The LED lighting industry is still under immense profit pressures in 2013, despite a huge surge in demands for LED lighting products. Revenue is no longer the most important issue; profit is the key, said Edward Po, President, Taiwan, Philips. Manufacturers in the LED lighting industry including Philips are facing profit challenges. Philips is trying to increase LED lighting integration services, and secure gross profit and profit performance with lighting integration. 

Starting August 1, custom retrofit LED manufacturer Noribachi is rolling out a new customer loyalty program dubbed Noribachi Switch, rewarding customers with the unique opportunity to upgrade their existing custom retrofit lights with the latest generation of LEDs at fifty percent off the invoice price originally paid. “Our current generation of diodes use the latest semiconductor technology and phosphors to produce an astounding efficacy of over 140 lux (lumens per watt) and carry an extended lifetime over the previous generation,” said Esther Santos, chief oper...

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton today announced that it has received a $2.4 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to explore the development of energy efficient lighting products. Eaton’s research, slated for completion in 2015, will aim to improve the manufacturing speed of LED fixtures by three times over the typical rate, reduce LED light engine costs by five times and reduce assembly costs by approximately 50 percent. “This partnership with industry to produce affordable, efficient lighting will save consumers money and ...

According to reports, "Heraldi for Men" fashion store in the Croatian capital city of Zagreb adopts modern LED lighting from OSRAM to emphasize the presentation of goods in the store. Flexible and efficient LED lighting can provide consumers with highly unusual shopping experiences. Lighting solutions in the retail sector fulfill important functions by setting accents, offering customers improved orientation and supporting the display of goods. The demands placed on the lighting experts were also similar for the Heraldi for Men fashion store. Lighting was r...

Marl International has started a bilateral engineering partnership with California-based LED lighting manufacturer Bivar Inc. under which the two companies will combine design resources and share IP to bring innovative LED lighting and indicators to the market more quickly. The announcement marks a further stage in the strategic alliance between Marl and Bivar which was announced in January 2013. Under the agreement, Marl and Bivar will share expertise, tools and teams to bring products to market jointly. The two companies will market and support these products to cus...

Samsung is reportedly nearing the acquisition of German OLED manufacturer Novaled for USD 200 million, according to reports by Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal. The reports cited insiders disclosing Samsung and Novaled will be sealing the acquisition deal this week. Novaled’s Chief Marketing Officer Gerd Guenther has confirmed the two companies are currently in negotiations. Market analysts pointed out, the main objective of Samsung’s acquisition of Novaled is to settle recent OLED patent disputes.

Dialight, the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today announced that it has become an ‘Accredited Supplier’ in the Carbon Trust’s recently launched Green Business Directory. The directory features suppliers which have been independently assessed and accredited via the Carbon Trust Accredited Supplier scheme in order to aid organisations looking to install energy efficient and low carbon technologies. The news comes on the back of new research from the Carbon Trust that found while 96 percent of businesses surveyed said that energy ef...

Bashas’, a family-owned and operated grocery retailer in the western United States, recently installed energy-efficient LED lighting from Cree to better illuminate its Tempe, Ariz. location. The newly renovated store features luminaries powered by Cree TrueWhite Technology, delivering superior light quality that helps make products more attractive to customers, while enjoying the benefits of a quick payback and an anticipated energy savings of 47 percent over the store’s previous design. “Shopping is a highly visual experience and it’s critical to sh...

On July 30, Larson Electronics, leading manufacturer and distributor of industrial grade lighting equipment, announced the release of an explosion proof LED traffic light providing HAZLOC compliance in locations where flammable gases and vapors may be present. The EPL-TL-3X10W-C LED Traffic Light is Class 1, 2 and 3 Division 1 approved and ideal for routing traffic in industrial refueling stations or as process status indication in manufacturing facilities. The EPL-TL-3X10W-C explosion proof LED stack light is an ideal indicator lighting solution f...

A Japanese research group developed a sheet-like OLED light source that functions even after being crumpled. The group is led by Takao Someya, professor at the School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. The minimum bending radius and brightness of the sheet respectively are 10μm and 100cd/㎡. The group expects that the sheet will be used as a new light source for medical and healthcare sensors. The research group announced a pressure sensor sheet that functions even after being crumpled and is lighter and softer than feather July 25, 2013. For the pressure sen...

FoxFury Lighting Solutions will display its portable, rechargeable Nomad LED area lights at the College and University Police and Investigators Conference (CUPIC) from August 6-8 in Fairfax, VA. The Nomad area lights and spotlights assist campus security with checking IDs, lighting hard to reach places and in blackout situations. Campus security is a 24/7/365 job that keeps campuses safe. Campuses are expansive, and many campus classes, activities and events take place at night. FoxFury offers dependable LED scene lighting that assists campus security at c...

Toshiba Corporation announced the launch of white LEDs fabricated with gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) process. The LEDs are low power sub-watt type and ideal for indoor lighting applications, due to reduction of forward voltage (VF). Two package line-ups, the TL2FK series with 3.0 × 1.4mm package and the TL3GA series with 3.0 × 3.0mm package, will be made available. It is believed that the Sub-Watt Type White LEDs will be widely used as light sources for general lighting applications Straight tubes, light bulbs, main lighting, ceiling li...

On July 29, Veeco announced that KaiStar Lighting Co., Ltd., a China-based joint venture between Epistar Corporation and Shenzhen Kaifa Technology Co., Ltd., ordered multiple TurboDisc MaxBright M MOCVD Systems in the second quarter of 2013. The systems will be added to KaiStar's current installed base of Veeco MOCVD systems as part of their 2013 capacity expansion plan. Mr. MJ Jou, President of Epistar Corporation, said, "This latest capacity expansion is based on our customers' growing demand for LEDs for backlighting and gener...

Veeco announced on July 29 that Sanan Optoelectronics Co. Ltd., the biggest LED maker in China, has placed a multi-tool order for Veeco's TurboDisc MaxBright M Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems in the third quarter of 2013. The TurboDisc MaxBright M GaN MOCVD Multi-Reactor System is the industry's highest footprint efficiency MOCVD system designed to manufacture high quality, high brightness light emitting diodes. The multi-reactor systems will be used to ramp production of LEDs in their Xiamen, China fab for...

Safe Haven Self Storage announced recently that it has selected Xeleum Lighting to convert its self storage facility located in Elmsford, New York to LED lighting, based upon the success of the earlier conversion to Xeleum LED lighting at its Mount Kisco location. The conversion from the existing fluorescent system will begin immediately at its 80,000 square foot facility. Mehrdad Ghalebi, Xeleum President, stated "We are thrilled to have been selected by Safe Haven to convert lighting to LED at their second and larger facility in Elmsford, New York.&q...

Some members of the Lighting Industry Association (LIA) rencently complaints that a number of LED retrofit lamps not delivering on some manufacturers’ claims, which has led to the trade body calling on the National Measurement Office (NMO) to test lamps. The LIA’s COO Peter Hunt said it will team up with the NMO to check the validity of product claims and aims to test “between 50 and 60 lamps of various types, with 20 of each being purchased in the marketplace from a number of sources.” Hunt said: “Members who produce complian...

Recently, Seoul, the capital of South Korean, has announced the plan to install more LED lighting in public places, and encourage private sectors to further expand the scope of installation. All municipal government offices and public places including subway stations and streets are planned to use LED lighting in 2018. This plan aims to reduce energy consumption and aid the LED lighting industry. Seoul government also said that the plan will expand to private sectors in 2030. It is estimated that nearly 800000 units of LED light will be installed in the public sectors ...

Veeco Instruments Inc.is providing select financial metrics and business highlights for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Due to the accounting review announced on November 15, 2012, the Company is unable to report revenue and earnings information. Second quarter 2013 bookings were $85 million, up 21% sequentially, including: LED & Solar $58 million (MOCVD $52 million and MBE $6 million), and Data Storage $27 million. The Company’s unaudited cash balance at June 30, 2013 was $585 million, down slightly from the $588 million reported at the end of th...

According to the introduction from Taiwan-based LED manufacturers, Japan-based Nichia is the world's largest supplier of High Brightness LED, and it has occupied a leading market status in EMC-based LED chip packaging industry, but some LED packaging enterprises from Taiwan, China and South Korea have been competing for orders from LED lighting vendors, so that Nichia is expected to lose 20% of its orders in the second half of this year. Nichia received several patents regarding LED chip packaging based on EMC in 2007 and then offered an LED pack...

World Swimming Championships is ongoing in Barcelona, Spain. On July 27 local time, Chinese famous enterprises NVC Lighting was invited to officially sign a partnership agreement with FINA. At the signing ceremony, Julio Cesar Maglione said: “Diving has been a deeply loved sport by the people of all countries, while China has been a major force in the diving sport. The China-based NVC is one of world's leading LED lighting brands, and has supported the development of world diving for a long time. We are glad to establish the cooperative relationshi...

Nowadays Smartphone takes impact on every aspect of people's daily life. Smartphone is used for organizing, planning and interacting with each other. But people have to focus on work, activities and obligations due to busy lives. People are afraid of missing important calls, messages, and reminders. People become restless and lack concentration on almost anything while keeping checking phones. Recently, it has been reported that a LED bracelet in the name of EMBRACE+ with the function to inform users of calls and messages is developed, so that those days worrying about m...

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have created touch-sensitive “electronic skin(e-skin)” through integrating three distinct electronic components including semiconducting carbon-nanotube transistors, pressure-sensitive polymer sensors and OLEDs. The three components are integrated over large areas on a single plastic substrate, to form a mechanically flexible sensor network that immediately light up when being touched. And the harder it is touched, the brighter the light.            Each pixel...

Two LED lamps from Osram were victorious at this year’s awarding of the consumer prize Home & Trend Award 2013. The LED Superstar Classic A 40 advanced and the reflector lamp LED Superstar PAR 16 50 36° advanced were able to convince the jury with regard to functionality, innovation, product benefits, design and ecology, and were declared Trend Products of the Year 2013. The reflector lamp LED Superstar PAR 16 50 36° advanced was also awarded the Best of the Best additional prize in the category Home Textiles and Interior Design. B...

Ypsilanti will purchase 505 new LED streetlight as it continues an effort to replace all high-pressure sodium and mercury-vapor streetlights in the city. The Ypsilanti City Council voted unanimously to approve the purchase on July 23. The move also was the next step in the city’s effort to establish a special assessment streetlight district that would impose a flat fee on residents and businesses to pay the city’s DTE bill and conversion to LED lighting. The city is anxious to convert the lighting in the coming months because it is one of the first cities in t...

Toshiba Lighting technology will offer LED lighting solution with indicator to the Higashi-Kanagawa Station of JR in Yokohama, Kanagawa. Yokohama line and Keihin Tohoku line use the Higashi-Kanagawa Station in different time. The LED lighting devices JR decided to import this time are equipped with indicator, which suggests passengers with the same color with the train line that which train will arrive or depart in the following time. As the ground illuminating device for the station lighting, it comes with white light (color temperature of 5000K, the average c...

Dialight,the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, recently unveiled its next generation LED Linear fixture, the most efficient solution of its kind for Class I Div 2 certified hazardous applications such as on- and offshore drilling rigs, platforms and other oil, gas, chemical, petrochemical and hazardous location facilities. The fixture is intended to replace traditional fluorescent and HID lighting fixtures, and is also available for non-classified general purpose industrial applications. Delivering an ultra-efficient 106 lumens per Watt, the new SafeS...

It is reported that National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) cooperates with Philips to develop horticultural LED lighting, and the two sides will sign cooperation letter of intent on the 29th. NPUST says today that the general illumination lamps used for the plants not only consumer much energy, but the heat is high, currently, the LED light has gradually been used in plant factory. NPUST points out that the cooperation with Philips will initially target plants with high economic value and higher planting threshold, and develop suitab...

It is reported that Taiwan-based Excellence Opto, Inc. (EOI) announced the expansion of its new facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan to serve the LED automotive lighting market. The company stated that it has actively focused on LED automotive lighting in the past 12 years and that LED automotive lighting now takes up about 60% of its revenue. LED lighting products including industrial lights, roadway lights and signal lights make up the rest. The new facility will now serve as EOI's hub for the sales and distribution center of automotive LED lighting prod...

CAO Group, Inc., a world-leading high-technology company, announces the transition of its lighting division into an independent company: CAO Lighting, Inc. Since its inception in 2004, CAO Group’s lighting division has followed a strong upward trajectory. Using revolutionary practices and techniques, this division of CAO has continuously delivered advanced products and solutions for commercial signage and lighting and established fundamental intellectual properties (IPs) in solid state lighting. It’s this forward momentum that has allowed CAO to expand...

It is reported that Apple's next-generation iPad mini 2 will adopt Retina Display, because Taiwan has yet not put retina display into mass production, AUO is bowled out from the competition for display supplier of iPad mini 2. Apple considers the stability of supply, Samsung returns to Apple display supply chain to offer display to Apple iPad 5 and iPad mini 2, Samsung, LGD and Sharp are the three display suppliers of Apple. According to reports from South Korean media, AUO is unable to produce LCD displays that meet Apple's requirements and therefo...