Recently, the automotive supplier of electronics and lighting, Hella has developed a partnership with Hubbell Lighting to develop and market a non-automotive application of its LED lighting technology in North America. According to their cooperation, the two companies is defined as a traditional cross-branding relationship in which Hella designs, develops and manufactures the light module or "engine", while Hubbell Lighting markets and distributes the lighting fixture into municipal markets. The commercial LED light engine is designed for installation into ex...

It’s reported that Jizhou Song, professor from the College of Engineering in University of Miami, has helped to utilize an array of LEDs 100 times smaller than conventional LEDs to develop a smaller, flexible LED light. The new LED light has flexibility, maintains lower temperature and has an increased life-span over existing LEDs. Under the research, the scientists focused on improving certain features of LED lights, like size, flexibility and temperature. And Song mainly participated in analyzing the thermal management and establishing an analytical ...

LED parking garage lights successfully designed  to overcome the challenges associated with current LED options in this class is the latest break-through product offering from Michigan-based LED lighting manufacturer Clean Light Green Light (CLGL). Providing a beautiful, even light spread without aggravating glare to drivers’ eyes, this series sets itself apart with superior performance and maximum savings potential; both important considerations for this building sector where lighting consumes the majority of energy used and security concerns run high. &ldqu...

The EverGEN 1710 solar LED outdoor light developed by Carmanah Technologies Corporation has been named Finalist in the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) Program. The EverGEN 1710 features advanced occupancy sensing (AOS) technology and a sleek, modern design. Developed in a partnership with leading innovation firm frog (formerly frog design), the EverGEN 1710 is a compact integrated solar-powered lighting solution for off-grid illumination. The IDEA Program is established in 1980 and recognizes design excellence in a broad range of fi...

US President Barack Obama has taken a visit to Cree on June 13. During his visit, President Obama made remarks to a crowd of Cree employees. In his remarks, President Obama stated, "So today the small business that a group of N.C. State engineering students founded almost 25 years ago is a global company…Next month, your new production line will begin running 24/7. So you're helping to lead a clean energy revolution. You're helping lead the comeback of American manufacturing. This is a company where the future will be won." Obama also jo...

Wavien, Inc. has released its low-cost LED pocket projector at the InfoComm 2011 in Orlando, Florida from June 15th to 17th. This projector uses Wavien's proprietary Recycling LED Technology (RLT™) in conjunction with a 0.45" WXGA DLP™ from Texas Instruments. According to Dr. Kenneth Li, President and CEO of Wavien, Inc., who is also the inventor of the DPR technology, "Instead of combining light from separate red, green and blue LED packages, Wavien's RLT™ technology combines all 3 colored LEDs in...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that Tsinghua Tongfang Company, a Beijing-based publicly listed division of the Tsinghua Holdings Company Limited, has placed an order for Veeco's new TurboDisc(R) MaxBright(TM) Multi-Reactor MOCVD System for production of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs). Professor Liu Gang, General Manager of Nantong Tongfang commented, "Last year we selected Veeco as our primary supplier for our new production facility in NanTong, China that was completed at the end of 2010. We are ...

State-of-the-art plant ramps to production in less than eight months GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR), a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets, today celebrated the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art sapphire production facility located in Salem, Massachusetts. The opening of the newly expanded plant concludes a project that began in the fall of 2010 that triples the sapphire production capacity in its Salem facility. GT...

LG World’s First Smart TV Portable LED Projector HW300T is powered by Luminus Devices ‘s latest generation of the PT-54 LED chipset. The HW300T is only available in consumer flat-panel televisions. It features built-in access to pre-paid High Definition movies from Vudu as well as social networking services such as Facebook or Twitter. The HW300T’s wireless connection is compatible with the Digital Living Network Alliance protocol and allows direct access to content located on networked devices, including personal computers. ...

Recently, LED lighting company, HomeLights, has partnered with Bridgelux, to introduce a new generation of LED products to be sold through one of the world's largest retailers. HomeLights has selected Bridgelux’s industry-leading, high flux density LED Array technology to enable their new series of energy efficient, environmentally-friendly spotlight luminaires and bulbs. In addition, HomeLights and Bridgelux also partners on new and unique LED lighting solutions that will be sold directly by HomeLights in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Benel...

Luminus Devices has developed its newest Red-Green-Blue (RGB) LED chipsets, the Compact SBT-16 and SBT-39 chipsets, targeted to consumer projectors. Personal and ultra-mobile LED projectors are an emerging class of miniature projection devices with sizes typically ranging from 150 to 400 cm3. These projectors may include built-in digital media players and can connect to portable devices such as PDAs and notebook computers. Luminus Devices’s red, green and blue LEDs that are individually assembled in a small footprint, performance surface mount packa...

Samsung Electronics America Inc., has shown four new lines of LED/LCD commercial displays during InfoComm 2011 in Orlando, FL, June 15-17 and available through Samsung distributors and resellers in Q3 2011.   The four new lines including Samsung HE, ME, UE and UD Series incorporate LED-backlight technology that offers many benefits over traditional Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp backlighting. With the ME and UE Series benefitting from a high 120Hz and 240Hz refresh rate, respectively, there is smoother scrolling text and reduced motion blu...

Hi Score Corporation is announced to receive six figure approval on a lighting contract. The company recognizes that a low six figure sale on its own is not that significant.   However, according to Hi Score COO Dominick Falso, who was recently appointed as Hi Score's Chief Operating Officer, "the fact that the company seems to be writing one of these each week or so is very significant. This puts us on track to exceed our previously stated sales goals." It’s said that the sales orders are coming through DMD Lighting and Energy Contro...

As Veeco received $4 million from the US government, Kyma Technologies, a global supplier of crystalline nitride semiconductor materials, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, has cooperated with Veeco in a next generation LED manufacturing equipment development project. Kyma Technologies will be supplying material and services to Veeco as part of this development project. Kyma President and CEO, Keith Evans, stated, “We very much appreciate the opportunity to work with Veeco on this exciting project to accelerate growth in the LED market.  In additi...

Taiwan-based Formosa Epitaxy and its affiliate, Jiangsu Canyang Corporation has ordered Veeco's recently released TurboDisc MaxBright multi-reactor MOCVD System for production of HB LEDs. It’s said that Veeco's MaxBright system is designed for HBLED production and is available in a 2 or 4-reactor cluster architecture and delivers up to a 500% productivity gain and 2.5x increase in footprint efficiency over its K465i reactor.  ...

Since May, San Francisco based company Elemental LED has launched a new monthly initiative to encourage employees to create their own projects that utilize LED lights.   According to the Employee DIY project, each participating employee will be given a modest budget to be spent on any of the LED lights and accessories in Elemental LED's catalog of products every month. At the end of each month, each employee is given the opportunity to show off his/her creation at a show and tell . Everyone present will vote on their favorites, and the winners will receive...

Company Marks 10th Year of Providing Commercial Buildings with Significant Cost-Savings and Sustainability For Encelium Technologies, a technology manufacturer specializing in integrated lighting control systems for commercial buildings, the future has never looked brighter. Installations of its hallmark Energy Control SystemTM (ECS) now exceed more than 35 million square feet and the company continues to post impressive annual sales increases. And just last year, Encelium secured $11 million in a financing round led by Siemens Venture Capital (SVC), the corp...

VTLED luminaries are embedded with Acuity Brands nLight™ intelligent controls, enabling end users to significantly reduce energy savings and increase return on investment.  Acuity Brands (NYSE: AYI), a market leader in innovative energy efficient lighting and control solutions, is expanding its indoor ambient LED lighting offering with the launch of the Lithonia Lighting VTLED volumetric luminaire.  VTLED is a high-quality, volumetric LED fixture designed for general purpose applications. They join the RTLED, ACLED and TLED...

Illumitex has announced to raise $25.23 million in total for LED lighting, and has closed $13.5 million of that. Dan Watkins at DFJ Mercury, and Forest Baskett and Jimmy Treybig at New Enterprise Associates is listed on Illumitex’s filing. New Enterprise Associates and DFJ previously invested in Illumitex. Illumitex develops LED chips and assembles them into modules that will be built into light bulbs and installations. The company is targeting the general lighting market as well as lighting designs that accentuate architectural buildings and lightin...

Reportedly, GT Solar predicts its sapphire materials business will contribute about a tenth of its fiscal 2012 sales based on orders for general lighting applications pick up. According to Cree's CEO’s opinion at the Reuters Global Energy and Climate Summit, LED lights need to pay back hefty investments a lot quicker before they go mainstream. In opposite, GT Solar's CEO Tom Gutierrez, believes that as more capacity is brought on board, prices will fall, helping sales. In his opinion, the company's customers, centered in South Korea and C...

Onteco Corporation’s subsidiary, NexPhase Lighting, Inc. is reported to enlarge its NexSense LED troffer product line.   According to Jon Cooper, President of NexPhase, they have researched the marketplace closely while developing our 2x2 NexSense LED Troffer and clearly an expanded product line in different form factors is needed to fully satisfy the many market opportunities at hand. Later this year they will be introducing different troffer product configurations for their 2x2 Troffer as well as 1x4 and 2x4 configurations. They are utilizing the m...

Continuing to expand its offerings of based LEDs for industrial controls and retrofit panel mount applications, LEDtronics introduces 22mm and 30mm direct incandescent-replacement RPLH Series Panel LED Pilot Lamps and Holders. Comprising an integrated modular system, the RPLH Series are complete assemblies that incorporate the lens, lamp and lamp holder. The RPLH Series is an excellent choice for applications where space is a concern and aesthetics a consideration. RPLH22-02-0X-02Z47 is 22mm and the RPLH30-02-0X-02Z47 30mm mounting hole, with beh...

‘Being on the fringe’ can mean being on the cutting edge of creativity – out where the new happens. Entertainment-technology company ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) loves the fringe. It’s the sweet spot of innovation. This year ETC will not only help light up the stages of the Hollywood Fringe Festival with ETC equipment but also present their own show -- the “Layers of Light” Selador® LED lighting presentation. Open to the public but of extra interest to production people throughout the entertainment industry, this l...

Recently, LED Source® has designed a new lighting energy audit mobile application, Lampinator™ for iPhones and iPads. The Lampinator™ app sheds new light on the benefits and cost savings gained by switching to LED technology. With the Lampinator™ they are presented with a polished, easy-to-understand report right on the spot. The report is a snapshot comparison that provides information on a location’s current lighting energy and maintenance costs, along with the savings an LED lighting retrofit could offer. LED Source® speciali...

It’s said that the provider of analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, Micrel ,has released its new linear White LED (WLED) Drivers, MIC4801/MIC4802, designed to eliminate noise, minimize component count and simplify numerous designs. The new drivers are single channel, constant-current sink LED drivers designed for architectural, landscape, and general LED lighting products. They do not require an inductor.The high efficiency WLED drivers are designed to drive a single LED up to 600mA and 800mA respectively and based o...

California-based Switch Lighting has launched its first true 100-watt equivalent LED bulb, named the Switch100. With its innovative self-cooling environment, which uses a nontoxic liquid to move heat away from the LEDs inside the bulb, the bulb is capable of achieving 100-watt brightness . When the liquid near the LED chip gets warm, it will flow out towards the edge of the dome and be replaced by cooler liquid from the edge. The hot liquid will then cool at the edge, before it moves again into the center to replace the new hot liquid. The Switch100 is also dimmabl...

Currently, GE Lighting has appointed leadership for Europe, Middle East and Africa for the company's new commercial organization - Luminaire Solutions. Diederik will be leading a new team, which will focus on the best in class solutions for the core market segments: Indoor Commercial LED Luminaires, Indoor Core Luminaires and Outdoor Lighting. Simon Fisher will lead Indoor Commercial LED Luminaires as General Manager for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. He will head both project and indoor product and lighting design teams w...

Reportedly, US President Obama will visit LED lighting manufacturing headquarters of Cree on June 13th. The President will tour Cree's manufacturing facilities, deliver remarks and meet with the Jobs Council to discuss initiatives and policies to spur economic growth, promote job creation and accelerate hiring across the nation....

Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced that they entered into a patent license agreement with Cooper Industries. The license provides Cooper with full access to the Philips’ LED-related patented technologies that Philips makes available to the lighting industry through its LED Luminaire and Retrofit Bulb licensing program. “We are very pleased that Cooper has joined our licensing program. We believe having such an open and accessible license program is greatly assisting in accelerating the adoption of LED lighting and fostering the growth of...

Britepointe announced the HyBeem E39 LED replacement lamp. Based 400 watt metal hailde and sodium vapor lamps, the HyBeem E39 used in high bay lighting fixtures. It achieves greater than 15,000 lumen output. The HyBeem E39 saves up to 80% energy when compared to a 400 watt metal halide high bay lamp and lasts six times as long before needing replacement. Installations typically achieve a two year or less payback on investment. The HyBeem E39 LED replacement lamp is manufactured in the USA. ...