Tsinghua Tongfang Company Limited, one of the most representative companies in China, has begun the establishment of its LED manufacturing base in Nantong in August, 2010 and started the production in August, 2011; over just one year, Tsinghua Tongfang has completed the first stage of the establishment comprising two plants and installed 16 MOCVD equipment, which is expected to be 48 and in place for production by the end of 2011. Tsinghua Tongfang’s excellent progress and considerable investment have made a splash in the market. How does Tsinghua Tongfang succee...

Seventeam Electronics Co., Ltd is the pioneer of Power Supply manufacturer. Founded in 1986, our main production is switching power supply for PC/IPC. There are over one million and two hundred thousands pieces of power supply marketed in five continents over 25 years. In recent years, Seventeam has branched out into energy-saving industry, especially for LED power supply. In LED power market, we have developed a variety of models, and recently launched dimmable LED driver. According to different demand, this series could be worked for light bulb, down-light and o...

HELLA KGaA Hueck & Co., a leading global automotive supplier, could significantly increase revenues in fiscal year 2010/2011, up 23 percent to 4.4 billion Euro (2009/2010: 3.6 billion Euro), and achieve the best result ever in its corporate history. EBIT grew from 146 million Euro to 268 million Euro year on year, the annual result could be improved to 164 million Euro (2009/2010: 81 million Euro). ”We benefit from our timely focus on key automotive trends such as the increasing environmental awareness, the still growing demand for safety and the shift from con...

Accoding to Taiwan major LED manufacture Epistar and Everlight , LED Lighting is likely to play a key role over the next two years. Recently , J.Y. Fan, a vice president of Epistar, said at the SEMI Taiwan 2011, that the oversupply will compel LED makers to shift application emphasis to lighting, which is considered much more profitable as its market remains in the infant stage. Also, excessive supplies have driven down prices of LED devices, thereby reducing production costs of lighting products. Fan’s estimate revised previous thoughts that lighting...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to introduce the Healthcare Lighting® Surg5™ surgical troffer luminaire. The Surg5 luminaire is the newest addition to the Healthcare Lighting® OR/Surgical Suite product line. While lighting in high-performance areas of a hospital are, in general, exempt from energy usage calculations, the Healthcare Lighting® Surg5, delivers consistent high-quality lighting while providing significant energy savings and ...

The seven German partners in the European EnLight consortium have announced that they will aim for a further 40% reduction in the energy consumption of LEDs during R&D projects over the next three years. EnLight has received around €11 million in funding to date. Almost half of the fund has come from the project’s industry partners, and €2 million has been contributed by the European Union. Meanwhile in the US, Macy’s has announced plans for a lighting retrofit that will see one million halogen bulbs replaced with LED spotlights. It i...

Ace Lamps have launched a 36 watt LED down light that adds to the range released with their new manufacturing partner. The Space LED Down Light is designed to be used for commercial situations, large atriums or larger communal areas. It has a unique design that offers a very high 1800 lumen light output from the 12 x 3 watt LED configuration, using warm white 3200k LED’s warm white 3200k LED’s that have a life of 50000 hours making it an ideal fluorescent, halogen or metal halide lighting alternative. A high quality light weight heat sink has been dev...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, has expanded its LED indoor ambient lighting portfolio with the launch of the Lithonia Lighting® RTLED™ RELIGHT assembly kit. The RTLED RELIGHT kit is a high-quality, volumetric assembly designed to bring the advantages of LED lighting to renovation projects. It joins the RTLED, ACLED, TLED and VTLED as part of Lithonia Lighting’s versatile recessed LED indoor ambient lightin...

Panasonic Electric Works Co. will debut a slew of new LED lights, starting Oct. 21. The subsidiary of Panasonic Corp. (6752) will increase its offerings 50% to 2,000 items this fiscal year, aiming to double LED lighting sales to about 50 billion yen. A series of color adjustable lights will hit the market Nov. 21. They can emit soft yellow light during dining and bright white light for studying. The suggested retail price for this series ranges from 41,475 yen to 59,850 yen, excluding installation. The new LED models also include desk lamps and porch lights. ...

Seesmart, Inc.,has received a $1.2 million order in LED tube lights from The United States General Services Administration (GSA) for lighting retrofit project . The order constitutes the single largest purchase of LED tube lights ever made by the GSA, whose latest lighting retrofit project will span 18 buildings across 2 U.S. states. The Seesmart LED tube lights will replace fluorescent lighting in GSA buildings, saving the Administration approximately $400,000 annually in energy costs. Also, Seesmart products will cut the lighting energy consumption o...

Philips has added new UrbanScape and MetroScape to the broad line-up of its outdoor LED luminaires which offer cities and municipalities sustainable, energy-efficient solutions with all the benefits of Philips LUXEON high-power LEDs. According to Philips, UrbanScape and MetroScape offer flexible solutions that can reduce energy consumption by 40-60 percent over High Intensity Discharge  alternatives and provide a rated life of 100,000 hours. UrbanScape is designed to create a fresh modern and minimalistic look for urban projects. And MetroScape is a...

It’s reported that Coca-Cola (Japan) Co., Ltd., its 12 bottling partners and other affiliates of the Coca Cola system in Japan have scheduled to bring in LED lighting for vending machines in product displays for all new purchases of machines for beverage products in cans and PET bottles, starting from 2012. It was made under the Coca-Cola system's global business guiding principle, "Live Positively," and as part of its environmental initiatives for a sustainable society. The Coca-Cola system has cooperated with voluntary action plans of the so...

Energy Focus, Inc., a leader in providing energy efficient lighting solutions, today announced that it was recently awarded a $5 million lighting retrofit contract with a leading Southeastern Energy Services Company. The contract includes projects to upgrade the lighting of numerous military and government facilities in the Southeastern region of the United States over the next two years. Energy Focus will perform the audit of the facilities, inventory their lighting systems, create an approved energy savings design, procure the materials and oversee the lighting and electric...

Mike Bauer, President and CEO of Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (nasdaq capital market:NEXS) will present at the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium in New York on Thursday, September 8, 2011. Nexxus will be one of nine presenting companies, along with representatives from Cree, Veeco and Rubicon. The objective of the conference is to share information from leading technology companies focused on the adoption of LEDs for general lighting.  ...

Made of state-of-the-art technology and consisting of German-Russian components, Optogan says its E27 lamp has features on par with the best of world standards. The new light source is claimed to be significantly less expensive than its European counterparts. From September onwards, the first contingent of bulbs will be available for 995 Rubles in both Moscow and St. Petersburg. In early 2012 the bulb will be introduced to the global market – the target price then should be around €30. Optogan´s designer bulb is a convincing contribution to global energy...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, today announced it will webcast its presentation at an upcoming conference. John Kurtzweil, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will provide a company overview at the following conference:  * The J.P. Morgan Third LED General Lighting Symposium on Thursday, September 8, at 12:20 p.m. EDT. A webcast of the presentation will be available live and by replay. To access both the live and archived webcasts, as well as the slide presentation used during the conference, please go to ...

Ultrabooks are set to take the‭ ‬market by storm‭, ‬gradually taking a piece of the‭ ‬traditional notebook market and providing‭ ‬new momentum for the entire IT industry‭. ‬According to‭ ‬market research firm TrendForce‭, ‬chip giant Intel is leading the ultrabook revolution in 2011‭, ‬with the MacBook Air‭ ‬dominated‭, ‬ultra thin and light notebook market as their goal‭. ‬The birth of ultrabooks is expected to benefit many different industries‭, ‬and will hopefully sweep away the‭ ‬clouds of tablet PC popularity and global economic factors currently l...

Reportedly, Panasonic Idemitsu OLED Lighting (PIOL) Co Ltd, a JVof Panasonic Electric Works Co Ltd and Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd, has kicked off shipping an OLED lighting panel in the Japanese and overseas markets Sept 1, 2011. According to the company, the general color rendering index (Ra) of the OLED panel is 90 or higher, which is claimed as one of the world's highest for a mass-produced OLED panel. The OLED lighting panel has a size of 97 x 90mm, a thickness of 2.11mm and a weight of 38g. The area of its light-emitting part is 80 x 80mm...

San Francisco Bay Area-based lighting company Elemental LED have joined Philips' LED luminaires licensing program which grants Elemental LED access to a portfolio of patents related to Philips' LED lighting systems and controls. According to Elemental LED , the Elemental LED engineering department designed several new products in the past year that met consumer demand for higher quality and ease of use, including a Dimmable LED Puck Light, the wall-mounted 12V LED Reign Dimmer Switch, and the portable Apollo DMX LED Color Controll...

Illumitex, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a joint research and business development relationship with Syngenta. Through the alliance, Syngenta will utilize Illumitex’s patented LED technology to develop next generation growing protocols in plant growth research projects in controlled environments such as greenhouses and indoor growth chambers. By coupling Illumitex’s precision beam control with the capability of customizing the light spectrum, Illumitex is enabling widespread adoption of LED lighting for use in the global horticulture market. Illum...

GT Advanced Technologies Inc., (NASDAQ: GTAT), today announced that Cheryl Diuguid, vice president and general manager of Sapphire Equipment and Materials will present at the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium on September 8, 2011 at 11:50am ET. The presentation will be webcast on a live and archived basis. About GT Advanced Technologies Inc. GT Advanced Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other spec...

Power Integrations introduced a new reference design (DER-281) detailing an 85%-efficient, 15 W PAR38 downlight driver that delivers flicker-free dimming without the use of unreliable high-voltage electrolytic bulk capacitors. Typical TRIAC dimmers were designed for incandescent lights that use an order of magnitude more power than LED lights of equivalent lumen output. The low current requirement of LED lights, especially when dimmed, can cause TRIACs to switch off unexpectedly or oscillate, creating an annoying flickering effect. Early-generation LED light...

Germany’s annual power consumption is approximately 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) or 500 trillion watt-hours, with lighting accounting for almost 12 percent of that figure. Today, as much as 11.5 TWh or 20 percent of the electricity needed for lighting could be saved in Germany alone if incandescent lamps were consistently replaced by more energy-efficient LEDs. The potential saving is equivalent to the annual output of a large-scale power plant. Over the coming three years, Germany’s seven partners of the “EnLight” (Energy Efficient and Intelligent...

Aixtron SE has a new order for four CRIUS II MOCVD systems in a 55x2-inch configuration from China´s Jiangsu Canyang Optoelectronics, a joint venture with Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi). The company is seeking a smooth process transfer up from their existing CRIUS MOCVD reactors to Aixtron´s new generation platform. According to Forepi President Fen-Ren Chien, they are embarking on a whole new era of high volume blue LED production at Jiangsu Canyang. To minimise risk and interruptions they have once aga...

Due to low demand in the large-size backlight market in 1H11, LEDinside expects many manufacturers to turn their main focus to lighting products in 2H11. The phrase “replacing traditional lighting” takes on new meaning as the industry develops in a new direction. As for LED replacement of traditional lighting, North America, Europe, and China are currently showing the most rapid progress.

Based on Gekko’s award-winning technology, kedo-sk is a single-colour Fresnel-focused hard source luminaire optimised for the requirements of image capture for both film and broadcast. Available in either daylight (5600 kelvin) or tungsten (3200 kelvin) variants, kedo-sk produces minimal heat and is designed to work in an ambient temperature of up to 50 degrees Celsius. Output intensity is comparable with a 1 kilowatt tungsten source. Low power consumption (180 watts) keeps heat generation to a minimum. An integral Fresnel-based optic provides a focal range of 6:1. Inte...

IKEA Israel has discontinued its sale of incandescent bulbs, the first retailer in the Jewish State to do so. The company stopped selling the bulbs effective last Thursday, September 1. Instead, IKEA is restricting its lighting sales to items that are energy savers. Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) use 75 percent less energy and last up to 10 times longer than the average incandescent light bulb. Halogen bulbs consume 30 percent less energy, producing more lumens (lighting power) per watt than an incandescent bulb. Solar lamps are energy savers as well, re...

In consideration of whether or not LED light bulbs are truly a proper replacement for 40W incandescent bulbs, as major manufacturers claim, brightness is an important factor, as LEDinside has previously mentioned. What other standards must be met in order to make the transition to LED bulbs? 

Sources imform that Europe’s households have set off widely banning inefficient 60 watt light bulbs from 1 September 2011. The inefficient 60 watt light bulbs are being taken place of compact fluorescent light bulbs ( CFLs ) and light emitting diode lamps ( LEDs ). Halogen lights will remain on the shelves but are only marginally more efficient than incandescent bulbs. Europeans will be able to choose lamps which are at least 75% more efficient than old light bulbs and last at least seven times longer. According to Greenpeace EU energy policy adviser Frauke T...

World-leading electronic component distributor element14 Pty Ltd has tripled its inventory of Texas Instruments products including cutting edge LED solutions that support green lighting growth.  Element14 will provide a wide range of Texas Instruments products such as LED drivers, operational amplifiers and power to facilitate the growth of emerging technologies in Asia Pacific while giving electronic and maintenance engineers a huge boost towards more energy efficient lighting solutions.  LED technology is increasingly being used in various electronic sect...