2017-10-25

ADATA Shows Its Bright Colors at Hong Kong Int’l Lighting Fair Autumn Edition

ADATA Technology is pleased to announce its participation in the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair Autumn 2017 edition. 
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2017-10-25

UV LED Technology Best Option for Low-Migration Printing

Phoseon Technology believes it’s just a matter of time before UV LED cured low-migration inks, coatings and adhesives are widely adopted across global markets.
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2017-10-25

LED Beer Bottle Lamps –Beer Bottle Recycling + LED is New Green Energy Concept

Soda-lime glass is occupied more than 90% of glass bottle market, a variety of options for different glass bottle design including all beer bottles and all soft drink bottles. Soda-lime glass is beautiful with variety of different shapes but no one to make it as a light bulb because easily being broken with heat and high temperature situation.
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2017-10-24

Samsung Electronics Partners with TÜV SÜD to Introduce Collaborative Testing Program for its Automotive LED Components

Samsung Electronics, a Korean company specializing in advanced digital component solutions, and TÜV SÜD, a global technical services provider of quality, safety and sustainability solutions, today announced that the companies have developed a new testing program for Samsung’s automotive LED components. A ceremony was held earlier today at the headquarters of TÜV SÜD Korea Ltd. in Seoul, Korea, to unveil the new testing program.
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2017-10-24

Trans-Lux Rocks Sports & Entertainment Landscape by Lighting Up the World’s Largest Scoreboard

Trans-Lux Corporation recently unveiled the world's largest and most advanced in-arena center hung scoreboard in the world at Prudential Center in New Jersey. The Arena is home to The New Jersey Devils and Seton Hall basketball as well as hundreds of concerts and events.
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2017-10-24

Chinese LED Chip Suppliers to Represent 54% of Global Production Capacity in 2017, Says LEDinside

Total global LED chip production capacity has entered a new peak expansionary phase in 2017, according to the latest LED market supply and demand analysis by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. This recent surge of capacity expansion for LED chips has been a response to the rising demand from Chinese LED package suppliers that had started raising their production capacities earlier in 2016.
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2017-10-24

EVERLIGHT 3Q17 Revenue Down 9% in Face of Chinese Threats

Taiwanese LED package manufacturer EVERLIGHT reported a 9% QoQ slide in its 3Q17 revenue due to lukewarm sales of general lighting, backlights, and consumer electronics applications. Facing threats from Chinese rivals in those markets, the company would also experience decreased gross margin. Performance in Q4 is projected similar to that in Q3. Both its 2017 revenue and profit might decline. EVERLIGHT’s finance has experienced a continuous fall since 2015.
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2017-10-23

Capstone Companies, Inc. Announces Record Preliminary Third Quarter 2017 Revenue

Capstone Companies, Inc., a designer of innovative LED lighting solutions including power failure lighting, announced preliminary third quarterrevenue as of September 30, 2017 of approximately $13 million, an increase of 11% over the prior year period. Preliminary year-to-date revenue is expected to exceed $30 million, an increase of approximately $7.3 million or 32.2% as compared to the same period 2016.
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2017-10-23

10 Mistakes People Make When Upgrading Their Lighting

Thinking of upgrading your lighting? Don’t do anything until you’ve checked out the 10 mistakes that most people make with new LED lighting.
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2017-10-23

San’an Opto Receives RMB 124 Mil. Subsidy for MOCVD Purchase

China’s largest LED chip maker San’an Opto lately announced it has received a RMB 124 million subsidy from the Xiamen Torch Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone Administration Committee for its purchase of MOCVD systems.
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2017-10-23

Power Integrations Enables No-Neutral Wireless Wall Switches for Smart-Home Lighting

Power Integrations, specializing in high-efficiency, high-reliability LED-driver ICs, announced a new reference design, DER-622, describing a smart wall switch compatible with wiring conditions most commonly found in residential retrofit installations.
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2017-10-23

MaxLite Launches QuadroMAX Plus As Specification-grade, Modular Area Lighting Solution

MaxLite introduces the next evolution of outdoor lighting with QuadroMAX Plus, a premium area lighting fixture that delivers unprecedented modularity and functionality for the specification market.
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2017-10-23

Tridonic: Complete Package for Luminaire Upgrades

Tridonic announces its LLE AC G1 modules, the first economic single-component solution tailored to linear luminaires. Their slim construction, integrated electronics and availability in different lengths open up a wide range of designs for elegant low-profile luminaires. This solution provides a simple upgrade option for conventional T5/T8 fluorescent luminaires.
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2017-10-21

Philips Lighting’s Third Quarter Results 2017

Philips Lighting on October 19 announced the company’s third quarter results 2017. “In line with our objectives, Philips Lighting returned to comparable sales growth in the quarter. For the first time in our transformation, the growth of LED and connected lighting systems & services more than offset the decline of our conventional business,” said CEO Eric Rondolat.
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2017-10-20

GREEN CREATIVE Joins Harbour Group’s Portfolio of Companies Alongside ILP

GREEN CREATIVE is pleased to announce its acquisition by Harbour Group, a privately owned, operations focused company based in St. Louis, Missouri. GREEN CREATIVE will join alongside ILP Holdings Corporation, a Florida based manufacturer of commercial, industrial and outdoor lighting, to expand Harbour Group’s participation in the lighting industry.
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2017-10-19

Epistar Files U.S. Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against All Star Lighting Supplies

Epistar Corporation filed a patent infringement lawsuit against All Star Lighting Supplies, Inc., d/b/a Luxrite in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 13, 2017. The complaint asserts that Luxrite’s LED filament bulbs infringe eight Epistar patents and seeks injunctive relief to halt further sale of the infringing products.
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2017-10-19

Lumibright's Bendable LED Profiles That Be Shaped and Re-shaped

Fitting aluminum LED extrusions to a curved surface was a hassle in the past. Lumibright offers a wide range of Aluminum Extrusion profiles, which enables architects, interior designers, retailers & home improvement contractors to create amazing interior designs. 
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2017-10-19

WELLMAX Was Crowned the Most Popular Company Of 2017 Canton Fair

Phase one of the 122nd Canton Fair ended on October 19th. As the largest trade fair, more than 25,000 exhibitors attended this major event. Shanghai Wellmax Lighting Industry (WELLMAX), as the LED BULB EXPERT, was the most popular company during the 5-day exhibition.
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2017-10-19

New Cree Guidance Speculated to Exit Consumer Lighting and Emphasize RF Solutions

Cree on October 17 released a webcast reporting its 1Q18 financial results. The next-day financial report showed a decrease of 3% YoY in the LED chip maker’s revenue. Gregg Lowe, Cree CEO, stated with faith that the company will implement new strategies in the next few months. Cree is speculated to invest heavily in its chip business and to exit the consumer lighting market. Its stock jumped 16% on Wednesday after the new CEO announced the new guidance. 
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2017-10-19

CalSun, Provider Of Solar In Paso Robles, Reports The Top Ten Reasons For Using LED Lighting

Research and development in the field of LED lighting and solar in Paso Robles is spearheading a green lighting revolution. The most energy efficient, the cleanest and most eco-friendly way of illumination is LED lighting. The United States Department of Energyreports that, “The light-emitting diode (LED) is one of today's most energy-efficient and rapidly-developing lighting technologies.”
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2017-10-19

Announcing the Formation of Hailux Lighting

A group of investors and LED lighting technology experts, announced the formation of Hailux Lighting, an innovative LED Technology company focused on the Horticultural Lighting Market and providing innovative LED COB products. Russell Hall, an early stage investor, will lead Hailux Lighting.
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2017-10-19

Philips Lighting Casts a New Light on North and South Block of Central Secretariat in New Delhi

Philips Lighting announced the illumination of North and South Block of the Central Secretariat building in New Delhi using Philips dynamic façade lighting. These iconic buildings house the Cabinet Secretariat, which administers the Government of India and are an integral part of India’s historical and political heritage. 
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2017-10-18

Osram: Premiere for Work Clothing with Active Illumination

Together with uvex, Osram has brought its first products for textile illumination to series production. The light modules were already tested last year and Osram plans to combine light modules with sensor technology as the next step. 
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2017-10-18

Cree Reports Financial Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2018

Cree yesterday announced financial results for its first quarter of fiscal 2018, ended September 24, 2017. Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2018 was $360 million, which represents a 3% decrease compared to revenue of $371 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 and a slight increase compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017. 
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2017-10-18

GB Energie LED and Revolution Lighting Technologies Provide Industry Leading LED Lighting Solutions to Leesburg Executive Airport

GB Energie LED announced the completion of an LED retrofit project for Leesburg Executive Airport in Leesburg, Virginia. The project included the installation of LED lighting solutions within the terminal, as well as exterior building lighting and throughout parking lots to improve lighting levels and increase energy efficiency, improving lighting energy use by more than 60%.
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2017-10-18

LEDVANCE Looking to Raise More Consumer Awareness of Smart Lighting

LEDinside had an interview with Aaron Ganick, Global Head of Smart Business, LEDVANCE on the company’s newly launched SYLVANIA SMART+ A19 bulb and the trends of smart lighting in the next five years.
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2017-10-17

Thorn Lighting Aarded Singapore’s Thomson-East Coast Line Lighting Project

Thorn Lighting has won the comprehensive tender process to secure the major lighting contract for Singapore’s Thomson-East Coast Line. The 10-million-Euro project will see the internationally renowned lighting solutions provider, which is part of the Zumtobel Group, deliver a range of different products for the back-of-house areas. 
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2017-10-17

Disruptive Substrate Technology for Direct Green and Red Micro LEDs

The ideal solution for microLED makers would be the availability of efficient nitride LEDs in both green and red. In this case, all RGB LEDs would be composed of the same material with the same behaviors and driving conditions. The challenge is to find one material capable of spanning the blue to red spectrum. 
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2017-10-16

Cree, Inc. Announces 2018 First Quarter Earnings Release Webcast

Cree, Inc. Announces 2018 First Quarter Earnings Release Webcast
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2017-10-16

Macedonian Cultivation Facility Invests In Heliospectra LED Technology

Heliospectra AB (publ), an expert in intelligent lighting technology for greenhouse and controlled plant growth environments, announces a new cooperation with NYSK Holdings, a state-of-the-art medicinal cannabis facility in Macedonia. The grower is partnering with Heliospectra to be able to supply patients with consistent, pharmaceutical-grade medicine for chronic diseases year-round. The investment is valued at around $125,000 (1,016,000 SEK).
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JBD, a pioneering MicroLED display manufacturer, has set a new standard with its Phoenix series microdisplay, achieving an industry-record white-balanced brightness of 2 million nits. JBD’s Phoenix - Native Monolithic RGB Panel Leveragin... READ MORE

Veeco Instruments Inc. today announced that PlayNitride, an industry leader in MicroLED technology, has qualified Veeco’s Lumina® MOCVD system for production of next-generation MicroLEDs, and also placed an order for two systems for ... READ MORE