Rijksmuseum and Philips announce the world’s most advanced LED lighting design in a museum of fine art Philips illuminates renovated Rijksmuseum, including all artworks Royal Philips Electronics announces the illumination of the renovated Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and its entire art exhibition with its LED lighting. As one of the lead partners in the renovation, Philips has been working closely with the Rijksmuseum on the lighting design with a strong focus on the visitor experience and the conservation of the artworks. The renovated Rijksmuseum opens its doors on April 13, showcasing collections of the Dutch Masters such as Rembrandt and Vermeer, all illuminated with Philips LED lighting.

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced three new Prescolite LED solutions for downlighting applications—a 6” LiteBox LED downlight module (LB6LEDA10L), a 6” Retroficient LED downlight (RLC6LED), and a wall wash version of the 4” LiteFrame LED downlight (LF4LED). Prescolite’s products bring an exceptional combination of outstanding light output, high efficiency, beautiful color, and greater affordability to downlighting applications.   Offering an outstanding efficacy at 87 lumens per watt...

Integrated Solution Features MOSFET and Diode in One Package, Simplifying Board Assembly and Saving Space Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile semiconductor solutions, optimizes the MOSFET and diode selection process by introducing a family of 100 V BoostPak devices that combines a MOSFET and diode in one package to replace discrete solutions currently used in LED TV / monitor backlight, LED lighting and DC-DC converter applications. By integrating the MOSFET and diode into a single...

In view of the news that the panel manufacturers have lowered the predicated value of annual shipments, Lextar said that it has not heard of the news up to now that the backlighting customers intend to adjust orders, and Lextar has developed a direct LED TV backlighting and high definition 4K2K TV product technology, which is expected to be significantly fermented in the second half of this year. Lextar will remain stable growth in its LED backlight business in this year. In terms of the mobile devices, Lextar stated that the revenue of mobile phone and tablet backlighti...

At The Fresh Market, shoppers can catch not only a delectable aroma but also the hint of classical music in the air. When the specialty grocery retailer decided to test updated indoor lighting at its new stores—to be followed by updated lighting at some existing stores—it wanted an energy-saving LED replacement lamp with a high color rendering index (CRI) and long life. After a thorough evaluation, it found its final answer in GE's energy smart® 17-watt LED PAR38 Retail lamp. Once all installations are complete, GE's grocery store lighting solu...

The Lighting Industry Association (LIA) have developed Mini Guide to show how Lighting Controls can play a key role in helping to deliver the energy efficiency requirements for lighting required by the Building Regulations. Revisions to the Building Regulation Documents are expected to be issued by the Government during the Spring of 2013 and come into force in October 2013 and this Guide has been written based on the LIA best understanding of what the revised requirements will be. Once the final documents are published LIA will review them and if necessary make...

Adding to the performance and popularity of Ecomaa’s 130W LED Bay Light series,a higher lumen up to 13,000lm had released. The LED Bay Light 130W new model performed brightness similar to a 450-550W HID (High Intensity-Discharge) Bay light (Bay Fixture), up to 13,000 lm.With Nichia chip and CCT 5000K, we believe it can satisfied the needed of high performance lumen consumers. Ecomaa 130W LED Bay Light are the lighting solutions for low bay fixtures and high bay fixtures respectively. Easy to install with E39/E40 base , and only 1.12kg ...

Satisfies Wall Mount and Area/Site Lighting Applications While Providing Increased Efficiency and Savings   Cooper Lighting, a division of diversified power management company Eaton, has expanded its Lumark Crosstour™ Light Emitting Diode (LED) line of wall packs to include the Crosstour MAXX luminaires. Designed to efficiently satisfy high lumen output needs, the Lumark Crosstour™ MAXX LED wall pack and site luminaires deliver up to 7,416 lumens replacing up to a 400-watt metal halide fixture, while consuming only 85 watts and providi...

Green Ray LED, the aggressive, locally headquartered lighting manufacturer, has produced what is being hailed as the world’s most efficient LED lamp The U.S. Department of Energy has pronounced Green Ray’s new tube lamp the brightest of all, at a record-breaking 173 lumens per watt. LED lights sold in most big-box stores are 48-60 lm/W, with specialty products running as high as 130 lm/W. "Our bulb blows the doors off,” said Peter Richard, corporate manager of Green Ray USA. "This is a real technological breakthrough that’...

Hitachi Appliances developed new product "LEC-AHS1810BC" with excellent brightness, one of the LED ceiling lamps, LEC-AHS1810BC will be put on sale on June 14, 2013. This lamp is mounted on the ceiling of residence for use, in order to ensure that a large living room of about 30 square meters is also bright enough; the nominal luminous flux of LEC-AHS1810BC is up to 7290lm. However, among the lights previously used in the room about 20-25 square meters, the highest luminous flux is the 6090lm. This new product comes with large heat dissipation...

Cree announced that it had shipped more than two million GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) for cellular telecommunications and provided game-changing benefits over traditional silicon-based technologies, involving higher power, higher efficiency and wider bandwidth. As mobile devices like smart phones are used more widely around the world, telecommunications companies are looking for innovative technologies to enhance channel capacity and the speed of wireless systems, while simultaneously lowering power consumption of tran...

Due to the increasing demand of customers, utilization of Ledtech Electronics in the second quarter further enhanced, the growth in utilization is good for the continuous improvement in gross margins, so that the revenue in the second quarter increases by 20 percent and profit is expected to increase sharply. Its legal person stated that the utilization in the second quarter of Ledtech Electronics will increase from 70% in the first quarter to 75% as the demand continued to improve. The improvement in utilization is favorable to the continued upturn in the gross margins, but it nee...

Although LED lighting industry develops sustainably, but before the introduction of international standardization, every market still has its own specifications, which makes the competitive market to be more chaos; while the cross-strait manufacturers have planned a general specification for nearly two years to jointly develop the LED lighting market, the cross-strait General Specifications of LED lighting products  will be released on June 18, on the part of manufacturers, it is helpful to reduce the research and development expenses and effectively lower the production co...

HENGRI Lighting will exhibit in the 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition at booth D55, hall 9.2, from June 9 to 12. "We feel so excited for this year's lighting exhibition! Our company now is growing very fast, but we have a huge ambition! We need to make a leap! That's why we are here again!" general manager Cathy Jiang said excitedly on the flight to the Guangzhou expo scene, 10 days before the opening of the lighting fair. Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition is recognized as the biggest lighting exhibition in Asia and the ...

According to the reports from foreign media, europium nanocrystals could become the missing ingredient lowering the production costs and enhancing the energy-efficient of white LED. Reported that Scientists Budai is working with a group of scientists from the University of Georgia and Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratory to study a set of new crystals, this kind of crystals can produce right mix color white LED and other purposes require. Experts from the University of Georgia consider the nanocrystals made of europium oxide and aluminum oxide powder as raw materi...

In order to make plants grow faster, the ancients pull seedlings, and the modern people apply pesticides, but Xiamen Guangpu Electronics Co., Ltd utilizes lights. On the Cross-Strait Fair for Economy and Trade (CFET) to be held on Jun 18 of this year, Xiamen Guangpu Electronics Co., Ltd will carry this self-developed LED Plant Panel Light to debut Fuzhou. As we all know, the growth and development of plant depend on photosynthesis. Photosynthesis closely relates to the light quality, while the light quality is very easy to combine and control, which is one o...

Recently, the Eco-design Directive Regulations Committee of EU Commission has conducted a discussion on the bill about the directional lights and all LED lights and related equipments; a related ErP Directive has been newly added on the mandatory CE certification of the lamps and luminaries. These ErP instructions include 1194/2012/EC directive (directional bulbs, LED bulbs, and other related equipments) and 874/2012/EC directive (energy-efficient label instructions issued by EU eco-design Directive Regulations Committee for bulbs and lamps). Applicable pro...

The data from Semiconductor Lighting Industry Association of Guangdong Province shows that the Order Status of LED businesses has performed well since this year, it increased by 20% -30% over the same period of last year and slightly declined in profits but not obviously, which would be the clear signs of the recovery of LED industry. According to the report of the first quarter of this year, the total revenues of 25 key companies of LED industry was 9.888 billion Yuan, an increase of 12% over the same period of last year, the total net profit was 719 million Yuan, a ...

LED Engin is claiming high quality light with a CRI of 97 from its ‘gallery white‘ LEDs. CRI is not a perfect measure of colour rendering. It is officially measured using eight pastel shades (called R1-R8) and it is not unknown for lighting LEDs and fluorescent lamps to have their spectrum tuned to deliver a high CRI number at the expense of visual fidelity with certain common colours. Not so with LED Engin’s latest range. "Accurate colour rendering is a critical factor in achieving the desired ambience in high-performance applica...

Deco Lighting has launched DECO Digital a new portfolio of high quality digital LED lighting products for commercial, industrial, retail and hospitality applications. Deco's initial offering includes a robust line of recessed LED fixtures, LED wallpacks, floods, area fixtures, and LED retrofit kits. The new line of products is currently ready for shipment. Designed and manufactured in Deco's Commerce, CA factory and available for shipment nationwide, DECO Digital lighting products feature energy-saving dimming options, multiple lumen packages, and num...

As the world's largest LED lighting and exhibition event, the 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as "Guangya Exhibition") will be grandly held at China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex in Guangzhou from June 9 to 12, and the scale of exhibition reaches 220,000 square meters.  The Guangya Exhibition sets up three exhibiton areas, namely the commercial lighting brands pavilion, professional lighting brands pavilion and outdoor lighting brands pavilion. Committed to high power outdoor LED lighting, Spark...

Dr. Roland W. Koch, who servied as as Segment Manager Asia in Tridonic, recently join Italed as Director Sales and Marketing.  The task of Dr. Koch is to bring Italed not only as a LED driver and Lighting Electronics company on the global market but the aim of Italed is to become a complete solution provider for LED with a complete adjustable current LED driver range fixed output, 1-10V and Dali dimming solutions and DMX solutions integrating in their product range Heat sink , Reflector and mounting solutions for the major on the market available LED modules and LED Light engines.  "Our aim is to provide to our customers

EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 【TSE:2393】, a leading player in the global LED industry with three decades of experience in optoelectronics, expands its product offering of ‘invisible’ light sources for remote control applications with two new SMD infrared LEDs (IRLEDs), the IR26‐71C and the IR26‐61C. The two IR26‐71C models are 940nm side‐view SMD IRLEDs that feature superior mechanical (height) and optical (radiant intensity and viewing angle) characteristics which make them ideal for use in remote controls an...

As a response to the (solid-state lighting) SSL Manufacturing R&D funding opportunity announcement made in December, the US. Department of Energy (DOE) has competitively selected five projects for SSL to receive the fourth round of funding. The two-year projects will focus on reducing costs while maintaining quality by improving the quality and performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Total DOE funding for the five projects is $10.1 million, while the five companies will put in a matching $10.1 million investment...

LEDinside has announced the Aurora Awards winner list. LEDinside Aurora Awards 2013 honors and recognizes outstanding aspects in the LED industry.

SUN POWERED The solar LEDs are lit using a new generation of efficient solar-powered LED lighting to provide light for communities with no electricity Royal Philips Electronics is continuing its program of installing more than 100 Community Light Centres across Africa, with six new ones in South Africa. The program is in the form of the Philips Cape Town to Cairo Roadshow 2013, which is a vehicle for Philips to raise awareness of how healthcare and lighting solutions can enhance life in Africa. The roadshow will visit 18 cities in 17 African countri...

Yes, now lightbulbs can glow red when your squeeze arrives The Philips Hue lightbulbs are the Internet of Things made real: multicoloured light bulbs with network connectivity and cloud control, with only the outrageous price preventing world domination. The bulbs come beautifully packaged in a three-light starter pack, along with a controlling hub. The bulbs fit into a standard screw socket and connect wirelessly to the Ethernet-connected hub – and even each other. A smartphone app (for Android and iOS) gets you up and running within a few minutes, but it’s th...

TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL) announced to release TH3 and TMx series products and will showcase their applications in 2013 Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. Based on the company’s flip chip technology, superior reliability of the two products enable customers develop high-end lighting product. TH3 is a common 3030 package with power up to 3W capability. The unique feature of no wire bonding is free from loose electrical contact during the high current operation. Also, since the chip bonded directly on lead frame, TH3 has very low ther...

LEDs provide optimal solution for sea turtles and other wildlife dependent on natural light Lighting Science Group Corporation® announced the release of the outdoor Coastal Light, designed with amber-colored LEDs to deter sea turtle hatchlings and other wildlife that are sensitive or threatened by light that is not from a natural nighttime source. Properties located in coastal areas are often required by law to comply with light pollution standards for the protection of wildlife, especially sea turtle hatchlings. Each year, nearly 20,000 hatchlings are disorientated b...

New built-in step dimming function controlled through the AC power switch GlacialPower, a division of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce six new constant current and constant voltage GlacialPower step dimming GP-LP060P LED drivers. The six drivers cover the entire DC output range of 12V to 57V DC and deliver up to 60W of power to the LED. All the drivers have been designed for LED lights. The DC voltage output of each GP-LP060P step dimming LED driver is as follows: •    GP-...