Ledzworld Technology, an innovative R&D and manufacturing company of high-end LED retro-fit lamps for professional users, launches its new LED retrofit MR16 , a low power-consumption 6.5W LED lamp that produces an industry- leading high output of 450 Lumen. The lamp has an efficacy of >70 Lumen/W at a colour temperature of 3000K.  

To support commercial greenhouses production, GE and The Government of Canada recently announced they are each investing $1.3 million, for a research project with Les Serres St-Laurent (Savoura) and McGill University, to develop innovative LED lighting technology, which will enable Canadian greenhouse growers to become more profitable and competitive in the global marketplace....

Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, has made a breakthrough on its new high-volume AlN template manufacturing tool by producing what is said to be the world’s first 300mm (12-inch) diameter AlN-on-silicon template for GaN. It claims that its process is the first that is capable of direct insertion into existing LED and power device production processes that grow GaN and related alloys such as InGaN and AlGaN. The new AlN template tool was designed and constructed by chief engineer Dr Bob Metzger, and it was incorporates many of the features...

According to Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, it has made a partnership with Oxford Instruments PLC, a U.K.-based high-tech tool systems company, to set up a research center for LED, which will focus on wafer-level packaging processes and integrated micro-structure technologies for high-brightness LEDs. ITRI President Shyu Jyuo-min pointed out that “With Taiwan’s most advanced Microelectromechanical Systems Open lab, ITRI will provide the best research and development capability in the field of LED packaging.”...

It’s reported that people at MiniWiz have created a useful little solar Bulb Lamp which will make use of the old plastic bottles. There are 0.18W solar module cells that can give you some light .Take any plastic bottle and attach the fixture to the mouthpiece, and you will have up to 6 hours of illumination. Because of a solar panel, it needs to be in the sun to charge up, and is best used for mood or garden light. It comes in a variety of colors....

OSRAM SYLVANIA has teamed up with Lowe's to introduce SYLVANIA LED Recessed Downlight Kit. The kit includes a six-inch LED recessed downlight with white trim and a medium base socket adapter. The sleek design complements most ceilings with its flush mounting style and aesthetic appeal.   Available in 3000K color temperature, the 11-watt version delivers 625 lumens of light, comparable to a standard 65-watt incandescent BR30 light bulb.  Moreover, the light can be quickly and easily installed into most standard six-inch can fixtur...

It’s said that the Future Lighting Europe conference will be held on 5th-6th April 2011 at Radisson Blu Hotel, Amsterdam.   Rogier van der Heide, Vice President of Philips Design and Chief Design Officer of Philips Lighting will present at the conference and show his opinion on LED innovations.   He will lead a session discussing the challenges faced by the lighting industry and provides his view on the LED technologies in the future, as well as the importance of the Open innovation approach. Besides, he will share his insight into the stan...

Digi-Key Corporation is announced to promote its sales with Cree-based printed circuit board (PCB) LED development kits. These kits, also known as star boards, are designed to simplify LED ease-of-use. PCB development kits, when combined with thermal heat sinks, can shorten time-to-market by forming the foundation for LED designs. PCB configurations are available for Cree XLamp XR-E, XR-C, XP-G, XP-E, XP-C, MX-6, and MC-E LEDs.  ...

Recently, LK Technology which comes from South Korean has set up a LED lighting assembly plant in Kaunas. And it prepares to manufacture in April and market not only to Lithuania and the Baltic States but also to Western Europe. According to Deputy Director of LK Development Rasa Incerauskaite, the Lithuanian plant will produce the latest generation LED lighting systems, indoor and outdoor ligthting equipment, lamps, as well as collaborate with such South Korean companies as Samsung. Plus, another South Korean company, LK Green Energy, opened a simi...

Reportedly, Black and McDonald has spent $3,199,500 on the replacement of 2,500 high-pressure sodium lights with LED lights across the Nova Scotia province in Canada. Amherst-based LED Roadway Lighting (LRL) will produce and deliver the LED luminaires. And Bill Estabrooks, the Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister, has supplied the funding for the project.  ...

Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co Ltd., organiser of the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition to be held 9 - 12 June 2011, has announced that among international trade fairs focusing only on the lighting industry, the show is now the world's largest lighting event in terms of exhibition size.  

AIXTRON SE  has announced  that its Close Coupled Showerhead® MOCVD Platform, a CRIUS® CCS reactor in the 6x2-inch (3x3-inch or 1x6-inch) wafer configuration, has been ordered by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). The Hong Kong based institute placed the order during the third quarter of 2010 and following delivery in the first quarter of 2011, the systems will be used for As/P/Sb based materials grown on Silicon substrates for electronics and photonics research applications. AIXTRON´s local...

The Chennai Centre of Indian Society of Lighting Engineers has great pleasure in presenting the LIGHT INDIA INTERNATIONAL 2011, Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, India, during 4-7 March 2011. The 1.5 billion dollar lighting Industry in India is witnessing a double digit growth in the last three years,thanks to the emphasis being given on infrastructure development by the Central and State Governments. With the increased investments in the Infrastructural sectors, the lighting industry is poised for rapid development. The lighting industry in India i...

At present, the City of Salem, Massachusetts has got an LED makeover with lighting manufacturer OSRAM SYLVANIA. Mark Corcoran, OSRAM SYLVANIA vice president of Industrial Commercial Sales and Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll from the City of Salem, Massachusetts flipped the switch on over 350 existing street lighting fixtures newly equipped with OSRAM SYLVANIAD6 Area Lighting LED Retrofit Kit at an unveiling event in the city's historic downtown area....

Once Innovations acquired U.S. Patents for their AgriShift® PL poultry light as well as PAR30 and GU10 general illumination lamps.   Besides, the company was also granted U.S. Patents on two of their reusable packaging designs. About Once Innovations Founded in 2008, Once Innovations is a privately held corporation that manufactures highly differentiated LED lighting. The ONCE technology research, marketing, and product development campus is located in Plymouth, MN United States of America....

At Strategies In Light 2011 in Santa Clara, California, Tyco Electronics (TE) has showcased the solderless LED socket, Type LS, designed for use with the new Philips Lumileds LUXEON™ S LED. The new product offers a solderless termination that complements this newly-released lighting-class LED by Philips Lumileds. ...

ANC Partners with StarGames to Present Courtside LED Signage During 2011 BNP Paribas Showdown ANC Sports Enterprises announced the BNP Paribas Showdown on February 28th at 7:00pm will become the first ever professional tennis event in the United States to feature light emitting diode (LED) signage around the court perimeter.   Tennis fans at Madison Square Garden and watching on ESPN2 and ESPN3 will see four all-time great players compete in front of special effects, dynamic sponsor acknowledgements, and event information that spread se...

German design firm Benwirth Licht created a new modular OLED/LED lamp called Cluster+. The lamp uses both LEDs and OLEDs (OSRAM's ORBEOS panels, in fact) to create unique designs. The idea is that you can arrange the lamp in whatever design you want, and so use it as a chandelier, desk lamp, wall lamp and any other arrangement you can think of. The basic building block is a square that contains either one circular ORBEOS OLED panel or four LEDs. The square block is about 5 square inches in size (and less than 1/8 of an inch thick).  ...

Dual Red/IR LED Unit Provides Visibility with NVGs and ANVIS in a Single Unit for New Installations or as an Easy Retrofit for Existing Fixtures Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), the leading innovator of LED lighting systems and technologies, unveiled its new Vigilant™ Series L-810 RTO Infrared Series Dual Red/Infrared LED L-810 Obstruction Light, the first and only L-810 product on the market featuring red and IR LEDs in a single unit. The Vigilant IR Series leverages Dialight’s superior optics technology to ensure vi...

Levitech BV announced that it sold and delivered its Levitor® 4300 Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) system to a leading Asian LED maker for annealing their GaN devices.   “The Levitor was selected for its ability to provide uniform fast heating of (transparent) sapphire LED wafers., The considerable reduction of power consumption of the LED devices was a strong motivator to work with the patented annealing technology of Levitech”, commented Nobuyuki Ura, Director of Levitech Japan. “Levitor’s unique capability to process 2&rdqu...

Office Depot was reported to support its new line of Realspace® LED lamps for Global Green’s 8th Annual Pre-Oscar Party held at the Avalon Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles. It’s said that　the theme for this year’s event is “Greener Cities for a Cooler Planet” and will benefit Global Green’s initiatives to promote smart solutions to climate change. To showcase one of the smart solutions ,Office Depot prepare to launch its new line of Realspace® LED lamps.  ...

First Open Market 3D-capable Timing Controller plus LED Backlighting Solution on Display Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor technology aimed at building a smart, secure, connected world, today announced participation at the 2011 International IC-China Conference and Exhibition (IIC China) in Shenzhen, China, February 24-26. Microsemi will have technical experts and sales team members onsite demonstrating LED backlight, motor control and Power over Ethernet (PoE) solutions. IIC China is the country’s la...

Nanjing City Mayor Ji Jianye on his Taiwan visit,announced that the city has developed a long-term cooperation on eco-friendly energy and lighting technologies with Taiwan`s Lite-On Group to address the city`s needs for the products for public-work projects set in mainland China`s 12th Five-Year Development Plan. As part of the cooperation, Nanjing, has contracted the group to supply LED streetlights to replace traditional lights....

dilatoriness GmbH has launched a new LED driver ,the MCC16, which is designed for interior applications. According to the company, the MCC16 has combined with DMX, TCP/IP or DALI interfaces and has a capability of separately controlling up to 16 LED modules. With these ground-breaking characteristics, it can be used not only in workplace lighting, accent lighting for hotels and bars but also flexible area lighting for conference and seminar rooms, demanding individual lighting concepts based on LEDs....

Philips Lumileds is announced to make a LED lighting industry breakthrough on “Freedom From Binning”, which will relieve luminaire manufacturers’ and lighting designers’ concerns over white light consistency and uniformity and will simplify the design process for LED solutions. With Philips Lumileds “ Freedom From Binning” vision, white LUXEON emitters will be uniform and consistent that there will be no color bin selections. Buyers of the new LEDs, initially released at CCTs of 2700K and 3000K with others to follow, w...

It’s reported that Oxley Developments has supplied a dual-mode LED DC Combi Lights for the Foxhound British army patrol vehicle. The lights can be operated in normal and blackout/emergency modes and are an alternative to traditional filament lighting. Foxhound is the British Army name for Ocelot, the Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV) designed and developed by Force Protection Europe. And Force Protection Europe has won a contract to supply 200 of the British-designed vehicles to the Ministry of Defence. Oxley’s LED DC Comb...

For indoor and outdoor applications, FormoLight Technologies, one of the major Taiwan-based display manufacturers, has developed a high-performance LED video display with superior qualities. An LED solution developed by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors ensures brilliant colors and sharp contrasts: particularly compact Multi CHIPLEDs produce impressive high-quality images.  

Taiwan LED chip maker Ubilux has placed an order from Aixtron for two CRIUS II deposition systems in the 55x2-inch configuration to expand the company’s production capacity for GaN-based HB LEDs. It’s said that Ubilux placed this order in the fourth quarter of 2010 and the systems will be delivered in the first quarter of 2011....

Monocrystal, a leading manufacturer of electronic materials for LED and solar industries, today announced preliminary[1] financial results for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2010. Consolidated revenue for full year 2010 totaled US$153.0 million, an increase of 204% compared to the revenue of US$50.3 million in 2009. Gross profit grew 452% up to US$89.6 million from US$16.2 million a year ago. Net income skyrocketed to US54.1 million from US$4.7 million, an increase of 1,051%. OIBDA was US$81.8 million, 448% higher than OIBDA of US$14.9 million in 2009.  

Enables Customers to Address High-Output Halogen Retrofits Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces a new lighting-class LED designed for high-output, small form-factor directional lighting applications. The XLamp MT-G LEDs are optimized for 35W-50W halogen MR16 retrofit bulbs and other accent, track, display and down lighting used in retail stores, residential settings, museums, art galleries, hospitality and landscapes and are the first commercial LEDs to deliver sufficient light output for these applications. The mult...