Optronics International, a leading manufacturer and supplier of heavy-duty LED vehicle lighting, is presenting its newly redesigned Fusion LED combination stop, tail, turn and backup lamp in booth 3885 at the 2016 NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis, Indiana. The new Fusion lamp is 25 percent smaller and includes new, optimized, circuitry that hosts both red and white LEDs on a single board, and a patent-pending optical design unlike anything else on the market.

Organizers of LED Expo Thailand have announced the VIP Hosted Buyer Programme . This unique service at the exhibition has become an effective business opportunity for the industry. This year, the VIP buyer programme is enabling leading suppliers and potential customers from across the globe to facilitate business matching at the show.

The LED industrial lighting market has enjoyed accelerated growth in recent years owing to the rising demand worldwide and government subsidies, says LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. According to LEDinside’s latest report, 2016 Industrial Lighting: Explosion-Proof Lamps, the market of LED industrial lighting is forecast to grow from US$2.93 billion in 2016 to US$5.20 billion in 2020, representing a CAGR of over 15% during the five-year period.

A Paris-based startup company Glowee is developing a bacteria lighting, using bioluminescent glow to light up shop windows and street signs, reported New Scientist.

With just a tiny tweak, researchers at Kyushu University greatly increased the device lifetime of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that use a recently developed class of molecules to convert electricity into light with the potential for increased efficiency at a lower cost in future displays and lighting.

Luxonic has expanded its offering with the opening of its first sales office in Scotland. The business’s new Glasgow base will further Luxonic’s already strong operation across the UK, adding to existing offices in Manchester, Belfast and Luxonic’s HQ and manufacturing facilities in Basingstoke.

First the campus grounds. Then the buildings. Then the power in the buildings. Now University of Puget Sound has gone “green” with the streetlights on campus, by installing low-energy, long-life LEDs throughout its grounds.

Philips Lighting, a Royal Philips company and global leader in lighting, today announced the U.S. debut of Philips LightVibes®, an innovative ambient LED lighting technology that is synced to on-screen content with the power to create fully immersive movie-going experiences.

As new product designs become smaller and more compact, the need for smaller components has become more prevalent.  We have seen the optoelectronics industry go from a 1206 sized LED down to an 0402 size where footprint reduction technology has come to a halt for the past many years.  SunLED is excited to make this remarkably unprecedented, groundbreaking announcement of the world's smallest LED - the 0201 LED.

Trinseo, the global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, will highlight its global locations for plastics development at Strategies in Light, Santa Clara, California. The show runs from March 1 to 3, 2016, and Trinseo will exhibit at Booth 414.

When your light pole can scare away an intruder, capture video of a perpetrator, measure snowfall to trigger the arrival of snowplows, and support a range of other desirable functions, you can assume it came from PennSMART.

Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth(R) Smart technology, today announced two new driver controllers for high power commercial LED lighting applications up to 90W. In these applications flicker-free operation is essential to avoid eye stress, particularly where there is long-term exposure to the light source. Dialog's patented Flickerless(TM) technology virtually eliminates flicker through digital control that achieves near-zero line frequency ripple.

The U.S. government’s blockage of Go Scale Capital’s acquisition of former Philips LED component business Lumileds in January 2016, has not deterred the Chinese manufacturer from bidding for Philips Lighting, reported Bloomberg Monday.

Toshiba Lighting and Technology is exiting the consumer market in China, and will be selling all related business operations to local appliance maker Konka Group, according to a recent Nikkei report.

A group of tourists got Wayne Thomson, chairman of Niagara Falls (Ontario) Tourism, thinking about upgrading the lighting of the well- known fall, reported Buffalo Business First.

Indian states Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir have become the latest to implement LED lighting replacement projects under the country’s Domestic Efficient Lighting Program (DELP), according to Indian media reports.

LED A-line lamps surged 226.7% during 4Q15 on a year-over-year basis. Meanwhile, halogen A-line lamps posted a year-over-year increase of 8.7%, and incandescent A-line lamps increased by 7.8 % while compact fluorescents lamps (CFL) dropped 56%. Compared to 3Q15, LED shipments rose 18.4 percent, halogen A-lines increased 0.8%, and CFL shipments saw a quarter-to-quarter increase of 6.5%. In contrast, incandescent A-line lamp shipments decreased 16.7% on a quarter-over-quarter basis.

With ties to many major international companies in over 40 markets, Mackwell has appointed a General Manager of Middle East, India and Africa (MEIA) to oversee the business strategy in this region, further develop connections and market share in the UAE region and develop Mackwell’s presence in this fast-expanding market. René Joppi, was chosen for the position because of his vast experience in DALI, Lighting Controls, Emergency Lighting and software development, gained during his time with Zumtobel Group, plus his ability to advise on the legislation and regulations associated with emergency lighting in that region. 

Our friends at OLEDinfo have compiled news from several Korean sources confirming total investments in Samsung’s upcoming OLED TV panel fab might be higher than previous reports, and sheds light on the OLED technology the company will be utilizing.

Noah Horowitz is a senior scientist in NRDC's energy program gives an in-depth review of the latest DOE light bulb energy efficiency standards and its impact in the U.S. market.

Orion Energy Systems, Inc. , a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient retrofit lighting platforms, today announced Vac-Con®, Inc., a Florida-based manufacturer, has again selected Orion lighting for a major facility expansion. The project features a combination of first and second generation HARRIS LED High Bays.

KAD Aerospace Inc., together with Whelen Engineering Company of Chester, Conn., is pleased to announce the new 90777 Hyperion/Orion LED Position/Anti-Collision Light and the new Hyperion/Orion STC for Beechcraft King Air and 1900C aircraft.

Lumileds kicks off Mid Power March, a month-long event to introduce a variety of mid power products that feature breakthrough performance and unmatched product reliability. “Since we first entered the mid power market in 2012, our focus has been to offer mid power LEDs with a performance edge over our competitors,” said Lumileds Senior VP of Sales & Marketing Emmanuel Dieppedalle. “Part of that edge has come from leveraging our leading high power technologies for the mid power market. Mid Power March is all about showcasing the many breakthroughs we’ve made and are making in application-optimized mid power LED development.”

With a view to future energy-efficient lighting solutions in buildings, at Light & Building 2016, Stand 4.1/K 89 Instrument Systems will be showcasing its LGS 350 goniophotometer to demonstrate applications for the highly accurate and fast testing of medium-sized LED modules according to the EU Eco-Design Directive.

There has been quite some activity in the Middle East and African lighting markets lately. One of Middle East’s largest LED installation projects has been rolled out by Dubai this week, and under the government project 160,000 LED light bulbs will be installed in 2,000 new houses. In Africa, the Zambian government’s decision to phase out incandescent bulbs has encouraged local LED manufacturer The Zambia Electrometer to scale up annual LED bulb production by four times to 2 million LED bulbs.

Cree announces Essentia® by Cree, a new brand of commercial lighting products that offer a broad range of high quality lighting solutions at a great value.  Created in response to market demand, Essentia by Cree branded products will meet industry competitive efficacy of 90+ LPW and color temperatures between 2700k and 5000k that customers have come to expect from Cree as the leading LED lighting technology supplier. This new brand compliments market leading Cree branded lighting products and provides the industry with more high quality lighting that leverage Cree’s market leading LED capabilities.

EGAT continues to move forward in its campaign to promote energy saving through a new initiative in which the public is asked to bring in their old bulbs or tubes and have them exchanged for one of the new EGAT label 5 watt LED bulbs. EGAT will give away a total of 2,000 bulbs, one per household, with a total value of 230,000 baht at LED Expo & Thailand Energy Saving Week 2016, which will be held on 19-22 April 2016 at Hall 4-8, IMPACT Exhibition & Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand.

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that copper nanophotonic components can operate successfully in photonic devices - it was previously believed that only gold and silver components have the required properties for this. Copper components are not only just as good as components based on noble metals, but, unlike them, they can easily be implemented in integrated circuits using industry-standard fabrication processes. "This is a kind of revolution - using copper will solve one of the main problems in nanophotonics," say the authors of the paper. The results have been published in the scientific journal Nano Letters.

Xicato, a leading manufacturer of intelligent light sources, today announced the immediate availability of five new Xicato Thin Modules (XTM) and Xicato Core Arrays (XCA) in Artist Series® and Vibrant Series® V95, high fidelity color. The new LED light sources generate 2000 lumens of extremely high quality light from a surface just 9mm in diameter, enabling high levels of illumination and very tight beam control from a very small aperture fixture.

Elemental LED, a leading U.S. based engineering and technology company that manufactures LED lighting solutions announced today a partnership with sales agency Lightspec that extends the Diode LED product brand into upstate New York. Elemental LED and its wholesale and manufacturing division, Diode LED provides a wide variety of superior quality linear, task, and accent LED lighting solutions for both residential and commercial applications.