It’s reported that Chinese company ShineOn has raised $51.5 million in two rounds from investors such as Mayfield Fund and IDG-Accel Capital, specializes in packaging. Currently, ShineOn focuses mostly on components for LEDs for TVs and monitors and will move over time to mass-produce components for general lighting.  ...

Lately, the research and development team from Energy Focus, Inc. have received a $600,000 Phase 2 Small Business Technology Transfer ("STTR") program grant named as “Innovative Solid State Lighting Replacements for Industrial and Test Facility Locations," from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ("NASA"). Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO, was delighted to have received the Phase 2 notification grant, and commented that “The award is to replace existing test stand and parking lot fixtures with high per...

Power Integrations recently develops a new LinkSwitch™-PH LED Driver IC, DER-278. Power Integrations’ efficient, accurate, single-stage, primary-side-control technology, featured in LinkSwitch products, eliminates both the electrolytic capacitor and the also-unreliable optocoupler used in traditional isolated flyback designs. Designers using LinkSwitch-PH ICs for SSL products can expect the operational life of the driver to exceed the 35,000 hours required by the ENERGY STAR SLL (V1.1) specification.   Suitable for designs fro...

Reportedly, OSRAM SYLVANIA has scheduled the addition of a comprehensive portfolio of energy-efficient lighting fixtures for commercial and residential use.   As the latest expansion of the company's solid state lighting portfolio, the SYLVANIA fixture line contains LED modules, power supplies, controls, lighting services and the number one line of LED retrofits in North America. Featuring solid-state light sources and streamlined design, the introductory SYLVANIA fixture line includes luminaires for outdoor, hospitality and residential a...

90% of the booths at this year’s Taiwan International Lighting Show are LED-related, including LED chip makers, LED package makers, package material manufacturers and lighting vendors. Besides, LED packaging system manufacturers attend the exhibition as well. Furthermore, HGD lights and promise lights are also exhibited. 

FZLED announces expansion plans and new website   FZLED, a sub-division of the thermal and metal products manufacturer FZTech Inc., is announcing their plans to enter multiple international markets around the world and begin offering several lines of high-performance LED products to consumers. Receiving ISO-9001:2008 certification in November, 2010, FZLED is already turning heads with their innovative products like their newly released on/off switch dimming T8 LED Tube Lights. FZLED's newly designed website: //www.FZLED.com.tw is now...

Switch Lighting has recently developed the brightest warm light LED replacement bulb with its new technology named “City of Light”™ technology which creates a self-cooling environment inside, allowing maximum brightness with fewer LEDs. Switch Lighting is bringing to market the first true 75 watt equivalent warm white LED replacement bulb. Switch is strictly designing LED bulbs by Cradle to Cradle® principles. It can be used in any orientation to their 20,000 hour life(10-15 years). The Switch LED bulbs use 85% less energy than incandescent...

Recently, Sino American Silicon Products is reported to divide its semiconductor and LED departments into two independent companies  named as “Huanchiu Wafer “and “Sapphire Technology”  ,completely owned by the company, which will retain its core photovoltaic business.The base day for the split is set on October 1. And the two new companies will apply for listing their shares on the domestic bourse within one year. Opposite to the trend of merger in the local PV industry, the spin-off will transform the structure of Sino American into ...

Currently, the new-build Rohrdorf area of the Pielenhofen community near Regensburg is installing nine street lights with LED technology from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors to shed their light on the future development. The street lights to be deployed in Pielenhofen community are of the "Kassel" type, from the manufacturer Herkules: these are equipped with a kit for retrofit purposes and with Golden Dragon Plus LEDs from OSRAM; in stages, they will also replace the sodium vapour lamps in the community area.  As a pilot project, the mayor, Reinh...

Lately, Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and his Deputy Minister of State Martin Zeil have made a visit to Optogan´s LED plant in St. Petersburg. Optogan group introduced the recent developments in the field of LED lighting and reported on their development aims for the Russian and global market. According to the company, it has office locations, among others, in Landshut and St. Petersburg. The plant in Landshut produces high performance LED chips, conducts and directs the international business. St. Petersburg is responsible for the LED...

Taiwan Epistar has ordered Aixtron G5 HT reactors in a 14x4-inch configuration for high brightness LEDs. Aixtron G5 HT reactor is a further endorsement of G5´s very rapid time-to-production and excellent system-to-system reproducibility. Ming-Jiunn Jou, President of Epistar, was please with the new reactors and thought that it will form the backbone of their planned capacity expansion for their high brightness LED production program. It’s said that the systems are delivered in the first and second quarter of 2011. Aixtron´s local support tea...

Reportedly, the National Gallery in London is about to install LED lighting in all galleries in the main Wilkins Building and in the Sainsbury Wing over the next two years, which will become the first institution in the world to use these lights in conjunction with a system that automatically adjusts external roof light blinds according to the amount and angle of sunlight. This ensures that only diffused light is present in the galleries through UV-filtered roof light glazing. The new LED lighting system will slowly augment the natural light as needed, as opposed to the ...

TESS (Top Energy Saving System Corp.), a leading LED lighting developer and manufacturer in Taiwan, has a debut on Taiwan's emerging stock market on April 20, 2011 and reveals two remarkable high efficiency LED bulbs to market: one is 20 watt 2000 lumen LED bulb and the other is 20 watt dimmable LED bulb. This new 20 watt 2000 lumen LED bulb is cool white version with small size and high lumen output and presents a superior luminous efficiency of 100lm/W. The other 20 watt dimmable LED bulb is warm white version and has a CRI of 90 that can accurately ...

Onteco Corporation’s subsidiary, NexPhase Lighting, Inc. is announced the completion of the first installation and testing of its LED 100 Watt High Bay fixtures installed at City Furniture’s main distribution warehouse in Tamarac, Florida. According to Jon Cooper, President of NexPhase, they use replaced a mere dozen of 100 watt High Bay LED fixtures that consume only 1200 watts of power to replace eighty T8 fluorescent fixtures that consumed 5,600 watts of electricity. And they expected that the return on investment to be less than 2 years when ta...

Currently, Taiwan’s LED lamp makers take an active part in contracting with 7-Eleven of Japan’s plan to offer LED lamps instead of traditional lamps at all of its stores in the districts that connect to electrical grids run by the Tokyo Electrical PowerCo. The chain which estimates the LED lighting project to save around a quarter of electricity spending in the quarter from July this year will cost about 10 billion yen to outfit 5,000 of its stores. Taiwan’s LED-lamp makers including Ledtech Electronics Co., Ltd., Genesis Photonics Inc., ...

As part of Chinese pilot cities “10 cities, 10,000 lights” SSL application engineering project, the city of Xi'an deployed energy-saving and environment-friendly roadway lighting project by replacing 500 traditional High Pressure Sodium lamps with GE’s award-winning EvolveTM LED roadway lights along Mingguang Road, the second main road of its National Economic & Technological Development Zone (ETDZ). This 5,000- meter block serves as a demonstration to all municipal roads in the entire zone of a higher-efficiency lighting system. It&...

Nova Scotia has announced all highway lighting in the province switched to 120,000 LED Lights over the next five years. According to New Democratic Party Premier Darrell Dexter, mandating the change will cost about $100 million and saving the energy about $85,000. What’s more, a switch to LED lights will create energy savings of more than 50 per cent. It’s believed that Nova Scotia would be the first province or state in North America to have all LED streetlights.  ...

Digi-Key has launched High-efficiency HB offline LED driver CPC9909. It uses a proprietary high-voltage BCDMOS on SOI process. The driver has an internal regulator that allows it to operate from 8VDC to 550VDC . The CPC9909 features pulse frequency modulation with a constant peak-current control scheme. LED dimming can be implemented by applying a small DC voltage to the LD pin or by applying a low frequency PWM signal to the PWMD pin. It can be available in flat-panel display RGB backlighting, signage and decorative LED lighting,...

The new service of Solarschmiede GmbH covers assembly and product defects as well as reduced output of a solar power plant during the entire warranty period. The warranty check includes the final plant inspection on location and the laboratory investigaion of individual modules. The result will enable plant operators to enforce claims upon manufacturers and installers before the warranty service period expires. Until now, final plant inspections have only been conducted directly after the commissioning. “Trust is good, but control better! The experience we have gained from ...

It’s said that GE Lighting plans to present SPARC , the lighting industry’s event which will start from June 6 ,and end on June 8. The company prepares to introduce their first GE LED innovative solution for office, commercial and educational retro-fit applications. GE Lighting says the new product is a direct replacement for conventional lighting with significant energy savings. Aside from Philips, Osram and Gerard Lighting and 44 other exhibitors from Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia have signed to the event which restricts part...

Reportedly, Royal Philips Electronics’ revenue from Packaged LEDs and solid-state lighting products has kept a solid growth curve in the first quarter of the year. According to Philips, overall, its first quarter sales of €5.26 billion ($7.48 billion) were up 6% on the same period last year, with its lighting division contributing €1.90 billion to that total after rising by a similar amount. Over the past 12 months, sales of packaged LEDs have played an important role in revenue growth. Philips said that LED components accounted for 7% of its lighting di...

Recently, Verbatim, subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Group releases its VELVE OLEDs lights. Designed as reading lights, the new products have been designed in 14 cm x 14 cm colour and white tone tuneable panels. Users will able to adjust the colours of the lights, giving them the ability to change the lighting to meet the different functions of the space. They can be used in the general lighting, automotive and airline industries. In addition, the company is beginning by offering the lights in two different packages and an OLED module with a circuit board for RGB...

LEDtronics is reported to support CLCX, LLC (DBA Chattahoochee Locomotive Company) with LED ground lighting. According to CLCX, LLC, LEDtronics' LED bulbs improved the lighting on the company's locomotives by "200 percent." That improved the light output, changed it from a pale yellow light to a daylight bright light, increased the bulb life by more than five times, and reduced the power draw by 90%. The bulb replaced was the industry standard "A19." The LED bulb reduced the power draw from 25 watts for the A19 bulb d...

InteLEDgent Lighting Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of Culture Medium Holdings Corp. has secured a contract with Hyatt Hotels in New York City to retrofit several of their properties with its low voltage LED bulbs. Besides from that, InteLEDgent Lighting also has contracts to install its energy saving LED bulbs in several other buildings on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, such as corporate towers, education institutions, and government facilities.  ...

It’s said that targeting to advance the market penetration of photovoltaic-powered lighting technologies, Sharp Electronics has joined hands with Carmanah Technologies, Inovus Solar andSolarOne Solutions  to set up a new industry consortium, the Consortium for Solar Lighting (CSL). According to their statement, “The mission of this group is to accelerate the adoption of reliable solar lighting technology through the development of universal specifications intended to support customers’ fair and comprehensive evaluation of commercial-scale lighting ...

Lunera Lighting announces its 5400 SERIES Lunera Lighting has won a platinum ADEX2011 award. Lunera Lighting deliver the 5400 SERIES with Armstrong Ceiling and Wall Systems. According to Rich Warmke, Lunera Director of Marketing, The 5400 SERIES is the first LED luminaire available for installation in premium Armstrong TechZone ceilings. Its sleek design, daylight quality light, and precision engineering beautifully enhance the elegant TechZone ceiling experience. Manufactured in the U.S.A., Lunera’s 5400 SERIES creates a...

Crystal has teamed up with aquatic architecture firm Aquatic Design and Engineering to dress up one of the world's largest and most spectacular, customised water features at the Yas Island Welcome Pavilion in Abu Dhabi. Crystal has supported the choreographed dancing fountain which is located in pools on either side of the entrance adjacent to the Ferrari Theme Park. Thousands of LED lights and nozzles (2,100 Crystal LED Lights, 750 nozzles and 91 custom Crystal CheoreoSwitchesâ) were installed in geometric patterns symbolizing a racetrack to create ...

Reportedly, Glen Ellyn plans to get its first new LED light system in the village within the Braeside subdivision near Interstate-355 and Roosevelt Road under the Braeside Neighborhood Lighting Improvements Project. Originally estimated at $627,000, the Oswego-based Utility Dynamics Corporation was awarded the contract for the project after submitting the lowest bid of $474,533 — about 25 percent under the engineer's estimate for the project. The project is expected begin in May and have a fully operational system by Labor Day.  ...

Recently, Denver-based SpaceCo Business Solutions, Inc. has designed the Wave Light, an LED task light. With its patent pending photocell technology integrated into the head of the light, Wave Light is capable of detecting the light conditions and automatically adjusting the power settings according to the current environment. It can effectively minimizes shadows and eliminates glare to provide enhanced visual comfort for higher productivity. Additionally, with its patented refractive lens technology, Wave Light is LEED credit eligible and has a projected life...

In response to the trend of energy saving and environment protection, Macroblock launches the first low power consumption 16-bit LED display driver - MBI5035, which features low knee voltage of 0.2V to reduce power consumption of LED display as well as carbon emissions up to 35%. "To implement the environmental protection concept, Macroblock presents MBI5035.” said Macroblock general manager Robert Chen. “LED display embedded with MBI5035 brings power saving and cost saving to advertisers. Facing with the worldwide rising electricity fees and en...