The late Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2011 won supports from 2, 600 enterprises, including ESTO Lighting (Australia), General Electric (US), Osram (Germany), Philips (Holland), QSSI (US), Reggiani (Italy) and received visitors and exhibitor groups from Korea, Japan, Singapore, UK and the US. During the exhibition, LEDinside was honored to interview Mr. Xiaoning Lin, Deputy General Manager of Unilumin Technology Co. Ltd, who introduced their unique market strategy and sales channels which had led the Unilumin’s sales growth...

LED parking garage lights successfully designed  to overcome the challenges associated with current LED options in this class is the latest break-through product offering from Michigan-based LED lighting manufacturer Clean Light Green Light (CLGL). Providing a beautiful, even light spread without aggravating glare to drivers’ eyes, this series sets itself apart with superior performance and maximum savings potential; both important considerations for this building sector where lighting consumes the majority of energy used and security concerns run high. &ldqu...

Currently, LG Electronics has launched five new models of LED-backlit LCD televisions in Japan, two featuring the company’s proprietary “Nano Lighting Technology”; and three “Cinema 3D” models based on its FPR (film-type patterned retarder) passive 3D technology. With  the moniker “Nano Full LED”, the LG LZ9600 series offers an ultra-slim design with a thickness of just 8.8mm which gives the HDTVs a sleek and minimalistic appearance. Two screen sizes are available: the 47-inch LG 47LZ9600 and the 55-i...

Taiwan –based Foxconn is reported to make a plan to invest in 19 new projects in Central China's Henan province, including factories that will produce camera lenses and LED lighting rigs, as well as more branches of Foxconn's retail chain Cybermart. Terry Guo, chairman of the Foxconn Technology Group, said during an economic forum held in Taipei, "We are going to fully expand our investment in Henan, using Zhengzhou (the provincial capital) as the base." However, Guo did not reveal the total amount of investments for these projects....

LG Electronics has installed its LED lights and a dedicated lighting control system in its Twin Towers headquarters buildings in Seoul, which is considered as one of the world's largest LED lighting installation. According to LG, in a year, the lighting systems on both buildings will save a total of 1,717 MWh of electricity, for a 53% saving over equivalent buildings using conventional fluorescent lighting technology.    LG also estimated that its lineup of lighting solutions provides energy savings ranging from 20-80%, and can last five to ten times lon...

With the slogan of “Freedom from Binning,” Philips Lumileds launched new products, which were immune to the LED bin code issue, with their color coordinates locked within 3-Step MacAdam ellipses at 2011 Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. Philips Lumileds's LUXEON A provides consistent quality of light from LED to LED,something that both luminaire manufacturers and the lighting design community can count on today and into the future Hot tested and specified at a junction temperature of 85°C ensures the LED’s real wor...

The EverGEN 1710 solar LED outdoor light developed by Carmanah Technologies Corporation has been named Finalist in the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) Program. The EverGEN 1710 features advanced occupancy sensing (AOS) technology and a sleek, modern design. Developed in a partnership with leading innovation firm frog (formerly frog design), the EverGEN 1710 is a compact integrated solar-powered lighting solution for off-grid illumination. The IDEA Program is established in 1980 and recognizes design excellence in a broad range of fi...

US President Barack Obama has taken a visit to Cree on June 13. During his visit, President Obama made remarks to a crowd of Cree employees. In his remarks, President Obama stated, "So today the small business that a group of N.C. State engineering students founded almost 25 years ago is a global company…Next month, your new production line will begin running 24/7. So you're helping to lead a clean energy revolution. You're helping lead the comeback of American manufacturing. This is a company where the future will be won." Obama also jo...

Dialight recently has form Dialight Japan KK in Hamamatsu as a further step in the company’s global thrust into the industrial and hazardous LED lighting market.   Dialight Japan KK has signed agreements to acquire the assets and contracts of its Japanese distributor, I-Spec Ltd for an upfront consideration of £0.2m and a 25% stake in Dialight Japan KK. The industrial and hazardous lighting segment is highly regulated and there are in excess of 50,000 industrial facilities in Japan making this one of the world’s largest industrial / hazardou...

Recently, Dongbu has announced to rename FAWOO Tech to Dongbu Lightek and has dedicated to develop Dongbu Lightek to nation's best LED lighting company. Dongbu Lightek will strengthen their existing LED lighting businessas well as promoting LED lighting –applied plants plant business, to expand their business area. It aims to strengthen technology, quality, and cost competitiveness around various products ranging from 3W to 160W and enhances LED lighting business, leveraging 250 sales networks in 60 countries. It plans to improve profitability by in...

Wavien, Inc. has released its low-cost LED pocket projector at the InfoComm 2011 in Orlando, Florida from June 15th to 17th. This projector uses Wavien's proprietary Recycling LED Technology (RLT™) in conjunction with a 0.45" WXGA DLP™ from Texas Instruments. According to Dr. Kenneth Li, President and CEO of Wavien, Inc., who is also the inventor of the DPR technology, "Instead of combining light from separate red, green and blue LED packages, Wavien's RLT™ technology combines all 3 colored LEDs in...

Phoseon Technology, the provider of UV LED solutions is about to showcase its air cooled and water cooled UV LED systems designed to be capable of curing in a wide range of UV applications at RadTech Asia 2011 conference, in Yokohama, Japan. It’s said that the company will display the three-tiered benefits of UV LED curing (high-quality, environmentally friendly, and lower total cost of ownership). Phoseon's products add additional capability with high performance, maximum UV energy, and outstanding reliability for customer's tough curing environm...

This year’s Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition broke the record of the largest-scale LED exhibition in the history, which was supported by 2,600 manufacturers, including ESTO Lighting (Austria), General Electric Company (America), Osram (Germany), Phillips (Netherlands), QSSI (America) and Reggiani (Italy), and attracted visitors from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, UK and America. The exhibition mainly focused on professional lighting, decorating lighting and lighting components with an exhibition space of 200 thousand square meters...

Reportedly, Chinese Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua will sign industrial Standardization MOU with Chairman of the non-profit Sinocon Industrial Standards Foundation, R.L. Chen, a former economics minister, who represents Taiwan`s counterparts for three high technologies including LED, LCD panel and solar energy  in both sides of the Taiwan Straits. As LED plays a pivotal role in the mainland’s12th Five Year Development Plan, the two sides this time will sign agreements to set up common standards for LED ind...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that Tsinghua Tongfang Company, a Beijing-based publicly listed division of the Tsinghua Holdings Company Limited, has placed an order for Veeco's new TurboDisc(R) MaxBright(TM) Multi-Reactor MOCVD System for production of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs). Professor Liu Gang, General Manager of Nantong Tongfang commented, "Last year we selected Veeco as our primary supplier for our new production facility in NanTong, China that was completed at the end of 2010. We are ...

State-of-the-art plant ramps to production in less than eight months GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR), a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets, today celebrated the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art sapphire production facility located in Salem, Massachusetts. The opening of the newly expanded plant concludes a project that began in the fall of 2010 that triples the sapphire production capacity in its Salem facility. GT...

Thermal Technology’s Model K1 sapphire crystal grower was utilized by Hefei Crystalbridge Optoelectronic Materials Co. Ltd. to produce China’s first commercial grade sapphire crystal of nearly 100kg.   Crystalbridge estimates these crystals will yield 4,000mm of “two inch equivalent” (TIE) rods, or about 5,700 high quality 2-inch substrates.  Crystalbridge grew the crystal in14 days, an increase in productivity of more than 25 percent compared to most other Chinese producers.  “Achieving this milestone only one month from...

LG World’s First Smart TV Portable LED Projector HW300T is powered by Luminus Devices ‘s latest generation of the PT-54 LED chipset. The HW300T is only available in consumer flat-panel televisions. It features built-in access to pre-paid High Definition movies from Vudu as well as social networking services such as Facebook or Twitter. The HW300T’s wireless connection is compatible with the Digital Living Network Alliance protocol and allows direct access to content located on networked devices, including personal computers. ...

Recently, LED lighting company, HomeLights, has partnered with Bridgelux, to introduce a new generation of LED products to be sold through one of the world's largest retailers. HomeLights has selected Bridgelux’s industry-leading, high flux density LED Array technology to enable their new series of energy efficient, environmentally-friendly spotlight luminaires and bulbs. In addition, HomeLights and Bridgelux also partners on new and unique LED lighting solutions that will be sold directly by HomeLights in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Benel...

Luminus Devices has developed its newest Red-Green-Blue (RGB) LED chipsets, the Compact SBT-16 and SBT-39 chipsets, targeted to consumer projectors. Personal and ultra-mobile LED projectors are an emerging class of miniature projection devices with sizes typically ranging from 150 to 400 cm3. These projectors may include built-in digital media players and can connect to portable devices such as PDAs and notebook computers. Luminus Devices’s red, green and blue LEDs that are individually assembled in a small footprint, performance surface mount packa...

Samsung Electronics America Inc., has shown four new lines of LED/LCD commercial displays during InfoComm 2011 in Orlando, FL, June 15-17 and available through Samsung distributors and resellers in Q3 2011.   The four new lines including Samsung HE, ME, UE and UD Series incorporate LED-backlight technology that offers many benefits over traditional Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp backlighting. With the ME and UE Series benefitting from a high 120Hz and 240Hz refresh rate, respectively, there is smoother scrolling text and reduced motion blu...

Hi Score Corporation is announced to receive six figure approval on a lighting contract. The company recognizes that a low six figure sale on its own is not that significant.   However, according to Hi Score COO Dominick Falso, who was recently appointed as Hi Score's Chief Operating Officer, "the fact that the company seems to be writing one of these each week or so is very significant. This puts us on track to exceed our previously stated sales goals." It’s said that the sales orders are coming through DMD Lighting and Energy Contro...

In recent years, China has seen the expansion of LED chip market and been gradually raising self-manufacturing degree. Meanwhile, the LED package industry, which is already widely established in China to a considerable scale, has also achieved a lot in LED lighting of commercial and residential space besides public space. LEDinside predicts that China’s lighting market will show more remarkable growth in public space and road lighting market along with the second implementation of “10,000 lights in 1,000 cities” project and incentive measures. As for the g...

As Veeco received $4 million from the US government, Kyma Technologies, a global supplier of crystalline nitride semiconductor materials, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, has cooperated with Veeco in a next generation LED manufacturing equipment development project. Kyma Technologies will be supplying material and services to Veeco as part of this development project. Kyma President and CEO, Keith Evans, stated, “We very much appreciate the opportunity to work with Veeco on this exciting project to accelerate growth in the LED market.  In additi...

Taiwan-based Formosa Epitaxy and its affiliate, Jiangsu Canyang Corporation has ordered Veeco's recently released TurboDisc MaxBright multi-reactor MOCVD System for production of HB LEDs. It’s said that Veeco's MaxBright system is designed for HBLED production and is available in a 2 or 4-reactor cluster architecture and delivers up to a 500% productivity gain and 2.5x increase in footprint efficiency over its K465i reactor.  ...

Since May, San Francisco based company Elemental LED has launched a new monthly initiative to encourage employees to create their own projects that utilize LED lights.   According to the Employee DIY project, each participating employee will be given a modest budget to be spent on any of the LED lights and accessories in Elemental LED's catalog of products every month. At the end of each month, each employee is given the opportunity to show off his/her creation at a show and tell . Everyone present will vote on their favorites, and the winners will receive...

Company Marks 10th Year of Providing Commercial Buildings with Significant Cost-Savings and Sustainability For Encelium Technologies, a technology manufacturer specializing in integrated lighting control systems for commercial buildings, the future has never looked brighter. Installations of its hallmark Energy Control SystemTM (ECS) now exceed more than 35 million square feet and the company continues to post impressive annual sales increases. And just last year, Encelium secured $11 million in a financing round led by Siemens Venture Capital (SVC), the corp...

VTLED luminaries are embedded with Acuity Brands nLight™ intelligent controls, enabling end users to significantly reduce energy savings and increase return on investment.  Acuity Brands (NYSE: AYI), a market leader in innovative energy efficient lighting and control solutions, is expanding its indoor ambient LED lighting offering with the launch of the Lithonia Lighting VTLED volumetric luminaire.  VTLED is a high-quality, volumetric LED fixture designed for general purpose applications. They join the RTLED, ACLED and TLED...

Illumitex has announced to raise $25.23 million in total for LED lighting, and has closed $13.5 million of that. Dan Watkins at DFJ Mercury, and Forest Baskett and Jimmy Treybig at New Enterprise Associates is listed on Illumitex’s filing. New Enterprise Associates and DFJ previously invested in Illumitex. Illumitex develops LED chips and assembles them into modules that will be built into light bulbs and installations. The company is targeting the general lighting market as well as lighting designs that accentuate architectural buildings and lightin...

LEDforum 2011 is a two-day event organized by Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, presented by Shanghai Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Solid-State Lighting and LEDinside. LEDforum Shanghai 2011 will be held on July 6th and 7th at Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai.