Architectural Lighting Works (ALW) announces the release of three new LED luminaires and a Tunable White LED lamping option that provide specifiers and facility managers with versatile and inventive lighting options.

Orion Energy Systems a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient lighting platforms, today announced that it recently received a contract award of approximately $1.0 million to retrofit a Northern California-based location of a globally-known designer and manufacturer of mobile devices, tablets, and personal computers. The award represented repeat business for Orion from this customer, which was upgrading fluorescent fixtures with a comprehensive lighting solution that included Orion’s ISON LED High Bay lighting fixtures (approximately 660 units), solar light pipes (approximately 1150 units) and Orion’s InteLite control system.

STG Aerospace, a world leader in pioneering aircraft lighting technologies, is delighted to announce that its safTglo® photoluminescent emergency floorpath marking system has been chosen by Shanghai Airlines as a replacement for the combination of electrical and photoluminescent lighting systems previously installed in its fleet of Boeing 767s. Four of the airline’s seven-strong fleet have now been retrofitted with safTglo®.

Smart Vision Lights, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-brightness LED lights for industrial applications, is pleased to introduce its Linear High Power (LHP) Line Scan Light. The new light is the world's brightest industrial line-scan light at greater than 5 million lux and the only scan light on the market to offer polarization (patent pending).

Power management company Eaton today announced that it has helped improve the lighting performance and energy efficiency in a campus recreation facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. By replacing almost 400 lighting fixtures in three gymnasiums at the Activities and Recreation Center with Metalux™ HBLED high-bay light-emitting diode (LED) luminaires, the university’s projected cost avoidance is estimated to be as high as $70,500 annually.

Did you know that average americans spend 90 percent of their time inside? That was revealed in a study from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This means people spend most of their day with a ceiling over their head, yet hardly do they notice it’s aesthetic. A ceiling is often forgotten in design, just like acoustics. Architects struggle with all those add-ons disturbing their white canvas. And that is where OneSpace steps in.

Top automotive lighting manufacturers gave LEDinside team some insight about the market outlook and challenges at the 31st Taipei International Auto Parts and Accessories Show (Taipei AMPA), which ran from April 8-11, 2015 at TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall and TWTC Exhibition Hall 1 Area A in Taiwan.

Xiamen Bymea Lighting Co., Ltd., posed in HK International Spring Lighting Fair., 6-9 April 2015. Bymea Lighting brought the audience a visual feast with self-designed LED lamps and fixtures, and became a highlight of the exhibition.   Bymea Special Booth HK International Spring Lighting Fair is the most prestigious professional lighting show in Asia, which attracts many famous lighting companies and international buyers every year. This is the third time that Bymea Lighting attended the fair. As a self-brand company, our 27㎡special booth located i...

Taiwanese and Chinese LED automotive makers were displaying a lot more types of LED headlights at the 31st Taipei International Auto Parts and Accessories Show (Taipei AMPA), which ran from April 8-11, 2015 at TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall and TWTC Exhibition Hall 1 Area A in Taiwan.

Los Angeles based Lucera Labs has developed an IR sensor equipped alarm clock that wakes up people gently with a focused beam of LED light.

Following up on promising results from pilot work, researchers at the VA Boston Healthcare System are testing the effects of light therapy on brain function in Veterans with Gulf War Illness.

Corning Incorporated today announced a collaborative agreement with OLEDWorks to develop unique, flexible, and conformable OLED lighting solutions using Corning® Willow® Glass as an integrated substrate.

Cree builds on its industry-leading Cree® LMH2 LED Module family with the introduction of the LMH2+, the industry’s highest performing LED module, delivering 30 percent better performance than the previous generation in the same form factor. Providing efficacy of 125 lumens per watt with color-quality greater than 90 CRI, the LMH2+ is the only LED module that allows lighting manufacturers to achieve a system efficacy of 100 lumens-per-watt with high light quality.

LG Chem has announced its participation in Euroluce 2015 from April 14th to April 19th. LG Chem will exhibit an updated OLED light panel line-up along with various types of applications and solutions. LG Chem will also showcase its partners’ products using LG Chem OLED light panels, including Acuity Brands, TW2M and more.

Hudson Valley Lighting®, part of the Littman Brands family of lighting, is highlighted in the 35th season of the Emmy Award-winning PBS television series THIS OLD HOUSE®. For more than 20 years, Hudson Valley Lighting has produced quality, classically inspired contemporary and traditional lighting fixtures. In the second project of the season, the THIS OLD HOUSE TV crew has taken on one of the youngest homes in its 35 year history: a 1966 Colonial Revival in Lexington, Massachusetts. Interior designer Robin Gannon chose 19 of Hudson Valley Lighting’s premier fixtures to add timeless beauty and light to this exquisite renovation project.

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, thanks IKEA customers and co-workers for supporting ‘Brighter Lives for Refugees’, a global cause-related campaign that raised $11.6 million* for refugees this year. In just the US, IKEA raised over $1 million and sold 1,031,275 LEDARE bulbs. The campaign ran in IKEA stores globally from February 1 to March 28, 2015. During this period, for every LED light bulb purchased by an IKEA customer, the IKEA

Plessey Semiconductors announced that it has entered into a sales representative agreement with ROM Electronik, an electronics distributor and provider of advanced complete solutions headquartered close to Istanbul, to expand its European network with coverage in the Turkish market for its GaN-on-Silicon LED products.  

AkzoNobel has launched an ultra-reflective powder coating which can increase the effective output of commercial lighting fixtures by up to 30%.

STG Aerospace, a pioneer in aircraft lighting technologies, is delighted to announce that it has established an official presence in China with the launch of a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE), STG Aerospace (China) Co., Ltd. based in Shanghai. This new initiative is a reflection of the importance of China as a market for STG Aerospace. According to a recent IATA report, the country is expected to overtake the United States as the world’s largest air passenger market by 2030.

As miniaturised light sources, LEDs offer great design freedom to luminaire manufacturers. So far, LED drivers which are essential and need a lot more space than the light sources themselves have placed restrictions on the design. With the TALEXXengine DC String, Tridonic is now offering an LED solution which makes AC/DC converters and DC/DC components go their separate ways, creating space for new design ideas.

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced that Prescolite has significantly expanded its LED lighting portfolio with the introduction of three brand new energy-efficient lighting solutions—the MSL mini step light, the AKTMLED track light and the LFA6LED downlight. The brand also announced it has upgraded two of its existing product lines—the LC6LED downlight and LBSLED surface mount.

LEDinside team finally gets a chance to meet the Father of Blue LED, Shuji Nakamura, at a special Epistar event. Nobel Laureate Nakamura and Steven DenBaars, a fellow colleague at College of Engineering at UCSB, point out the future of LED lighting technology will be GaN-on-GaN, and that laser emerge as the upcoming next generation lighting to replace LEDs.

Philips is  introducing a new logo which licensees can use to show they are a member of the Philips LED Luminaires and Retrofit Bulbs Licensing Program.

The future of lighting will be laser, said Nobel Laureate in Physics Shuji Nakamura and fellow colleague Professor Steven DenBaars of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) at an exclusive forum hosted by Taiwanese leading chip LED manufacturer Epistar on Wednesday at the company headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

The upcoming LED technology will be GaN-on-GaN LEDs, affirmed Nobel Laureate in Physics Shuji Nakamura and fellow colleague at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Professor Steven DenBaars at an exclusive forum hosted by Taiwanese leading chip LED manufacturer Epistar on Wednesday at the company headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

AIXTRON SE, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of deposition systems for the semiconductor industry, today announced that it has acquired privately held Silicon Valley-based PlasmaSi, Inc. effective 1 April 2015. The purchase price is US $16 million and will be paid in cash.

Scientists at the MPI-P Mainz, BASF Ludwigshafen, the University of Ulm, and Innovation Lab Heidelberg have developed a simulation toolkit for evaluating properties of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) based solely on their chemical composition. The package is integrated in the free software VOTCA and helps to pre-select suitable organic molecules for lighting and display applications.

Inspired by professional technologies like lasers and the first-ever wearable mask devices, new products help fuel consumer interest and the at-home beauty devices market, which globally increases by nearly 14% in 2014, reveals Kline & Company, an international market research and management consulting firm in its recently released study Beauty Devices: Global Market Analysis and Opportunities. The market continues to be remarkably dynamic, nearly doubling in size since first tracked globally in 2014.

A fully optimized production concept for LED components and light modules in which all the process steps are coordinated with one another could give rise to completely new types of LED and also reduce their manufacturing costs. The declared objective of the “InteGreat” project is therefore to research new approaches to the production of high-efficiency light emitting diodes along the entire production process, to remove the boundaries between the individual value-added stages and as a result to create new functionality and high flexibility. 

Galaxy Glass & Stone® announced today that their newly introduced MediaGlas™ product will be featured at Lightfair International, May 5-7th, 2015 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York.  (Traxon Technologies booth # 1922).  MediaGlas™ is a highly customizable line of monolithic and laminated Architectural Glass products designed specifically for use with Traxon & e:cue LED lighting and controls.