Nualight, dedicated in LED lighting for food retail, has come up with two new lighting solutions to revolutionise colour vibrancy in fresh food displays. The company has developed LED lighting colour technology Vivace to bring out the natural colours in food when it is on display in supermarkets. The company, based in Cork, Ireland, has been making headlines of late. Last September, for instance, it announced it had acquired Dutch LED lighting technology firm Lumoluce for nearly €11m. This past March, Nualight secured a US$100m opportunity with Hussman,...

ElectroniCast Consultants announced the release of a new market review and forecast of light emitting diode (LED) light panel/lamp fixtures, which are used in TV broadcast, motion pictures production/studio lighting as well as and professional videographers, in the United States. LED lighting is well accepted by the broadcast TV and videography industry sectors and is progressing in the motion picture/film industry sector for lighting effects and set lighting, mainly because of its flexibility.  A single light source can generate a great variety of colors.  Addi...

Case Study describes Lighting Design project highlights of new Performing Arts Center. Tivoli, the original innovator of linear LED solutions, has announced the release of a new case study on the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri. The case study highlights the expansion of the Muriel Kauffman Theatre and touches on the subtle lighting accents of Tivoli products used throughout the venue from the hallway entry, to the main audi¬torium, to the great hall lounge and even the dressing rooms.   Safdie Architects and Lam P...

Dialight has signed Dron & Dickson, who are recognised as leaders in the design, supply and maintenance of hazardous area electrical equipment, as authorised distributors effective immediately, to expand important LED lighting sales opportunities in oil and gas. With over 80 years experience in the supply of hazardous area products, Dron & Dickson now employs more than 200 people offshore and onshore and has a network of wholesales bases in Aberdeen, Hull, Lowestoft and Stirling. It has recently expanded its operation in the Middle East with the opening of an off...

SL Green Realty Corp., New York City's largest commercial property owner, has selected Seesmart Technologies’ LED lighting products to replace antiquated lightings throughout 21 commercial office properties, as part of one of the nation's largest LED lighting efficiency projects. There are more than 16,000 Seesmart LED lamps to replace antiquated lighting technologies, including incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lights, to provide exceptional efficiency that reduces energy use by more than 50 percent. This is combined with superior lamp life of more...

DOE has finished Series 16 of testing under the DOE Solid-State Lighting CALiPER program. The Report 16 analyzes the performance of a group of 13 LED products labeled as BR30 or R30 lamps. Results show substantial improvement versus earlier CALiPER testing of similar products, and performance comparable to recent data from LED Lighting Facts and ENERGY STAR. Many of the LED lamps tested could be effective replacements for conventional directional lamps in the right application. The report also indicates that it’s necessary to boar...

LT Lighting (Taiwan) Corp., has received a good feedback from overseas markets for its 200W LED high bay lights and 500W LED flood lights. According to the company’s directors, the company makes full use of its unique heat sink and optoelectronic integration technologies to work out these high-power LED lights particularly for use in special working environments. And its 200W LED high bay lights have been widely adopted by mining companies in Africa and Australia to replace 500W mercury-vapor lights, while the 500W LED flood lights, featuring high bright...

Offers customers flexibility and a full choice of products for networked lighting systems, while helping to drive adoption of lighting controls Daintree Networks, Inc., and Philips today announced an agreement to develop advanced lighting controls products for commercial buildings through the use of open standards such as ZigBee®, helping customers to avoid vendor lock-in and ensure that their lighting systems are interoperable today and well into the future. Building owners and managers will have access to a full complement of ZigBee-based products, as well as best-of-breed...

CAMBRIDGE City Council has completely refitted its Grand Arcade Annex car park with award-winning LED lighting to help save energy and lower carbon emissions. As part of their commitment to make Cambridge a more sustainable city, council officers asked lighting specialists MHA Lighting to provide a solution that would reduce energy bills without affecting light quality. Manchester-based MHA Lighting replaced 220 Halophane light fittings (150 watts without ballast) with 220 of their award-winning LB 36 fittings, which use just 45 watts (including ballast)....

Toshiba Lighting & Technology (TLT) recently has announced that the company schedules to close its four lighting factories including Nagai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Yamagata by the end of March, 2013. Currently, it has seven factories in total. Nagai factory is major in producing LED bulbs and incandescent lights for special use. Tsukuba factory is dedicated in manufacturing lighting production for residential application. Ibaraki factory is engaged in making metal parts/resin parts for lighting products. Yamagata factory mainly supplies power circuit. According to the...

According to Yancey Hai, chairman of Delta Electronics Inc, prices for LED lighting products will drop by at least 20 percent in 2012.   Hai pointed out that a sign of the general decline was South Korea's launch of a low-price strategy to gain market share, followed by the adjustment downward of prices by distributors in the United States in June. and after a price reduction of 40 percent globally in 2011, LED product prices will fall another 20-30 percent in 2012....

When consumers walk into their neighborhood Walgreens (NYSE, NASDAQ: WAG) store, they may notice a difference as they walk down the aisles. Nail polish on cosmetic shelves may appear more vibrant and magazine covers may be easier to read. GE Lighting helped Walgreens recently upgrade its general lighting across 80 percent of its nationwide locations. The change is subtle, but noticeable to customers and to Walgreens' energy budget. "Creating the very best shopping experience for our customers is our top priority, and lighting helps us achieve that goal,&quo...

The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has completed all formalities for installation of LED in six vital roads. The pilot project for installing LED lights in the city has been initiated by the GMC with Rs 67 lakhs grant from the 13th Finance Commission. It will be completed within three months. The civic body has selected Dutta Electricals, a Guwahati-based firm, for installing 178 LED lights in six streets of the city. Work on the project will commence soon. "We are going to install 25-watt LED lights in six streets of the city. Earlier, the G...

Zhongtian Lighting Co., Ltd. has received a big order of $5 Million and partnered with large distributors in Europe and America by propagating its LED light brand through e-commerce, combining the module factory to supply LED lights to them, according to the company’s general Mr. Li. Currently, the major products of Zhongtian Lighting are LED tube lights and LED spot lights. Mr Li also said that Zhongtian would greatly promote its core products, LED flood lights and LED tunnel lights. Mr. Li believes that Zhongtian Lighting would make a greate...

Guangdong LED industry may get involved in more than 4 billion yuan ($628.6 million) in losses due to the higher technical standards set by the European Union, the United States, Chile and Uganda. According to a statement on July 9 released by The WTO/TBT Center of the Administration of Quality and Technology Supervision of Guangdong, it received TBT, or technical barriers to trade, notices on higher standards for LED lights and directional lights exported to those countries and regions. The higher efficiency requirements set by the EU would inflate th...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI) LED lighting technology experts John Selander, director of specification sales for Acuity Brands Lighting, and Kurt Vogel, director of product development at Lithonia Lighting®, will present “The Intelligence of LED Lighting” at The LED Show in Las Vegas. The 90-minute presentation is on August 1, at 9 a.m. (session five).   Selander’s presentation defines intelligent lighting and demonstrates ways in which solid-state lighting products are suited for interactive communication between the lumina...

Recently, Digital Lumens Intelligent LED Lighting System has supported Silver Beauty, a Chicago-area company that builds and leases warehouses for lighting retrofit in a 177,413-square foot facility. Previously, the facility used 1,000-Watt high-intensity discharge lamps, which were replaced with the Digital Lumens 18,000-lumen intelligent fixtures, all with integrated occupancy and daylight harvesting sensors. The project rebate was provided by ComEd under its Smart Ideas program. In the Silver Beauty facility, the Digital Lumens system automatically provides...

U.S. Cellular Field Hits a Home Run with Cost Saving Borealis® LED Panel Lighting Installation   U.S. Cellular Field, owned by the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority and home of the Chicago White Sox, is in the zone by replacing dated lighting fixtures with PolyBrite Borealis® LED Panel Lights in concession stands and workstations throughout the ballpark.  With up to 2.9 million fans passing through the hallways of U.S. Cellular Field annually, Borealis® LED Panels are improving the appearance, safety and security of busy...

Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) intends to install LED lighting system for Shahrah-e-Faisal, an important 16-km long road of Karachi with 600 electric poles. KMC Acting Administrator Matanat Ali Khan in chair, has given briefing about the project of LED lighting system under public private partnership in a meeting was held Monday. Under the proposed plan the contractor would bear all expenses of the project whereas this project would generate Rs 18 million revenue for KMC on yearly basis.    ...

According to ElectroniCast Consultants' report, entitled “LEDs Used in General Lighting : Global Market Forecast and Analysis (2011-2021) ", only 10% of the LEDs used in General Lighting were attributed to Interior lamps in 2011. However, by 2021 the relative market share of LEDs in Interior lighting is forecast to reach 39%. The firm also says the worldwide volume of packaged LEDs in solid-state lighting general lighting will reach nearly 4.6 billion units in 2012. The global consumption value of component-level (packaged) LEDs in SSL...

Lumenpulse Inc. has developed a strategic partnership with Singapore-based Technolite, to expand Lumenpulse’s presence in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei and the Philippines. As exclusive partner, Technolite has been supplying Lumenpulse's range of LED lighting fixtures to the Singapore market since 2011. Technolite also offers technical and commercial assistance ensuring that architects, designers and engineers are actively supported. The move to expand the relationship will ensure the Lumenpulse brand and portfolio is strongl...

A report from Department of Energy has turned out that LED lamps have a slight environmental edge over compact fluorescent lamps and a significantly lower environmental impact than incandescent lighting over the lifetime of the products. Titled “LED Manufacturing and Performance,” is the second part of a DOE project to assess the life-cycle environmental and resource costs in the manufacturing, transport, use and disposal of LED lighting products. It has concluded that the life cycle energy consumption of LEDs and CFLs are similar — about 3,90...

Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) is under the process of developing high-powered LED lighting for homes and offices by a new manufacturing system called ‘liquid forging’. Chua Beng Wah, lead researcher on the project explains how the team pooled forging and casting to develop the liquid forging method, subsequently using it to manufacture high-performance LED heat sinks. The process also enables unified production of intricate light fixtures (to increase surface area) and heat sinks, significantly reducing the manufacturing costs. ...

Recently, Philips has signed a partnership contract and agreement with Gold Biotechnology Inc., a supplier of molecular biology research chemicals based in St. Louis, MO, to designate GoldBio as a certified Philips LED Horti Partner. Under the partnership, GoldBio will expand its market reach beyond an already broad base of chemical reagent users, while providing Philips with a key avenue into the research market for its innovative LED products. GoldBio brings to the partnership a multitude of long-standing relationships with research institutions and universi...

As Guangdong government has come out the policy to make LED transition within three years in public place, Taiwan LED manufacturers including Epistar, Unity Opto Technology have received increasing LED lighting orders from mainland China. Meanwhile, Taiwan companies such as Everlight and AcBel Polytech Inc. are actively building marketing channel in Guangdong. According to the policy issued by Guangdong government in May, the city will forced to promote new LED lighting installation in public place within three years. It’s considered to be the stronge...

Philips Electronics recently has brought in efficient and cost effective solar powered road lighting solution into the Nigerian market. According to The Communication Manager, Nick Kelso, the Solar Gen2 offers customers a highly energy-efficient LED solution, which is superior to any conventional lighting and allows for a lamp post spacing of up to 50 meters, much wider than with other solutions, while at the same time complying with stringent EU road lighting standards (ME3). By charging street lighting during the day, Solar Gen2 can also supplement the capacity of t...

SmartWatt Energy, an energy efficiency firm headquartered in Albany, NY, has helped Stewart’s Shops, a family and employee-owned chain of convenience stores in Upstate New York for saving nearly $78,000 per year in total lighting costs after a lighting retrofit installed at their corporate headquarters in Saratoga Springs, NY. This project will pay for itself in just 16 months. SmartWatt Energy conducted a construction-grade energy audit of the facility, including: offices, loading docks, laboratories, storage and freezer space, then engineered a plan to replace t...

UK Company Marl International has announced to inject £150,000 to double its manufacturing output at its site in Ulverston, Cumbria for the LED lighting market. The announcement brings the investment made by Marl in its UK manufacturing facility to £270,000 altogether. The production line has been specially modified to handle PCB boards of up to 600mm long, which are commonly required to replace conventional lighting products. Marl is not only ramping up its output of LED lighting modules that act as a direct replacement for much less efficient lightin...

According to Epistar’s chairman B.J Lee, the company will invest NT$ 5 billion (US$ 166.7 Million) in expanding production, making it become one of the top two LED epitaxy manufacturers in the world, next only to Nichia. At the company’s recent shareholders meeting, Lee said although the company’s production lines are fully booked, 20~30% of orders have yet to be filled up. If the company fails to carry out the plant expansion project, other competitors in the market will have the opportunity to grow, and therefore it has decided to launch large expansio...

Kelington Group Bhd (KGB), which dedicated in ultra-high purity gas and chemical infrastructure, has targeted to China's LED market. According to Group president and chief operating officer Ong Weng Leong, the company already had LED jobs in China but expected to capitalise further on the growth prospects there. Meanwhile the company had also done jobs for companies in Malaysia, but felt that the prospects were no where near as great as China. According to reports, Chinese lighting market reached US$12.2bil (RM39bil) in 2010, accounting for 15.4% of the ...