High-Performance CR Series is Now Bigger, Better, Faster and Even More Affordable One year after introducing the revolutionary CR Series LED Troffer, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) is expanding the CR Troffer family to address more applications and to eliminate the use of antiquated fluorescent technology in new or retrofit commercial and industrial settings. Cree is also announcing new pricing to drive even faster payback for building contractors, designers and owners. The CR Series offers payback-friendly pricing and a no-compromise alternative to fluor...

Although participating companies from China and Taiwan are fewer than the ones from South Korea and Singapore at Singapore Int’l LED/OLED Technology Show 2012 (LEDTEC ASIA 2012), they also bring intriguing new prospects to the table. Here is LEDinside’s observation on Taiwanese companies: South Korean companies have been striving to make their way into Southeast Asia, Middle East and India, and LEDTEC ASIA 2012 provides an access to clients from these regions. Taiwanese companies are trying to follow the same path. Only five co...

Philips Lighting has won a total of seven Product Innovation Awards (PIA) from Architectural SSL Magazine. Products by Philips Lightolier, Philips Roadway Lighting, Philips Hadco and Philips Lumileds were recognized. Lytespan products from Philips Lightolier received awards in the track lighting category. The Lytespan Mini LED Micro Cylinder is an exceptionally small 10-watt fixture with superior beam and glare control while the 15-watt Lytespan Spot LED delivers powerful accent lighting using only 15 watts of power. The 15-watt Lytespan also recei...

Austin, Texas-based chipmaker Cirrus Logic (CRUS) is entering into the LED lighting market with a digital LED controller that it says solves dimmer compatibility issues that have been a major barrier to adoption of LED. According to the company, LED retrofit bulbs available today are based primarily on analog controllers and often are incompatible with dimmers installed in homes and businesses. Dimmer incompatibility problems are a leading cause of product returns because they can cause flickering or flashing light or the inability to turn on or off. To solve the...

Bridgelux has developed new Bridgelux(R) Micro SM4(TM) surface mountable LED component for commercial buildings. The Micro SM4 is a light source, analogous to the heated gases or hot wires found in fluorescent bulbs and incandescent lights. The difference comes in energy consumption, longevity and control. The Micro SM4 light source consumes only 4.2 watts, but it emits as much light as a 20-40 watt incandescent or 20-35 watt halogen B10-style bulb and will last thousands of hours longer. The Micro SM4 component also delivers high flux density in a smaller footpri...

The NEC in Birmingham has completely refitted its Skywalk with award-winning LED lighting to improve the visitor experience while saving energy and lowering carbon emissions. The NEC asked experts at lighting specialists MHA Lighting to devise a bespoke solution for the Skywalk that would reduce energy bills whilst improving light quality. MHA Lighting were also selected to replace the traditional fluorescent lighting in their Concourse and Gallery suites with their unique LED lighting that uses wave guide technology to achieve energy savings of up to 80% with...

Kevin Leadford, Vice President of Innovation with Acuity Brands Lighting, is speaking on the applications of new lighting technologies at the 2012 SSL Summit LA in Long Beach, CA on April 3, 2012.  Leadford’s presentation “Realizing the Promise of Solid State Lighting” focuses on how these exciting new technologies are expected to reshape the lighting industry.   “Solid state lighting is currently in its infancy,” said Leadford. “Up until now, much of the industry’s focus has been on light source suitability (e...

Singapore has been actively increasing energy-saving awareness and adopting LED lighting in public area. Given the prosperous development of the Asian LED market over the recent years, LED companies have been seeking cooperation with LED product distributors and construction and real estate companies in Southeast Asia region. Singapore Int’l LED/OLED Technology Show 2012 (LEDTEC ASIA 2012), organized by CEMS and South Korean company EXPORUM is a great platform for LED companies to showcase their products and seek joint efforts with players in the industry.<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 0 2 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } ...-->

China Electric Mfg. Corp. has intended to roll out 7.5W LED light bulbs retailed below NT$400 (US$13 at US$1:NT$30) sometime in April. The price range represents a huge markdown from NT$500 (US$16) for 7W bulbs it launched in 2011, as well as a 25% cut from the price of the first batch of 7.5W bulbs it introduced previously. At the heart of the company’s cut-price plan is LED chips sourced from Lextar Electronics. With the cut-rate strategy, the company estimated it would help to achieve the goal of selling 500,000-600,000 LED light bulbs for aro...

Goodrich has signed a contract with Lufthansa to retrofit LED runway turnoff (RTO) lights on Lufthansa's fleet of A319/A320/A321 aircraft.   The lights will be integrated in the aircraft nose landing gear in two locations. The work will be done at Goodrich's Lighting Systems facility in Lippstadt, Germany. According to Brian Sartain, vice president of Goodrich's Interiors Cabin and Lighting Systems business, "Goodrich has worked closely with the Lufthansa Technik team to create a superb technology LED solution which extends light se...

Independence LED Lighting, LLC has announced that its 2011 LED Tube sales grew nearly 300% from 2010, on account of the shift in manufacturing from China to America. There are huge opportunities for LED Market in America. According to the McKinsey & Company Report, the total LED Market in 2010 was $10 Billion and forecasts growth to $54 Billion in 2016, representing a 5.4X increase and a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 32%. In addition, resources from the U.S. Department of Energy have shown that , there are over 2.3 Billion flu...

Albeo Technologies has received two 2012 Architectural SSL Magazine Product Innovation Awards (PIA) with its H-Series High Bay LED fixture. The H-Series was recognized both in the High Bay Category and one of six in the Special Citations category as the most innovative optical and control system. It is the only LED fixture of its kind to scale from one to 12 LED light bars. This modularity provides a lumen range of 6,500 to 77,000 within the same product family which is equivalent in light output to arrays of two to 24 fluorescent tubes. The Archit...

Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has estimated that the output of the island’s LED streetlight manufacturing sector is expected to reach as much as NT$34 billion (US$1.15 billion) by 2018. According to an assessment released by the MOEA's Bureau of Energy, since the start of 2012, the government has been pushing for the installation of LED street lights to help the LED sector build a supply chain and create clusters of manufacturers. Under the projects, the government is expected to spend about NT$2.8 billion to install more than 326,000 ...

One hundred years ago—March 25, 1912 to be exact—executives and employees gathered at GE Lighting’s newly forming Nela Park campus to bury a hermetically sealed time capsule packed with a daily newspaper, pamphlets, pins, photos and some GE light bulbs representing available and emerging incandescent technologies of the era.   The collection of treasures inside the capsule and an accompanying lead box filled with additional mementos placed inside a cornerstone of Marketing Building #307 were intended to speak to future generations about the state of light...

More and more frequently, luminaires in the professional sector are equipped with LEDs. This applies both for indoor and outdoor lighting solutions. In the process, luminaire manufacturers give particular importance to durable, efficient and high-quality LEDs. “The demand for high-quality and robust light emitting diodes will continue to increase in the future. The Duris P 5 represents a true leap in innovation, in particular owing to its minimal error rate during long-term use,” explains Christian Neugirg, product manager at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. D...

LEDucation 6 CONTINUES TO CLAIM ITS’ TITLE AS the premier event on LED TechnologY WITH ANOTHER RECORD BREAKING ATTENDANCE OF OVER 2,000 Attendees. The Designers Lighting Forum of New York is proud to announce that LEDucation 6 accomplished its most successful event to date with a record breaking crowd of over 2,000 attendees.  Attendees from across North American and Europe gathered at New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March 21st to learn and experience the latest deve...

"There is no product that can’t be sold, only the price, as the industry leader, Neo-Neon has been committed to technology innovation and keeping costs close to the market of LED products dedicated to all consumers in the world, while making efforts to protect the environment for the survival of our planet and humanity.” Says Alvin Chang, Product Marketing Director of Neo-Neon LED Lighting International Ltd. Recently, Neo-Neon launched a non-dimmable LED bulb that costs $ 4.39 USD to replace 40W incandescent bulbs and a non-dimmable LED bu...

One Stop Green, LLC has developed a partnership with Cree Lighting to bring Cree’s solar powered flashlights without batteries to customers. Batteries are a major source of toxins in landfills and Cree solar flashlights seek to combat this source of hazardous waste by offering Ni-MH rechargeable batteries in their flashlights that are automatically recharged via a solar panel. By exposing the solar cells to direct sunlight, Cree solar powered flashlights never run out of power providing a reliable source of LED lighting in whenever it is need....

Bridgelux’s RS LED arrays have been selected by ZON LED as the LED-based light source for their billboard lighting retrofit solution permitting easy upgrades for the most common billboard lighting fixtures in North America. ZON LED is now retrofitting 6000 metal halide (MH) lighting systems for one of the largest outdoor advertisers in North America, with plans to retrofit another 4000 over the next 3 months with installations in Canada and the United States. Current billboard lighting systems use 1 to 4, 400W lamp fixtures to provide sufficient bi...

Taiwan-based power supply maker AcBel Polytech Inc., has actively ventured into LED lightings in recent years, and may boom its LED lighting business in 2012. According to AcBel, two large-sized Chinese LED lighting suppliers have accepted its LED indoor and outdoor lighting products, and they will contract it as a production arm to jointly explore the Chinese market in the near future. Therefore, it will help AcBel to build a considerable outlet for its LED lighting products. In the meantime, the company has also reportedly garnered orders for LED stree...

Application: The SafeSite  LED area light saves at least 50% energy compared to traditional HID light sources, while reducing maintenance and carbon emissions in Class I, Div 2 applications. This light incorporates both cutting edge LED technology along with proprietary optics to achieve area lighting comparable with other traditional light sources. Whether your application is in a refinery, oil platform, chemical plant or any other Class I, Div 2 application, the LED area light offers long life and requires minimal maintenance, improving safety and rel...

UK-based clean tech firm Zeta Controls has developed an aluminium cage fitted with small LEDs that are positioned to diffuse light in the same way as a 60W incandescent bulb while using just 9W of energy. Anthony McClellan, commercial director at Zeta Controls, introduced that, "The aluminium cage structure allows air to flow through the bulb, cooling it without the need for a heat sink. That means you can create a bulb that is the same shape as standard bulbs. One of the main obstacles to deployment of LED bulbs has been they have tended to be different shapes an...

Taiwan LED Company Speed Tech Corp. is considering the possibility of setting up a Paraguay based LED lighting manufacturing. Lucas Chiu, president of Speed Tech's unit Speed Tech Energy, is presently leading a delegation to survey the investment environment, in particular in the green energy sector in the Latin American country. And the delegation will promote products from Taiwan. During the visit, Chiu's delegation has also met with Republic of China Ambassador Jose Maria Liu. In Liu’s opinion, while the Paraguay government hopes more ...

Phoster Industries’ LED lighting solutions, powered by the OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Golden Dragon LEDs have brightened the interior of New York’s Salon Ziba.   The integrated Par20 and Par30 LED lamps, as well as LED recessed down lights, have replaced existing Halogen lamps at the salon. A total of 85 LED Par30 lamps were integrated on the first floor of the salon and deliver an energy savings of more than 3.1kW — or 68 cents per hour. On the first floor alone, the salon will save up to 74% of its energy costs based on the aver...

According to Taiwan Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), Taiwan’s LED makers will likely benefit from Mainland China’s recent introduction of a subsidization program for LED lighting. According to the program publicized by Mainland China’s Ministry of Finance, LED lighting suppliers will subtract the subsidy amount from their retail prices when winning private or government contracts to supply the lamps. As a result, end users will be able to enjoy lower retail prices. Streetlight, tunnel lights and recessed ligh...

BulbAmerica has developed a partnership with LED lighting manufacturer Kobi Electric. BulbAmerica has already carved a niche for itself in the lighting industry while Kobi Electric guarantees lumen maintenance of at least 80 percent as well as a lifetime warranty for all their products. These have received 4 and 5 star reviews along with high ratings consistently. Their purpose is to make home LED lighting affordable for everyone and the team travels across the globe to find low cost lighting solutions that also meet the company’s stringent and high standards of qual...

Linde LienHwa (LLH) China , the joint venture led by gases and engineering firm The Linde Group of Munich, Germany and Taiwan’s LienHwa MiTAC Group, has signed an exclusive supply agreement with Xiamen-based LED maker Kaistar to supply bulk gases and high-purity ammonia (NH3). Kaistar is a joint venture of Epistar and China Electronics Corp (CEC).And its new facility will be constructed near to Linde’s ultra-high-purity ammonia plant in Xiamen (opened in 2010) to meet demand from the fast-growing Chinese LED industry. Using technology...

Philips Lighting’s LEDs will support the Montparnasse Tower in Paris, France to embrace the first night of spring 2012. The Montparnasse Tower will be lit up every night, using different lighting scenarios which will change with the seasons. Scenography is part of a temporal rhythm: On behalf of the co-owners of the Tour Maine Montparnasse, the lighting designer, Régis Clouzet has thus imagined 4 scenarios of light - one per season - based on various lighting effects, multiple scattering rhythms and a wide range of colours. The installed illuminating st...

Boston-area R&D and Testing Laboratory from Luminus Devices, Inc., has been accredited to conduct testing on LEDs to the LM-80 standard, the approved method for measuring LED light sources. The accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 is awarded by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP), and the standard is endorsed by the Department of Energy and the Illumination Engineering Society (IES).   The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) administers the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditat...

Designed for office and institutional use (e.g., schools, public buildings), and particularly effective for hallway lighting due to its narrow width (8”), this recessed ceiling light is edge lit by a light guide utilizing 100 white LEDs spaced strategically along 1 edge of the light guide plate (LPG).  It is available in 4 color temperatures ranging from warm white (at 3000K) to cool white (at 6000K).  Luminous flux ranges from 2448 Lm (warm white) to 3000 Lm (cool white).  CRI is ≥ 75%, lifetime is 30,000 hours, and weight is 3.5 kg. It provides an i...