SavWatt USA, Inc. has developed a partnership with the City of Baltimore, and it will receive grant funds from the Maryland Energy Sector Grant to take LEED certification classes. LEED is an internationally recognized green building certified program as many new construction and government projects are required to meet LEED standards. It is imperative for building owners, designers, construction firms and real estate developers to further develop their professional skills by obtaining LEED certification.

Dialight became the first winner in a new category at the 11th Annual techMARK Awards dinner to recognise the success and achievements of the technology industry over the past year and showcase the innovative companies that form the techMARK community. Dialight shone through to scoop the prestigious 2010 techMark award for Sustainability at London's Intercontinental Hotel last night against a strong short list that included Pace, Genus and Logica.

The Curve LED desk lamp designed by Finelite has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) prestigious ENERGY STAR label for solid-state luminaires.  

Reportedly, Taiwan LED maker Delta Electronics intends to tap into the domestic market with its own brand LED bulbs by the end of 2010. As soon as its products are available for sales, Delta will become Taiwan`s first LED-lighting manufacturer to sell own-brand LED light bulbs on the island. According to Delta, the LED bulb market would grow five to 10 folds globally in 2011.

Intematix discovered a new phosphor portfolio, with adding green aluminate (GAL) and red nitride materials, could act on LED manufacturers to develop warm-white lighting for general illumination or TV backlighting, and avoided the patent issues.

Matrix Lighting Limited is happy to announce the UL approval of our energy efficient line of VIRIBRIGHT T8 LED tubes, which comes shortly after the UL approval of our 5 watt LED light bulbs in September of 2010.

Neng Tyi Precision Industries planed to pay more attention to LED bulbs development, and expected LEDs revenues accounted for from 20% in 2010 to 50% in 2011. In the LEDs market, the company has own brand Kaipis and packaged other brand production meanwhile. In the end of 2010, outsourcing shipments would start and be expected to grow up largely.

At present, Cooper Lighting Lumark started replacing Waukesha, Wisconsin in America 1200 street lights using Cooper Lighting Lumark RC LED Cobrahead Luminaires.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the Guangzhou Asian Games will be held in a newly constructed half-stadium in Haixinsha Square. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ OSLON SSL LEDs were chosen to light up the exterior of the venue. These LEDs were used to produce a variety of colours, highlighting the gill-like side openings of the half-stadium, flanked by the city’s UFO-like opera house and the latticed Guangzhou TV Tower.

Duo-Gard Industries Inc. has introduced  its Lumenatrix® Backlighting System to provide architectural illumination for commercial buildings.   This advanced lighting system significantly lowers heat and power consumption by using as little as one watt per square foot.  

Lunera Lighting’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Tom Quinn, will present as a panelist in The Green Debate session on November 17 during GreenBuild Expo 2010. GreenBuild’s own version of Inside the Actor’s Studio, the Greenbuild Salons bring together cutting-edge speakers to discuss critical issues and challenges in the green building industry.

LED lighting brings uniform illumination to the Zhujiang New City Central Business District (CBD) in the city of Guangzhou in time for the Asian Games in China. On centre stage are OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs, installed in the street & parking lamps of the Haixinsha People square in Lin Jiang Road where the Asian Games will be unveiled. These LED lamps will provide an evenly illuminated environment for pedestrians and for drivers in the parking lot.

Cambrios Technologies Corporation and Plextronics, Inc. have joined a force to develop an OLED material for improving the manufacturing process and quality of lighting products.   An assistance agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) Solid State Lighting (SSL) program provides part of the fund with the collaboration.  

Recently, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded Luminus Devices’s 50th patent for ‘Big-Chip’ LEDs. Luminus has aggressively filed intellectual property (IP) for protection of big chip LED devices, packages and systems.

Unmatched optical performance sets a new standard for roadway sign lighting applications.

A manufacturer of UV-curable adhesives, Cyberbond, has developed Linop U 400 LED UV curing system. This System was considered as the world’s most advanced LED UV adhesive-curing system. It not only offer users of UV-curables significant cost savings that result from greatly increased bulb life but also offers a fully ergonomic user experience, as well as vastly enhanced flexibility over existing UV curing systems.

Traditional Slack Season Coupled with Weaker Demand for LED Backlit TV During China's National Day Holiday, Taiwanese LED Manufacturers' Revenue of October Dropped by 10% Based on the analysis and statistics of LEDinside, a research division under TrendForce, in October 2010, listed LED manufacturers in Taiwan have total revenue of 8.69 billion NTD, an 10.77% decline compared with September revenue of 9.736 billion NTD and 21.3% rise in YoY.

Traditional Slack Season Plus Chinese National Day Holidays Yet to Stimulate LED Backlit TV Demand, and Taiwanese LED Manufacturers‘ Revenue of October Dropped by 10% 



Recently, Lighting manufacturer Philips and LED lamp maker Lemnis Lighting signed a license agreement. On the basis of the agreement, Lemnis would join Philips licensing program for LED-based luminaries and retrofit bulbs. And Philips would obtain access to the LED-lamp architecture and control patents of Lemnis.

Recently, a leader of High-power LED packaging house Edison Opto thought LED lighting would grow up quickly in 2011 and the company revenues would reach NT$10 billion (US$331.54 million) in 2012 with the expanding capacity.

The South Asia Lighting Transformation Forum was planed to hold in January 17-19 of 2011 in Malé, Maldives. The Forum will describe blueprint for lighting in South Asia with a commitment to efficiency and clean energy.

LED Light Bulbs and Lighting Fixtures In exhibition, we can see LED light bulbs and light bars displays everywhere. no mat-ter how professional LED package manufacturers, traditional light bulb vendor or LED lighting new entrants are almost display this kind of product to provide a variety of plugs, brightness specification and watts, CRI and color temperature to meet cus-tomer needs.

LED Light Engine/ Module

LED Encapsulated Components LED package manufacturers comprise of Cree, Nichia, Citizen, Seoul Semiconductor, Everlight, etc. have developed improving products with increasing LED luminous efficacy and colour ren-dering index. Among LED package manufacturers, Citizen lately has launched indoor lighting with 26W and 41W LED, 3000-5000K color temperature, 2800-4390 lm of luminous flux.   26W Product/ Citizen 1

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has promoted two collections of automotive LED driver ICs ASL1010NTK and ASL1010PHN, designed for vehicle LED headlights and tail lights. According to NXP, automotive LEDs have used complex, relatively expensive driver ICs made for generic Solid State Lighting applications that lack many of the critical functions needed for automotive applications.

The 12th “HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition)” was held on 27-30 October 2010.The lighting exhibition has divided into several areas, which includes LED lighting, eco-friendly lighting, indoor lighting, outdoor lighting, business lighting and lighting accessories and components.

In a bid to better serve South Korean OLED display and lighting manufacturers , New Jersey based company Universal Display Corporation is setting up a South Korean subsidiary as well as expanding into 'green' markets. 

A materials development innovator Intematix, specializes in patented phosphors for high-quality and high-performance LED applications, has introduced green aluminate and red nitride materials that enable high-quality white illumination when applied to blue LEDs to their product line. It’s considered as the broadest portfolio of LED phosphors in the market worldwide.

Lumiotec announced that they will begin mass production of OLED Lighting panels in January 2011. The production capacity will be around 60,000 panels a year, and the company will offer panels in five different shapes (two squares and three rectangular) and in two different colors: lamp (3000K) and natural white (5000K). Selling 60,000 panels a year means that most of these will go into commercial lamps, and not just 'sample designs'.

America Tampa, Florida based LED lighting maker LEDnovation has recently launched a line of MR16 lamps for use in standard low voltage lighting applications and previously brought to market A19 or "Edison" type LED replacement lamps optimized for use in downlights and other semi-enclosed directional fixtures.   The new lamp has been both electronically and optically optimized to eliminate the scalloping, rings and other optical variations that are often seen in traditional reflector lamps.