Lately, no big event can be imagined without LED production, especially without something new, creative and record breaking. Just like the 2011 Asian winter games in Kazachstan which on 30th of January took place in Astana, the capital of Kazachstan. New arena in Astana was illuminated by the ceiling LED screen which was designed, manufactured, installed and launched by Lithuanian company RGGLED. This project is unique in Europe as well as in Asia by its measures - ceiling LED screen was 8500 sq. m big. “I evaluate Astana arena project as an extreme suc...

Philips records healthy increase in green product sales in 2010 Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced that it will allocate EUR 2 billion for investments in Green Innovation by 2015 to accelerate sustainable business across the company’s three sectors. In 2010, Philips’ cumulative investments in Green Innovation amounted to EUR 1 billion, surpassing its Green Innovation investment target two years ahead of schedule. As a result of the company’s continued commitment to sustainable innovation, 38% of total 2010 sale...

According to PowerSecure International, its new family of LED-based street lights is in a good demand with utilities and municipalities.   Over the last several months, over 30 electric utilities and municipalities have purchased PowerSecure’s new area light “SecureLiteTM”. Furthermore, it recently has introduced two new LED-based street lights to the marketplace, including replacements for traditional 250 and 400 watt HID street lighting, “PowerLitesTM” to meet the demand of customers....

According to Hi Score Corporation, it has completed the test of the company's LED street lights that had been installed in the city of Tamarac, Florida.   The company has started the test since April of 2009. Initially the company had installed 25 Green LED Energy Saving Streetlights along West Commercial in Tamarac, Florida. At present, its LED Street Lights received high marks in the pilot program, and city officials are considering moving forward with their plan to put out a bid to purchase Energy Saving Street Lights. The city expects to pu...

It’s reported that OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has become a sponsor of the 2011 Strategies in Light Conference Exhibition,which is an industry conference and exhibition with a focus on High-Brightness LEDs and lighting. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors' President and CEO, Aldo Kamper will be a Keynote Speaker at the conference and share fresh insight into the LED world. In addition, the company will be showcasing their LEDs in applications and bringing some of its top professionals as speakers on February 22-24 at the Santa Clara Convention C...

Oree’s innovative LightCell technology now available for lighting designers and manufacturers   Oree, developer of solid-state lighting planar illumination technology, and Future Lighting Solutions, the leading provider of solid-state lighting solutions, announced a worldwide distribution agreement today. As a result of this agreement, Future Lighting Solutions will market, sell and support Oree’s LightCell™ products to customers around the world. The Oree LightCell™ is a thin, flat and uniform solid-state light source – with an illum...

AIXTRON SE announced a new order for MOCVD reactors from existing customer, the Institute of Semiconductors Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS). The order comprises one AIX 200/4 in the 3x2-inch wafer configuration and one AIX 2600G3 IC in the 8x3-inch wafer configuration.   The Beijing, PR China based institute placed the order during the third quarter of 2010 and following delivery in the second quarter of 2011, the systems will be used for production of electronic devices and red LEDs. The local AIXTRON support team will commission ...

Monocrystal, a leading manufacturer of electronic materials for LED and solar industries, announced today shipment of its premium 8-inch C-plane epi-ready sapphire substrates to one of the world’s leading LED manufacturers. It was almost a recent discussion of LED industry players and experts concerning the possibilities for the industry of employing larger than 2-inch sapphire substrates for LED production.

Panasonic Corporation is reported to develop a four-channel LED driver LSI (model number: AN37010) based on 190V voltage process. The new product is capable of driving multiple LEDs connected in series for edge-type LED backlight LCD TVs. Samples will be available in March 2011 at a cost of 200 yen each. With the development of this new chip, the　company will further develop a series of LED driver LSIs that support applications for displays with high picture quality across a wide range of sizes.  ...

It’s reported the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium will be held in Santa Clara, CA on Thursday, February 24, 2011.   The objective of the event is to share information from industry leaders that are focused on the technology surrounding the adoption of LED's for general lighting. Nexxus Lighting's President & CEO, Mike Bauer will present at the event. Asides from Nexxus Lighting, nine companies including Veeco, National Semiconductor and Rubicon Technologies also are invited to this event.   ...

DiCon Lighting announced the launch of its new LED business unit, Cielux. Cielux was founded on a simple concept: to bring brilliant light with user-friendly interfaces into the home. Its family of products focuses on LED driven lamps that emit radiant light for task, accent and mood lighting. Cielux will ship its first product, LUNE, an LED mood light, on March 1st.   “Our goal was to bring professional-level lighting capabilities and controls to the everyday consumer, so we set out to create a new way to experience and interact with light,” said Br...

Light-Based Technologies Inc. (LBT), a developer and supplier of lighting application specific integrated circuits, announced they will be exhibiting their cutting edge LED control solutions in booth #244 at Strategies in Light 2011, held in Santa Clara California from February 22nd to the 24th.  Strategies in Light has grown over the past 12 years into the largest conference in the high brightness LED lighting industry. Strategies in Light draws the most knowledgeable participants in the area of LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) who are particularly wel...

Kaneka announced that it will start accepting orders for OLED lighting panels on March 22nd, 2011 in Japan (and later in April in Europe). Kaneka will offer OLED square panels in give colors (warm white, red, orange, blue and green). The panels will be dimmable (in the range from 1,000cd/m2 to 5,000cd/m2).   Kaneka's OLED panels will cost around ¥2 million (approx $24,000) per square meter - and the company believes that the price will drop to ¥200,000 ($2,400) next year and to ¥50,000 ($600) or less by 2020. Production capacity in 2011 will be 10,...

It’s said that Piccadilly Circus will replace the iconic red and white Sanyo sign, which has been in place since 1978. The Japanese electronics company has been told to replace the sign with a more modern LED display, which allows for moving images. However, according to a spokesman for Sanyo,” the owner of the ad space wanted to change the neon sign to LED for the coming London Olympics, but we didn't feel the need to change it for economic reasons.”...

Featuring Intelligent Thermal Sensing Technology and Reduced Carbon Footprint   American Illumination, Inc®, a LED engine design and manufacturing company, is introducing the patent pending Light Plugz® light engines designed for the Cree XP family of LEDs.  Produced especially for light fixture designers, the Light Plugz® series incorporates intelligent thermal sensing technology, advanced custom optics, improved heat tolerance and a selection of interchangeable heat sinks.     In order to prevent shortened lifetime due to e...

According to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, it may form units in the solar and LED businesses. Formerly, TSMC and other Taiwan technology companies have been pushing into the $35 billion global solar energy market to leverage their expertise in chip and LCD manufacturing into new growth prospects. Last September, TSMC said it would complete the first phase of a planned solar energy plant in Taiwan in the first half of 2011 after an investment of over $200 million.  ...

PowerSecure International, Inc. has received $10 million award to develop its Interactive Distributed Generation® (IDG®) smart grid power systems, and LED lighting products. Among these awards, the new IDG System  has acquired total $7 million, and include installations for a broad base of customers, including hospitals, municipal water systems, educational facilities, and retailers. The left $3 million for new LED lighting, and consist primarily of an order from a major U.S. retailer to begin retrofitting refrigerated cases with EfficientLights&r...

Lighting Science Group has helped Yankee Candle stores all across New England to replace their halogen bulbs for energy saving. Compared with the halogen bulbs, the ENERGY STAR approved DEFINITY PAR 20, PAR 30, PAR 38 and MR 16 LED bulbs installed in stores are approximately 80% more efficient and are fully dimmable. In addition, theseLED bulbs are mercury-free, completely recyclable, "instant on," and offer outstanding light quality.   Yankee Candle received rebates from National Grid and Western Mass Electric Compan...

Thermal Technology, a leading manufacturer of crystal growth equipment and high temperature furnace systems, recently received 59 orders for their Model K1  90 kg sapphire crystal grower from customers in Taiwan, Korea and China.  In total, these growers will produce 5.2 million TIE (two-in-equivalents) per year.  The Model K1 sapphire crystal grower advances beyond the traditional kyropoulos process and out-performs other sapphire crystal growth methods currently being marketed, such as HEM or Bridgman. "I recently returned from our customer&rsqu...

Lunera CTO Will Discuss Demystifying the Pieces and Assembling the Future of Solid State Lighting Lunera® Lighting, Inc., a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, is pleased to have Steve Paolini, Lunera’s CTO included in the impressive speaker line up at the upcoming Strategies in Light Conference. The solid-state lighting conference and tradeshow will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center on February 22 – 24, 2011. The event anticipates a record breaking attendance of 4,500 ...

AIXTRON SE today announced a new order for a 4-inch Black Magic Plasma Enhanced CVD (PECVD) system from The University of Texas at Austin. After delivery of the system at the end of 2010, the local AIXTRON support team has carried out the installation and commissioning in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Microelectronics Research Center, at The University of Texas at Austin. Assistant Professor Deji Akinwande and Professor Rod Ruoff from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are working on seve...

Manchester based MHA Lighting, which specialises in innovative lighting solutions, has win contract to transform the design of the car park fittings at the Manchester Airport Car Parks. It’s said that MHA Lighting replaces the two thousand 80w bulbs across the two car parks with 30 and 40 Watt LED units in a move which will halve carbon emissions and cut energy bills by an estimated 60%.  ...

Digital Lumens CEO Tom Pincince is about to present at the Solid-State Lighting Investor Forum on February 22 in Santa Clara, Calif. and the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium on February 24 also in the same place. During the Solid-State Lighting Investor Forum, which is part of Strategies in Light, the leading event for the global LED and Lighting industry, Mr. Pincince will be part of the Drivers/Thermals/Controls session, presenting "LEDs + Controls + Energy Management = Radical Efficiency." And he will give a pre...

Acuity Brands has released four white papers including LED Binning, Photometric Measurement, Lumen Depreciation and Color Quality, to help educate the marketplace about LED lighting and technology and associated issues in lighting design. According to Dave Ranieri, Vice President and General Manager, Lithonia Lighting® Commercial Indoor Products,  their goal is to provide the industry with tools to make the best possible decisions when selecting intelligent LED lighting and control systems....

The Russian city of Kazan requires two-thirds less energy thanks to LEDEL’s efficient street lighting with OSRAM Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs Reducing Russia’s primary energy consumption by 40 per cent by 2020 is one of the country’s core concerns. To help reach this goal the Republic of Tatarstan is tackling street lighting and has initiated a pilot project in its capital Kazan – a ward with around 25,000 households already benefits from the superior light quality of LED street lighting made by the LEDEL company. They have already...

Consumers get proven technology that will save energy and money with commercially available Philips AmbientLED 12.5 watt   The world’s first LED replacement for a 60-watt incandescent bulb is now also the first to earn ENERGY STAR qualification.  Philips Lighting announced today that the Philips AmbientLED 12.5 watt (also sold professionally under the Philips EnduraLED brand) has met or exceeded the light quality and energy efficiency requirements for a 60-watt LED equivalent set forth by ENERGY STAR, proving that it is a high...

GlacialLight, a division of GlacialTech Inc. and a global provider of PC Cooling, Power supplies, power drivers and LED lighting, extends an invitation to all business and media partners around the world to attend their display at the LIGHT INDIA INTERNATIONAL 2011 to be held at Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, India from March 4-7, 2011. Event: Lii2011/Light India International 2011 Venue: Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, India Exhibition Date: March 4th to 7th, 2011 GlacialLight Booth #: 100, Hall # 3 “The Chennai Cen...

Samsung Electronics has installed 80 large-format displays (460UT), 236 latest LCD monitors, and 34 LED and LCD TVs in the control center, offices and conference rooms at Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall, to dress up the city as a smart city. It’s said that the video installed at the control center is not only the largest in Brazil but also in the whole of Central and South America. The Brazil government will operate the control center in preparation for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.  ...

In August of 2010, Neo-Neon LED Lighting International Ltd (Neo-Neon) won the bid, amidst a field of world-class competitors, for a prominent tunnel illumination project in São Paulo, Brazil.  Winning the bid on this significant tunnel project,  Neo-Neon gained a significant order for 1800 pieces of LED Tunnel Light fixtures and at the same time this project serves to improve the brand image of Neo-Neon as energy-savings, excellent quality of both product and service. Good tunnel lighting allows the user to enter, pass through and exit the ...

Recently, The Republic Group Handelsvertretung GmbH (“TRG”) has acknowledged Nichia’s claims in the early first hearing at the District Court Düsseldorf. Previously, Nichia has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the above court. It claims that two different Harvatek white LED products (serial numbers HT-V116TW and HT-U158TW) sold by those distributors infringe Nichia YAG patent (EP936682[DE69702929]) and seeks an injunction, damages, recall and destruction. On January 18, 2011, TRG acknowledged Nichia’s Claim...