Recently, Panasonic has set up a target to sell the total number of 12 million LED light bulbs in Japan market since from April 2012 to March 2013, which will equal to 1.5 times of it sales last year's (April 2011-March 2012). Additionally, the company is to release a new LED bulb equivalent to 40 W incandescent. The new bulb only consumes 6.4 W power, and has brightness of 85 lumens as well as lasts 40000 hours. According to Panasonic, in 2010, the total number of demand for LED light bulbs is 25.54 million. Panasonic estimated this year, the number will up ...

On June 8, Mason Technologies Company has released a statement that the company is to pour RMB 30 million yuan to set up a wholly owned subsidiary Shenzhen Mason Energy Co., LTD. Mason Technologies will own 100% share in the new company, which is dedicated in EMC, LED lighting ,the research of indoor and outdoor lighting system, the consultation and assessment of energy saving technology, the design of energy saving engineering as well as import and export and so on....

Taiwan major LED makers have reported to set up a new record in May revenues, resulting from mounting penetration of LCD TVs lit by LED backlights and demands for LED lighting fueled by Taiwan’s electricity rate hikes, which will take effect on June 10. Orders have inundated Epistar’s production lines, inspiring outlooks that the company’s sales will continue rising in June. The company has distributed excessive orders to affiliated Huga Optotech Inc. Epistar saw its May revenue hit one-year high of NT$1.65 billion (US$57 million at US$1:...

Philips Mexicana and Alsea, the operator of fast food, cafeterias and casual dining in Latin America, announced an unprecedented sustainability initiative in Mexico. Considering an approximate investment of MXN $33 million (approximately more than USD 2 million), eight months of research and six months of implementation, new Philips LED lighting technology has been deployed in more than 700 Alsea’s restaurants including Domino´s Pizza, Starbucks, Burger King, Chili´s, California Pizza Kitchen, P.F. Chang´s China Bistro, Pei Wei As...

Acuity Brands Director to Present at June Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting Workshop   Mark Hand, director of new product and technology at Acuity Brands Lighting, will present about the trends and strategies of solid-state lighting (SSL) manufacturing on June 13, 2012 at the Department of Energy (DOE) SSL Manufacturing R&D Workshop in San Jose, Calif.   The presentation, “Rethinking Luminaire Manufacturing for SSL,” will take place at 10:30 a.m., and features a number of industry panelists, including Hand. Pan...

Dialight has announces that its US subsidiary, Dialight Corporation, has completed the acquisition of the assets of Airinet Inc (“Airinet”), a lighting controls company, for upfront consideration of $2.6m with additional sums payable based on future revenue through to 2020 of up $7.4m. Airinet, headquartered in Pueblo, Colorado, develops next generation lighting control, energy management, and automated network control systems and employs six lighting control engineers. Focused on industrial applications, Airinet has developed leading edge networked management sys...

Unveils New Technology Centers in Shenzhen and Shanghai to Help Accelerate LED Product Development Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces new technology centers in China, further expanding Cree TEMPO (Thermal, Electrical, Mechanical, Photometric, Optical) Services in these key markets. The groundbreaking technology centers support demand for Cree products and services throughout China and demonstrate Cree’s commitment to accelerate broader market adoption of LED lighting. TEMPO Services provide LED l...

LayTec announces that Lextar Electronics Corp., a major LED producer with headquarter in Hsinchu/Taiwan, has qualified LayTec´s GaN surface temperature measurement tool Pyro 400 for its GaN LED production. Mr. Johnson Wang, the department manager of “EPI Engineering/Manufacturing” who was responsible for the Pyro 400 product qualification process, stated, "With Pyro 400 we can now better control the later emission wavelength of the LED already during growth. The qualifications tests have proven that the surface temperature of the G...

Lextar Electronics Corp. (Lextar) announces its 100-watt COB LED products that have a high efficiency of 130 lm/W and low thermal resistance. In addition, Lextar’s Blue Emitter with HV chip as well as high color rendering light board (CRI>95, R9>90) will all be on display from June 9-12 at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition.   The 100-watt COB LED product has a luminous efficiency of 130 lm/W and low thermal resistance of 0.5 degrees per watt, which is more than a 70% decrease compared with most LED products. This can ...

Toshiba has developed a new OLED lighting product with the luminous efficiency of 91 lm/w on June 6. And the company has scheduled to mass production in 2014, paving the way for OLED lighting market. According to Toshiba, the size of the new product is 7 x8cm. Compared with similar products sold on the market, Toshiba’s OLED only consumes less than half of the electric power.   And resources from market research in Japan have informed that Japan's domestic lighting market scale will surpass OLED 100 billion yen in 2020. However, high manufacturi...

Suppliers for LED phosphor will embrace a good future in 2020. According to some research institute, phosphor used in LED lighting marker is likely to boom. It estimated that the phosphor market value will reach to $525 million in 2012, and will up to $730 million in 2015. By the end of 2019, it may achieve to $1.6 billion. It shows that the compound annual growth rate of phosphor will be more than 17%, mostly attributed to general lighting....

Veeco Instruments Inc.has introduced three new models of its market-leading TurboDisc® metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems for the production of high brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs): TurboDisc MaxBright® M™, TurboDisc MaxBright MHP™ and TurboDisc K465i HP™. The MaxBright MHP provides as much as 20% within-wafer wavelength uniformity improvement over MaxBright. MaxBright M: a modular and more compact version of Veeco’s multi-reactor system. The MaxBright M provides easier serviceabi...

Hi Score Corporation has announced to strengthen its sales in the ever growing Energy Saving LED Streetlight market. According to the company, it has been developing relationships with American manufactures in an effort to be able to sell a private labeled Energy Saving LED or Induction Street Light at a price that makes sense for the buyer.  ...

Philips Lumileds’ new power LED family is 80% smaller, offering greater design flexibility for next generation lighting solutions At a size that is 80% smaller than traditional power LED, the new LUXEON Z offering from Philips Lumileds is the company’s smallest LED package to date. With a total footprint of just 2.2 square millimeters and high lumen output across a full spectrum of colors from 440-670 nanometers, including white, the LUXEON Z offers luminaire designers the industry’s highest commercially available lumen density.  In add...

As a strategic partner of ANTA Sports,GE Lighting’sleading lighting solution has benefitedtheirstores’ refurbishment program through enhanced retail displays and optimizedmerchandise illumination. The specified products - GE CMH PAR30 and EM ballast- provided high efficiency, long life span and superb overall lighting quality designed for retail environments.ANTA shops have enjoyed reduced energy consumption and maintenance costs whilst improving the brand image and customer experience. Established in 1994, ANTA Sports is a leading top sports good...

A patent dispute between Nichia and Everlight never come to an end. On June 4, Nichia’s counsels held a press conference in Taiwan to announce that the company has lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court of Japan against a Japan Patent Office’s ruling in favor of Everlight.   According to Everlight, Japan Patent Office rendered a decision on May 8 this year, holding that the patent JP3503139 is invalid. Everlight said the ruling includes invalidation of Claim 1, which is the main claim of the patent at issue. Nichia’s counsels pointed out ...

Power Integrations has released a reference design kit for a 150 W, 48 V power supply for LED streetlights and other industrial/infrastructure lighting systems. The driver circuit described in RDR-292 is more than 93% efficient at 230 VAC input and above 91% at 110 VAC. The design delivers a system power factor of greater than 0.97, THD of less than 10%, and easily meets EN61000-3-2 C. Designs can be scaled from 75 W to 400 W, using the same platform, simply by choosing different HiperPFS™ (PFC) and HiperLCS™ (LLC) family members and si...

Everlight has received Top Supplier Award from Stoneridge, Inc. ,a global designer and manufacturer of highly engineered electrical and electronic components, modules and systems principally for the commercial vehicle, automotive and agricultural and off-highway vehicle markets. Stoneridge has named EVERLIGHT a winner in the category ‘supplier with 0 ppm for 2011’ (ppm = parts per million). The top honor was presented at the Stoneridge Annual Supplier Award on May 23, 2012....

Imtra has introduced its new Engine Room Light, the Imtra LED ERL. Combining 14 high brightness wide-angle LEDs with a UV stabilized diffusion lens cover, the Imtra LED ERL provides optimal flood illumination for low clearance areas frequently found in engine rooms and generator spaces. The Imtra LED ERL is designed for quick and easy surface-mount installation and offers the flexibility of either rear or side cable hook-up. The unit is housed in a streamline, UV stable white FRP housing that protrudes a mere 2-inches from the ceiling. Watertight ...

Energy Focus has received totaling $2 million lighting retrofit contracts.   The new projects include retrofits to upgrade the lighting of a Fortune 500 manufacturing facility as well as lighting retrofits at several locations of a large hospital complex located in the Southeastern U.S. Included also were lighting retrofits at a school district in the Northeast as well as a community college and state building complex in the Midwest. Energy Focus has completed the audit of the facilities, inventoried their lighting systems, created an approved energy savings design f...

AIXTRON SE today announced that a new customer, Sinoepi, a leading manufacturer of wafer materials in China, has placed an order for one MOCVD system, a CRIUS II-L reactor in a 69x2-inch wafer configuration. The system will be used for the production of epitaxial wafers for ultra-high brightness (UHB) gallium nitride (GaN) based LEDs. The reactor was ordered in the fourth quarter of 2011 and was delivered during the second quarter of 2012. AIXTRON´s local service support team will install and commission the CRIUS II-L at the Sinoepi ...

The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition is the third stop of the global tour – seven members will exhibit Zhaga-compliant innovations First Europe, then North America and now Asia! After Light+Building in Frankfurt and the International Lightfair in Las Vegas, Zhaga has added another premium international event to its tour schedule – the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. From 9th to 12th June 2012 seven members of the global consortium will present Zhaga-compliant innovative new products at Asia’s largest lighting exhibition...

Taiwan CHIMEI has announced to kick off LED lighting in Japan market with the partnership with Japan Waseda University Institute of Bussiness. According to CHIMEI, its LED desk lamps are sold in Japanese large stores such as Bic Camera Inc, Amazon.com.

Seesmart, Inc.has introduced a new high performance LED cobra head street light designed to replace 250 or 400 Watt High Pressure Sodium (HPS) street lights used to light roadways, parking lots, and other outdoor areas. The new cobra head LED street lights produce the same or better illumination than the HPS lamps, but consume only a fraction of the electricity. New lights are 59, 88 or 97 watts, depending on the configuration. These lights also come in three color temperatures from Warm White (3000-3500K) to Natural White (4000-4500K) to Day White (550...

Cooper Lighting has claimed to create IRiS™ Lighting Systems P3LED directional series, the World's First Zhaga Certified LED Recessed Luminaire. Developed for demanding commercial and residential applications, the P3LED 3-inch aperture LED recessed series combines the flexibility of interchangeable optics with energy savings, long life and the sustainability of LED. The P3LED's unique design allows the light distribution to be modified during construction or years later by changing out the optical elements (trims), which are available in d...

Recently, at the energy conservation project recently held in Moscow, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) China Business Council has announced  China would  inject a total investment of $ 500 million to form "Shenzhen LED Industry Park"  in Russia,which will generate the output of 1.5 billion yuan after the completion . This industry park is designed to be built into LED-based product manufacturing base and target the markets of Russia and other SCO members. The project encompasses 50 to 100 hectares, consisting of plants, resea...

Malaysia's LED companies including Osram Opto Semiconductors (M) Sdn Bhd, Globetronics Technology Bhd, Elsoft Research Bhd, and MMS Ventures Bhd have paved the way for expanding LED production to meet global demand. Osram Opto Semiconductors (M) Sdn Bhd Osram Opto Semiconductors (M) Sdn Bhd would be expanding its LED chip production plant in Bayan Lepas, Penang. Its managing director Dr Roland Mueller told StarBiz that the LED chip production plant in Bayan Lepas was being expanded to support the demand for LED lighting in China...

Advanced Renewable Energy has appointed Dr. Philip C.S. Yin as vice president and general manager, China region. Dr. Yin will be responsible for building deep relationships and satisfying customer expectations, directing the rapidly growing China organization, and helping grow ARC Energy's business in the China region. Dr. Yin is a recognized leader in the LED and semiconductor industry. He previously served as the chairman and chief executive officer for AXT Inc., where he catapulted AXT to a leadership position as a manufacturer of compound semiconduct...

Everlight has benefited several LED streetlights contracts from mainland Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Hebei in addition to talks with the mainland's big retailers over promoting the company's LED light bulbs in the mainland. These contracts are under the mainland's subsidization program for consumptions of indoor and outdoor LED lights. According to Everlight Chairman Y.F. Yeh ,the mainland poses lucrative business opportunity for LED streetlgihts, given Jiangsu Province's contracts to buy RMB6 billion (US$952 million)...

Frankenmuth's Downtown Development Authority will replace 120 street light systems on Main and 25 cobra-head light fixtures Weiss streets with LED. A Michigan Energy Office’s Advanced Lighting Technology Demonstration Grant of more than $70,000 will pay for the lights. The grant is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The energy office awarded the grants to 14 Michigan cities, including Bay City and Mount Pleasant. The Frankenmuth DDA also will match $35,000 for a total project cost of $105,000. The DDA est...