On August 22, AOC TV has signed Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin as brand ambassador, and has announced that it targets to double revenue from India to Rs 1,100 crore in 2013, as it looks to corner a "significant" market share in the growing LCD and LED television segment here. Yesterday, the company also showcased a range of LCD and LED TVs, priced between Rs 15,000 and Rs 40,000. The company had started its TV business in India early in March. AOC TV Director Seema T Bhatnagar pointed out that, "The LCD and LED TV ...

J P Sercel Associates (JPSA) has launched the IX-6100-MD for scribing and dicing metal layers such as molybdenum, copper, nickel, gold, silver, zinc and their alloys used in the LED manufacturing process. The IX-6100-MD is equipped with JPSA’s latest proprietary vision and scribe placement technology allowing reduction in die street size and enabling more LED dies per wafer. The key technology in IX-6100-MD is JPSA’s proprietary beam delivery system that allows the shape of the laser beam to be independently adjusted in two dimensions. T...

MANCHESTER-based MHA Lighting has helped Manchester Airport cut its lighting energy consumption by 63 per cent through a third major lighting installation. With its award-winning low energy luminaires and ability to design bespoke solutions, MHA Lighting has quickly become one of the airport’s preferred suppliers, supplying more than £500,000 worth of lighting products to the airport in the last 18 months. The latest project, which completes this month, includes replacing under canopy lighting with MHA’s patented C Lite technology. This ...

From lighting up the Olympic opening ceremony to decorating Tower Bridge (and saving 40% on its energy bills in the process), LEDs have certainly made their mark this summer. Now LED specialists Light Planet are raising the bar even further and have developed a new finance initiative to support the implementation of energy efficient lighting technology by businesses and organisations. Having successfully raised £5 million of venture capital to fund the pay-as-you-save scheme, Light Planet is offering businesses LED lighting solutions worth up to £50,000, giv...

At Monday's city council meeting, council members authorized the mayor to sign a contract with local contractor, Paulson Electric Inc to complete LED lighting upgrade project in Missoula's City Hall. The project is being paid for by a grant from the Department of Energy given to the city as part of the Clean Air Act. It means the company will now install almost $150,000 in new LED lighting and lighting controls in the basements, stairwells, and hallways of City Hall. The current lights work just fine, but city officials said they use more than twice the ...

TerraLUX’s innovative LED solutions have supported Village Place Apartments of Boulder, Colorado, in cutting the complex’s energy costs. Village Place Apartments is a 72-unit complex, and, like most apartment complexes, Village Place’s interior corridor lighting is turned on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During the retrofit, 56 lights were updated with the TerraLUX Linear LED Engine including: wall sconces, overhead dome lights, bathroom lights and outdoor lights. Each hallway wall sconce contained two CFL lamps and an external ball...

Seesmart Technologies, Inc. has completed the installation of LED lighting in two of The Ashforth Company's properties in Connecticut, transforming its spaces and offering a quick return on investment of only 15 months. And it is estimated that the combined savings for the project will be in excess of $200,000. Seesmart's LED retrofit replaced 1,300, 32-watt, T-8 fluorescent bulbs with high-efficiency LED tube lights throughout lobbies, common areas and garages at Ashforth's properties: 707 Summer Street, (Ashforth's headquarters) and 3001 Stamford ...

China National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Finance have restarted the bid for financial subsidies in 2012 ~ 2013 annual semiconductor lighting products promotion project. And there are 113 enterprises competing for the bid. The bid is estimated to be worth one billion RMB. Early in February, the government has started the bid, and the scope of subsidies consist s of indoor light, LED spotlight, LED downlight and outdoor LED streetlight. However, it comes to a failure due to the big difference offered by a few enterprises. This time, the go...

August 20, Philips (China) Investment Co., Ltd has held the groundbreaking ceremony on for its LED Professional Lighting Solutions manufacturing facility in Chengdu High-tech Industrial Development Zone. It’s the bilateral cooperation that between Philips and Chengdu has entered a new phase since the two sides signed the LED strategic cooperation agreement last December. Philips will build a fully integrated LED Professional Lighting Solutions manufacturing site to optimize the allocation of resources including production, warehousing and logistics, e...

Philips Lumileds has launched a new white LED array , which can assist LED system producers to free from the tiresome LED binning process and reduce inventory requirements as well as time to market. The new LUXEON K arrays come under a 3-step MacAdam ellipse and provide higher consistency in lumen per watt as a result of forward voltage as well as flux ranges.   The arrays suits for energy-efficient downlight and retrofit lamp applications that need high light output within a space and thermally constrained system. The Freedom From Binning commitment of...

Aiming at the huge market potential in global LED industry, Jiangsu Soul Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd merged with Goolite optoelectronic Co., Ltd at the beginning of June in 2012, establishing a subsidiary company in Shenzhen in July. The new company will incorporate the original team members of Goolite and acquire the Goolite brand. Soul has more than ten chip packaging lines, power supply and lighting products lines, covering an area of 12,000 square metres and having more than 200 staff members and over 20 senior technical personnel in R&D. The fi...

Sentry Electric, one of North America’s most experienced and knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor lighting, is pleased to announce the launching of its new web site. Designed with the user in mind, the new web site offers improved navigation, increased site content, and a host of other new features. Users will find Sentry’s new web site to be fresh, clean, and inviting.  The look and feel of the previous web site’s pages has been enhanced while the functionality has been expanded.    New features or enhancements include: •  &...

MSi LED Lighting ranks number 401 on the 2012 Inc. 500 and is the only lighting company included on this prestigious list   Inc. magazine ranked MSi LED Lighting number 401 on its 31st annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.   In 2008 MSi opened its doors intent on creating a solution to the high energy consumption of hot, costly halogen lights in a myriad of applications – particularly in retail, hospitality, and museums. MSi’s LED lights last for up to 13 years, use as little energy ...

According to OSRAM AG, the company and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. have reached an agreement to settle all patent suits between them worldwide. The patent suits have been filed in various countries amongst others Germany, South Korea and in the United States of America. The parties will dismiss all suits as expeditiously as possible, with a settlement consequently expected to be finalized by the end of August, 2012. As part of the settlement, the parties have reached license agreements for their respective LED patent portfolios. The parties have also signed a sepa...

A new information resource centre for solid state lighting in the UK has been launched today as part of an ambitious move to accelerate the widespread adoption of LED technology.   LightPlanet.co.uk will be the premier online destination for LED product data and procurement. The site has been created by advanced lighting solution specialists OCG Lighting, who have rebranded as Light Planet to reflect the broadened scope of their offering.   Light Planet will bring together leading suppliers of LED technology and allow them to share product information, ex...

Historic park surrounding Los Angeles City Hall has gotten LED makeover from LEDtronics of Torrance, California. Located around the tree-lined pathways and stairs of the 1.7-acre park are 13 lampposts whose ballasted 130-watt high-pressure-sodium post-top bulbs have recently been replaced with 27-watt LED lamps from LEDtronics. Apart from the energy savings of 103 watts per unit, the LED lamps offer much longer product lifespans than HPS or Metal Halide, resulting in reduced replacement and maintenance costs; improved visibility and enhanced night vision (a...

At the concluding leg of its third consecutive Cairo to Cape Town road show 2012, Philips has announced to launch a new initiative, which will see the installation of 100 “light centers” across rural Africa by 2015. These are areas of approx 1000m2, or the size of a small soccer pitch, which are lit using a new generation of highly efficient solar powered LED lighting. The idea is to create areas of light for rural communities which live without electricity thus effectively ‘extending the day’ and creating numerous opportunities for social and economi...

Lately, a research team from Taiwan's National Defense University has been utilizing nanocarbon materials to develop lightbulbs and tubes that are more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly than currently available products. Unlike LED lighting products, the team's invention boasts nanocarbon materials that can be used to develop a light source in a mercury-free manufacturing process, according to Ger Ming-der, a professor at the university's Department of Chemical and Material Engineering at Chung Cheng Institute of Technology. The technology also ...

Annual energy saving 75% The canopy area to the entrance of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital was lit with 100 watt mercury vapor downlights creating an undesirable greenish hue and unsanitary conditions with bird and insect access. The mercury vapor lamps required frequent and costly replacements as well as the high cost to operate.     LumenOptix™ Solution LRD8 30 watt, 2000 lumen, 4000k LED Retrofit Downlights. Benefits •     Increased light output by well over 50% •     Improved color rend...

Devices Measure 1.0 mm by 0.5 mm With Ultra-Low 0.35 mm Profile, Provide Luminous Intensity to 180 mcd   The Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) announced a new series of super red, soft orange, yellow, yellow green, blue, and white ultra-bright LEDs in a tiny surface-mount 0402 ChipLED package. Measuring 1.0 mm by 0.5 mm with an ultra-thin 0.35 mm profile, VLMx1500-GS08 series devices provide exceptional brightness with a luminous intensity to 180 mcd. While the blue and white LEDs in the VLMx1500-GS08 series...

Baltimore City is under the process of converting 70,000 city streetlights from sodium vapor lights to LEDs. Baltimore expects to reap an annual savings of $1.9 million on its electric bill and $275,000 in maintenance costs. Also, advocates say the lights produce less glare and are more focused, meaning less light pollution that drowns out the night stars and can disrupt ecosystems. However,critics say the new lights don't illuminate the area as well. City Councilman Robert W. Curran, who represents Northeast Baltimore, said that can be a public safety issue if sidew...

AIXTRON SE today announced a new MOCVD system order from existing customer Jilin University China. The contract is for one CCS reactor in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration, which will be dedicated to the growth of gallium nitride materials for UV and white LEDs. One of AIXTRON’s local support teams has installed and commissioned the new reactor in a state-of-the-art clean-room facility at Jilin University in Changchun, China. Dr. Zhang of the Jilin University, State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, comments, “We alre...

Lately, Taiwan's lighting industry is in the process of making five new smart lighting standards, expecting to spur the creation of a highly integrated supply chain and improve its competitiveness in the fast growing LED sector. To maintain technological edge and overall value Approved by Taiwan's six major lighting associations and two state-funded institutes, the Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute, the five intelligent lighting system standards cover the areas of system functions, wide area networks, field...

Audiences are pretty impressed by the visual feast created by thousands of LEDs in The London Olympic Games opening ceremony. And we can see that LED related products have played a key role in the recent important events. Currently, with the global environmental awareness is arising, the scale of LED application will enlarge, bring a good future for LED drive power. At present, with the development of LED technology, the products are becoming more and more diversified. LEDs are not only used in  stage engineering and display screen, but also in the outdoor r...

Hi Score Corporation’s subsidiary Green LED Technology Inc, has made a deal with Miami Lighting Distributor, NexPhase Lighting, to call for NexPhase to use Green LED Tech as a primary source for its Energy Saving Lighting needs. Company COO Dominick Falso has been negotiating with top executives at NexPhase for some time.  “NexPhase is expanding its efforts in the Energy Saving Lighting end of their distribution efforts and we are honored that they are relying on us to fill these needs…it is a little too soon to predict the ...

Energy Efficient, Daylight-Quality Task Lighting Empowers Individualsto Personalize Their Lighting Experience Lunera Lighting, Inc., the lighting solutions provider leading the transformation to advanced LED technology, announced the launch of their ECLIPSE SERIES by Mondoluz, a line of LED task lights to complement Lunera’s commercial interior general lighting product offering. The addition of these task lights to Lunera’s catalog creates a holistic product offering for a broad range of commercial lighting applications, including offices,...

Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (SETi) has won $1.6 million contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop a self-contained portable water purification system for warfighters. The program aims to develop a portable unit that can provide a small team of warfighters with a self-sustainable source of potable water from any fresh water source. And SETi's UV LED technology for water quality monitoring and disinfection is incorporated into the system. Lately, stand-alone UV LED water disinfection efficacy has already been demonstrated at SETi...

As grocery and food retailers continue to look for ways to increase profit margins by curbing costs, many are finding a solution in their refrigerated display cases. Replacing traditional fluorescent tubes in refrigerated display cases with energy-efficient LED fixtures from GE Lighting is adding up to hundreds of thousands of dollars* in annual savings. They also make products more attractive to shoppers by immersing food and beverages in crisp, white, uniform light. GE Lighting recently helped a large grocery chain and a convenience-store chain achieve these benefits by outf...

Russian media quoted the data of the "whole series LED production business plan" from a professional marketing analysis company that, LED lighting proportion in the country is also growing as any other cities. In the long run, the proportion of Russia LED lighting market in the global market will be  1-5% and the growth rate of proportion in the country will reach 28-48% per year. Furthermore, the popularity of LED retrofit will break 300 million, and will continue to grow, mainly thanks to the energy efficiency and the expense of optimized power. Curren...

Case Study highlights merging energy efficiency, environmental responsibility, and community friendly requirements into project design   Spaulding Lighting, a Hubbell Lighting Inc. brand, has announced the release of a new case study on illuminating a new Lee Toyota / Scion automotive dealership in Topsham, Maine with the latest in LED site lighting.  With a directive for a “green approach” from the dealership owner, Adam Lee, the case study reiterates the architect’s plan of designing a project that was environmentally responsible and as commu...