Panasonic Eco Solutions will make all efforts to develop its residential lighting business in Asia. Panasonic starts the sales of residential LED lamps in the Vietnamese market from June 2013 at first, and then it will expand its sales in Indonesia, India, Taiwan and Hong Kong and other regions in turns, and it will add LED product lines in Chinese mainland market where the ceiling lamp is available to fully expand its business. Panasonic takes the approach that the appearance of lamps must meet the regional and national market preferences, and devices are universal an...

  For IDEC has produced the new mini and long units, its LF1D light units can apply to a wide variety of machine, process and assembly line applications. It claimed that the maximum brightness in their class can up to 67.2 Lumens/Watt. Its LED lights provide lighting brightening up not only the target object, but also a wider area. The new mini unit owns a small size of only 100 x 50 x 25 mm (4 x 2 x 1-in.), making it suitable for small-sized machines where high brightness is needed but space is little. Mini versions use one large LED light engine, rather tha...

  Larson Electronics has released a 12 watt infrared LED light bar that can provide output and operation suitable for medical applications. The LEDLB-4E-IR-M-110V Medical Infrared LED Light Bar provides a powerful and effective source of infrared light that can operate from standard wall outlets and be magnetically installed to metallic surfaces for easy control medical applications. The use of infrared light had showed promising results in a variety of fields including neurology and dermatology, Larson Electronics has introduced its high power infrared...

A pilot project of Osram Opto Semiconductors and SchahlLED Lighting achieves sustainable energy savings  The fluorescent lamps in the Nuremberg parking garage at Jakobsmarkt were exchanged for intelligent LED luminaires from SchahlLED Lighting as part of a pilot project. Modules with Duris E 3 LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors are installed in each luminaire. An integrated presence detector only switches the illumination from the default basic illumination to maximum output where this is actually required. Combined with the energy efficiency of the LEDs, this function saves an impressive 70 percent on power consumption.

It is reported that AIXTRON SE received the 2013 LEDinside Aurora Award in the category "Most efficient MOCVD Equipment" on June 11 for its AIX G5+ technology for Gallium-Nitride-on-Silicon (GaN-on-Si). AIXTRON's system was chosen due to its production efficiency and technological advancement and was already awarded with the CS Industry Award in this March. "Producing gallium nitride based LEDs on 200 mm silicon substrates is a promising route towards a much lower chip manufacturing cost," Andreas Tönnis state...

Dr. Sun Qian, vice president of silicon substrate LED R & D department of Lattice, gave a lecture titled with "R & D and Industrialization of Silicon Substrate GaN High Power LED" to the participants on 2013 the Latest Trends in LED Epitaxial Chip Technology and Special Equipment and Materials Seminar held in Guangzhou on June 10. The speech of Sun Qian shared the latest progress in with their peers a silicon substrate, high-power LED R & D and industrialization and large-size silicon substrate LED technology. Dr. Sun Q...

Digital Lumens recently announced that its Intelligent LED Lighting System was elected to the Sustainia100 guide for its positive environmental, economic and social impact on local communities. Sustainia100 represents the top 100 innovative and impactful solutions out of more than 500 nominated projects and technologies across 10 different sectors around the world. The 10 sectors include Education, Health, Food, Energy, Resources, Smart Cities, Buildings, Fashion, Transportation and Information Technology. In each of their fields, these solutions have proved that s...

In order to continue to expand its line of energy efficient lighting for outdoor applications, MaxLite adds its LED Flood Lights to the DesignLights Consortium (DLC) Qualified Products List (QPL). Part of its award-winning MaxLED line of innovative LED luminaries and lamps, the LED Flood Lights, which are substitutes for up to 400-watt metal halide and high-pressure sodium outdoor lighting fixtures in the commercial and industrial communities, qualify for national rebates of up to $250. "The addition of LED Flood Lights to the DLC list is a t...

  DEKOR™ proudly introduce three new waterproof LED Landscape Lights. The three new and unique landscape lights respectively are the Ginny Light, the Puck Light and the Empress Light. They reflect DEKOR™’s constant pursuit to bring “never before seen products” to the marketplace and customers. The Ginny LED Landscape Light has a sleek and fashionable look, and is useful for both pathway and façade lighting. It has a hinged joint allowing a full 180° of articulation. So, the Ginny can be twirled to face com...

Recently, Philips announced the official listing of its universal LED bulbs at the minimum price of $ 49, the introduction of this new bulb will enable the mature LED indoor lighting products to be more widely used by the common consumers. The newly launched Philips universal LED bulb inherits the innovative LED technology and sophisticated production processes. According to reports, this product passed through the photo-biological safety certification, it saves more energy than incandescent lights by 80%, and it is suitable for the screw design of lamps most commonly use...

The orphanage as part of the New Hope Church of Traverse City’s mission trip, will receive tPOD1s during the third week of June. The partnership between the church and Tellurex was formed for a chance meeting between Tellurex Program Manager, Richard Harmon and Patrick Siler, one of the advocators of the mission trip. Arrangements were quickly made in order to supply enough tPOD1s to provide bright, clean, safe, LED lighting for each of the 80 homes at the orphanage which is located nearly 30 miles away from the Ugandan capital Kampala. “The tP...

The energy-saving lamp manufacturers from mainland China are actively transforming from the traditional energy-saving lamps to LED lights, Epistar and Edison top in this transformation, Epistar has cooperated with downstream packaging factories to provide light engine; and Edison received a big order from the energy saving lamp manufacturer from mainland China, so that the capacity of Edison in the second quarter is fully loaded. Mainland China is the world's largest production base of energy-saving lamps, its global market share is more than 80%. As the price of LED ...

JUNE 9-12, 2013, HONGLITRONIC took part IN the 18th Guangzhou international lighting exhibition (10.2 Hall C02). We had showed a variety of LED package products: LED for lighting, LED for backlight, LED plan growth light, LED for stage light. LED for lighting: COB LM & LT series, and SMD2835、3528、3014、HIGH POWER C3535、EMC3535、5730、COB LC002(LM-80)。145lm/W high reflection aluminum PCB LM series COB, anti-Sulfuration design to eliminate the phenomenon of sulfuration, binning area is controlled in ...

After years of development, China's LED stage light market has begun to take shape. Currently, there are more than 100 LED stage light enterprises (only refers to production companies, does not contain trade enterprises) in a certain scale in China. The annual output of LED stage light in 2012 is up to 1 billion Yuan, an growth over 20 % year on year. Due to the advantages of LED lighting, LED Stage lamp has been accepted by the market gradually, and its market demand will achieve rapid growth in the next few years. In 2012, the annual output value of China...

At the International Association of Coroners & Medical Examiners (IAC&ME) Training Conference, hold from June 23 to June 25 in Las Vegas, FoxFury Lighting Solutions will first time display its LED forensic light sources and portable, rechargeable LED area lights. Coroners and medical examiners sometimes have to perform field investigations at dark places where lighting is absolutely critical. Flood lights or spot lights are needed to examine the deceased while forensic lights sources help find evidence. FoxFury's most beneficial lighting tool&...

Larson Electronics recently introduced the GAU-HB-30X5W-1227 LED high bay light, which is a powerful and rugged industrial lighting product that allows operators to replace their bulky and aging HID lighting systems with a lightweight, efficient, and longer lived one. This LED high bay light pulls only 150 watts at 1.25 amps from standard 120 VAC, but produces the same light output as that of 400 watt metal halide light. The light from this high bay LED light is bright white and even as the metal halide lights, but LED fixtures run with less heat and do not ex...

Wavien launches an ultra bright LED fiber optic illuminator using its patented Recycling Light Technology (RLT), designed for architectural and signage applications. Wavien combined the high brightness produced by RLT technology with the long lifespan of LED technology, which can solve the problems caused by the short lifespan of arc lamp illuminators and inadequate brightness of LED illuminators. This new illuminator of Wavien can support both 3M single core fiber or Schott multi-fiber bundles, allowing the RLT system to take the place of neon-based signs currentl...

The Big Ass Fan® Company recently launched the world’s first LED-equipped industrial ceiling fan, which is an all-in-one package and an ideal addition to facilities’ energy-efficient lighting programs. The Powerfoil X LED gives out as much light as a 400W metal halide, while using less than 175W. Its tempered glass lens is designed to provide excellent optical properties which minimize glare. The light is easily installed and ties directly into an existing lighting grid for simple control. The LED is equipped to the Powerfoil® X, which is the...

On June 11, 2013, Nichia Corporation filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to enjoin Emcore Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, from infringing Nichia’s U.S. Patent No. 7,295,587 and to claim damages for the infringement with regard to laser diode products sold by Emcore. Nichia's '587 patent relates to laser diode structures used for plastic optical fibers that can be used in applications like telecommunications. Nichia seeks to protect its patents and other intellectual prope...

According to reports, Bingjie Li, the chairman of Epistar stated on June 9 that Epistar considers terminating the cooperation with Luminus Devices purchased by Sanan at $ 22 million a few days ago. In recent years, Epistar has being faced major challenge from Sanan, it not only dugs talents from Epistar, it also follows the steps of Epistar in the layout of blue LED products. The action that Saman entered AlGaInP LED from the blue LED has become a topic the industry discussing on the competition between Epistar and Sanan in the past year, especially when ...

Elemental LED announced yesterday that they have completed the upgrade of all LED strip light product to feature all white printed circuit board (PCB). This move catered to customer’s demand for high performance and consistent light presentation across all high quality LED strip light. “Our customers found that our white PCB strip lights were able to create more attractive lighting implementations with better light performance. Our top priority is always to adjust our products and services to offer customers better LED lighting,” said Elemental LE...

As an important part of commercial lighting, many LED companies hope to seize the share of the jewelry lighting market. For jewelry stores, the lighting indeed occupies a pivotal position in the store layout. The first-tier brands focus more on the following keywords in the lighting: bright, transparent, soft, full. "Bright" will guide the customers to enter the shop; "transparent" means that the lights have strong penetration; "soft" is that the lighting does not glare; "full" is that each corner of the store is illuminated. Qu Da in ch...

Luminus Devices, a VC-funded firm developing and selling solid-state lighting products, recently was sold to Chinese LED maker Sanan for $22 million. Luminus' customers include LG, Acer, Zumtobel, EYE Lighting, Philips, Denmark's Martin, and Germany's Vialux. The lighting industry is going through a drawn-out transition from traditional fluorescents to LED, and 2013 has seen strong progress in the commercialization of LED lighting. There will be winners and losers along the way, and in the case of Luminus Devices, it's not winner this ...

The 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Fair held in Guangzhou, more than 2,600 companies participated in this exhibition. It is learned from the exhibition that LED commercial and residential markets seem to achieve explosive growth in this year due to the benefits from the enthusiasm of distributors to the LED lighting products. However, fierce price war and channel war are on the verge of breaking out along with the market blowout. The industry believes that LED industry will develop rapidly in the next three to five years, and the duel among enterprises will become...

Fengzheng Su, the chairman of Ronda, said on June 9 that the demands for LED lighting and backlighting are good, pushing up capacity utilization to be remained at high, the revenue is expected to be higher quarterly in this year, and its lighting revenue benefit from that Japanese customers began to adopt LED for home lighting, the LED lighting revenue of Ronda is estimated to increase by 30% on the basis of last year. Fengzheng Su pointed out that in view of the visibility of current customers' orders, the order receiving in the third quarter is good, the market dema...

The Eighteenth Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition has just concluded. Reporters learned from the exhibition that the situation of LED lighting industry is better than last year, but the overcapacity still exists. Industry experts predict that the next eight years will be the rapid development period of LED lighting industry, it is expected that have 70% small and medium manufacturing enterprises are facing elimination. An industry source told reporters that the overcapacity of LED is mainly because there are excessive enterprises. The amount of registered LED...

LED lighting was once considered as a sunrise industry with unlimited prospect; however, the blind expansion of production capacity has caused this industry into the winter. According to the report released by Guangdong Guangya Lighting Research Institute, the market demand for LED backlighting and lighting has been strong and vendors of chip, packaging and application have received a large number of orders since this year. Some entrepreneurs and industry analysts believe that LED outbreak will usher in explosive growth in Q4 of this year. In accordance with "Energ...

According to the survey jointly conducted by LEDinside and AVANTI, the proportion that Chinese consumers can cognitive LED bulbs clear is only 25%, enhancing consumer awareness is still the key for the popularization of LED lighting. In recent years, LED lighting has been widely applied in the commercial and public lighting sectors for its energy saving, but in home lighting, its penetration rate is low, LEDinside estimated that LED lighting accounted for only 1% of the total flux required in home lighting in 2012. This study reveals that consumer awareness ...

LSI Industries Inc. (Nasdaq:LYTS) today reported that it is the recipient of the 2013 Manny Award in the "biggest breakthrough" category. This prestigious annual award is given to outstanding manufacturing companies for their innovation and best practices. LSI's recently introduced solid-state product, the Sterling™ LED area light fixture, was the basis for this award. The Manny Award is given by Cincy Magazine, a leading business publication of Greater Cincinnati.  Robert J. Ready, CEO, said, "We are pleased to receive the Manny Award. As a leading lighting and graphics company dedicated to providing advanced solid-state LED products, new product development and introduction......

OSRAM SYLVANIA and Comcast recently announced that the two companies have reached an agreement to offer energy efficient light bulbs that can be controlled remotely through the Xfinity Home platform. By collaborating with OSRAM SYLVANIA, Comcast is further enhancing its Xfinity Home service by providing Sylvania’s new energy-saving LED smart light bulbs that can be installed on any standard light bulb socket, and that can save 83% energy costs and last 17.5 times longer than the lifespan of standard incandescent light bulbs. In addition, by coope...