The high precision machine tools manufacturer Peter Wolters of America, a subsidiary of Peter Wolters GmbH, has made a breakthrough on LED substrate polishing time.

America’s leading provider of energy saving lighting, Energy Smart Industry (ESI) has announced that it has bagged a new project with Starwood Capital. As part of this project, it will install LED lighting at Starwood’s Artech Aventura property. Artech Aventura is a luxury water-front condo located in Aventura, Miami.Starwood Capital Group is a privately held global investment firm founded in 1991.

Commercially Available Single-Die XLamp® XM-L LEDs Deliver 1000 Lumens at 100 Lumens per Watt Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of the industry’s brightest, highest-performance lighting-class LEDs. With breakthrough light output and efficacy, Cree XLamp® XM-L LEDs are designed for very-high-lumen applications, such as high-bay or roadway lighting.

LCD chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy reported October 2010 revenues of NT$400.72 million (US$13.31 million), down 0.04% sequentially but up 58.86% on year. In November, the company pointed out that demand for TV backlighting was picking up on which revenues depended, but the growth was not as significant as in 2009, and December revenues were expected to drop as clients went through inventory stock checks.

TFT LCD driver IC maker Himax Technologies 3Q10 revenues were US$138 million, down 26.3% sequentially but still meeting its adjusted forecast. And gross margin increased 2.5pp to 22.9%. Quarterly net income came to US$400,000. Non-driver IC products accounted for 8.4% in 3Q revenues.

QD Vision, Inc. has signed an agreement with Solvay to develop a printable electroluminescent platform for quantum dot LEDs (QLEDs) that will lead to a new generation of solid state lighting products.  

Visualization specialist Barco has released a new line of LED-lit, DLP-based video walls with an improved LED engine. The new series features an advanced heat management system based on liquid cooling technology, which brings the LED temperature down to the optimal level. This results in a significantly longer lifetime of the projection system, amounting to 80,000 hours of continuous operation in eco-mode – or a 35% improvement over competing video walls.

Avago Technologies has introduced cyan-colored high-power ASMT-JC11 and ASMT-AC00 1-Watt LEDs optimized for traffic signals as well as sign backlighting and architectural, commercial and decorative lighting applications at the Electronica 2010 trade fair. The new LEDs address space constraints in applications with one of the industry’s smallest footprints of 5 mm by 4 mm by 1.85 mm for the ASMT-JC11 device’s 6-leaded small outline package (SOP).  

Emerson Network Power has showcased a new family of standard power supplies for LED lighting, the LDS70 series at the Electronica 2010 global electronics trade fair. The off-the-shelf, low-profile solutions are designed to support system life requirements greater than 70,000 hours and help manufacturers meet time-to-market demands and quality requirements.

Carmanah Technologies Corp has supplies its EverGEN(TM) 1530 solar LED lighting systems as part of a pilot project to help a major electric company in the United States for illuminating a power generating facility parking lot. According to Ted Lattimore, Carmanah CEO, it’s the third power generating station in the US to install Carmanah EverGEN solar LED lighting technology.

City receives ARRA grant; selects Cooper Lighting's Lumark RC Cobrahead for street lighting replacement to help reduce energy costs and conserve energy.

AIXTRON AG has announced a new order for a Black Magic Plasma Enhanced CVD (PECVD) system from DTU Danchip and DTU Nanotech at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, Denmark.

Lite-On Technology Corp. (TW 2301) reported October consolidated revenue of NT$10.32 billion, up 10% on year. The sales growth was attributable to Lite-On’s ongoing expansion in market share, coupled with stable demand. Cumulative sales from January through October reached NT$103.2 billion, up 32% Y-o-Y.

Green Energy Management Services Holdings, Inc. has signed a ten-year efficient lighting installation and maintenance contract Valued at $2.6 Million with Co-op City, the largest residential development in the United States, located in The Bronx, New York. The Contract entails replacing and retrofitting over 6,000 lighting fixtures and elements in eight parking structures within Co-op City.

Reportedly, John G. Rice, a GE vice chairman since 2005, was appointed to lead the company’s global operations by the board of directors.

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today celebrated the completion of the first sapphire boule produced in the company’s newest facility. Located in Batavia, IL, the new 135,000 square foot sapphire crystal manufacturing facility was established to increase capacity to support the growing demand for LEDs (light emitting diodes) in the consumer electronics and general lighting industries.

Watertight, Daylight-Viewable Indicator for Industrial Equipment Provides Unprecedented Clarity, Durability and Variety of Options to Suit Wide Range of Applications To better meet the needs of industrial equipment manufacturers, Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), the global leader in LED lighting technology, today announced the expansion of its 556 Series LED Panel Mount Indicators to include certification for use in Class I, Division 2 Hazardous locations.

~ Nordson ASYMTEK and LG forge ongoing relationship ~  

America retail industry leader Walmart continues its LED lighting innovation with a 22-store, island-wide move toGE Lights. The  Newly constructed Walmart stores in Puerto Rico will feature the energy efficient GE Evolve LED Area Lights.  

Extended Warranty and Enhanced Distributor Availability for LMR4 LED Module to Help Drive LED Lighting Adoption

Recently, Taiwan-based LED companies reported their October revenues.

A leader of MJC Probe (MPI) reported that its LED production orders had extended to 1Q11. As growing adoption of LEDs for large-size backlighting and general lighting applications, MPI expected sales of its LED-testing tools to grow in 2011, and the company thought the market penetration rate for LED applications in the global lighting market would reach 50% by 2015.

ON Semiconductor has launched three new products targeted at the automotive market sector at Electronica 2010.   The new NCV7321 is a fully featured local interconnect network (LIN) transceiver designed to interface between a LIN protocol controller and the physical bus in low data rate in-vehicle networking (IVN) applications.

In 2011, Technology licensing company Rambus planed to start quantity production of an LCD TV backlight unit (BLU), with MicroLens' edge-type single-side (on the bottom) LED technology. It is possible that the mount of using LEDs in a 40-inch model would reduce to 142 unite from 240 units at present.

As the ensuing demands for LED backlights, the world's first-tier manufacturers of brand computers have scheduled to tap into tablet PCs in the first quarter 2011, therefore Taiwan's industry executives predict it will create business for Taiwan's LED makers when the market for TV backlights started losing growth steam in the third quarter. According to Taiwan's industry executives, tablet PC backlights are particularly suitable for manufacturers specializing in small and medium backlights for uses in mobile phones and digital photo frames.

Bentleyville is building what will become the only steel fabricated Christmas tree in the United States standing over 120 feet tall. And rolls of LED lights will be wrapped around the tree as crews finished each section. The 50,000 LED lights are expected to use 37 amps of power. It’s said that over 200,000 people attended the Bentleyville Tour of Lights in 2009, and this year, crews are expecting the tree will draw an even bigger turnout.

Benicia has acquired $146,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program to retrofit 160 streetlights with LED and induction technology fixtures. The new lights will be installed on First Street and Military West between First and West 13th streets. The project is expected to be completed in 2011 spring, following a bidding process to award a construction contract.

The 12th H.K. Int’l Light Fair Autumn Edition has been successfully completed on October 30th. Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT) has achieved great success on this fair. The exclusive “One Dollar LED Lighting Experience” campaign has received tremendous supports from visitors around the world. Also, brand new Q3 products, which were first launched in H.K. Light Fair, have gathered lots attention and orders.

Matrix Lighting, a subsidiary of Matrix Holding Limited will showcase VIRIBRIGHT LED lighting products at the Greenbuild Expo Trade Show from November 17-19, 2010 at the McCormick Place West Convention Center in Chicago, IL.

Styron recently announced the launch of a new customized material solution for durable LED applications. Opalescent and tinted versions of CALIBRE™ 301-58LT tailored to customer needs are now available. In addition, UV protection can be provided on request depending on the requirements of the end-application. High Performance Lighting Resin