Ultratech, Inc., a supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and HB-LEDs, has acquired the assets of Cambridge Nanotech, Inc. (Cambridge). Based in Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge was a leader in atomic layer deposition (ALD) solutions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With this acquisition, Ultratech expands its nanotechnology and intellectual property (IP) portfolio with ALD technology to provide solutions for new layers within the electronics industry and entry into new markets, such as ...

Smart Home Labs has launched the RoboSmart wireless LED lighting system that enables smart lighting control via smartphone, tablet or computer over Bluetooth Smart wireless with customizable apps for both iOS and Android. And the new LED light bulb is available for pre-orders on the world’s largest open-funding platform IndieGoGo. The unique combination of energy efficient LED design and Bluetooth communications allows anyone the freedom to fully customize control of their home lighting, not previously possible with standard LED bulbs. Harnessing the ...

The EBU has warned that the post-production color correction costs required for video shot under LED lighting could outweigh the power savings compared with traditional tungsten lights. This is a setback for the LED movement, which thought it had cast tungsten lighting into history as a result of not just of the greatly reduced energy consumption but also other advantages, notably lower maintenance and heat production. Enthusiasm for studio LEDs With LED technology, about 80 percent of the electrical energy is converted into light, compared with 20 percent or less f...

Taiwan Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT) has received Design Lights Consortium (DLC) certification for its outdoor lighting series-Lodestar-through its partner L.E.D. Rite, LLC, located in Illinois, USA. ALT's Street Light series is currently under field evaluation with Minnesota Power. Minnesota Power is working to establish LED Lighting as the new standard for all Street Lighting Applications in their territory. ALT/LED Rite is honored to be one of just four finalists: ALT/LED Rite, CREE, GE, and Philips. The evaluati...

A glut of manufacturing capacity and near-collapse in rare earth metal prices is driving down the cost and hence encouraging the rapid take-up of LED lighting. The Financial Times believes LED technology is reaching a tipping point, particularly for the commercial sector, as price declines bring forward the payback time on the initial cost of investment. According to McKinsey, quoted in the article, LEDs are set to account for 41 percent of the overall value of the lighting market in 2016 and 63 percent by 2020, versus 12 percent last year. Lighting is a huge consum...

Color Vision is pleased to launch a new 20w track light for accent lighting application. Bringing top-notch impression at first glance, Color Vision’s newest LED track light is greatly appreciated by appealing fitting design and quality light performance. Designers are now intended to incorporate green lighting styles to their interior designs that produce no heat, IR or UV light, allowing fresh goods and fruits to be exposed to the unharmed light directly. A well-designed lighting product serves not only as lighting equipment, but also to create a distinct charact...

Specification : Cool White    Warm White Input Voltage    100~240Vac PowerConsumption    28W Luminous Flux (Typ.)    2,200Lm    1,800Lm C.R.I.    > 65    > 80 Color Temperature    5000K    3000K Luminance @ (1M, 38 degree)    3,300 Lux    2,180 Lux Power Factor    0.5 Operation Temperature    -20℃~ 40℃ Life Time    30,000Hrs Be...

Taiwan Tang Hua Co., Ltd. established in 1998, is devoted in researching, developing and marketing High Power and upper class LED products. These products have obtained of many certifications of Safety Regulation from various countries throughout the world. The Company currently owns numerous LED key technologies and patents. Having its own High Power LED assembling factory, High Power LED Spotlights is the main product of Taiwan Tang Hua. Taiwan Tang Hua provide customized services, color temperature control, and various presentations of lights. Its...

Founded in 1984, Anchorn Group is an experienced manufacturer and exporter of electronic transformers for lighting fixtures. Headquarter in Taiwan and factory in China, Anchorn has a professional R&D team and experienced workers, specializing in making LED driver, electronic transformer and ballast. With an initial plant area of 4,000 square meters the factory has been expanded to over 20,000 square meters. Products comply with safety approvals including CE, CB, NEMKO, SEMKO, UL, CUL, ETL, CETL and PSE certifications. Inspections are made ac...

U-TEL TECHNOLOGY announces the launching of the high efficacy 6W LED MR16 in the market by Q4, 2012.  The new models are designed using Nichia  LED with high lumen output up to 70 lm/w, which is able to replace the traditional Halogen MR16.  There are two beam angles (60D/110D) and two color temperatures (Warm White 2700K and Cool White 5000K) to choose from for all commercial and residential lighting. The input voltage of the MX-801 (GU5.3 base) is AC/DC 12V while for MU-801 (GU10 base), is AC 230V.  The 12V M...

Nan Ya Photonics Inc., a joint venture by Taiwan’s Epistar and Nan Ya Plastics Corp., recently has completed its first automatic production line and targeted to scramble for orders from international brands such as GE and Philips. Nan Ya Photonics’s chairman Wilfred Wang noted at a press conference held earlier that the addition of the advanced production line will enable the company to achieve maximum monthly output of 500,000 LED bulbs for sale at home and overseas. The president B.J. Wu confirmed that his company is vying for orders from GE, P...

Review of New ErP Directive Regard to Ecodesign Requirements for Directional Lamps, LED Lamps and Related Equipments Seminar tour in Shenzhen , Nov.30, 2012 Next station : Xiamen, Jan.8, 2013 Since two parts of Europe 2009/125/EC have been published, and there will be a new regulation published that as a part of CE requirement for directional lamps starting from September, 2013. DEKRA understands well ErP Directive has strict control requirements from R&D, manufacturing, sales to final recovery, which is manufactures’ challenge, but more ...

Ledoux Vali Desk Lamp Wins the Hong Kong International Lighting Products Award 2012 - Best of the Fair Award  for “Best Hongkong Design Award” and Best of The Fair Award For “Architectural/Commercial Lighting” 28 October 2012, Hong Kong - Ledoux, a global leading manufacturer and innovator of eco LED lighting solutions, proudly presents Vali Desk Lamp and becomes one of the highlights at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair. With its unique design, Vali Desk Lamp also wins the Hong Kong International Light...

GreEnergy Technology Co., Ltd. provides complete T8 Tube LED lamp solutions which contains non-polarity T8 Tube LED tubes,1-10V dimming control, optimized size of 15W~75W LED power modules for driving multi-lamp operation (1 to 4 lamps optional, the height of power module is 2.35 cm, the width is 4.1 cm and the length of the power modules are from 14.2 cm to 24.2 cm according to the quantity of LED tube lamp support). The unique characterization of the LED power module can be normally supported in the condition of the lamps damaged while other lamps still in opera...

A glut of manufacturing capacity and near-collapse in rare earth metal prices is driving down the cost and hence encouraging the rapid take-up of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting. LED lights are based on semiconductors and therefore do not require traditional lamp manufacturing expertise. This has opened opportunities for LED chipmakers to challenge the incumbent incandescent light bulb manufacturers such as Philips, Osram and General Electric (GE), who have enjoyed a near-monopoly of the market according to an FT article. The Financial Times believes LED te...

Xxentria Technology Materials Co., LTD. -REFLECTON®  series of high-refelction aluminum coil materials are produced by applying high-tech physical vapor deposition(PVD) vacuum coating and magnetron sputtering process.  These products are tailored for lighting industry; with up to 98% reflection rate can significantly enhance the luminous efficiency. The reflective aluminum coils is not only tough and flexible, plasticity, easy-to-reprocess, but also to maintain its high-performance specular reflection effect. In addition, Xxentria offers a variety of surf...

Toshiba Corporation will begin mass production of white LEDs on 200mm silicon wafers this month based on technology that it licensed and developed with Californian firm Bridgelux. Deployment of Toshiba and Bridgelux’s gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology to produce LED chips, has allowed Toshiba to replace sapphire substrates and produce the chips on a more cost-competitive silicon substrate. Production of LED chips is typically done on two to four-inch wafers with an expensive sapphire substrate but Toshiba and Bridgelux have developed a proce...

The LED market has seen a growing market and policy support, with LED lights becoming trendy products globally, especially in developed regions such as Europe, the USA, Japan, South Korea and beyond. In China, the application of LED products picked up in the year 2008, including LED street lights, solar LEDs, LED full-color displays, consumer electronic LED lights and so on. During 2009 and 2010, China's LED industry had a prosperous development, with certain technological breakthroughs. Meanwhile, the development of LED lighting will drive the pro...

YCC TEK Taiwan Ltd. Inc. is situated in the premises of the world science and technology center – Taiwan Hsinchu Science Park. We are an industrial leader of research and development of Taiwan's advanced environmental protection and energy saving lighting products – the high-end electrodeless lamp system.   Insisting of the belief of helping customers save money, energy, and promote environmental protection to cherish the earth and the nature, the company has gathered distinguished industrial professionals and talents to build up an elite research and d...

FZLED, a leading maker of LED lighting product, is pleased to introduce the case that its energy-saving and environmental-friendly lights are being used in the applications of residential home lighting in Taiwan. The comfort house of this project is located in the residential area in Tainan, the south of Taiwan. The owner knows the value of energy-saving and cost efficient; therefore, he decides to use LED lighting products instead of traditional and halogen lights. In the house, LED down lights is widely being used in the most of area. The interior designer uses ...

- Stylish LED Lamps with Patented Thermal Design for Reduced Energy Consumption - GlacialLight, a division of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., has launched the new stylish GL-AR111-V2-12 Vega Series interior LED lamps with patented thermal design – helping to boost heat dissipation. Following the 9W GL-AR111-V2-9 Vega Series, these 12.5W lamps are the second addition to the cost-effective and environmentally-friendly Vega Series LED lamps. These 12.5W GL-AR111-V2-12 LED lamps offer a luminous efficacy of up...

GE Lighting is pleased to announce the launch of its brand new Asia website.The new website will offer users a more friendly and convenient browsing experience as well as an ideal visual effect, which embody GE Lighting’s consistent focus on user experiences. The new website has a contemporary and crisp look in line with GE Lighting’s corporate brand identity. It provides users a streamlined experience with resources and functionality that are designed to serve the lighting industry and strategic end-users. GE Lighting’s latest digital platform provides ...

Full Circle curvilinear luminaire recognized as one of the most innovative building products.  The Winona® Lighting Full Circle luminaire from Acuity Brands has been acknowledged as one of the most innovative and useful building products of 2012 by Architectural Record. A panel of judges selected the Full Circle luminaire as a lighting solution for architects, specifiers and designers to help distinguish the best product options for 2013 projects. The Full Circle luminaire breaks away from traditional recessed linear fluorescent slot fixtures. It allows light ...

Future Lighting Solutions, a division of Future Electronics, and LG Innotek, an affiliate of LG Group, announced today a strategic worldwide distribution agreement that will introduce LG Innotek’s entire portfolio of LED lighting solutions to the market. The portfolio features one of the industry’s broadest selection of LED products to fit virtually any lighting application, from LED packages to integrated solutions. Future Lighting Solutions’ extensive LED expertise, from design support services to world class supply chain and business solut...

Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. (RVLT), a leader in advanced LED lighting technology, today announced that it has closed its acquisition of Seesmart Technologies, Inc. Seesmart, based in Simi Valley, California, is a leading LED solutions provider with a broad range of products serving the commercial, industrial, and institutional lighting markets. Seesmart's exclusive network of over 50 distributors has completed hundreds of LED projects in both retrofit and new construction applications. Seesmart has become a leader by combining a full line of high-qu...

The product’s recall began this week, after Philips discovered there was an issue concerning a potential electrical current leakage which may occur after the lamp has been on for 30 minutes.   The spotlights are sold predominantly to wholesalers in 50 countries based in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Philips started contacting wholesalers this week to tell them about the affected product and has begun sending out replacement stock. Philips said the amount of lamps of this type sold globally is 250,000 but not all production batches are affected. In the UK...

The retailer has installed luminaires supplied and adapted by Edge Lighting, incorporating GE Lighting’s Infusion LED modules, at its new store in Ipswich. Some 500 LED modules were fitted throughout the store, including non-trade areas, and the lights were turned on a few weeks ago. Barry Ayling, lighting design manager at John Lewis said the lighting average benchmark across the John Lewis business is 30 watts per square metre based on ceramic metal halide lights, but the equivalent figure for the Ipswich store is just 10 watts per square metre. Ayling to...

Bright Energy Co., Ltd (BE)is one of the top manufacturers & suppliers in Taiwan specializing in LED streetlamp mainly, also projection lamp, ceiling light, solar-energy applied spot light, and other kinds of high-brightness LED devices, the product line is wide. We are also a supplier for public accommodation like governmental and university streetlamp construction, the feedbacks were all admiration. Temporarily we cooperate with LED chip supplier that comes from Japan, its anti-vulcanization decreases LED light-decay evidently, it also lengthen the lifetime, ...

The 2012 Lighting Year began with the historic phase-out of the incandescent light bulb. The year continued with the 50th anniversary of the light-emitting diode (LED) in October and ended in December with yet another Greatest LED. Despite overcapacity and slim profit margins, Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) and other manufacturers bounced back to confound naysayers and short-sellers. LED streetlights began to seriously climb the S-curve of adoption. And LEDs in lighting are staging a reported 44 percent year-on-year gain, with 9.8 percent growth for LEDs overall. ...

Lextar, a LED subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO), has announced its merger with Wellypower, another AUO subsidiary. Lextar noted that demand for high-power chip-on-board (COB) products has been growing, hence 2012 COB packaging product shipments are likely to show 400-500% on-year growth. Market observers expect Lextar to report NT$600-700 million (US$20-24 million) for December revenues and sales in the first quarter of 2013 to be flat compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. The official merger date is set for February 1, 2013. Lextar stated that the LED ...