Acuity Brands Premieres Smart + Simple Lighting Solutions Videos   Video series showcases the multiple benefits of integrated, intelligent lighting for indoor applications.   Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) has produced a series of five videos exploring the practical integration of intelligent LED luminaires and digital controls for interior applications. The Smart + Simple Lighting Solutions video series provides insight on how lighting with embedded controls can be easily tailored to a specific application, while monitoring and responding to the imm...

Royal Philips Electronics announced that its lighting up Eden Park, New Zealand’s premier sports ground with energy efficient lighting.  All over the world, our highly efficient lighting solutions turn stadia into iconic ‘theaters of dreams’ while delivering the best possible experience for people in and around the arena. Philips was asked to provide a floodlighting solution that would work for both rugby and cricket as each has different lighting needs. Philips was also asked by Eden Park Trust to present a high-impact way of illuminating the new sout...

OSRAM Automotive Lighting has debuted its LED JOULE® module on a popular and much-anticipated vehicle: the 2013 Mustang GT. The Mustang GT features the first LED fog lamp in the US based on OSRAM's standardized LED system. The grille-mounted hybrid reflector-projector system complements the Mustang's styling DNA. It is the highest volume LED forward lighting application in the North American market. The light source comes from a common OSRAM LED platform – demonstrating scalability across different applications an...

Latest Innovation Integrates Precise Optical Control, Exceptional Color Quality and Fast Payback Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces THE EDGE® High Output (H.O.) Area and Flood Light LED luminaires. Capable of replacing high output sources of the past such as 1000 watt metal halide and using 50 percent less energy in most applications, the new luminaire features more than 20 optical configurations. Among them is a new FrontlineOptic™ technology designed specifically for auto dealerships. THE EDGE H.O. luminaire delivers brilliant ...

SemiLEDs leads the packaging manufacturers and became one of the first to pass a third party LM-80 test in Taiwan, performed by IST, required by Energy Star. SemiLEDs (Nasdaq: LEDS), with cooperation of Integrated System Technology(IST), is proud to announce that its S35 product line has successfully completed the requirements of the stringent 6000 hour lumen maintenance test (LM-80) and the results showed an extrapolated lifetime of up to 50,000 hours. SemiLEDs’ S35 series is the first product to pass the LM-80 after IST’s received t...

When Lake Nona pursued a vision to line its Southeast Orlando streets with new lighting, the 7,000-acre, master-planned community needed to match exacting aesthetic guidelines to leading-edge technology. Community leaders found their answer in GE Lighting’s Evolve™ LED Contemporary Twin Support Post Top and Evolve LED Roadway fixtures. Combined, the energy-saving street lighting fixtures will consume approximately 253,000 fewer kilowatt hours (kWhs) of electricity a year as opposed to traditional high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting – a $27,00...

New indoor ambient lighting saves energy, improves work environment and enhances aesthetics in 381,000-square-foot Rose Building – corporate headquarters of Medical Mutual of Ohio. Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI), a leading provider of   comprehensive, energy-saving lighting solutions, announces that its Lithonia Lighting® high-performance volumetric Relight kits were installed in the corporate headquarters of Medical Mutual of Ohio located in the historic Rose Building in Cleveland, Ohio. The extensive lighting renovation project was comple...

Philips Lumileds has launched the industry’s smallest high-power LED power LED package. LUXEON Z enables a level of customizability in luminaire design that, up to now, had been unattainable. Designers can now use the new, ultra-compact, un-encapsulated LEDs to create countless packaging, optical configurations and lighting design from 440-670 nanometers, including white, the LUNXEON Z offers the industry’s highest commercially available lumen density. The new LUXEON Z allows for integrated approaches that break today’s paradigms in ...

According Tech-On.com, Kyoto University’s professor Hiroyuki Yano, has added resin, etc to paper or its material (pulp) to make transparent paper. This breakthrough was announced at the New Technology Presentation Meetings, which the university organized Aug 24, 2012, in Tokyo. Yano expects that the new technologies will be applied to transparent OLED substrates, substrates of organic thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cells, electronic paper, materials for car windows, packaging containers, etc. Cellulose nanofibers, which constitute pulp, have a width of 10-20nm ...

Lighting designers, specifiers and property managers can shape indoor spaces in engaging new ways with GE Lighting's LED Architectural Lighting portfolio. New GE LED Accent, Tetra® PowerGrid and GE LED Wall Washer lighting systems add rich layers, bold backdrops and dramatic accents to retail shops, hotels, offices, restaurants, and a variety of other commercial spaces. "Lighting evokes emotion in its subtle sophistication," said Sarah Truman, GE Lighting Architectural LED Lighting Product Manager. "What we've done here is...

J P Sercel Associates (JPSA) has launched the IX-6100-MD for scribing and dicing metal layers such as molybdenum, copper, nickel, gold, silver, zinc and their alloys used in the LED manufacturing process. The IX-6100-MD is equipped with JPSA’s latest proprietary vision and scribe placement technology allowing reduction in die street size and enabling more LED dies per wafer. The key technology in IX-6100-MD is JPSA’s proprietary beam delivery system that allows the shape of the laser beam to be independently adjusted in two dimensions. T...

MANCHESTER-based MHA Lighting has helped Manchester Airport cut its lighting energy consumption by 63 per cent through a third major lighting installation. With its award-winning low energy luminaires and ability to design bespoke solutions, MHA Lighting has quickly become one of the airport’s preferred suppliers, supplying more than £500,000 worth of lighting products to the airport in the last 18 months. The latest project, which completes this month, includes replacing under canopy lighting with MHA’s patented C Lite technology. This ...

Philips Lumileds has launched a new white LED array , which can assist LED system producers to free from the tiresome LED binning process and reduce inventory requirements as well as time to market. The new LUXEON K arrays come under a 3-step MacAdam ellipse and provide higher consistency in lumen per watt as a result of forward voltage as well as flux ranges.   The arrays suits for energy-efficient downlight and retrofit lamp applications that need high light output within a space and thermally constrained system. The Freedom From Binning commitment of...

Sentry Electric, one of North America’s most experienced and knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor lighting, is pleased to announce the launching of its new web site. Designed with the user in mind, the new web site offers improved navigation, increased site content, and a host of other new features. Users will find Sentry’s new web site to be fresh, clean, and inviting.  The look and feel of the previous web site’s pages has been enhanced while the functionality has been expanded.    New features or enhancements include: •  &...

Historic park surrounding Los Angeles City Hall has gotten LED makeover from LEDtronics of Torrance, California. Located around the tree-lined pathways and stairs of the 1.7-acre park are 13 lampposts whose ballasted 130-watt high-pressure-sodium post-top bulbs have recently been replaced with 27-watt LED lamps from LEDtronics. Apart from the energy savings of 103 watts per unit, the LED lamps offer much longer product lifespans than HPS or Metal Halide, resulting in reduced replacement and maintenance costs; improved visibility and enhanced night vision (a...

Annual energy saving 75% The canopy area to the entrance of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital was lit with 100 watt mercury vapor downlights creating an undesirable greenish hue and unsanitary conditions with bird and insect access. The mercury vapor lamps required frequent and costly replacements as well as the high cost to operate.     LumenOptix™ Solution LRD8 30 watt, 2000 lumen, 4000k LED Retrofit Downlights. Benefits •     Increased light output by well over 50% •     Improved color rend...

Devices Measure 1.0 mm by 0.5 mm With Ultra-Low 0.35 mm Profile, Provide Luminous Intensity to 180 mcd   The Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) announced a new series of super red, soft orange, yellow, yellow green, blue, and white ultra-bright LEDs in a tiny surface-mount 0402 ChipLED package. Measuring 1.0 mm by 0.5 mm with an ultra-thin 0.35 mm profile, VLMx1500-GS08 series devices provide exceptional brightness with a luminous intensity to 180 mcd. While the blue and white LEDs in the VLMx1500-GS08 series...

Energy Efficient, Daylight-Quality Task Lighting Empowers Individualsto Personalize Their Lighting Experience Lunera Lighting, Inc., the lighting solutions provider leading the transformation to advanced LED technology, announced the launch of their ECLIPSE SERIES by Mondoluz, a line of LED task lights to complement Lunera’s commercial interior general lighting product offering. The addition of these task lights to Lunera’s catalog creates a holistic product offering for a broad range of commercial lighting applications, including offices,...

As grocery and food retailers continue to look for ways to increase profit margins by curbing costs, many are finding a solution in their refrigerated display cases. Replacing traditional fluorescent tubes in refrigerated display cases with energy-efficient LED fixtures from GE Lighting is adding up to hundreds of thousands of dollars* in annual savings. They also make products more attractive to shoppers by immersing food and beverages in crisp, white, uniform light. GE Lighting recently helped a large grocery chain and a convenience-store chain achieve these benefits by outf...

Case Study highlights merging energy efficiency, environmental responsibility, and community friendly requirements into project design   Spaulding Lighting, a Hubbell Lighting Inc. brand, has announced the release of a new case study on illuminating a new Lee Toyota / Scion automotive dealership in Topsham, Maine with the latest in LED site lighting.  With a directive for a “green approach” from the dealership owner, Adam Lee, the case study reiterates the architect’s plan of designing a project that was environmentally responsible and as commu...

Power Integrations has added two new devices to its LinkSwitch™-PH IC family. The new devices allow commercial lighting applications up to 75 W to benefit from single-stage design, reducing BOM cost and enabling a smaller driver with high efficiency. LNK410EG (dimming) and LNK420EG (non-dimming) provide a constant-current output with a PF- corrected and low THD input. The capabilities of the new devices are showcased in RDR-290, a reference design describing a single-output driver for high-bay lighting. RDR-290 is 92.2% efficient at 230 VAC...

Newport News Public School District in Virginia recently installed more than 185 Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) LED exterior luminaires, becoming the first Virginia school district in the area with a significant LED lighting installation. The district selected Cree THE EDGE® security, area and parking structure luminaires to illuminate the exteriors of seven schools: General Stanford Elementary, Greenwood Elementary, Lee Hall Elementary, Palmer Elementary, Crittenden Middle, Booker T. Washington Middle and Denbigh High. “These energy ef...

O2Micro® International Limited has developed the OZ8022M High Brightness Offline LED Driver Controller. O2Micro's patented Free Dimming technology enables LED bulbs to dim using any on/off switch, thus eliminating cost, installation and compatibility problems associated with traditional incandescent dimmers. O2Micro's patented Free Dimming technology works with any on/off switch, including wall toggles, paddle switches, pull cords, rotary switches and other types of on/off switches commonly found on walls, extension cords and table/desk lamps. Acc...

Sapphire is an ideal material for windows used in extreme environments, but producing large-form windows is difficult Rubicon draws on its expertise to develop a unique new crystal growth platform Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical industries, announced a ground-breaking project, dubbed Large-Area Net-shape Crystal Extraction (LANCE), developed to produce large-area sapphire windows of optical quality for military sensing applications. The project is support...

HexaTech, Inc. has developed a new class of high transparency single crystal Aluminum Nitride (AlN) material. This new material provides a significant reduction in optical absorption in the UV-¬C wavelengths, resulting in dramatic improvements in the processing and performance of UV-¬C optoelectronic components. according to the company,this enhanced material will offer an improvement of lifetime and power output for UV-¬‐C LEDs. For the rapidly growing water purification market, the requirement for extended lifetime and improved efficiency are critica...

Spectrum Health, one of Michigan’s largest not-for-profit health systems located in Grand Rapids, has an aggressive customer-centered sustainability program. When focusing on revamping their parking decks used by patients, visitors, and employees, they had three goals in mind: improve security, reduce maintenance costs and save energy. After retrofitting 1.25 million square feet of parking garage space and more than 3,500 parking spaces with 1,500 GE Evolve™ LED Garage fixtures  , Spectrum accomplished its three goals at the medical center.   Lighting ...

Since 1892, Aultman has served Canton, Ohio, with exceptional health care services. In 2010, Stark County’s largest hospital and employer launched a project to serve patients and staff with exceptional new parking lot and parking deck illumination. Evolve™ LED lighting systems from GE Lighting proved the right prescription. Onlookers are remarking on an “incredible difference,” and Aultman found that it has delivered a healthy $13,000 annual energy cost savings to its campus.   The hospital first trialed GE’s Evolve LED Area Light...

Albeo Technologies has brought "chip-in-fixture" (CIF) patent strategy into LED fixture innovation. The “chip-in-fixture" (CIF) LED lighting platform, titled LED chip-based lighting products and methods of building (US Patent 8,056,659),covers the integration of unpackaged light-emitting diode chips directly on the inside surface of the external shell of the fixture, to substantially reduce the raw material cost of LED fixtures and dramatically improve performance. The CIF design minimizes thermal resistance by eliminating printed circui...

As the industry- leading brand of high Power COB LED manufacturer in Taiwan, Lustrous Technology Ltd., (4997TW) recently announced their Zhaga series products were accredited certification from UL in June, marks as the pilot of LED lighting industry in Asia Pacific region.   Considering Zhaga light engine is the future mainstream in LED lighting industry, In July 2010, Lustrous was registered as the first Taiwan regular member of Zhaga Consortium, investing great efforts and resources in developing Zhaga light engine products. This June, they proud...

The LED lighting revolution has expanded to Jakarta, Indonesia. The LED illumination’s vast ambient and security benefits led to the installation of more than 3,000 area lights, featuring CreeXLamp XP-G LEDs, along a newly developed shopping and commercial area. Beginning in summer 2011, Lian-Fa replaced 200-watt high pressure sodium lamps with the LED-based luminaires for brighter and broader illumination, enabling shoppers and visitors to feel safer and more comfortable while visiting the area at night. The range of 105-watt, 133-watt and 200-watt lumi...