GE Appliances & Lighting has won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR® Sustained Excellence Award for the seventh consecutive year. GE Appliances & Lighting supports the ENERGY STAR® program through a variety of initiatives, including training sales employees, retailers and distributors; promoting ENERGY STAR®-qualified products; and recycling at company locations.   According to GE Lighting, it offered a total of 501 ENERGY STAR®-qualified LED and CFL products in 2011 ...

Bridgelux has cooperated with a Chevron unit to finance the installation of LED lighting by city governments. According to the program, Chevron Energy Solutions will upgrade street lights with Bridgelux’s LED lighting technology at no upfront cost to the cities. The company has launched pilot programs in Livermore – where Bridgelux happens to be headquartered – and several other California cities, including Dublin, Benicia and Solana Beach. Brad Bullington, VP for corporate and market development at Bridgelux, says several of the company&rsqu...

Energy-efficient Lusio Essentials Bay Series fixtures provide high lumens per dollar for cost conscious commercial and industrial applications   Lusio Solid-State Lighting announced the general availability of a new line of high efficacy fixtures: the Lusio Essentials Bay Series.  Economically designed for cost conscious commercial and industrial lighting applications, Lusio Essentials Bay Series fixtures deliver high efficacies (lumens per watt) and high lumens per dollar because of unique housings engineered to ensure LED performance while minimizing costs...

- Year end inventory adjustment reflects current difficult market conditions - Dividend policy remains unchanged   - Profitable 2012 performance predicted with strong R&D investments planned AIXTRON SE (ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6, DE000A1MMEF7), a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, delivered in 2011 – despite the market weakness in the second half – EUR 611.0m of revenues and a 18% EBIT margin. Although 2012 is expected to be a transitional year between two LED investment cycles with...

Philips has developed new recessed LED Luminaires ArcForm featuring advanced LED engineering with state-of-the-art optics, technology integration and advanced lighting performance, suits for commercial applications such as offices, educational environments and retail spaces. The new product has brilliant color rendering and efficacies of up to 91.2 lm/W. Inspired by the classic curve, ArcForm's soft, understated, uniform architectural design evokes subtlety and sophistication. Its unique integration of MesoOptics technology and an innovative optical system ensure lig...

Newly, Lighting Science Group has released a 4" version of its revolutionary Glimpse™ LED downlight. Mimicking the lumen (light) output of a 50 watt incandescent or halogen bulb in a downlight, the 9.5 watt Glimpse maintains the same top-tier performance that has come to differentiate the company's LED products from competitors like Cree, Philips and GE, while offering an improved, innovative thermal design that reduces the amount of raw materials needed for assembly by up to 70 percent. Available in both a 4" and 6" form, the Glimpse's l...

San Francisco-based LED lighting company Lemnis, Inc , recently has rolled out three new lines of Pharox-brand LED replacement bulbs and seen a 500% increase in sales over average weekly sales based on the new every-day low pricing. The lowest-priced bulb, the 200-lumen Pharox BLU, broke the $5 price point with a suggested retail price of $4.95(1) sold exclusively through pharox-led.com. The Pharox XL 200 is priced at $8.95 and the XL 300 is $11.95. Finally, the Energy Star-qualified Pharox PRO bulbs (coming soon) are designed with the commercial and rebate...

Oslon SSL-LEDs by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors stand for high light output. The new generation of high-power-LEDs will be appreciated by users for its improved performance, with an efficiency increase of approximately 25 percent. Additionally, the luminous flux of the LED at elevated temperatures has now been stabilised. In doing so, it is possible to retain a virtually constant luminous efficacy, despite high application temperatures. Thanks to this optimisation, the luminaire design is significantly simplified. With the new generation of Oslon SSL LEDs, OS...

Cree LR24™ Luminaires Installed at Monroe Elementary School Monroe Elementary School in Everett, Wash. recently installed nearly 450 LED fixtures by Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), making it the first predominately LED-lit school in the Everett Public Schools district. Cree LR24™ LED troffers now illuminate the newly rebuilt two-story, 68,000-square-foot elementary school, which serves about 600 students in grades K-5. “We looked at a lot of LED fixture manufacturers but only Cree had fixtures that met all of our requirements for hi...

TESS (Top Energy Saving System Corp.) holds a positive energy and innovative spirits to dedicate to the saving energy lighting development ,announces the hi-efficiency 20W 2000lm LED bulb. This 20W 2000lm LED bulb is equivalent to about 125 W incandescent bulb by following the LM79, with small size and high lumen output and presents a superior luminous efficiency of 100lm/W. This 2000lm LED bulb is brightest in the world with the size which equal to the general incandescent lamp, and that is the most important product feature. The innovative technology is in ...

Crystal growers manufacturer Thermal Technology has set up their new Service and Technology Center in Dalian, China, to expand company’s growing market share in crystal growth equipment throughout Asia.   The over 60,000 square foot building is owned by Thermal Technology’s business partner, Inteco of Austria, which also operates from this location.  The new facility will house full time, experienced technicians, a complete parts inventory and technical laboratory. Existing customers can expect to receive notification soon regarding how to contact thei...

LEDucation 6, the premier event on LED Technology, will be closing ONLINE registration on monday, march 19th and opens a call for volunteers. The Designers Lighting Forum of New York is proud to announce record numbers for advance registration to LEDucation 6 in New York in three weeks.  With the exhibitor show floor once again completely sold out with over 90+ leading manufacturers from across the world, LEDucation 6 positions itself for another record breaking year. Event attendees will be able to participate in an unparalleled lineup of educational ...

Popular Laredo® LNC LED Wallpack offering is expanded with addition of two powerful lumen options. Hubbell Lighting Inc. is proud to announce the expansion of the Laredo® Southwest Series with two new powerful lumen packages to their recently launched Laredo® LNC Compact LED Wallpack offering.  Designed for perimeter illumination, the Laredo LNC Architectural LED Wallpack is now available in three versatile lumens packages of 850, 1147 and 1460 lm. Originally introduced with a 12.6W Type III distribution that features 5 LEDs that...

Burnham Park will embrace new light under the project led by the city government and Philips to install the P6 million new energy-efficient lighting systems. The energy efficient LED lighting which illuminates the park’s Rose Garden is part of the ongoing effort to add luster and luminance to the city. The Garden will be fully lit up with 68 LED post lamps, 14 LED street lights and 6 LED flood lights. According to Clifford Jison, senior manager of the Lighting Sector of Philips Philippines, “There is a growing concern with energy conservation an...

American wholesale supplier BulbAmerica has supplied new energy efficient OLED lights for customers to replace incandescent light bulbs. According to the company, these OLEDs are made up of many layers of organic materials with various electrical properties. In order to construct white light OLED, scientists from Dresden University of Technology in Germany integrated four individual emitter layers of green, red, blue, and yellow, thereby optimizing the color to fill up the visible spectrum. Although the company also has offered a comprehensive portfolio of incande...

Philips Automotive Lighting North America has appointed Richard Zeichner as its Midwest account manager, being responsible for all sales activities in the Midwestern U.S. as well as national OES accounts within the automotive aftermarket channel. Noting that Zeichner is a dynamic and results-driven sales leader who brings a great deal of valuable sales and management expertise to the Philips automotive aftermarket business, Dennis Samfilippo, Philips' general manager has made this appointment. Prior to joining Philips, Zeichner was VP of sales for Guidepoi...

Borden Lighting has installed modern LED walkway lighting in the Presidio of San Francisco to enhance the beauty, safety and energy efficiency of the national park. Using Bridgelux LED arrays, Borden Lighting designed a unique indirect post top walkway luminaire. The Borden luminaire was developed to conform to "Dark Sky" lighting design concepts that effectively illuminate the pathway while preventing glare and light pollution. The original lighting design plan called for the use of Metal Halide luminaires, not for LED lighting. Borden decided to us...

UL (Underwriters Laboratories) has been named a Zhaga authorized testing center, to expand LED Lighting testing capability. Coupled with UL's LTL, Europe, and Nansha, this credential,positions UL as one of the most comprehensive LED testing organizations in the world. This new testing service offering will be available separately or as a bundle with other UL lighting industry services such as Energy Star, performance testing and safety certification. Zhaga is an industry-wide cooperation aimed at the development of standard specifications for the inte...

Cree will install its exterior and interior lighting at US Embassies of Europe in Vienna, Rome, Madrid, Berlin and Lisbon, as part of the program led by the Alliance to Save Energy and The League of Green Embassies. The US Department of State provided $500,000 to partially subsidise the initial costs. And the completed installations are due to be unveiled over the course of 2012. According to Cree, compared with current lighting, the new installations will offer an energy saving between 45 per cent and 76 per cent, depending on the individual requirements of ea...

Recently, Philips has come out a new roadmap for their OLED lighting products which are divide into two families - one for decorative lighting and one for performance lighting. According to the company, the decorative panels are normally reflective in the off state, and it will offer transparent ones as soon as next year. Color tunable and transparent panels will arrive in 2018. And Philips predicts that by then it'll be able to offer 1x1 meter panels. The downside of the decorative panels is the efficiency: In 2015 these panels will offer only 15 lm/W (that's only...

The new X10 platform offers a modular approach for luminaire designs from 1,100lm to 55,000lm. Optogan’s Chip-on-Board module (COB), so called X10, is based on the vision of scaleability and lean processing for luminaire manufacturing. Due to various possible sizes and forms of the elements, applications are found in LED retrofits, downlights, industrial and street lighting up to flood and stage lights. The X10 is a COB-block, consisting of 50 segments, it can easily be divided into LED elements of smaller sizes and power, and each of these can be used in sep...

Taiwan’s major power-supply makers branching out into LED lighting manufacturing, including Delta Electronics Inc., AcBel Polytech Inc., Phihong Technology Co., and Leader Electronics Inc., estimate sales of their LED lamps to take off in 2012. They made the prediction based on the bright growth forecast mostly on the implementation of bans on incandescent bulb consumption beginning this year in many advanced economies, mainland China’s new round of subsidization on LED lighting estimated to begin this year, and LED replacements for 40W incandescen...

Recently, Japanese LED product supplier Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. has filed a lawsuit with the Taoyuan District Court in northern Taiwan, accusing its Taiwanese counterpart Formosa Epitaxy Inc. of infringing on two patents asserted by the Japanese firm related to GaN-based LED chip production. According to Hsu Hung-sheng, a lawyer for the Japanese firm, said his client has sought damages from Formosa Epitaxy and requested the court issue an injunction to bar the Taiwanese defendant from manufacturing and selling the disputed LED products. Additionally, not...

Joining the ever-growing number of smart cities that have chosen more efficient technology to light their streets and saving money in the process, the City of Carpinteria in November 2011 completed its retrofit project of replacing all its existing city-owned high-pressure sodium (HPS) decorative street lights with energy-efficient LEDs. The lights are located on several blocks of Linden and Carpinteria Avenues in the downtown area and include lights on the Amtrak rail platform and its adjoining public parking lots.   According to the city’s calculations, each of...

Illuminating Engineering Society Selects 10 Acuity BrandsLighting Products for Annual Progress Report   Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting solutions, announced a total of 10 lighting products, including new LED lamps, luminaires and lighting control software, have been selected by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) to be included in its annual Progress Report. The Progress Report documents significant worldwide developments and achievements in the lighting industry,...

Recently, Philips has announced the release of a new LED lamp dimming feature aimed at decreasing the hospitality industry’s carbon footprint and ensuring energy savings of more than 80%. The company has utilized the DimTone technology to help facility managers in the hospitality industry reduce the amount of light when dimmed as well as the colour temperature. When dimmed, the light gets warmer, creating an intimate atmosphere and radiating a warm and soft light, similar to that produced by incandescent and halogen lamps. Philips’ 7 W GU10 master LED lamp w...

According to deputy sectary general of China Solid State Lighting Alliance, Tang Gouquin announced at a forum held in Taipei addressing LED industry, mainland China may enlarge LED-lighting subsidization coverage, including not only more product items but also more supply sources. He pointed out that the mainland’s authorities would announce details of the subsidization plan before long. It’s the second phase of the subsidization initiative for LED-lighting consumptions, aiming to subsidize over 10 million lamps this year. Some 10% of the number was subsi...

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% wit...

The 2012 GE Lighting Revolution Tour rolls out this week GE Lighting is taking its energy-saving, cost-reducing lighting solutions on the road again with the 2012 GE Lighting Revolution Tour. This tradeshow on wheels is designed to give designers, distributors, architects, contractors, facility maintenance and utility executives a first-hand experience of GE's latest innovations in lighting technology. This year, GE will be hosting commercial users and officials in nearly 50 cities, showcasing new advanced-technology products and solutions in areas ranging from arc...

It has become a good tradition: November, 29th and 30th 2011 for the 8th time LayTec held its private seminar in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan. New in-situ measurement approaches for multiple applications as well as product news were presen¬ted. Prof. Sugiyama of University of Tokyo reported on successful strain compensation of InGaAs/GaAsP multiple quantum wells (MQWs) using both EpiRAS and EpiCurve® TT for novel solar cell applications on GaAs. Interestingly, the H2-purging and subsequent As-/P-stabilization of the InGaAs surface di¬rectly inf...