Thousands of Olympia traditional yellowish, high-pressure sodium lights could be converted to whiter, energy-saving LED lamps, in a project estimated to cost nearly $4 million. The Olympia City Council will consider funding the project Tuesday at a price tag of $3,859,382. The streetlights themselves will cost about $2.5 million, but the overall project includes new heating/cooling systems at two city-owned buildings, The Olympia Center and the Olympia Timberland Regional Library building. Those were included to allow the city to obtain a $500,000 state grant for the pro...

Tomatoes grown around LED lights in the winter can significantly reduce greenhouse energy costs without sacrificing yield, according to a Purdue University study. Cary Mitchell, a professor of horticulture, said the average tomato is shipped about 1,500 miles from warmer climates where they're grown to cooler climates that cannot produce the fruit cost-effectively in the winter. That journey is costly, however, because tomatoes are picked green and ripen during shipping, decreasing quality and flavor. The lengthy shipping distance also adds to the industry's carbon foot...

The historic Castle Museum in Michigan brings its French Revival style architecture to life with Lithonia Lighting D-Series LED floodlights for less than one dollar per night. The Castle Museum in Saginaw, Michigan is now illuminated with 19 Lithonia Lighting® D-Series LED Flood Luminaires from Acuity Brands Inc.. The museum partnered with Saginaw Sees the Light, a local organization devoted to illuminating Saginaw’s architectural treasures, to showcase the facility’s historic architecture. The newly installed LED floodlights give th...

Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) announces its fourth consecutive pan-African Cape Town to Cairo road show; visiting 18 cities across 17 countries between 14th May and 23rd September 2013. The road show is instrumental in raising awareness on how Philips can enhance life in Africa. With an Africa-relevant product portfolio and a strong historical presence on the continent, Philips is committed to significantly expand its business footprint in Africa in the coming years.  Well positioned for growth in Africa   “Africa is an important growth market for Philips. We have an ambitious growth plan for the continent in place aimed at double digit growth over the coming few years,” states Frans van Houten, CEO of Philips.

After a year of research and development, Klauf Lighting of Lewes, Deleware has introduced the Klauf light bar. Uniquely, the light bar takes advantage of remote phosphor technology. The warm white light is also leverages better dimming technology that is compatible with standard inexpensive dimmers. The luminaire has an extruded aluminum housing and a yellow-orange diffuser, which gives the Klauf light bar a distinctive appearance. Unlike conventional LED lighting that uses blue LEDs packaged with a phosphor coating to produce white light, a long phosphor material laye...

LG Electronics India, with the release of a new range of flat panel televisions, is primarily eyeing the replacement cum upgradation market in the non-metro cities in order to stay ahead in the race. According to Rishi Tandan, marketing head, home entertainment at LG Electronics India, LG ranked second in the LED TV market with a 24.2% market share. Samsung India is at the numero uno position with 26.2% market share and Sony was at the number three spot with 20% market share, said Tandan. The flat panel market television market was 5.5 million units, which is ...

Access Fixtures has expanded its LED Retrofit product line to include Post-Top LED Retrofit Lamps for acorn type globes used on decorative and antique street lights.  Post-top LED retrofit LED lamp replaces 70w to 175w HID lamps while delivering superior light quality. The lamps are easy to install, have as much as 6 times the life of the lamps they replace and reduce energy use by as much as 75%. They are ideal for existing antique style and decorative street lights used across the USA on main streets, shopping centers, hotels, apartment complexes, and unive...

Lucibel, a French LED lighting company, has acquired Cordel, a company that specializes in shop lighting. Lucibel purchased 100% of the shares in the company. With this take-over, Lucibel places “shop lighting” at the core of its development strategy. Cordel, has a head-office in Brittany, France and coverage throughout the entire country. Cordel employs a workforce of 60 and carries out more than 20,000 maintenance interventions per year for its customers. The company, which has been profitable from day one, registered an annual revenue of 10 M€ in 2012. T...

Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has a appointed four new distributors to further expand its supply chain offering. The new online and catalog distribution partners are Digi-Key Corp, Farnell, Mouser Electronics, and RS Components. "Solid-state lighting is one of the fastest-growing segments in today's fast-paced market," said Mark Zack, vice president, Global Semiconductor Product, Digi-Key. “As a global distributor with the largest selection of electronic components, we’re pleased to serve the needs of lighting designers by supp...

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation (Toshiba) announced that it is acquiring GreenStar Products, Inc., a manufacturer of LED luminaires for roadway, area and canopy lighting applications. GreenStar’s LED luminaires are direct replacements for conventional HID lighting, such as high-pressure sodium or metal halide, which requires frequent maintenance and high wattage usage. In February 2012, Toshiba International Corporation entered into an agreement with San Antonio, Texas-based GreenStar to produce the LED luminaires. Since then Toshiba h...

At the GE booth during the LightFair tradeshow held last week in Philadelphia, LEDs were showcased for professional innovations, including integrated approaches to controls and products, further demonstrating that GE now offers an even greater variety of energy-saving solutions. We invite you to walk through our virtual booth and visit our GE Lighting YouTube channel, where you'll get a peek at the new GE Lighting innovations, including: Los Angeles Roadway Controls Pilot The City of Los Angeles and GE Lighting are moving forward with an expanded p...

The Barnstable Fire District was offered an opportunity to reduce its annual lighting costs from $12,000 to $8,000 through replacement of current sodium vapor light bulbs in street lighting to LED lights. The opportunity was presented by their electric supplier, Republic Electric through the Cape Light Compact. In order to realize the savings, the district would have to replace the current lights in all 136 street lights that the district currently owns. To allow residents an opportunity to see what these tests would look like, lights were installed on a test basis in the co...

Jinwill lighting has announced the release of a powerful LED flood light that provides a versatile and powerful source of illumination that can be mounted to any metallic surface that will accept a magnet. The LED work light features a rugged three leg pedestal base constructed from aluminum, magnetic mounting, and a high output LED lamp, making it ideal for operators who need a versatile lighting system that can be mounted almost anywhere. The LED work light from Jinwill lighting produces 5,556 lumens of brilliant light output from a single LED lamp and features a three...

  Feelux Lighting is proud to introduce the Diva 2™ Spot -- an energy efficient, recessed spot light ideal for under cabinets, retail displays and furniture installations. Delivering an impressive 80 lumens per watt, this powerful LED spotlight features a single 4W diode that casts a single beam of light eliminating multiple shadows as seen with fixtures that are constructed with more than one diode.  The Diva 2™ Spot was designed to coordinate and link with the popular Diva 2™ linear LED Series providing a cohesive lighting solution of linear LEDs and spot lighting for retail, residential and commercial spaces. The super slim dimensions......

 EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 【TSE:2393】 showcases new series Mid-Power LED components for lighting solutions such as tube light and streetlight applications in 2013 LED EXPO Mumbai, after successful exhibition experience in LED EXPO New Delhi. Moreover, EVERLIGHT has made an excellent example with the LED lamp and LED dot matrix display by fixed products - bus signage, in order to fulfil the booming demands of traffic infrastructures in India. EVERLIGHT brings up the concept of “The Right LED for the Right Application,” in order to provide the best performance and quality for different applications.

Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported selected financial metrics and business highlights for first-quarter 2013 (excluding revenue and earnings, due to the firm’s ongoing review of revenue recognition, announced last November). Order bookings totalled $70m (down 24% on $92.3m for Q4/2012). This included: $37m from MOCVD (down 42% on $62.8m) and $6m from MBE (down 51% on $12.6m); hence LED and solar market orders together totaled $43m (down 43% on $75.4m). Data Storage orders totalled $27m (...

Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, announced the addition of single stage LED drivers from Cirrus Logic, Inc. The innovative CS615/16 product line recreates the dimming performance consumers expect from incandescent light bulbs. “We’re seeing significant growth opportunities in the lighting market,” said Mark Zack, Vice President, Global Semiconductor Product at Digi-Key. “Cirrus Logic’s new single-stage LED drivers are a gr...

•Resort developer adds more energy-efficient lighting to conference areas at The Venetian|The Palazzo Las Vegas New GE LED lighting is helping Las Vegas Sands Corp. take another key step toward curbing environmental impact at its leading resort and meeting properties. As part of its Sands ECO 360o Green Meetings program, Las Vegas Sands has completed an expansive energy-efficient LED lighting upgrade to its meeting spaces at The Venetian|The Palazzo Las Vegas. GE's new LED lighting in meeting rooms will save more than $400,000 a yea...

U.S. Army researchers are reaching out to industry to find companies able to provide or develop a driver for LEDs that significantly improves the turn-on (rise time) and turn-off (fall time) of a pulsed-illumination system. The U.S. Army Contracting Command has issued a sources-sought notice (W911QY-13-R-0075) for the Development Of Circuitry For Improved Led Turn-On And Turn-Off program, which seeks to determine if significant improvements over an existing LED driver system are possible. The notice was released on behalf of the Army Natick Soldier System...

A new semiconductor device capable of emitting two distinct colours has been created by a group of researchers in the US, potentially opening up the possibility of using LEDs universally for cheap and efficient lighting. The proof-of-concept device, which has been presented today, 3 May, in IOP Publishing's journal Semiconductor Science and Technology, takes advantage of the latest nano-scale materials and processes to emit green and red light separated by a wavelength of 97 nanometres—a significantly larger bandwidth than a traditional semiconductor. Furthermor...

2013 DOE Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Workshop June 5–6, 2013 The U.S. Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Workshop will take place in Boston on June 5-6. This is a “roll-up-your-sleeves” event, where DOE seeks input from industry to help shape the DOE SSL Manufacturing Roadmap, which has become an important reference for the lighting industry everywhere. Would it be possible for add this to your event calendar? U.S. DOE SSL Manufacturing R&D Workshop Hyatt Harborside Hote...

Traditionally Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED devices are produced on either sapphire or silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, due to the good crystal lattice matching between the materials and the GaN, with typically 2” or 4” diameter material being used. Significant effort is being made to grow GaN on ubiquitous larger diameter (6” or greater) silicon wafers, a substrate that offers significant substrate cost reduction, together with the ability to process in automated IC production lines. Reasonable estimates are that potential savings on the order of 80% over tr...

Arkema has commercialised a grade of acrylic resin that is better suited to handle modern LED lighting. Arkema – based in Colombes, France, with U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia — began making Plexiglas Diffuse-brand resins in March at its plant in Bristol, Pa. Production of the materials at an Arkema plant in Rho, Italy, will begin in May. The material can diffuse light in LED applications without compromising overall light transmission, officials said. Typical applications for Diffuse-brand resins include architectural and indoor commercial lighti...

The student Ming Ma from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a new method to manufacture LEDs that are brighter, more energy efficient, and have superior technical properties than those on the market today. His patent-pending invention holds the promise of hastening the global adoption of LEDs and reducing the overall cost and environmental impact of illuminating our homes and businesses. Seeking Brighter, Smarter LEDs Conventional incandescent and fluorescent light sources are increasingly being replaced by more energy-efficient, longer-lived, and envir...

Wichita Falls, Texas - The orange glow from street lights in downtown Wichita Falls will soon be a thing of the past. City councilors recently approved the purchase of nearly $200,000 worth of LED street lights. Crews installed one at 8th and Lamar to test it out and it received a glowing approval from city traffic officials. "It's a whiter, brighter light so it makes it easier to see. It's a very energy efficient light source so in most cases we will save 40 up to 60 percent, depending on how we set the lights up," says Mark Beauchamp, traffic superin...

Leedarson Lighting officially launched its G-One series of LED lighting products in 113th China Import and Export Fair. G-One is the only one “real LED retrofit” in some aspects due to its higher lumen efficiency and the incandescent-like appearance. The characteristics will further speed up the LED lighting penetration. Up to 110lm/w, G-One series have 90% energy saving comparing traditional incandescent lamp. Particularly, G-One can light as other Kinds of LED bulb without the component of heatsink due to the special patented IHM (Independen...

Increased competition, steady cost reductions and improved technology performance are putting the LED lighting industry on a path to securing an 80 percent market share for lighting by 2020. In a briefing this morning hosted by Credit Suisse, lighting expert and former Philips Lighting CEO Ludo Carnotensis discussed the global competitive landscape for LED lighting and said that an "aggressive scenario" of 80 percent LED penetration is "in the cards." The industry's market share was just under 12 percent in 2012 and is expected to hit 25 percent...

 With its rich architectural heritage, Chicago takes skyscrapers seriously. So when a glassy, 40-story Helmut Jahn-designed tower built in 1980 underwent rebranding to attract new tenants, the end result had to be worthy of distinction. A revitalization of the building’s lobby and street-level exterior called for enhancing the artistic nature of the structure. In keeping with that intent, Plexineon White 2X Series fixtures were chosen to highlight two new entrance canopies, each situated along a different downtown street. Striped and streamlined, Plexineon provides an accent that’s consistent with the clean, contemporary lines of 55 W. Monroe St......

Dunkin’ Donuts’ Indonesia flagship store in Palembang, Indonesia, will be the first Southeast Asia franchise location to be lit entirely by LEDs. The store expects to save $21,000 in annual energy and maintenance costs using GE’s Tetra® LED signage lighting and GE LED display, general and ambient lighting instead of the halogen PAR lamps often used in these applications. "To attract and serve our customers, quality illumination that exudes an inviting ambience plays a critical role." said Tan Po Lian, franchise owner of Indon...

According to the latest “2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report” published by the LEDinside, a research department of TrendForce, sapphire ingot manufacturers have been in the state of “the big gets bigger” such that first-tier manufacturers with cost competitiveness have accounted for 80% of market share.