The testing and certification organization CSA has officially set up its Guangzhou lab with the addition of new energy efficiency verification (EEV) testing equipment and added capabilities. Located in the Guangzhou High-tech Development Zone, the lab comprises an area of over 3,800 m2. The expanded facility is the second CSA Guangzhou laboratory, which supplies LED lighting testing and certification services as well as energy efficiency verification (EEV) services. According to Ash Sahi, President and CEO, CSA Group, "The expansion to the Guan...

Optics for Hire, an engineering and product development company located in a suburb of Boston, announced today it has developed a lens design based on the new CREE XB-D LED. OFH Lighting‟s 20 mm TIR optic has a 8.3 degree beam angle and 16 degree field angle with uniform color and intensity. Additional beam pattern designs will be available in the coming weeks. The XB-D LED provides double the lumens-per-dollar as the previous generation of CREE LEDs. “For the best performance, an LED optic should be optimized for the chip to be used. Seco...

The Company continues to invest in energy-efficient LED lighting solutions to support sustainable design practices. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, is pleased to announce its products represent approximately 50 percent of the recommended commercial LED models on the DesignLights™ Consortium (DLC) Qualified Product List (QPL). The DLC, a collaboration of Canadian and United States utility companies and regional energy efficiency organizations ...

Robertson Worldwide, a global manufacturer and supplier of electronic and magnetic ballasts, and other lighting systems, is excited to announce that Pamela Stowers has been appointed Robertson’s Director of Marketing. Pamela comes with a wealth of experience having spent the last 10+ years in the electrical and lighting industries, with companies like A.L.P. Lighting Inc. and Fulham Co, Inc.  Pamela’s successful track record as a marketing manager includes new product and category launches, awareness and customer acquisition programs with a high rate of r...

Luminus Devices, Inc., is demonstrating the latest projector products illuminated by the company's projection chipsets at CES, January 10-13, in Las Vegas, NV. Visitors can get a chance to see a side-by-side demonstration featuring an LED projector with brightness comparable to a traditional lamp-based projector rated at 2200 ANSI lumens. The company will also display a 4000 lm hybrid LED/Laser projector based on its latest Red and Blue LED technology solutions. In the ultra-portable projectors category, Luminus will demonstrate several projectors ...

As LED is one of the three main strategic sectors backed by government support, Guangdong province continues to solidify its position as China’s major hub for LEDs. Based on 2011 estimates, the province has doubled its scale in terms of production value. In the first half alone, it breached the $12.6 billion mark. So far, the number of related enterprises there is close to 3,000 with an aggregate workforce exceeding 550,000. Furthermore, the designated department is identifying the key technological problems in major LED categories. The first step to take into co...

Advanced LED Platform Doubles Lumens-per-Dollar to Accelerate Adoption of LEDs Driving the next generation of mainstream LED lighting adoption, Cree, Inc. introduces the breakthrough XLamp® XB-D LED. The first LED based on an innovative new Cree technology platform, the XLamp XB-D LED ushers in a new era of price-performance for lighting-class LEDs. This LED can further simplify designs, ultimately removing a key barrier to widespread LED implementation—up-front system cost. The XB-D LED delivers twice the lumens-per-do...

Philips Lumileds has appointed Pierre Yves Lesaicherre as its new CEO. Mr. Lesaicherre joins Lumileds with more than two decades of experience in the semiconductor and component industry. He succeeds Michael C. Holt and will report directly to Philips Lighting’s acting Chief Executive Officer Frans van Houten. According to Frans van Houten, “Pierre Yves' tremendous experience at NXP Semiconductors, most recently as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the business lines Microcontrollers & Logic, make him uniquely qualifie...

Sony has unveiled a "Crystal LED Display"--a 55-inch prototype TV that actually uses miniature LED in place of pixels at CES 2012. The Sony prototype uses 6 million LEDs (2 million each of red, green, and blue) mounted directly on the front of the display, which Sony says improves the efficiency of light output. According to the company,the technology is superior to both LCD and plasma, with higher contrast, a wider color gamut, and wider viewing angles. While the TV is nowhere near actual production, Sony says it could be used in a wide range o...

Wavien Inc. has joined hands with WattWorks Inc. to introduce a LED Point Light, designed and manufactured by WattWorks, using Wavien’s proprietary LED Recycling Technology for Visual Inspection Applications. Wavien’s RLT technology allows narrow, high intensity beams to be generated. The recycling of light allows the otherwise wasted light to be directed toward the target, increasing the intensity. This technology has been applied to spot lights, flashlight, and projector applications. The application of the RLT technology to the Point Ligh...

Digital print industry professional Yasushi Katsuta has been appointed Business Development Manager - Japan for UK UV LED innovator Integration Technology Ltd. The Oxfordshire-based company opens its first office in Fuchu-shi, Tokyo in March (2012) to provide technical sales, parts stores and administration functions for the territory and for ITL's exclusive distributors. Osaka-born Katsuta joins ITL from NEopt, where for the past two years he represented ITL interests in Japan.  He previously worked extensively for inkjet print head ma...

Eulitha AG, a pioneer and leader in the production of high-quality nanostructures using advanced lithography techniques, today announced that it has signed a joint-development and licensing agreement with EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets. EVG will integrate Eulitha’s PHABLE™ mask-based ultraviolet (UV) photolithography technology with EVG’s automated mask aligner product platform with the goal of developing a low-cost-of-ownership (CoO) nanopatte...

"The high intelligent LED street lamp industrialization project” which was operated by SPARK was approved by the state ministry of science and technology currently, and was listed as the 2012 national torch project. It is marked that SPARK was not only becoming the leading enterprise who can supply LED street lamp solution project, but also consolidate the status of SPARK in semiconductor lighting industry. The Torch Plan is a guidance plan which develops Hi-tech industry in China, approved by the State Council in August 1988, organized and implem...

Vizio, Panasonic, Toshiba and RCA, and other LED companies are paving the way for CES to tap into their LED market. Vizio is working on its line of LED bulbs for the U.S. which the company says will have a "Vizio price." Panasonic already manufacture LEDs for Japan and Toshiba started selling its A19 LED through BestBuy's Web site last month. RCA said at CES that it will manufacture LED bulbs as part of a larger home theater announcement. It developed a "chip on a board" that uses a single efficient LED light source...

San Francisco based LED lighting company, Elemental LED announced that it is a sponsor of On the Green Road, a recent project by Bay Area-based environmentalists Cece Reinhardt and Brenda Daugherty who retrofitted a 2003 Airstream so that it could operate sustainably off the grid.   Reinhardt and Daugherty aim to travel around the U.S. in the retrofitted Airstream hauled by a bio-fueled Dodge Ram. Elemental LED outfitted the Airstream with LED lighting inside and out, which is integral to keeping the Airstream’s energy-consumption low. Reinhar...

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...

SWITCH Lighting(TM) is to present its SWITCH75 LED light bulb at the CES Innovations Stage Presentation on Tuesday, January 10 at 11am in the Venetian Ballroom A-D, Innovations Showcase Stage. SWITCH is the first manufacturer to announce a family of LED bulbs with 40, 60, 75 and 100 watt-equivalents. SWITCH bulbs last 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs while still providing that same warm glow. They also turn on instantly and can be used in any orientation -- just like the conventional incandescent light bulb.   The company ...

TÜV SÜD America Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of its new 30,000 square foot Energy Efficiency Center of Excellence located just north of Atlanta, Ga. The new NVLAP* ISO/IEC17025-accredited laboratory allows TÜV SÜD to test and certify products to global energy efficiency programs. Services include ENERGY STAR®, Lighting Facts Label, California Title 24/20, IEC 60529/IPXX, IES files, NRTL Certification, CE Marking,ENEC Mark, Energy-related Products (ErP) Directive, RoHS, and CON...

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...

The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff has cooperated with SWALEC to complete a major LED lighting project to further reduce energy consumption at the home of Welsh sport. Over 450 LED light fittings have been installed to replace the old fluorescent lighting at the stadium, expected to reduce energy consumption by 70%. The ongoing maintenance and replacement needs will substantially reduce costs for the stadium.  ...

Arizona based health science research organization, Science of Light (SOL) has begun accepting pledges for its green schools indoor environmental project - Enlightened Schools: “Smart Lights = Smart Kids.” According to research studies, lighting in schools can dramatically affect children’s health and their ability to learn. Children spend up to 40 hours per week in school buildings. Much of this time is spent under fluorescent lighting that emits hazardous radiation and radio frequency waves that contribute to a toxic “light polluted” indoor e...

Recently, considering a fire hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of LED flashlight sets sold at Target stores for a full refund. Target stores of Minneapolis imported around 55,000 6-piece LED Flashlight Sets from China and sold exclusively from October 2010 through December 2011 for about $10 per set. As the flashlights can heat up enough to pose a fire hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced to recall them. The recall involves 6-piece LED Flashlight Sets with flashlights made of si...

As incandescent bulbs will disappear in the future, the Home Home Depot‘s  electricians are letting everyone adjust the tendency. According to Electrician Steve Benz, they are putting on an energy efficient clinic just educating the customers on the benefits of fluorescent to incandescent and the new products, LED. Fluorescent and LED bulbs can last anywhere from 10 to 40 years. That's much longer than the average 6 months with the old incandescent bulbs. “When these incandescent bulbs get phased out in the next year or so we're going to see the p...

Under a $355,000 pilot project fund by the Federal Highway Administration, the Oregon Department of Transportation has taken a solar-powered navigationa LED lighting system pilot project on the Astoria-Megler Bridge in the summer of 2011. The demonstration project is intended to test the lights’ performance in windy and low-light conditions. “We’re not really worried about the panels charging,” said ODOT project manager Paul Christiansen. “We think that will be fine.” The real concern is how the lights will hold up in 100-mph wind...

Estimates of LEDinside, an industry data source in Taipei, show average selling prices for high-power LED components have plunged 43% in one year. To cite a simple measure, the cost of an LED alternative, now $15 to $25 each, to a 40-watt incandescent bulb could fall to $10 to $15 in coming quarters, according to Roger Chu, research director of green energy at LEDinside. He expects stiff price cuts to continue in coming years. Dropping prices surely hurt manufacturers’ near-term revenues and margins. But they could also spell great news in the long run to acceler...

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...

A law to phase out incandescent lights has taken effect as New Hampshire’s only electric cooperative announced to become the first utility in the Granite State to replace HPS lighting with LED technology for its outdoor lighting program. Officials launched a new initiative Jan. 1 that’s expected to phase out other types of co-op-owned lighting fixtures within a few years. Currently, the co-op owns about 4,600 outdoor area lights, and has informed companies, communities and consumer-members who lease the equipment that they will have three models of LED fixt...

AWARD-winning LED lighting specialists MHA Lighting has expanded its product range for 2012. Experts at the Greater Manchester-based lighting manufacturers have unveiled their RodLite GRP range which acts as a direct replacement for fluorescent tubes – but has all the benefits of LEDs. The RodLite GRP’s patented LED technology creates glare-free uniformly distributed light and achieves LG Standards Lux levels – but typically uses 80% less energy. It is ideal for any internal or external application where fluorescent tubes are cu...

Scientists at UC San Diego have made a breakthrough on making millions of flourescent E. coli bacteria flash all at once, creating a sort of living LED screen. Jeff Hasty, a professor of biology and bioengineering led the research team in the university's Division of Biological Sciences and BioCircuits Institute.   It took him and his team about five years and a series of papers to develop what he calls the "biopixels" that make up the living LED screen. Firstly, date back to 2008, Hasty and his team published a paper that showed how they built ...

LG Electronics will showcase the world's largest OLED TV with 55 inches they claim at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.   The new LG OLED TV generates the most natural colors of any TV set at a much lower price point than could have been achieved using the standard manufacturing process.   What sets LG's TV picture apart from other OLED TVs is 4-Color Pixels and Color Refiner which work together to generate natural and accurate colors that are sharp and consistent. The 4-Color Pixels feature allows for mor...