Taiwan based company which makes backlight modules for personal computers, has intended to enter into LED lighting sector this year, with commercial products to be primary products in the initial stage, according to its Chairman B.R. Wang. The company will start to build up competitive strength and footholds for its LED lighting operation over next three to five years. Wang said the company will make most of its advantage in light guide plate R&D to drum up built-to-order contracts among international lighting brands. And the company’s lighting operation can prov...

The Nova Scotia energy department has announced draft regulations to give Nova Scotia Power and municipalities until June 30, 2019 for LED roadway lighting replacement. The draft regulations are available for a 30-day comment period.  “Municipalities have one year from the date the amended regulations take effect to file a report with the minister outlining how the conversion to LED street lighting will take place,” the energy department stated in a press release. “Converting to LED will save about $18 million when energy savings are combined with...

LED Street Light Now Being Installed in Puerto Rico Leading the global shift towards sustainable LED lighting solutions, Lighting Science Group announced the launch of its high performance and feature-rich RoadMaster(TM) street light. Currently being installed throughout Puerto Rico, the Company's new street light provides a reduction in energy costs during its extended operating life, helping governments and communities avoid soaring energy and maintenance costs associated with traditional high pressure sodium (HPS) street lights. Priced at a fraction of...

Provide Traverse City Area Public Schools with New, Sustainable Learning Environment   Officials at Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) recognized that Long Lake Elementary School needed a major overhaul. Out of renovation options, the District opted for a complete rebuild of the nearly 50-year-old building in an effort to make the new school a model of energy efficiency and sustainability. To help achieve its overall goal of creating a high-quality, LEED-certified visual learning environment, the school turned to energy-efficient solutions from C...

O2Micro® International Limited was issued 18 claims under United States patent number 8,076,867 for its Driving Circuit invention. O2Micro's patented invention includes the benefits of United States patent number 8,044,608, eliminating use of a dedicated apparatus to control LED brightness. Thus, component count and the cost of end-user panel brightness control are reduced. "This invention can continuously adjust LED brightness controlled by an AC wall switch," remarked Dr. Yung Lin, executive vice president, O2Micro.  ...

Carmanah Technologies has introduced launched its latest Aviation signaling product, the A704-H, which sets a new and higher level for solar LED lighting intensity in the aviation market. This light is easily installed, and can be remotely controlled. More importantly, the increased light intensity enables safe flights and ensures airfields can stay open more often in adverse weather. Lighting intensity is the top safety factor in the aviation sector, and when weather deteriorates, lighting intensities must be able to compensate for low visibility conditions. The A704-H m...

Philips Lumileds has launched LUXEON R, designed for outdoor and industrial lighting applications such as streetlights, high-bay lights, wall packs and bollards. LUXEON R is an Illumination Grade LED, and therefore is Hot Tested and Specified so that its performance at operating conditions is well understood. In addition, LUXEON R offers Freedom From Binning to ensure uniformity from solution to solution. Furthermore, LUXEON R is footprint compatible with LUXEON Rebel and LUXEON Rebel ES, while delivering more light output, higher...

Technical Downlighting Leader’s Expanded LED Recessed Downlighting Collection Features High CRI, Modularity and Increased Efficiency Following the successful debut of its 2011 Eco-Downlight LED collection, CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) has once again emerged as a technical leader and manufacturer of energy-efficient LED systems with the launch of its 2012 Eco-Downlight collection. Featuring a newly expanded line of high-performance LED downlights, the new collection includes three ground-breaking products: a brand-new 5” aperture ...

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced that it has trained its 500th customer engineer at its state-of-the-art China Training Center (CTC), located in Shanghai. The CTC opened in mid-2011 to help key LED manufacturers, including its two largest customers, Sanan Optoelectronics and Elec-Tech International, scale-up production, optimize their use of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems, and support the industry's rapid growth.   Lin Zhiqiang, Chief Executive Officer of Sanan Optoelectronics, commented, "We congratulate Veeco on a...

euroLED 2012 is taking place on the 13th & 14th June at the NEC, Birmingham, UK.  euroLED comprises of an exhibition showcasing all levels of the LED supply chain, technical conference and highly popular gala dinner. Why attend euroLED 2012: •    The euroLED exhibition features all technologies from throughout the whole of the LED supply chain, giving an extensive and all-inclusive view of cutting edge technology and who's leading the pack. See who's exhibiting •    A dedicated panel of experts has bee...

Philips has kicked off working on a technology that will significantly reduce its dependence on rare earth minerals for its LED lighting products. According to Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips Electronics, “We have launched some innovation projects in order to become less dependent on rare earths.” Mr van Houten explained creating the LED lighting products will remain dependent on rare earths, it being a vital component to its efficiency. But such dependence can be lessened. In his opinion, people cannot eliminate it of course. But in their labs t...

Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc (SETi) has made a breakthrough on efficiencies of ultraviolet light (UV) LEDs operating in the germicidal UV-C range. Generally, the UV-C range peaks at around 254nm although the latest LEDs developed by SETi have been designed to emit at 278nm. Under the DARPA Compact Mid-Ultraviolet Technology (CMUVT) program and performed in collaboration with Army Research Laboratories (ARL), the firm's latest devices have an external quantum efficiency of 11% with a corresponding wall-plug efficiency of 8%. This l...

The Taiwan-based Fin-Core Corporation has developed a patented heat sink that delivers 30% more thermal dissipation efficiency than competing types in LED lamps with its 20% larger thermal area, ending up with doubling lifespan of an LED light bulb. Currently, the thermal technology can be available in light tubes, recessed lights, MR16, AR111, and T-BAR in addition to light bulbs, rated at 7W, 12W, 16W and 24W in power specification. Additionally, the company is also good at power supply solutions to LED lighting. The company is a subsidiary of the publicl...

Taiwan based maker of household appliances, Tatung Corp., is about to roll out over 20 models of LED lamps on April 26 in association with its subsidiaries, including sapphire-wafer maker San Chih Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and LED packager Forward Electronics Co., Ltd., as well as LED makers Formosa Epitaxy Inc. and Unity Opto Co., Ltd. According to the cooperation, Tatung will contract Unity to make the lamps and slap its brand names on them. San Chih is designated to supply sapphire as carrier substrate, on which Formosa will use to grow LED epitaxy l...

PowerSecure International, Inc. has received $10 million of new awards for its Interactive Distributed Generation(R) (IDG(R)) smart grid power systems, LED Area Lights, and utility infrastructure projects. Among these awards, there are total $4.5 million for the new IDG System, including installations for industrial, retail, municipal, and military facilities. The new LED Area Light awards total $0.4 million, including orders from seven utilities, and several repeat orders. And the utility infrastructure awards total $5.1 million, including transmission, distr...

FZLED's smallest panel light fits into any space, PL30-00-22 smaller form factor adds adjustable illumination to 22-watt LED panel light FZLED, a provider of high-performance LED lighting products, added a third compact model to its range of panel lights . The all-new PL30-00-22 design measures 300 by 300 millimeters, a size that fits in any space. Using just 22 watts of power, the panel light delivers the brightness of a T8 tube light, reducing energy bills by 50 percent or more. Designed to illuminate large spaces, the FZLED lights are the perfect fit...

Lasertel, Inc. a subsidiary of SELEX Galileo Inc., a Finmeccanica company, and Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Lasertel has purchased a second high-throughput, multi-wafer GEN200® Edge™ Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) production system from Veeco to increase their manufacturing capacity for laser diodes. “The additional GEN200 Edge production MBE system provides the extra capacity required to support the increased demand for Lasertel devices. The GEN200 system offers advanced automation, precise process con...

Sacramento Facility to Save 91% of Lighting Energy with Integrated Wireless Lighting Controls and LED Fixtures Daintree Networks, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent wireless lighting controls for commercial buildings, today announced a successful installation for the Sacramento facility of United Stationers Inc., a leading North American wholesale distributor of business products. With the help of Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), United Stationers installed an integrated intelligent lighting system consisting of Cree’s energy-savi...

Rubicon displays industry-leading, very large, defect-free sapphire crystal for use in the optical market for a wide range of industrial applications Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, today announced that it will be showing its line of sapphire optical products including sapphire ingots, windows and blanks at the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing conference in Baltimore, MD, April 23 - 27, 2012 in booth #545. Sapphire is ideal for hig...

An ideal alternative solution for metal replacement provides design freedom, enhanced thermal performance, weight reduction and manufacturing cost savings PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, unveiled new Therma-Tech™ thermally conductive grades for light-emitting diode (LED) lighting applications this week at Chinaplas 2012 (booth N1F41). Replacing metal heat sinks with these new materials can enable parts consolidation and better management of hot spots, resulting in longer LED l...

Recently, the Massachusetts campus have completed LED lighting installation, with the incentives from Western Massachusetts Electric Company and Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources’ federal stimulus money. New fixtures are capable of enabling conservation of annual costs up to $8,700. Physical Plant’s electric utilities engineer, John Lavalley, says that a WMECO contractor installed "cobra cutoff heads" that will generate equivalent or even more light when compared to the current high-pressure sodium lamps. In addition, the new...

Everlight filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nichia in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The lawsuit seeks to enjoin Nichia from manufacturing, using, importing, offering for sale, or selling its infringing products in the United States. It also seeks monetary damages. In its complaint, Everlight is seeking enforcement of a patent covering LED metallization technology, U.S. Patent No. 6,653,215. Everlight is the exclusive U.S. licensee of the ‘215 Patent, which is owned by Emcore Corporation. Uses for Ni...

Philips has started to sell $60 LED energy-efficient light bulb on Earth Day in US. The bulb lasts about 20 years and is supposed to give off natural-looking light but it comes with an expensive price tag, the Associated Press reported. According the BBC, the bulb "swaps filaments for light-emitting diodes to provide illumination." The components cost a bit more to produce than the average bulb. A cheaper, less efficient version is already on sale in Europe. Philips is discounting it right away to $50 for consumers and additional deals mean some could se...

Benefit from the government's recent announcement that it will hike electricity rates, Taiwan several major LED lighting firms, such as Everlight, Edison and Unity Opto, have received large orders from corporate customers who want to cut operating costs through wider use of energy-efficient lighting. Therefore, the increase in orders in LED lighting have even boosted demand for LED chips and will lead to full capacity utilization at upstream suppliers in the LED chain in the second quarter. According to Mirae Asset Management analyst Arch Shih, “We e...

GlacialLight , a division of experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that its environmentally-friendly LED lighting products are being used in many applications around the world and providing users with energy-saving light of the highest quality. In the Dominican Republic, chronic energy shortages and very high electricity prices are not uncommon due to an inadequate energy grid. Realizing that keeping energy usage and costs down is important for maintaining reliable business operations, two Dominican establishments, a branch of the B...

Luminus Devices has announced to release a family of round LEDs that will accelerate the adoption of solid-state technology by displacing conventional light sources in high brightness lighting applications. And the first round LED product will be commercially available in Q3 this year. Don McDaniel, Global Marketing Director for Entertainment Lighting at Luminus,said "Our new round LED increases system-level efficiency by as much as 30%, enabling our customers to use a single LED to replace a 250W HID lamp." Luminus' round LED technology ...

Taiwan's National Central University’s scientists have utilized a new packaging technology that addresses the color variations of LED lighting for indoor use. According to Lee Cheng-chung, dean of the university's College of Science, in spite of its high performance, long life and low pollution, LED lighting is mostly used outdoors rather than indoors because its color variations may be visually uncomfortable. And Sun Ching-cherng, director of the university's Department of Optics and Photonics, pointed out that LED lighting can produce light o...

One of the largest importers of fresh fruit in the United Kingdom, MMD Shipping’s inbound facility at the City of Portsmouth handles roughly 60 percent of all bananas brought into the UK. With a dozen ships that traverse the Atlantic hauling fruit “across The Pond” from the Caribbean, MMD operates a 12-warehouse facility that receives and distributes all varieties of fresh fruit to the British market. Already coping with a nearly 20 percent increase in energy rates over the past year, the company was facing an additional 10-15 percent year-over-y...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting,  announced revenue of $284.8 million for its third quarter of fiscal 2012, ended March 25, 2012. This represents a 30% increase compared to revenue of $219.2 million reported for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 and a 6% decrease compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2012. GAAP net income for the third quarter was $9.5 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, a decrease of 50% year-over-year compared to GAAP net income of $18.9 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2011. On a n...

Cooper Lighting has prepared to move from Denver to Aurora . The lighting company, which employs 114 people at 4675 Holly St., is relocating to a 190,000-square-foot building at 18001 E. Colfax Ave. by the end of the summer. In the meanwhile, the company plans to invest about $1.2 million on improvements to the facility, which will produce and distribute incandescent, fluorescent and LED lighting for commercial and residential clients. It will invest $400,000 in capital equipment as part of the move. Its investment over 10 years is expected to reach $8.9 million, according...