Energy-efficient, cost-optimized products continue to drive widespread adoption

Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL) announced today that it has acquired Luminaire Testing Laboratory (LTL), based in Allentown, PA. LTL is an independent testing laboratory that provides performance testing of lamps and luminaires and is one of five laboratories approved by the Department of Energy (DOE) for ENERGY STAR® qualification testing for LED lighting products. The acquisition bolsters UL's leadership in the lighting industry, which is a strategic market for UL.

Future Lighting Solutions announced an exclusive line of light engines designed to accelerate the development, prototyping and delivery of solid state lighting applications as well as reduce fixture development costs. The first light engines in the new simpleLED program are available in 12 form factors and 600-plus customization options, all featuring ANSI-binned LUXEON(R) Rebel LEDs integrated with key components.

Asia’s most comprehensive lighting industry hub celebrates its 15th anniversary Extension of product concept halls for sourcing effectiveness US Department of Commerce endorses 2010 show Fringe programme delivers latest market news and developments The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, Asia’s largest and most comprehensive lighting event will be held 9 –12 June 2010 at the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou, China. 

LEDtronics, Inc., has introduced LED replacements for recessed T-bar fluorescent ceiling luminaires: CLL2X2-400-TPW-001W uses only 24W power and replaces 2ftx2ft standard fluorescent 64W units, while CLL2X2-800-TPW-001W consumes less than 36W and replaces 80W fluorescent fixtures.

Low Cost, Intelligent LED Driver Design with only one single flexible microcontroller NEC Electronics Europe today announced the release of its 78K0/Ix2 LED microcontroller (MCU) demonstration kit based on NEC Electronics’ 78K0/Ix2 lighting ASSP.

Company Patents Intellectual Property Developed for New OEM Products

Czech Republic based moving light manufacturer Robe lighting announces a series of new appointments in a planned management restructuring exercise designed to position the company for a new decade of growth and expansion. L-R : Adrien Trecek (Operations Director), Josef Valchar (owner-founder/CEO). Harry von den Stemmen (Sales Director) Ladislav Petrek (owner/founder)

Over 100 of the new CitySource 96 LED wash fixtures from Robe were utilised to illuminate two high profile light works - at Parliament House and the Council of State and University buildings in Senate Square adjacent to the Cathedral - featured in the Finnish capital, Helsinki's 2009 Light Season.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting and silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor components, announces a distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, Inc. for Cree SiC power products. The agreement gives Arrow’s customers ready access to Cree’s latest commercially-available SiC Junction Barrier Schottky (JBS) products. Among the Cree products available through Arrow will be the recently released Z-REC™ Series of 600-V Schottky diodes and the groundbreaking 1200-V Schottky diode line.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces another industry-best reported efficacy record of 208 lumens per watt for a white power LED. This R&D result passes a significant milestone within the solid-state lighting industry as well as demonstrates Cree’s relentless drive to increase the performance of its LEDs.

AV Concept Limited, a whollyowned subsidiary of the Company, is pleased to announce that on February 2nd 2010, AV entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with Ledman Optoelectronic Co., Ltd., a company incorporated in the People’s Republic of China. It is the intention of the parties that the LOI is non-legally binding.

Docks and wharfs throughout French Polynesia are now being illuminated with EverGEN™ solar LED lighting from Carmanah Technologies (TSX:CMH). This unique installation is the result of a government initiative to increase safety and security and significantly reduce operational costs at key marine facilities throughout the Polynesian Islands.

LED lighting retrofit reduces OCCC’s energy consumption and carbon emissions Florida’s Orange County Convention Center (OCCC), the nation’s second largest, is leaping ahead with their environmental stewardship through a wide range of green initiatives. Albeo Technologies Inc. is supplying its award winning C-Series low bay to the convention center for a number of retrofit projects.

The Revolutionary Clarity LED Series Offers Reliable 24/7 Operation and Superior Visual Performance

Philips Lumileds announced today that it has implemented complete forward and backward traceability for LUXEON power LED products. It is now possible to identify to the wafer level exactly when, where, and how each of the hundreds of millions of LUXEON LEDs was manufactured. Philips Lumileds LUXEON 2D Barcode enables traceability

Cree XLamp® MPL EasyWhite™ LED Delivers up to 1500 Lumens at 75 Lumens per Watt in a Breakthrough Package Design

The new LED Light Site ledlight.osram-os.com from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is an information source on all things LED. On the online platform, customers can find news, technical information, support and tools in connection with LED lighting solutions in the fields of architectural, shop, outdoor and indoor lighting.

Light+Building 2010 will be on April 11-16, 2010 in Frankfurt.

The LED show will be on August 27, 2010 in Las Vegas.

AIXTRON AG announced that in the third quarter of 2009 Formosa Epitaxy Inc. ‘FOREPI’, based in Lung-Tan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, placed an order for multiple MOCVD reactors which will be used for the production of ultra-high brightness (UHB) InGaN-based blue LEDs.

Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) are being developed for the next generation of displays and light sources. The QDI 302™ microscope spectrophotometer, from CRAIC Technologies, is designed to measure and compare the spectral output, intensity and color consistency of each of the microscopic pixels commonly found in OLED devices.

Lighthouse, the LED display solution provider, recently announced that it has won the “2009 Outstanding Brand for LED Screen” as well as the “2009 Innovative Product Award” for its "HELIOS High Efficiency LED Informative Operations System" at PjTime.com’s 2009 Large Screen Audio-Visual Gala. Awards Panel experts and scholars selected Lighthouse for its technical strength, advanced product concepts, good industry reputation, and impressive performance in the Chinese market.

Acriche Branded Bulb Delivers 25% Greater Efficiency The company has made an investment of about 20 million dollars in the United States so far and plans to expand the investment in the future 

To identify the high quality of Unilumin LED lights and approach better the USA LED light market, Unilumin Group Co., Ltd ( with its former name Shenzhen Unilumin Technology Co., Ltd.) has involved in UL testing process for LED street light since the end of last year. And from the latest news published by UL on Jan. 19th,2010, Unilumin has passed the authentic certification successfully.

Environmentally-friendly salad, with vegetables grown using nothing but LED lights, will soon be part of our everyday meals. According to a co-research by Professor Lee Jong-suk’s team at the Department of Horticulture Landscaping at Seoul Women’s University and leading LED lights company Fawoo Technology, Co., fresh salad vegetables have been successfully cultivated using just LED lights.

Topco Energy Saving System Corp. (TESS) announced the latest innovation in Feb. The new 9W / 9.5 W LED bulbs are designed with CREE LED chips inside. With the leading technology, the 9W cool white bulb reaches 700 lumens and it can replace 70W incandescent bulb.

Three years ago, Raleigh became the first city in the world to join the Cree LED City(R) program, a now-international initiative to deploy and promote LED lighting. Raleigh now boasts more than 40 installations, ranging from accent and indoor lighting to street and parking lot lighting.

In early 2009, after Samsung invested a large budget in promoting the new concept of LED TV, the market witnessed a surge in the replacement of new generation television. According to LEDinside’s latest market trend report, the total shipment of LED-backlit TVs in 2009 was about 3.5 million sets. Of that, Samsung was on the top with more than 70% share; followed by Sharp and LG. Notably, in the first wave of LED-backlit TV competition, shipment ratio of the two Korean companies accounted for 80% of the total.

Recently, Lextar Electronics Corp., a LED-chip manufacturing subsidiary of Taiwan's largest TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), won order from Samsung of South Korea for LCD TV-panel backlights. Local LED makers said that Lextar would ship in-house packed LEDs to Samsung with LED chips supplied by Nichia of Japan and Epistar of Taiwan.