Taiwan is ready to light up a LED dragon at Lugang Sports Park to celebrate the annual Lantern Festival (also known as “Yuanxiao”). The main dragon lantern, which will be ceremonially lit at 7 p.m. today, towers over the town at 21 meters high, appearing as though floating on moving clouds. Using LED lighting, which not only increases the brightness threefold but also reduces the energy used to one-tenth of that used for the theme lanterns in previous festivals, the design provides visitors with a taste of Taiwan's artistic and technological advancements....

Newly, Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has scheduled to focus eight rising industries including Chinese herbal medicine, telecommunications, electric vehicle, renewable energy, business services, LED lighting, metal materials, biotech and medical equipment, on the agenda in the regular talks on industrial cooperation with mainland China. For LED lighting industry, Taiwan intends to suggest the mainland add province-level prefecture to city-level prefecture as field-test ground for LED lighting. The ministry will suggest the mainland to open Shandong, ...

Recently, with the outstanding designs of its LED lamps evaluated in a contest among 1,145 products from 426 manufacturers of various industries, Everlight has won the Taiwan Excellence Awards 2012. The awards were granted by Bureau of Foreign Trade and Taiwan External Trade Development, both of which under the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The awarded products include a series of multi-purpose desk lamps, light bulbs, and streetlights. DEM-designed desk lamps underscore their versatile functions by integrating reading light, mood light, nightlight and decorative...

SemiLEDs Corporation (NASDAQ: LEDS), a leading developer and manufacturer of LED chips and LED components, today announced that its UV LED chips are capable of emitting radiation at a wavelength of 390-420 nm with 40% external quantum efficiencies (EQE – a LED’s ability to convert electrons into photons) at 350 mA (up to 500 mW output power*, typical 3.3V forward voltage). “Our patented structure and metal alloy substrate allow us to produce and supply to the industrial curing market UV LEDs that are capable of operating at high c...

Taiwan Unity Opto Technology Inc. and Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI) have seen a bright outlook as demands for LED backlights meat for LCD TVs are picking up. Opposite to a low season for the first quarter for the LED industry, FOREPI’s order visibility is quite clear into this quarter thanks to strong orders from Unity, which supplies LED backlight modules to the world’s top five TV brands—Samsung, LG, Sharp, Matsushita and Toshiba. According to FOREPI executives, volume of the orders from customers has increased more...

Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading player in the global LED industry, announces a series of Low/Mid Power LEDs* especially suited for use in solid state lighting. The new Low/Mid Power LED family has the ability to provide customers a total solution for lighting applications. General Lighting is an interesting and broad market segment. For any individual segment of lighting there are multiple categories and sub categories with different requirements and functionalities. Outdoor lighting encompasses street lighting, tunnel lighting, parking lot lighting, la...

According to Y.F. Yeh, Everlight ‘s Chairman, the price point for LED light bulbs will drop to the US$10 “sweet spot” in the second half of 2012. He estimated brisk demands for LED light bulbs at the sweet spot of price point will definitely drive up the company’s revenue in 2012. However, LED market will remain hazy in the first quarter this year before turning brightwhen the US$10 spot comes in sight in the second half. So far, the company has ventured into the LED lighting fixture sector after setting up Everlight Solid State Ligh...

New stage of LED lighting, E-CMOS presents “100% Real Solid State Lighting” (100% RSSL) with high efficiency, reliability, thermal conductivity, and insulating flameproof solution. Incandescent bulbs are forbidden in 2012. In order to provide a safer and better life, E-CMOS integrates with partners from photonic, mechanical, electrical, and thermal professionals. After continuously researches and exams, a new solution: "100% Real Solid State Lighting" is able to applied in 4W, 6W, 8W, and 12W indoor LED lighting and replace traditi...

As New Year brings new wishes, Taiwan’s major LED industry manufacturer Epistar shows optimistic attitudes on 2012 outlook for the LED market. According to Epistar ‘s Chairman B.J. Lee, global shipments of LED light bulbs to double from the 2011 level to 300 million units in 2012 and the LED TV penetration rate is expected to surge from 36% to 60%. Based on the brisk market forecasts, Lee forecast the company’s shipments of general-lighting chips to shoot up 300% year-on-year in 2012, translating into a 200% gain in revenue. In Lee’s...

Taiwan Delta Electronics has rolled out a serious of LED productsat Lighting Japan 2012. The company claimed that it has developed the world's lightest 1000lm light bulb weighting only 130g .With a beam angle of 120 deg and 240 deg the new bulb aims to replace 100W and 80W incandescent bulbs. In the meanwhile, Delta is also demonstrating its remarkable solar-LED streetlight and wind-powered LED streetlight solutions. The wind-powered LED streetlight solution includes a 400W-system with a safety breaker for wind speed exceeding an upper limit of 42.5m/s and ...

-Indoor/Outdoor Energy Efficient Flood Lights in Three Varieties- GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce a new LED Flood Light Series using Philips Lumileds LED Chips - the GL-FL12, GL-FL30, and GL-FL120. The GlacialLight Flood Light Series provides a direct indoor and outdoor replacement solution for outdated mercury lamps. With Philips Lumileds LED Chips efficiently converting electricity into light, GlacialLight's Flood Light Series produces natural-lo...

According to Taiwanese Unity Opto Technology’s chairman Alpha Wu, the company targets to boost 2012 revenue to exceed the NT$10 billion (US$333 million at US$1:NT$30) benchmark, based on the better-than-projected revenue achieved in 2011. In the past year, the company has harvested NT$6.5 billion (US$216.6 million) revenue, better than the NT$5 billion (US$166 million) projected. In addition, the company had recently won an NT$800 million (US$26 million) contract to supply an American retailer LED lights this year. As a result, Wu is confident of t...

GlacialLight’s LED lighting products recently have lit up the M/s P.N.Gadgil & Co.Kothrud, Pune Showroom, located in theupper middle-class suburb of Kothrud, India. The Pune Showroom installed GlacialLights GL-DL06 overhead LED lights and GL-MR16-5W LED display lamps and saw over 72% in electrical savings. The GL-DL06 overhead LED lights and GL-MR16-5W LED display lamps shine bright, pleasing light for a minimum of 30,000 and 20,000 hours, respectively. With these long lives GlacialLight's LEDs will lead to lowered ...

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Recently, Lite-On Technology Corp. has signed a partnership agreement with six lighting manufacturers and expected a bright outlook for its sales in 2012. Due largely to the new contract, the company’s CEO, K.C. Terng, estimated its monthly shipments to see a double-digit growth from the 20 million sets of LED lighting products it delivered in 2011. Furthermore, Terng felt that for the LED industry the worst days have gone and the industry will perform better in the new year than in 2011, whether the LED lighting sector or the backlight sector. Addition...

GlacialLight’s LED Spotlights and Panel Lights have helped Gong Clinic in Kaohsiung go green. By changing their outdoor 250W mercury lights with GlacialLight’s GL-SP60 LED spotlights, the Gong Clinic has seen 76% reduction in their outdoor energy usage for lighting. Additionally, the Gong Clinic has reduced their indoor lighting energy consumption by 64% with the replacement of traditional T8 tubular lights with 10 GL-PL0606A LED panel lights. Including the fact that these GlacialLight LED lights have a minimum life span of 30,00...

According to M.T. Chu, director of Electronics & Optoelectronics Research Laboratories (EOL) of the government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan’s LED industry is poised to recover soon. Firstly, in Chu’s opinion, Taiwan’s LED makers’ 60% orders come from the mainland. He ascribed the 2011 supply glut of Taiwan’s LED industry mostly to slower-than-expected global market for LCD TVs lit by LED backlights and desperate production expansions at mainland China’s LED makers. Than...

Epistar has announced to gain a share buyback plan in a bid to support its share price. Epistar announced Wednesday it would buy back 10 million shares from the open market at a range of NT$51 to NT$76 between Dec. 29 and Feb. 28, 2012. The company said the repurchased shares will be transferred to its employees as an incentive to encourage them to work harder. As the company has received rush orders and hoped its bottom line would be boosted accordingly for the fourth quarter of this year, other LED makers also steamed ahead amid improved sentiment toward their earnings ...

Edison Opto Laboratory has become the first in Taiwan to have the certification by TAF, it has been approved by EPA to execute IES LM-80 test for ENERGY STAR® program. “Since LED lighting luminaires play an important rule as energy saving product in ENERGY STAR® program, TAF has assisted and has certified many third party laboratories as approval laboratories for ENERGY STAR® program.” said Manager Sheng of Taiwan Accreditation Foundation (TAF). Being a LED lighting product manufacturer, Edison Opt...

Recently, the Kampala, Uganda Sheraton replaced many of their traditional lights in their interior as well as in the accompanying Green Restaurant with GlacialLight GL-MR16-5W LED lamps . Fitting into existing lighting fixtures, the Sheraton and their Green Restaurant did not need additional equipment for the LED upgrade. Coupled with the fact that GlacialLight's GL-MR16-5W LED lamps shine for a minimum of 20,000 hours equated to even more savings in maintenance and replacement cost. Not only did GlacialLight's GL-MR16-5W LED la...

Taiwan Delta Electronics announced the opening of its Taoyuan Plant 3 and R&D Center. The new plant employs Delta's own energy saving and industrial automation products and control systems. Eco-friendly features of the plant include solar panels, LED lighting, water resource processing and renewable energy equipment that not only trims the annual power bill by NTD 5 million, but also reduces 1,000 tons of CO 2 emissions and uses about 75% less water (around 3,000 tons). The planning and design of the Taoyuan Plant 3 and R&D Center was initiated in...

Recently, Everlight’s spokesman, P.Y. Liu, has announced the company’s prediction for LED Industry in 2012. According to him, the company will see revenue climb quarter by quarter after hitting the bottom in the first quarter of 2012. He noted that the company’s monthly revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011 will change only moderately and revenue for January, 2012, will slip from a month earlier because of the Chinese-New-Year holidays. Liu pointed out that inventories at the company’s customers are getting close to a minimum after quarters ...

Following EPISTAR LAB’s recent 216 lm/W record-breaking achievement, Epistar introduces three LED chipset products with 100, 120, and 150 lm/W package efficiency, respectively. The three chipsets are named Standard Set, Premium Set, and Deluxe Set; all feature with CRI >85 and 2700-3000K CCT: Aiming at the final system efficiency greater than 80 lm/W, the Premium Set emphasizes its  impressive package efficiency with affordable cost for 60W bulb and high performance T5 tube repleacement. Pointing towards the final system efficiency...

Recently, Taiwan's Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), has released a report on LED industry scale in 2011. Taiwan remains world's biggest in LED industry scale in 2011, despite lower-than-expected market growth.   As the eurozone's debt problems dragged down demand, the output value of the global LED market grew by only 2.6 percent to US$16.6 billion (NT$502.48 billion) this year from US$16.1 billion in 2010. In terms of regional performance, Taiwan still topped the market with a total output value of US$4.5...

EPISTAR LAB announces its highest efficacy with warm white high voltage chipset. With its outstanding efficacy, higher CRI, and competitive lm/$, the solution of direct red platform is widely used in warm white application. Recently, EPISTAR LAB has successfully achieved the warm white efficacy     of 216 lm/W at an operating current of 5 mA and CRI of 87 Ra at CCT of 2700K. Under a typical driving current of 15mA (or about 1 W operation equivalent), the luminous efficacy of 197 lm/W was achieved. EPISTAR LAB’s ...

GlacialLight, a division of experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that its environmentally-friendly LED lighting products are being used in many applications around the world and providing users with energy-saving light of the highest quality. Global hotel chain, Sheraton, understands the power-saving capabilities of LED lights. Recently, the Kampala, Uganda Sheraton replaced many of their traditional lights in their interior as well as in the accompanying Green Restaurant with GlacialLight GL-MR16-5W LED lamps. By si...

Features: *Suitable for energy saving lighting usage, turn-on at coming and turn-off at leaving, light supplement at moving way, also for warning thief. *Well design for dust and moisture resistance *Easy to install, can be mounted by nail or fixed by the attached rack. *Charged by solar power, with simple AUTO mode to operate *Rotatable LED head and sensor, suitable for wide range usage *Use patent LED, with high illumination efficiency *Big detection Range and wide detection angle Specification： Operating voltage：Solar power DC4.8V Lighting load：...

According to Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs, the island has completed the replacement of all 696,700 incandescent traffic lights with LED signals this year , which comes after Singapore to become the second city to hifted entirely to LEDs. Compared to traditional incandescent traffic signals, LED traffic lights consume 85 percent less energy, meaning that the new lights will help the island save 247 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. Additionally, the LED lighting project will further expand to include the replacement of mercury-vapor streetlights next ...

Panasonic is announced to make a restructuring plan aimed at quickly snatching up sizable share of mainland China market for LED lighting. And Taiwan’s LED Industry may benefit from the plan. In January 2012, the Japanese company is to combine the LED lighting operation with the independent Panasonic Lighting with the aim of bagging around 40% of the Chinese mainland’s market for LED lighting by the end of 2015 and boosting profit by 10% through halving costs. According to Panasonic, the consolidated entity’s sales to reach 200 billion yen (U...

Now Even More Versatility in Energy Efficient LED Replacements for Fluorescent Tubes GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce 2 new sizes in the LED panel light series, Pollux. Dedicated to continuous improvement, these extensions of the Pollux series feature 3 different color temperatures as well as reduced power consumption. The Pollux series LED panel lights offer flexibility for consumers wanting to replace less efficient fluorescent tubes. These LED panel lights by GlacialLight...