At LightFair International 2012 in Las Vegas, LEDinside visited U.S. lighting giant GE Lighting’s pavilion to see the company’s latest endeavors in LED commercial lighting fixtures, LED light bulbs and LED modules. GE’s 100W Equivalent LED Bulb GE Lighting’s GE Energy Smart 27-watt LED bulb (an equivalent to 100W incandescent light bulb) was developed in the company’s East Cleveland, Ohio LED lab. The LED bulb, according to GE Lighting, incorporates proprietary synthetic jet technology that was enab...

Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd has signed a long-term supply framework agreement with Focus Lightings (Suzhou) Co., LTD. to sell its LED products to Focus. According to the agreement, Focus will perform the EMC project to sell LED lighting product account for 200 million Yuan. Aside from adopting the brand products which is designated by the customer, Focus will preferred to use the product made by Dongshan Precision among the same grade LED lamps....

Everlight has filed patent nullity proceedings in Japan Patent Office against 19 patents held by Nichia. Among such Nichia patents is the "YAG Patent", which is the Japanese Patent No. 2927279 ("279 Patent") and is directed to white LEDs by the combinations of blue LED and YAG phosphor. The JPO held on April 9, 2012, that the 279 Patent is valid over the Everlight's challenge. Two other patents, Japanese Patent Nos. 2778349 (electrode patent), and 2540791 (anneal patent), have been also found by the JPO as valid. As such, YAG ...

Riverwood Capital Leads New Round of Funding for One of the World's Leading Makers of LED Lighting Products to Help it Meet Growing Product Demand Lighting Science Group Corporation,announced that it has completed the final round in a series of private placements totaling approximately $140 million in equity funding and commitments, of which approximately $88 million is new equity funding and commitments and approximately $52 million represents the conversion of certain bridge financings occurring since the fourth quarter of 2011. The proceeds from the new ...

Shenzhen, May.28th – Lenovo ThinkVision LT2323z VoIP display product successfully passed TÜV Rheinland Integrated Green Product Certification, which will be issued the world 1st green product mark. The award ceremony was held at the Shenzhen Westin Hotel, with Holger Kunz, Vice President of TÜV Rheinland Greater China, and Eric Yu, Executive Director and General Manager of Lenovo Group Worldwide Visuals Business Unit in attendance.

The government of Guangdong Province has held a meeting to discuss on LED lighting application in public lighting area on May 28. Based on the project of promoting LED lighting in Guangdong which was announced on May 23, the government stressed that LED lighting should be installed in roadways, public places, government agencies, state-owned enterprises and public institutions, lighting projects fund by government capital as well as the new district to build in Nansha, Qinhai and Hengqin since the project takes effect. In addition, other existing lighting products whic...

Dialight announces that the Harry Tee Settlement Trust, of which Harry Tee CBE, Chairman of Dialight plc, is a beneficiary, has sold 425,000 ordinary shares of 1.89 pence each in the Company, representing approximately 1.3% of the issued share capital of the Company. The shares were sold on the London Stock Exchange at a price of 955 pence per share on 25 May 2012 in order to fund an existing financial commitment and are the first shares that the Chairman has sold since Dialight was listed in 1993.   Following this transaction Harry Tee CBE remains a sign...

As a global leading  brand, GE Lighting is thrilled to showcase its comprehensive portfolio of current vertical market lighting solutions as well as innovative new lighting technology, applications and products for 17th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition from June 9th to 12th, 2012 (Booth 3.1 B02). With the theme “GE Lighting Envision the Future”, GE will deliver its commitment to lead the global lighting revolution and the vision of GE Works to build a better life for the world.   The global lighting market has experienced turbulent up...

According to TrendForce’s “2011-2015 European LED Lighting Market Report” by the LED research division LEDinside, European LED lighting market’s rapid growth is attributed to the energy-saving awareness and high electricity prices in Europe, especially the latter. For example, if a 7W LED light bulb (a replacement for 40W incandescent light bulb) is used for eight hours a day for a month (31 days), it can save 8 kWh compared to using an 40W incandescent light bulb. With the electricity prices of EU-27, US$2 can be saved every month by...

Taiwan Everlight has intended to cooperate with distributors in mainland China. There will be 3000 channel partners to sell Everlight’s LED bulbs by the end of 2012. In addition, the Taiwanese company has scheduled to add 6000 channel partners in 2013, and it will adopt the same way in Hongkong. Everlight is considered as the most extensive LED lighting factory which sells its LED bulbs all around Taiwan.  After it stands firm in Taiwan market, Everlight has centered on building up distribution channels in mainland China....

Seren Photonics Ltd, the LED technology portfolio company from UK-based university IP commercialization company Fusion IP plc, has won a £230,000 grant from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), the UK government’s national innovation agency. The grant will be used to fund a project based on nano-technology to further increase the amount of HB LEDs. Developed by professor Tao Wang of the University of Sheffield, Seren’s new processing technique can increase an HB-LED’s luminous efficacy and reduce heat generation under normal ...

Amerlux received Five Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Awards during the fourth annual Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Solid-State Lighting (SSL) design competition at LightFair International in Las Vegas. Amerlux received NGL Awards for the Hornet Line Voltage LED Track Luminaire, Hornet LED Multiples, the Evoke 2.9 G2 LED Recessed Downlight, the Evoke 4.75 G2 LED Downlight, and Evoke 4.75 G2 LED Wall Washer.  In addition, these Amerlux products have met the latest ENERGY STAR® Program V1.1 Requireme...

Taiwan AcBel Polytech Inc., an LED subsidiary of the Kinpo Group, has set up an LED venture with Samost Photoelectrical Scientific Stock Co., Ltd. in mainland China to tap the mainland’s LED-lighting market. It is AcBel’s first step of its mainland Chinese market plan.   Samost is a leading supplier of traffic & signal lights and LED streetlights in headquartered in Henan Province, mainland China. It is noticeable for its retail stores in over 10 provinces in the mainland. The two companies will work together on the manufacturing ...

As June is coming near, LEDinside is ready to hold a grand and perfect LEDforum 2012 Guangzhou at the Chinese Export Commodities Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B, Room #8. Currently, global LED industry is in the process of changeful period. In Japan, nuclear power shortage has driven up demand for LED lamps after the March 11 earthquake. Also, benefiting from the ban imposed by certain countries against selling incandescent light bulb of high wattage in 2012, Europe has become one of the most fast-growing LED markets in the world besides Japan. Meanwhile, S...

LED plant strengthens the company’s position in the lighting industry’s largest market OSRAM AG has signed a contract with the Wuxi New District Administrative Committee to build a new assembly plant in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. LED chips will be packaged in housings at the new backend facility starting in late 2013; with the Regensburg and Penang (frontend) plants exclusively continuing to make the actual LED chips. “The new assembly plant will improve our access to the world's largest single market in the lighting industry,” s...

Shenzhen Absen Optoelectronic Co., Ltd , a LED lighting professional OEM/ODM supplier, will showcase its last LED products at the 17th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition from June 9th to 12th. Absen’s Booth is in the Hall 4.1 No.C59, the company will show a series of products including LED tube, LED bulb, LED downlight, LED panel light and so on. Additionally, the company will arrange technicians to demonstrate the new products , in order to help visitors learn more about  LED lighting. Currently, Absen mainly has ten...

Zhejiang Tormin Electrical Co., Ltd, recently has developed a high power LED which can replace 400w incandescent bulb. Its luminous flux reaches 10800 lm, which is equal to 90 lumens/watts. Although it is not the first 400 watt-equivalent LED lighting, the company has opened the door to manufacture high brightness LED lighting in the energy-saving lamp industry....

There is a personnel change in NVC Lighting Technology Corporation. According to the company, its chairman WuChangJiang has announced the resignation for all positions. Meanwhile, Yanyan, the founder of Asia Infrastructure Fund is appointed as the company's successor non-executive directors. In addition, ZhangKaiPeng is appointed as its chief executive officer....

Royal Philips Electronics will light the majority of football stadiums in Ukraine and Poland, including the Olympic stadium of Kiev (NSC Olimpiyskiy). These stadiums are, amongst other, venues for the European football championship this year during this summer’s football tournament. The installed Philips lighting includes pitch and façade lighting, illuminating six of the eight stadiums (Donbass Arena, Metalist stadium Kharkiv, Arena Lviv, Poznan City stadium, Municipal stadium Wroclaw and Kiev Olympic stadium) that will be hosting the games. Th...

Lighting Science Group Corporation has announced to appoint Steve Marton as its interim Chief Executive Officer following the resignation of CEO and Chairman James Haworth on May 18, 2012. The Board also announced that it has retained an executive search firm to help identify and secure a permanent CEO. Mr. Marton has served as a Senior Operating Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. since April 2008 and has been actively involved in Lighting Science Group’s operations, in a consulting capacity, since February 2012. He has spent over 20 ye...

Toshiba has expanded its cooperation with the Louvre Museum to replace part of the interior lighting of the Louvre with its own LED lighting. It’s the Phase 2 of a renovation project that Toshiba and the Louvre Museum have cooperated since 2010. During the Phase 2, the Louvre Museum will see renovation of LED lighting in important interior spaces. It includes specific exhibit lighting for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa , and for the Red Rooms, which display famous masterpieces such as Jacques-Louis David's Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I...

Decision rendered by the Japan Patent Office Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd. filed an invalidation action with the Japan Patent Office against Nichia Corporation’s YAG white light LED patent (patent No. JP3503139). Everlight has received the decision from the Japan Patent Office recently. The Japan Patent Office rendered a decision on May 8th, 2012, holding that the patent JP3503139 is invalid. The ruling includes the invalidation of Claim 1, which is the main claim of the patent at issue. Everlight believes that this decision is entirely rea...

Taiwan LED manufacturers including Everlight, Delta Electronics, Nanya Photonics Inc. are paving for the way for LED lamp sales boom in Taiwan thanks to the upcoming implementation of electricity rate hikes. According to Everlight , it had sold out its first batch of NT$299 (US$10.3 at US$1: NT$29) LED light bulbs, numbered at 100,000 units, at 7-11 stores and is calling for urgent replenishment of another 100,000 bulbs. And the company has talked with President Chain Store Corp., which owns Taiwan’s 7-11 stores, over fresh build-up of the bulbs at t...

LightFair International 2012 commenced on May 8-11 in Las Vegas. LEDinside conducted interviews with global big names as well as channel distributors and contractors. One of the hightlights at LFI 2012 was the 100W equivalent LED light bulb efforts by Philips, GE and other companies. Given the bans on 100W (and above) incandescent light bulb imposed by countries all around the world, Philips got a head start on announcing its mass production of new 100W equivalent LED light bulbs. For Asian manufacturers, it requires strengths in cost, technology and channel...

Bigstone Technology Co., Ltd., from Ningbo, China, has claimed to develop the world’s most convenient LED headlamp. The new LED headlamp are passed the National certification in the field of Automotive Headlamps testing in Tianjin, Changchun and Xiangyang, which is the first in China. More important, compared with The audi A8L that has much higher price than any other domestic vehicle which owns the whole LED automotive headlamp, product from Bigstone Technology accounts for 30% of the total price of audi’s headlamp. Therefore, Bigstone Tec...

Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, has made a breakthrough on a 10-inch diameter AlN-on-sapphire template using its patented plasma vapor deposition of nanocolumns (PVDNC) technology. The PVDNC AlN templates are chosen by manufacturers of blue, green and white LEDs as a replacement for bare and patterned sapphire substrates. The 250mm (10-inch) sapphire substrate was provided by Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia, which provides sapphire products and metallization pastes to the semiconductor, optical, and photovoltaic industries. According ...

InfoComm 2012 will be held from June 13 to June 15 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. This year, we will present the audience attractions with high quality displays that received countless positive reviews at the “Taipei World Design Expo 2011.” During the exhibition, we will also introduce our architectural and stage lighting project that has been approved by numerous international companies. We look forward to your attendance! Fair information Event：infoComm12 Date：June 13-15, 2012 Time：June 13-14  9:00 am to 5:00 pm    &nb...

Digital Lumens, announced LightRules 2.0 and a new 13,000-lumen intelligent fixture. LightRules 2.0 Improves Lighting Control and Insight LightRules 2.0, the latest version of the Digital Lumens lighting management software, offers an enhanced set of management, reporting and analysis capabilities, including interactive facility mapping, 'what-if' analysis, and baseline reporting for evaluating lighting scenarios. These are in addition to the daylight harvesting capabilities and other scheduling and reporting capabilities already in LightRules. New 13,000-Lum...

Hubbell Lighting has cooperated with the City of Greenville, SC, Duke Energy and GE to announce the launch of a new LED street lighting pilot program along the city's Main Street as a part of the City's "Greening of Greenville" program. According to the program, Hubbell Lighting will utilize its four different types of LED outdoor pedestrian lighting fixtures to replace 250 watt high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamped street lights known as cobra-heads, and 215 watt mercury-vapor pedestrian post-top fixtures along the sidewalks on the Hyatt Regency...

WIGAN Council Energy Management has halved energy bills and Co2 emissions at one of their busiest car parks by installing award-winning LED lighting.  This work has been carried out as part of the council’s borough wide Carbon Management Programme, which has delivered energy efficiencies of over £200,000 over the last five years in council buildings. The new light fittings now installed at Water Street Multi Storey Car Park use 45% less energy than the pre-existing system.  Also with the use of light sensor control they will save the counci...