Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) will replace all 6,050 lighting fixtures in both parking structures and increase the number of fixtures by 19% while still saving 66% on its annual elect ric bill by switching to LED lights. The project, approved by the Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA) board this month, will replace the 1,200 existing 210-watt metal halide fixtures in the Blue Deck with 2,400 repositioned 80-watt LED fixtures, set at a maximum of 60 watts. All 4,800 existing 210-watt fixtures in the McNamara Terminal Parking Structure will be replac...

Without Taiwan’s Investment Commission approval, Taiwanese LED manufacturer FOREPI’s and Chinese manufacturer San’an Optoelectronics’ (San’an) ownership stake acquisition deal was thwarted. FOREPI’s board of directors approved San’an as a shareholder in private investment in late June, and recently planned to start a new LED company through a joint venture with TCL and Refond. The two approaches show FOREPI’s ambition and strategy in the Chinese LED market.

On July 16, Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, a leader in developing, manufacturing and marketing high-performance semiconductors, announced a new programmable multi-output LED driver for LCD backlighting, instrument clusters, and daytime running lights. Allegro's A8517 integrates a current-mode boost converter with internal power switch and 10 I²C programmable current sinks, and can provide 5,000:1 contrast ratio PWM dimming at 200 Hz. The IC operates from 4.5 to 36 V, and is able to withstand up to 40 V load-dump conditions encountered in automotive systems. ...

For the lighting designer or architect that needs the latest LED technology for exterior lighting applications, Amerlux has launched Salvus, a new series of Pole Mounted LED Site and Area Lighting fixtures, which will make any new or retrofit project look state-of-the-art. Salvus replaces existing metal halide and high-pressure sodium outdoor fixtures with saving up to 60% energy consumption in many places such as parking lots, walkways, college and corporate campuses, retail centers, hospitality areas and other commercial environments. “We plan on utilizing simila...

The cyCESH Project supported by the BMBF (Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research) explores new functional materials for printed OLEDs for lighting applications. BMBF launched the project cyCESH involving cynora GmbH, Novaled AG and the University of Regensburg with the workgroup of Prof. Dr. Hartmut Yersin on June 1, 2013. The three-year project is funded with a total of 6.1 million Euros. The project's main goals are to develop new soluble materials for the inexpensive production of OLEDs and to produce high efficiency OL...

Excellence Opto, Inc. (EOI) is pleased to announce its expansion of its new facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The new 10,000 square foot facility will serve the increasing demands of the LED Automotive lighting market. EOI has actively focused on LED automotive lighting in the past 12 years. As a result, the LED automotive lighting now accounts for about 60% of the revenue of the company. The LED lighting products that include industrial lights, roadway lights, and signal lights makes up the rest. The new facility located in Grand Rapids will now serve a...

Removing a significant barrier to wider adoption of energy efficient lighting, Hubbell Lightingtoday announced a creative financing solution called “Cash Flow Positive.” The initiative provides flexible and easy access funding for commercial and municipalcustomers, through Hubbell Lighting and its agent network. As the name suggests, in most cases, Hubbell Lighting can help end users capturean immediate bottom-line, cash flow benefit from lighting upgrades. “Major capital investments are hard to justify and will always stand as an impediment to greater energy...

Lite-On Technology, a global leading Opto-electronic component manufacturer based in Taiwan, announced today that the Board has approved a cash acquisition of 100% stake of Power Innovations International Inc., a private U.S. company offering power management solutions for a wide variety of market segments, including aviation, exploration, military, emergency services, industrial and medical applications worldwide. The acquisition is expected to further strengthen Lite-On’s power management and system integration capabilities in Cloud Computing. Headquartered in A...

With the development of the times, people require more for fashionable apparel. Beautiful and colorful clothes are very nice in the light, but in low light places where it cannot show its style. However, the advent of LED fashion clothing will enable you to shine anywhere. This LED Fashion Clothing is designed by Hussein Chalayan, Swarovski's designer, who uses 15000 units of LED to develop this "brilliant" clothing. The LED fashion clothing not only has a stylish design, also it added the application of Swarovski crystals so that it can emit beau...

The Award Ceremony of the 8th Capital Outstanding Chinese Enterprise Awards was held on July 8th at Shangri-La Hotel in Hong Kong. NVC won the unique "CAPITAL Outstanding China LED Lighting Brand Supplier" in the lighting industry. "CAPITAL Outstanding China Enterprise Awards" have been issued for eight consecutive years, "Capital Magazine" selected out 14 businesses with outstanding development in China, in recognition of the outstanding performance these companies have made in the past years, and encourage domes...

Canon Marketing Japan (Canon MJ) started selling LED bulbs from July 17, 2013. The company intended to exclusively sell in Japan the LED bulbs, which was sold in the United States by venture business headquartered in Silicon Valley. The products adopted the same housing shape of incandescent bulb E26 (Edison screw base standards), with the high diffusion, dimmable options and liquid-cooled heat dissipation technology.            Canon MJ first listed through website three LED bulbs, which respectively are 60W retrofit (810lm...

Recently, Nualight Group, appointed Shaun Gray as its new CEO, Retail technology and business services expert. With over 25 years' experience in senior business roles across global corporations and SMEs, Gray brings an established track-record working with new technologies and diverse business models in both established and emerging markets. Gray was CEO of Dione plc between 2002 and 2005, inheriting an insolvent mature business and turning it around in his first year to lay foundations for a high growth phase. In the two and a half years under Gray's stewards...

Recently, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and REI jointly announced the voluntary recall of UCO Arkac LED light made in China. The UCO Arkac LED lights to be recalled this time can be used as signal lights, lighting or USB charger, the top of lamp shade is made of red transparent plastic and removable; the base is black with red extended base. UCO Arkac LED light comes with 3.7v4Ah rechargeable lithium-ion battery, USB cable and wall charger, and it is about 7.7 inches in height and about 2.5 inches in diameter, the folded hei...

After the Three-year wait, Midea Lighting returns to LED market again. Recently, Midea Lighting launched nearly 200 units of new models, covering residential lighting, commercial lighting, electrical, light, LED, etc., which initiates a new round of impact on LED industry. Midea Lighting, founded in 2008, was the original part of Microwave oven Division, it with some experience in products and channels was upgraded as Midea Lighting Electric Manufacturing Co,.Ltd in December of 2009. In June of 2010, Midea Lighting Electric took over Jiangxi ELEGANT...

To boost brand visibility of its LED lighting and drivers in India, GlacialLight and GlacialPower, divisions of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., organized a seminar, in association with Argos International, the dealer of GlacialTech for LED drivers in India. The seminar on LED Lighting and LED Driver was held at Kalpataru Synergy, Auditorium in Mumbai. GlacialTech has showcased its product range of Dimmable (Traic, Analog, Dali), Non- Dimmable, AC-DC, DC-DC drivers for LED Drivers and LED Lights for general lig...

Alongside its ongoing activities in the area of LED, the Zumtobel Group is investing in the technology of the future, OLED. To this end, the lighting group yesterday signed an agreement to acquire all the shares from its partners in the joint venture LEDON OLED Lighting GmbH & Co KG. The Zumtobel Group set up this company jointly with the Fraunhofer research organisation and a number of Fraunhofer employees in 2009. The former joint venture LEDON OLED, which specialises in the development and manufacture of high-efficiency OLED lighting m...

Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, announced today that its recently released Vero™ Series of LED Array products are now shipping with industry leading performance efficacy (120 lm/w nominal, 110 lm/w minimum average). This performance enhancement delivers energy savings of approximately 11% over the prior product generation and provides a significantly accelerated return on investment. Further, the Vero Series arrays are now available with 2SDCM MacAdam and 3 SDCM options – raising the industry bar ...

FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, is pleased to announce the energy-saving Flood Light, 35W, coded FZL-FL35-00. It is a perfect replacement for 70 W traditional halogen flood light, used in both residential and commercial lighting. The LED flood light comes with two color choices –warm white and cool white. The warm white type, codenamed FZL-FL35-00-WW-35, delivers 2200 lm in 3000K color temperature with CRI higher than 80, while the cool white FZL-FL35-00-CW-35 achieves 2700 lm in a 6000K color temperature. They work ...

Mighty Bright, designer and manufacturer of innovative LED lighting products, is pleased to announce the LUX Bar LED Task Light has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Energy Star certification. The Energy Star brand is widely recognized by American consumers and businesses as a mark of environmental protection, exceptional performance, and financial responsibility. Energy-efficient and versatile, the LUX Bar LED Task Light exemplifies these standards, casting 400 lumens of bright white light while consuming only 7.5 Watts o...

Dialight, the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, recently launched an emergency version of its SafeSite Stainless Steel LED Linear Luminaire with integrated battery. The new LED emergency light operates from -20℃ to 60℃ and will deliver at least three and up to eight hours on battery backup, while most conventional emergency lights operate only within the 0℃ to 40℃ range. By being able to operate across such a wide temperature range, this first-of-its-kind LED fitting with battery backup and integrated power supply will meet the emergency lighting n...

A surge in demand for Soraa’s full visible spectrum GaN on GaN™ LED MR16 lamps has led the company to appoint two new leaders to its sales organization—George Stringer and Nick Farraway. George joins the company as Senior Vice President of North America Sales and Nick joins as Senior Vice President of International Sales; both will report to Tom Caulfield, President and COO of Soraa. “The Soraa VIVID LED MR16 lamp is widely regarded as the best in the world in terms of brightness and color rendering—this has fuel...

Sanan Optoelectronics yesterday released the contract announcement that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Anhui Sanan Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (Anhui Sanan) on July 17 signed a sourcing agreement with Shenzhen MTC Lighting Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen MTC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenzhen MTC Co., Ltd. According to the agreement, from the date of signing of the agreement for the coming year, the Shenzhen MTC will purchase total amount of RMB 500 million of LED chips from Anhui Sanan, this amount accounts for about 15% of Sanan sales revenue in 2012. An o...

As people know, Cree introduced The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb just only four months ago, now Cree announces the Cree LED BR30 Flood Light. The ground-breaking flood light leverages the same technical breakthroughs that made the Cree LED bulb possible delivering consumers a flood light that looks like and lights like a traditional incandescent BR30 but uses 85% less energy and is designed to last 25 times longer than comparable incandescent flood lights. The new Cree LED flood light comes with the same shape, same glass dome and same color light of the...

ForceField Energy Inc., an international manufacturer and distributor of energy products and solutions, yesterday announced that it signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Empresa de Servicios Públicos de Heredia (ESPH), a utility company based in Heredia, Costa Rica, for the installation of 19,000 of its LED streetlights to replace existing lighting in ESPH's territory. The project is estimated to generate more than $21 million in revenue for ForceField over the ten-year term of the agreement based upon a shared savings model. Under the terms of the...

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"For China LED industry, LED upstream technology is monopolized by the international giants, midstream is almost so, now the most important thing is that whether the downstream can design better products with more reasonable prices or not", Rongqing Liang, director of Lighting Research Institute of Fudan University, expressed in view of the current development trend of Chinese LED industry. Foreign Enterprises have Advantages in Upstream and Midstream Rongqing Liang introduced that LED industry consists of upstream, midstream and downstream. LED...

Zhenkun Wang, the general manager of NVC Lighting, recently expressed on "low-carbon lighting • Energy saving global LED lighting design, application and Innovation Forum" organized by the Chinese lighting network and Shenzhen Operations Center of NVC that sales of NVC's LED products are expected to exceed 1 billion Yuan this year. According to the National 12th Five-Year Plan, the total output value of LED will be up to 500 billion Yuan in 2015. ZhenKun Wang said that the sales of NVC's LED products was 250 million las...

Last night (July 16), Refond revealed announcement that it cooperates with TCL Group and wholly owned subsidiary of Taiwan-based FOREPI to set up a LED joint venture in Guangdong Huizhou Zhongkai High-tech Development Zone with 200 million Yuan. The new company named "Huarui Optoelectronics Technology (Huizhou) Co., Ltd.", located in Zhongkai High-tech Development Zone, Huizhou of Mainland China, and it has capital of 200 million Yuan, of which, TCL Group is the leading company, holding shares of 51%, about investment of 102 million Yu...

Dimmable, multi-topology DC/DC constant-current controller features low-side current sense Texas Instruments (TI) today introduced a high-power, multi-topology DC/DC LED driver with adjustable switching frequency and current sense threshold that provides design flexibility and low electro-magnetic interference (EMI) for automotive headlamps, fog lights and general-purpose area lighting. The TPS92690 is an N-channel MOSFET controller with low-side current sense designed to support step-up (boost) or step-up/step-down (SEPIC, Cuk, flyback) LED driver t...

Siteco, subsidiary of OSRAM, provides 270 units of Modario IP20 LED modules for modernization of an urban railway carriage house of Linz AG. Linz Linien intended to renovate the lighting system of a 4,500 square meter-large hall for 20 suburban trains. The highly efficient trunking systems are easy to mount and save up to 30% on energy costs in comparison to the previous lighting solution. The illumination of the urban railway carriage house of Linz AG was completely renovated using this efficient LED solution from Siteco. The renovation of the long-serving merc...