Philips Lumileds and Future Lighting Solutions, a division of Future Electronics, announced today they have restructured their long-standing distribution agreement. The new arrangement allows both companies to build upon their long-standing relationship while creating new opportunities for additional partnerships. The new agreement builds on a relationship that has enabled the growth for both companies through the development of solid-state lighting solutions worldwide. "Our restructured agreement allows us to continue our collaboration with a long-term, trusted and success...

Prolight Opto Technology Co., Ltd. was established in October 2004, is a professional LED packaging company, focus on R & D and manufacturing, high-power, high-reliability LED packaging. Prolight Opto Technology Co., provides customers in the optical solutions. Products are mainly used in commercial lighting, stage lighting, street lamps ... all kinds of lighting applications. ProLight have upgraded high-power LED and released new COB light engine series. The COB light engine series is a compact high flux density light source that delivers high efficacy,...

EVERLIGHT introduces the new "SL-60E" omni-directional LED A60 bulb series. Comparing with the normal LED light bulb that only has 180 degree in beam angle, SL-60E’s beam angle has 270 degrees that can provide a better and uniform light source. SL-60E is provided two options of 8 Watt and 10 Watt in power consumption with performance of 70lm/W and 85lm/W which can be replaced 40 Watt and 60 Watt conventional light bulbs. SL-60E is provided two color temperatures of 2700K and 5700K, CRI is greater than 80 and the energy saving can be up ...

New XLamp MK-R LEDs Deliver Record-Breaking Efficacy and Next-Generation Price-Performance for LED Arrays Two years after breaking the 200 lumens-per-watt (LPW) R&D efficacy barrier, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) delivers another industry first with the introduction of the Cree XLamp MK-R LEDs. The new MK-R LEDs leverage the SC³ Technology next-generation LED platform to deliver up to 200 lumens-per-watt (at 1 W, 25°C) LEDs. The new MK-R LEDs make the next generation of 100+ lumens-per-watt system possible ...

Shenzhen General Technology use LED technology to reduce Energy, Maintenance and Accidents Osram’s versatile Oslon SSL series are applied in Xishan Duerping coal mine lighting in Shanxi Province, the so-called “home of coal” in China.  The 19,500 LEDs are installed in 975 lamps, replacing the traditional fluorescent lamps, to light up the 63.1 square km high wattage coal mine.  They enable energy savings of 61% (from 427050 kilo Watt hour down to 170820 kilo Watt hour annually), as well as reduce maintenance requirements and accident r...

Luxury Home + Design Boutique Firm to Partner with Modernist Lighting Brand and Designer Legend DRS and Associates, a full-service, marketing and public relations agency renowned for guiding and branding major home design and architectural brands and building materials, has been named agency of record for Sonneman® – A Way of Light. DRS will oversee the seamless integration of Sonneman – A Way of Light’s public relations, advertising, digital and social media campaigns. Work on the account begins immediately. “In choosing a partne...

Government institution installs state-of-the-art integrated lighting control system as part of $4.4 million modernization and renovation project.   The Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS) reduced its electrical load by 70 percent with help from Lithonia Lighting® RT Series LED luminaires embedded with nLight® technology from Acuity Brands Inc. (NYSE:AYI). This installation helps IPERS meet both its short-term energy savings goals for its 43,000-square-foot building, as well as position IPERS to achieve its l...

Three San Francisco neighborhoods will test energy-saving streetlights and wireless systems controlling in 2013, and ultimately the technology could be used to control all 18,500 city-owned lamps and other devices such as traffic signals and surveillance cameras. Eight companies have been selected under a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission  pilot program, and they will each receive a $15,000 stipend to demonstrate what their wireless streetlight systems can do. The technology will be tested in the Sunset, Presidio Heights and downtown neighborhoods. If all goe...

Recently, Shenzhen Spark Optoelectronics S&T CO., LTD, has won the biding of Ganchong Highway Lighting Project (from Ganzhou to Chongyi), which is a very important part of Xiacheng National Highway (from Xiamen to Chengdu). Around ten thousand lights will be applied in this project, including LED Tunnel light, Street light and Fog light. It is reported that Ganchong Highway is not only a major thoroughfare connecting southeast coastal area and southwest in China, but also the most difficult highway constructed in Jiangxi Province so far with the bigg...

GT Advanced Technologies (NASDAQ: GTAT) announced its guidance range for the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2012 and provided its preliminary outlook for fiscal year 2013 ending December 31, 2013. For Q4CY12 and CY12 the company provided the following guidance: •    Revenue in the range of $95 million to $102 million in Q4CY12; $726 million to $733 million in CY12 with approximately 62% of CY12 revenue from polysilicon, 31% from sapphire, and 7% from PV •    The company expects to take a charge of $80 million t...

Philips Taiwan has set up ambitious goal for 2013 LED lighting sales. According to Philips Taiwan President Edward Po, the company plans to boost its sales of LED lighting equipment in Taiwan by two to three folds in 2013 from 2012, and the number of its residential lighting showrooms will increase to seven by the end of 2013. Recently, at an international building-materials trade show held in Taipei, the company promoted its iF-awarded and Red Dot-awarded LED residential lighting products as well as LED intelligent lighting control system. In Po’s opi...

Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has won the Solid-State Lighting Application Category of the Elektra Awards 2012 for its new MAGIC (MAnufactured on GaN ICs) High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs). The winners were announced at the European Electronics Industry Awards ceremony in London last week. Plessey’s MAGIC HB-LEDs are manufactured on standard silicon substrates, rather than on sapphire or silicon carbide, using industry standard, high volume processing. The firm’s technology uses gallium nitride (GaN) on 6-inch ...

Mitsubishi Chemical plans to seek for Chinese companies, to contract for its production of LED fluorescent powder in 2013. And the output of fluorescent powder is expected to be twice as current. The Japanese company holds 50%-80% global market share for red fluorescent powder, and it intends to manufacture red fluorescent powder in mainland China, and has invested 400 million JPY to acquire 30% shareholding in Beijing Nakamura-Yuji Science and Technology Co. And the latter will become OEM for Mitsubishi after the completion of technology transfer....

Lighting Science Group Corporation®, announced the appointment of Jeremy Cage as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 2, 2013. Cage replaces Brad Knight, who served as Interim CEO while the Board worked with an executive search firm, and who will continue to serve as Chief Operating Officer. Over the past decade, Cage served in key executive positions at PepsiCo, Inc., including Senior VP of Innovation and Insights for its U.S. Beverage business, Chief Marketing Officer of International Foods, and, most recently, Senior VP of the Glo...

NASA's planning a test to replace fluorescent lighting panels in the ISS with a solid-state LED lighting module which produces blue, white, or reddish light depending on the time. It hopes that this change will serve as a counter-measure to the inevitable disruption of the body's circadian rhythm while in space — this would hopefully reduce insomnia, which can have a host of deleterious effects while in space. Sleep in space has long been a concern for NASA — back in 2001, a study showed that 50 percent of some Space Shuttle crews relied on medicat...

Philips Color Kinetics announced IntelliPower, its newest innovation for delivering high-bandwidth LED lighting control using existing electrical and physical infrastructures. IntelliPower makes it easy to deploy intelligent, digitally controllable LED lighting solutions in any situation where re-wiring is not desirable or feasible, including historic buildings, in-ground systems, bridges, and monumental exteriors. With IntelliPower, Philips Color Kinetics is building on its expertise and leadership in LED lighting to deliver the benefits of a state-of-the-art LE...

Industry’s first fully integrated LED drivers in industry-standard IC packages helps developers skirt design complexities Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) introduced two fully integrated LED driver micro-modules that eliminate the external components and complex layout placement challenges typical of LED driver designs. The 450-mA TPS92550 and TPS92551 DC/DC LED driver modules are the industry’s first to incorporate all the required power and passive circuitry into a single IC package to deliver up to 23W of power to...

Recently, the United State has announced the release of LED lighting development plan for 2012. According to the plan, the major purpose for LED solid state lighting is to reduce cost, improve the luminous efficiency as well as reduce retail price. In addition, the plan also predicted that the cost for LED chip and package in 2020 would reduce by 80% compared with 2012, and retail prices of 60W equivalent LED would reduce by 66% in contrast to 2013. Meanwhile, the luminous efficiency will increase by 60~100%....

Toshiba Corporation will start sales of white LED packages this month. Production of LED chips is typically done on 2- to 4-inch wafers with an expensive sapphire substrate. Toshiba and Bridgelux have developed a process for manufacturing gallium nitride LEDs on 200mm silicon wafers, which Toshiba has brought to a new production line at Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation, a discrete products manufacturing facility in northern Japan. Mass production of packages using the new line's output starts this month. Deployment of Toshiba and Bridgelux's new GaN...

India's power ministry intends to install about 25 million LED bulbs over the next 3-4 years to electrify Below Poverty Line (BPL) households. Besides, the power ministry also proposes to provide financial incentives to fan manufacturers under SEEP, to produce super efficient fans, which will be available in the market to any consumer at a discounted price. This initiative under the government's Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) - the rural electrification programme - is to promote LED bulbs under the Super Efficient Equipment Prog...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratories is in the process of developing new LED light bulbs, to change the future of electricity. As LED bulbs play a key role for electricity saving, the Department of Energy creates a competition to build a better light bulb to cut down America's electricity use. According to Jeff McCullough, a PNNL light researcher, "The L Prize competition is intended to move the market to challenge manufacturers to develop the better light bulb. In order to do that we have to do some specialized testing and make sure this technolog...

The Borough of Tarentum, a small town of approximately 4,500 nestled along the Allegheny River in Western Pennsylvania, is converting 100 percent of its street lighting to GE's new Evolve™ LED Scalable Cobrahead fixtures with dimmable photocells. The switch will save Tarentum approximately 66 percent in annual lighting energy and maintenance expense, equaling about $40,000 based on a $.10 kWh rate and 4,000 hours of operation a year. And, with financing from GE Capital, the borough has been provided a lease-to-own solution that requires no out-of-pocket funds ...

The challenges of GaN growth on Si(111), especially for LED growth, are well known and meanwhile controllable. Cooldown-assisted layer cracking as a result of high tensile stress can be prevented and crystal quality can be enhanced by sophisticated interlayers. Numerous institutions worldwide are already using LayTec‘s EpiCurve  TT with advanced curvature resolution for high quality GaN devices on large scale Silicon substrates. Now, this experience is being transferred to growth on Si(001) and Si(110), because GaN based power electronics can be easily in...

With the different requires for different applications in India market, EVERLIGHT showcases new LED components to bringing customers the concept of “The Right LED for the Right Application.”         EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 【TSE:2393】,represents whole new series of LED components at 2012 LED EXPO INDIA. This year, EVERLIGHT showcases the most updating series of high efficient and brightness LED packages for general lighting, new high power LED for Daily R...

The 'Rollercoaster' luminaire demonstrates rapid development with organic light emitting diodes Osram presents a luminaire in the form of the Rollercoaster designer luminaire featuring industry-mature, transparent OLEDs for the first time. The 'luminous glass panels' are intended for series-production from 2014 onwards, and OLED will be the first choice in the future for transparent light designs. Osram presents a luminaire in the form of the Rollercoaster designer luminaire featuring industry-mature, transparent OLEDs for the first time.  The &#...

Dialight has completed shipment of the initial phase of a major multi-phase project for the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA). This initial phase of the order, to provide LED lighting fixtures for a major waste water treatment facility in Puerto Rico, represents a value of over US$150,000. The total project value is worth approximately US$1 million for six PRASA water treatment facilities and delivery is due to be completed in 2013.   The project consists of hazardous and non-hazardous LED lighting fixtures, including high bay, low bay,...

Seesmart Technologies has completed an entire LED retrofit for Regis High School, a tuition-free Jesuit college preparatory school for young men in the New York metropolitan area. The retrofit replaced more than 2,500 fluorescent lights throughout the school with Seesmart LED tube lights. Regis’ estimated LED retrofit benefits include significant energy savings of more than $36,000 and over 116,000 kilowatt-hours per year with a carbon footprint reduction of almost 120,000 pounds per year. Additionally, the preparatory school received a $32,000 rebate from C...

UL Taiwan has pointed out that LED lighting firms have to face difficulties to enter different markets due to entry barriers. They need to face variations in safety standards and power voltages while trying to obtain local certification for the products. Otherwise, it would be difficult to bid for projects. For example, LED components need to pass LM-79 LED luminaire testing, which can take up to nine months. Even more, some firms have been waiting to get products tested for six months, which means the entire process will take about one and a half year. And because of t...

The Boise-based computer chip maker Micron Technology Inc. is scaling back on its plans to develop energy-efficient lighting technology, leading to the layoff of at least 30 workers. Micron spokesman Dan Francisco confirmed the decision Wednesday in a story published by the Idaho Statesman. Francisco says increased competition in the LED market, a changing world economy and decision to focus on computer memory led Micron executives to narrow the focus on the development of LED technology. The company started the LED light technology program in 2009 with the help ...

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