The oldest McDonald in Cheshire has dressed up by eco-friendly LED now. According to the owner, the rebuilt structure reflects the energy efficiency concerns of the 21st Century, with LED lighting inside and out, energy efficient fryers and used oil that is turned into bio-diesel fuel. The restaurant's new digital sign is also the only one in town. From LED lighting to fryer oil that's recycled into bio-diesel fuel, the newly built McDonald's will save energy while satisfying appetites....

It’s said that TfL (Transport for London) has completed UK-first installation of LED lightings in the Upper Thames Street westbound tunnel to improve visibility for cyclists and motorists to boost safety. According to Dana Skelley, director of roads at TfL and chair of the UK Lighting Board, the lights will cut CO2 emissions by more than 60%, compared with conventional systems. In addition, the installation is also good for maintenance costs. Projections show the cost of lighting the tunnel could fall from around £50,000 each year to less than &pou...

It’s reported that Jizhou Song, professor from the College of Engineering in University of Miami, has helped to utilize an array of LEDs 100 times smaller than conventional LEDs to develop a smaller, flexible LED light. The new LED light has flexibility, maintains lower temperature and has an increased life-span over existing LEDs. Under the research, the scientists focused on improving certain features of LED lights, like size, flexibility and temperature. And Song mainly participated in analyzing the thermal management and establishing an analytical ...

Reportedly, Philips has supplied its LED products to the Co-operative Group’s new flagship store in The Strand, London. Philips has installed its PowerBalance direct/indirect LED luminaire which allows passage of light across the ceiling and downwards into the facility. With Philips’s luminaire, the company can consumes 25% less energy compared to other traditional fluorescent luminaires. Philips has also provides Affinium LDM422 VISION PLUS canopy LED module for its refrigerated multi-deck display cabinets. The luminaire incorporates a...

Currently, LG Electronics has launched five new models of LED-backlit LCD televisions in Japan, two featuring the company’s proprietary “Nano Lighting Technology”; and three “Cinema 3D” models based on its FPR (film-type patterned retarder) passive 3D technology. With  the moniker “Nano Full LED”, the LG LZ9600 series offers an ultra-slim design with a thickness of just 8.8mm which gives the HDTVs a sleek and minimalistic appearance. Two screen sizes are available: the 47-inch LG 47LZ9600 and the 55-i...

LG Electronics has installed its LED lights and a dedicated lighting control system in its Twin Towers headquarters buildings in Seoul, which is considered as one of the world's largest LED lighting installation. According to LG, in a year, the lighting systems on both buildings will save a total of 1,717 MWh of electricity, for a 53% saving over equivalent buildings using conventional fluorescent lighting technology.    LG also estimated that its lineup of lighting solutions provides energy savings ranging from 20-80%, and can last five to ten times lon...

The EverGEN 1710 solar LED outdoor light developed by Carmanah Technologies Corporation has been named Finalist in the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) Program. The EverGEN 1710 features advanced occupancy sensing (AOS) technology and a sleek, modern design. Developed in a partnership with leading innovation firm frog (formerly frog design), the EverGEN 1710 is a compact integrated solar-powered lighting solution for off-grid illumination. The IDEA Program is established in 1980 and recognizes design excellence in a broad range of fi...

Wavien, Inc. has released its low-cost LED pocket projector at the InfoComm 2011 in Orlando, Florida from June 15th to 17th. This projector uses Wavien's proprietary Recycling LED Technology (RLT™) in conjunction with a 0.45" WXGA DLP™ from Texas Instruments. According to Dr. Kenneth Li, President and CEO of Wavien, Inc., who is also the inventor of the DPR technology, "Instead of combining light from separate red, green and blue LED packages, Wavien's RLT™ technology combines all 3 colored LEDs in...

Phoseon Technology, the provider of UV LED solutions is about to showcase its air cooled and water cooled UV LED systems designed to be capable of curing in a wide range of UV applications at RadTech Asia 2011 conference, in Yokohama, Japan. It’s said that the company will display the three-tiered benefits of UV LED curing (high-quality, environmentally friendly, and lower total cost of ownership). Phoseon's products add additional capability with high performance, maximum UV energy, and outstanding reliability for customer's tough curing environm...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that Tsinghua Tongfang Company, a Beijing-based publicly listed division of the Tsinghua Holdings Company Limited, has placed an order for Veeco's new TurboDisc(R) MaxBright(TM) Multi-Reactor MOCVD System for production of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs). Professor Liu Gang, General Manager of Nantong Tongfang commented, "Last year we selected Veeco as our primary supplier for our new production facility in NanTong, China that was completed at the end of 2010. We are ...

State-of-the-art plant ramps to production in less than eight months GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR), a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets, today celebrated the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art sapphire production facility located in Salem, Massachusetts. The opening of the newly expanded plant concludes a project that began in the fall of 2010 that triples the sapphire production capacity in its Salem facility. GT...

Thermal Technology’s Model K1 sapphire crystal grower was utilized by Hefei Crystalbridge Optoelectronic Materials Co. Ltd. to produce China’s first commercial grade sapphire crystal of nearly 100kg.   Crystalbridge estimates these crystals will yield 4,000mm of “two inch equivalent” (TIE) rods, or about 5,700 high quality 2-inch substrates.  Crystalbridge grew the crystal in14 days, an increase in productivity of more than 25 percent compared to most other Chinese producers.  “Achieving this milestone only one month from...

LG World’s First Smart TV Portable LED Projector HW300T is powered by Luminus Devices ‘s latest generation of the PT-54 LED chipset. The HW300T is only available in consumer flat-panel televisions. It features built-in access to pre-paid High Definition movies from Vudu as well as social networking services such as Facebook or Twitter. The HW300T’s wireless connection is compatible with the Digital Living Network Alliance protocol and allows direct access to content located on networked devices, including personal computers. ...

Luminus Devices has developed its newest Red-Green-Blue (RGB) LED chipsets, the Compact SBT-16 and SBT-39 chipsets, targeted to consumer projectors. Personal and ultra-mobile LED projectors are an emerging class of miniature projection devices with sizes typically ranging from 150 to 400 cm3. These projectors may include built-in digital media players and can connect to portable devices such as PDAs and notebook computers. Luminus Devices’s red, green and blue LEDs that are individually assembled in a small footprint, performance surface mount packa...

Samsung Electronics America Inc., has shown four new lines of LED/LCD commercial displays during InfoComm 2011 in Orlando, FL, June 15-17 and available through Samsung distributors and resellers in Q3 2011.   The four new lines including Samsung HE, ME, UE and UD Series incorporate LED-backlight technology that offers many benefits over traditional Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp backlighting. With the ME and UE Series benefitting from a high 120Hz and 240Hz refresh rate, respectively, there is smoother scrolling text and reduced motion blu...

Since May, San Francisco based company Elemental LED has launched a new monthly initiative to encourage employees to create their own projects that utilize LED lights.   According to the Employee DIY project, each participating employee will be given a modest budget to be spent on any of the LED lights and accessories in Elemental LED's catalog of products every month. At the end of each month, each employee is given the opportunity to show off his/her creation at a show and tell . Everyone present will vote on their favorites, and the winners will receive...

Company Marks 10th Year of Providing Commercial Buildings with Significant Cost-Savings and Sustainability For Encelium Technologies, a technology manufacturer specializing in integrated lighting control systems for commercial buildings, the future has never looked brighter. Installations of its hallmark Energy Control SystemTM (ECS) now exceed more than 35 million square feet and the company continues to post impressive annual sales increases. And just last year, Encelium secured $11 million in a financing round led by Siemens Venture Capital (SVC), the corp...

Onteco Corporation’s subsidiary, NexPhase Lighting, Inc. is reported to enlarge its NexSense LED troffer product line.   According to Jon Cooper, President of NexPhase, they have researched the marketplace closely while developing our 2x2 NexSense LED Troffer and clearly an expanded product line in different form factors is needed to fully satisfy the many market opportunities at hand. Later this year they will be introducing different troffer product configurations for their 2x2 Troffer as well as 1x4 and 2x4 configurations. They are utilizing the m...

Continuing to expand its offerings of based LEDs for industrial controls and retrofit panel mount applications, LEDtronics introduces 22mm and 30mm direct incandescent-replacement RPLH Series Panel LED Pilot Lamps and Holders. Comprising an integrated modular system, the RPLH Series are complete assemblies that incorporate the lens, lamp and lamp holder. The RPLH Series is an excellent choice for applications where space is a concern and aesthetics a consideration. RPLH22-02-0X-02Z47 is 22mm and the RPLH30-02-0X-02Z47 30mm mounting hole, with beh...

Everlight has shown its various LED products at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition and has prepared to present Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall, Area M, booth number 812 and Area L, booth number 622(Jun.14~16, 2011). The company presents a new Chip-on-Board (COB) LED series to offer a solution that addresses important issues in general lighting replacement applications. Competing to previously dominating standard discrete low power, mid power, and high power LED components, Chip-on-Board LEDs are predicted to take on a...

‘Being on the fringe’ can mean being on the cutting edge of creativity – out where the new happens. Entertainment-technology company ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) loves the fringe. It’s the sweet spot of innovation. This year ETC will not only help light up the stages of the Hollywood Fringe Festival with ETC equipment but also present their own show -- the “Layers of Light” Selador® LED lighting presentation. Open to the public but of extra interest to production people throughout the entertainment industry, this l...

It’s said that Lattice Power Corp. has joined force with ShineOn Inc.to demonstrate the world's first high-brightness LED product based on GaN-on-Si technology. Combining the LP1000 chip which is a thin-film vertical structure device built entirely on Lattice Power's proprietary GaN-on-Silicon technology and ShineOn's MOZ3535, a compact ceramic packaging platform with low thermal impedance and superior optical performance, the GaN-on-Si based high-brightness LED device can take 350–1000mA current input and deliver more than 100-lume...

Recently, LED Source® has designed a new lighting energy audit mobile application, Lampinator™ for iPhones and iPads. The Lampinator™ app sheds new light on the benefits and cost savings gained by switching to LED technology. With the Lampinator™ they are presented with a polished, easy-to-understand report right on the spot. The report is a snapshot comparison that provides information on a location’s current lighting energy and maintenance costs, along with the savings an LED lighting retrofit could offer. LED Source® speciali...

It’s said that the provider of analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, Micrel ,has released its new linear White LED (WLED) Drivers, MIC4801/MIC4802, designed to eliminate noise, minimize component count and simplify numerous designs. The new drivers are single channel, constant-current sink LED drivers designed for architectural, landscape, and general LED lighting products. They do not require an inductor.The high efficiency WLED drivers are designed to drive a single LED up to 600mA and 800mA respectively and based o...

California-based Switch Lighting has launched its first true 100-watt equivalent LED bulb, named the Switch100. With its innovative self-cooling environment, which uses a nontoxic liquid to move heat away from the LEDs inside the bulb, the bulb is capable of achieving 100-watt brightness . When the liquid near the LED chip gets warm, it will flow out towards the edge of the dome and be replaced by cooler liquid from the edge. The hot liquid will then cool at the edge, before it moves again into the center to replace the new hot liquid. The Switch100 is also dimmabl...

LG Electronics India has rolled out world's slimmest LED monitors, 3D cinema monitor and IPS monitor. Claimed to the world slimmest LED monitor, LG E 90 monitor has just 7.2mm-thick. The monitor boasts of a slim design and comes with energy saving features. The LG cinema 3D monitor is free from flicker and crosstalk ,therefore viewers can watch 3D content for longer. Cinema 3D has a Light Boost feature, a thin film covering the screen that delivers twice as bright as the conventional 3D. LG cinema 3D monitors also offer flexible viewing positions. ...

Lextar debuts its new Chip Array COB technology and high efficiency (up to 150 lm/W) LED packaging products. Both was presented in the 2011 Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition held from the ninth to twelfth of this month.   COB (Chip on Board): Lextar exhibits a series of LED components including COB and LED package. In terms of COB, the newly developed Chip Array COB technology employs exclusive mechanical design and unique material for improved cost.    With a 15-20% more efficient COB the Chip Array COB feature...

Philips has installed 1,000 Philips Fortimo LED SLM modules 2000lm 33W/830 in the ‘MAS’ (Museum aan de Stroom) in Antwerp, Belgium making the ‘MAS’ the first museum in the Benelux illuminating all its precious art with LED lighting. The Philips Fortimo LED SLM module 2000lm 33W/830 is the LED spot that was selected for this unique lighting project. It has a color temperature of 3000 K and a higher light output than a 100W halogen light source. The module is dimmable. Because of lower maintenance and energy costs than with h...

Seoul Semiconductor lately has supplied its Z-Power LED series for the landscape lighting of the Foro Romano, one of the most important archaeological sites in Rome. The company installed most lights on the floor as well as some on the Column of Trajan. John S. Bae vice president of Seoul Semiconductor, said, “The Z-Power series supplied for the Foro Romano Project was the best choice to keep lighting up the historic place of Rome with long life and low-power consumption.” He added, “Seoul Semiconductor’s LED lights have been able ...

Chinese company ShineOn has released its high performance LED products including a MOZ3535 1-3W, an SOWW3014 product and a series of CoB products with integrated chip arrays at the 16th annual Guangzhou International Lighting Conference. According to the company, the MOZ3535 1-3W product is based on ShineOn's proprietary ceramic packaging platform. The device delivers more than 200 lumens of light at a cost of only fifty cents and suits for indoor and outdoor illumination, flash lights. The SOW3014 product features an SMD package with built-in hea...