Psoria‐Shield Inc, the manufacturer of the world’s first deep-UV LED powered phototherapy system. Under the partnership,Psoria‐Shield’s flagship device, the Psoria‐Light, is the first phototherapy treatment product to be launched with SETi’s UVClean lamps. SETi’s UVClean LED array technology has been incorporated into the Psoria‐Light’s patent‐pending emitter, which enables a compact handset to deliv...

Researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made a breakthrough on a novel single-layer design for building quantum-dot light-emitting devices (QD-LEDs) by stacking quantum dots within an insulating structure having the shape of an egg crate. The new QD-LED has been claimed to resemble a sandwich with a single active layer of quantum dots nestled in insulation and trapped between two ceramic electrodes and the dots kept apart from each other by the egg-create design. QD-LEDs can be used in lasers, general light sources, ...

Lately, Carmanah Technologies Corporation and Ruud Lighting, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cree,have discontinued their exclusive marketing agreement on November 6th, 2011. This agreement was established in May, 2008 and effectively paired Carmanah stand-alone solar power engines with Ruud Lighting's specification-grade BetaLED(R) exterior LED luminaires. The alliance between the two companies has resulted in Carmanah's portfolio of award-winning solar outdoor lighting products, including the EverGEN 30, EverGEN 1500, and EverGEN 1700 se...

Ohio –based company TCP has announced its LED lamp series of products earned the ENERGY STAR® certification, further confirming the company's commitment, with one of the largest number of ENERGY STAR qualified lamps in the industry. Vice President of Marketing at TCP, Jim Crowcroft, said that "We are excited that our LED series has earned the ENERGY STAR. Our LED strategy has been to produce products that exceed the ENERGY STAR requirements and provide them at a value price.  Achieving ENERGY ST...

Recently,Panasonic has won a Good Design award for an LED bulb which mimics the look of traditional incandescent bulbs while offering the energy efficiency of LED technology. According to the Good Design Award, Panasonic's managed to engineer around LEDs two main challenges: spreading the light around and casting a warm tint onto its surroundings. LEDs are often very cool light sources, which looks strange to our incandescent-trained eyes. Supposedly Panasonic's cracked that problem. The light produced is not reminiscent of an LED bulb but has a warm ...

According to Toshiba , it has completed the first stage of renewing external lighting at the Louvre, and it will continute to install the warm glow of new LED lighting in the Pyramid, the three pyramidions and the Colbert pavilion of the Louvre on December 6. The Louvre museum recognized the value of replacing the old, high energy xenon lighting with LEDs, and selected Toshiba as its partner in this endeavor. Toshiba has delivered and installed its latest LED products and fittings. Working in close collaboration, Toshiba and the Louvre have designed the lighting to ...

Havells-Sylvania has announced the appointment of Rajiv Goel as President of Global Operations for the Havells-Sylvania Group (formerly known as the Sylvania Group, prior to the 2007 acquisition).  In this role, Rajiv Goel will be fully responsible for driving strategic direction and growth.  Making this announcement, Anil Gupta, COO Havells India, Ltd said, “Rajiv’s proven track record in senior management at Havells coupled with his corporate financial expertise puts him in an ideal position to drive growth across our global business. ...

Xiang Nang Hualei Optoelectronics Ltd, of Hunan Province, China, has placed an order of eight new AIXTRON MOCVD reactors including six CRIUS II reactors in a 55x2-inch wafer configuration and two AIX G5 HT 56x2-inch wafer configuration systems to boost capacity for GaN HB LEDs. The order includes six CRIUS II reactors in a 55x2-inch wafer configuration and two AIX G5 HT 56x2-inch wafer configuration systems.   A local AIXTRON service team has installed and commissioned the new systems in Hualei Optoelectronics´ stat...

Osram Sylvania has released s new survey about Americans’ awareness on light bulb changeover. According to Osram Sylvania’s new survey, Americans’ awareness about using LED light sources as replacements for regular bulbs is growing. Americans come to know that federal legislation will phase out “most traditional incandescent lighting by 2014.” And the poll found that 55 percent of respondents were aware of that fact, up from 36 percent in 2010 and 26 percent in 2009. According to Stephanie Anderson, a spokeswoman for Osram Sylvania, &ldquo...

Tivoli, LLC announces the publication of a new comprehensive venue and auditorium catalog.  Featuring a variety of specific wall, row, step, seat and guide lighting solutions for today’s venues and theaters, the 32-page, full-color glossy catalog is a complete resource guide with recommended solutions for today’s popular VIP illumination solutions.    The catalog, which includes Tivoli’s ADA, Life Safety Code and ETL compliant systems, is formatted for easy product look-up, and is organized by application such as “VIP Venues,&rd...

The historic Schinkel street lights in the city of Leipzig has got an LED makeover with Braun Lighting Solutions of Berlin and Future Lighting Solutions. Compared with the 85W power consumption of the lamps they replace, the LED lamps consume only 22W. It is expected to reduce the street lights’ CO2 emissions by 60.8 tonnes per year. Future Lighting Solutions helped in the design phase by providing a simulation of the first prototype, implemented at its Lighting Resource Center in Montreal, Canada. It also helped with the selection of electronic lig...