Adding Colours to Bangkok’s Landmark The Siam Discovery Center is one of Bangkok’s first shopping malls. Recently, the Center has new looks, thanks to Signex LED architectural lighting. At the core of the lighting fixtures are OSRAM Opto Semiconductor’s Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs which help illuminate the multi-dimensional bubble-like structures at the front of the building, attracting shoppers and tourists from afar. “When we were asked to create a lively illumination design for the Siam Discovery Center, we immediately picked...

Successful market penetration of latest generation systems Early demand for LED lighting production equipment continues R&D capacity increases AIXTRON SE (ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6), a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, delivered in 2010, for the third year in succession, the best operational performance in its history with EUR 783.8m of revenues and a 35% EBIT margin. Guidance for 2011 has been set at EUR 800-900m of revenues with an EBIT margin of circa 35%. Key Financials (in EUR million)&nb...

After last eighteen months evaluated by the Indian Railways, MIC Electronics Ltd, a Hyderabad based LED manufacturer, has successfully been the only company in the country which has been accorded by the Research, Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO) of the Ministry of Railways for the Energy Efficient LED based Luminaires to be fitted in the Air Conditioned Coaches of the Indian Railways. All Air Conditioned Coaches & Sleeper Coaches manufactured by Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai and Rail Coach Factory (RCF), Kapuralat...

Philips EnduraLED / AmbientLED 12.5 watt is announced to receive ENERGY STAR certification.   The Philips AmbientLED lasts 25 times longer and uses 80 percent less energy than the 60-watt incandescent bulb it is designed to replace. It features 806 lumens, 2700K, a CRI of 80 and a six year warranty.  Ed Crawford, General Manager of Lamps for Philips Lighting North America, said that “This LED bulb represents an important milestone for the lighting industry and for LED adoption, as it will give utilities the confidence to supp...

Albeo Technologies has acquired three patents covering thermal and integrated chip technology from USPTO.   Jeff Bisberg, Albeo's CEO, said that "We are pleased that the USPTO has recognized our intellectual property by granting these patents.  The Albeo team is innovating with the objective of replacing high performance fluorescent and HID with LED technology. The implementation of the patented ideas deliver higher value LED lighting solutions that reduce maintenance and energy costs."    Currently, the company is develop...

Because of the continuing rapid demands of LED production in Taiwan and China, Johnson Matthey, the designer and manufacturer of hydrogen purifiers, has shipped its purifiers to new and expanding fabs for LED production.  It’s said that Johnson Matthey's state-of-the-art PSH Series bulk hydrogen purifiers can provide 99.9999999% pure hydrogen for wafer fabrication. And the HP Series purifier product line is the most popular and provides the purest hydrogen.  According to Stuart Bestrom, Sales Manager for Johnson Matthey’s Gas Pur...

Verbatim will reveal the world’s first commercially available, organic LED (OLED) lighting panels that are colour tunable, white tone tunable and dimmable during the Fuori Salone show in Milan from April 12-17.      Verbatim will be located at Design Library srl, Via Savona 11, 20144 Milan. The company’s OLED display will be created by lighting designer Satoshi Uchihara, who has designed World Heritage Site installations, such as Kinkakuji, in Kyoto, Japan. The display will incorporate one of the world’s largest OL...

C&K Components, a leading international supplier of tact switches, toggle, rocker and pushbutton switches, and smart card interconnect devices, announces the availability of RAFI’s E-Box, a low-profile housing for control components.  The newly designed E-Box permits convenient and quick assembly and is suitable for installing actuators of the RAFIX 22 FS Series.  In addition, the E-Box can be used wherever single control component units are required at detached or remote locations. The modular system consists of bottom and top parts, contact mo...

New XLamp® ML-B LED Optimized for Lighting Applications Requiring Exceptionally Smooth Light Distribution Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of the XLamp® ML-B LED. Designed for quarter-watt operation, the XLamp ML-B LED brings lighting-class performance to distributed lighting applications where the light source is visible, such as panel lights and LED-based fluorescent tube replacements. Lighting manufacturers have tried to achieve a uniform lighting appearance by pl...

MSi Solid State Lighting is proud to announce the appointment of Luke Classen as Regional Sales Manager for the Northeast United States.  Classen will be headquartered in the company’s Chicago, Illinois offices. . About the company Considered the world leader in solid-state lighting technology for miner's cap-lights for the past decade, MSI has provided hundreds of thousands of LED mine lighting products to the gold and platinum mines throughout the world. Today, MSi is leveraging their LED expertise, and in collaboration with the leading opti...

With two new Orbeos panels, OSRAM is progressing the development of OLED technology one step further towards mass application. Both panels are mirrored and warm-white – one is rectangular, the other one round. The Orbeos product family is already in series production. In this way, OSRAM meets lighting designers' desire for planning certainty. The new shapes increase the creative scope.

Indian Western Railways will replace the destination signboards on outstation trains with LED boards to provide train number, next stop and station name. The system will be supported by Global Positioning System. Initially the LED boards will be installed in 600 coaches at Rs. 8 crore and later used in all trains. According to railway sources, it is the first time when WR is going install these boards. It will be GPS-enabled and in future passengers will able to see railway information inside the trains. Besides, this system is remote-controlled and programmable....

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has released its 8.4-inch, SVGA and XGA color TFT-LCD modules featuring white LED, a long backlight life for industrial use. According to the company, the new product can offer super high brightness and a wide operational temperature range, allowing it to be used in severe, outdoor environments....

Casio America is about to exhibit its LASER & LED HYBRID light engine during the 2011 Digital Signage Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the North Hall 2, Booth #2231.   To replace the mercury lamp contained in traditional data projectors, the LASER & LED HYBRID light engine can produce up to 3,000 lumens, bringing vividness and color range to a variety of digital signage applications. Additionally,Casio’s LASER & LED HYBRID light engine combines blue laser light and a fluorescent element to generate...

Recently, Rutland village has benefited a lot from LEDs. Market Overton Parish Council in Rutland reported the savings after LED bulbs were installed, replacing the usual sodium system. According to Deputy chairman, Andrew Stewart , the parish council's average monthly energy bill had gone down from about £80 to about £15 since the changes. Maintenance costs are also expected to be around 90% cheaper than in previous years. What’s more, 80% of their street lamps have been fitted with time switches to turn the lights off between the hours of m...

It’s reported that Fremont City Council has made a contract with Novato-based Republic Intelligent Transportation Services Inc. to install LED lights along Stevenson Boulevard, as part of the city's LED Street Light Retrofit on Stevenson Boulevard Project. And the contract between City of Fremont and Republic ITS will be $172,874. The project will replace all existing HPS street light heads with LED ones from Murietta Drive adjacent to the Interstate 880 interchange to Mission Boulevard. The project encompasses a 3.1-mile stretch of...

Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) has selected Cooper Lighting's Streetworks™ OVH LED Luminaire for a large-scale upgrade of 972 of the Islands' existing 200-watt High Pressure Sodium street lights street lights. Receiving stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to fund the project, the new lighting system will consume 103-watts per fixture and is estimated to provide energy savings of 56% compared to the older system. The Virgin Islands WAPA engineers hoped to achieve a model for energy sa...

Sharp's new 10W Mini Zeni series radiates with even more efficiency, whilst retaining very good light quality (CRI values of up to 87) and a long service life with its compact and cost-effective design.  

Ledzworld Technology, an innovative R&D and manufacturing company of high-end LED retro-fit lamps for professional users, launches its new LED retrofit MR16 , a low power-consumption 6.5W LED lamp that produces an industry- leading high output of 450 Lumen. The lamp has an efficacy of >70 Lumen/W at a colour temperature of 3000K.  

To support commercial greenhouses production, GE and The Government of Canada recently announced they are each investing $1.3 million, for a research project with Les Serres St-Laurent (Savoura) and McGill University, to develop innovative LED lighting technology, which will enable Canadian greenhouse growers to become more profitable and competitive in the global marketplace....

Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, has made a breakthrough on its new high-volume AlN template manufacturing tool by producing what is said to be the world’s first 300mm (12-inch) diameter AlN-on-silicon template for GaN. It claims that its process is the first that is capable of direct insertion into existing LED and power device production processes that grow GaN and related alloys such as InGaN and AlGaN. The new AlN template tool was designed and constructed by chief engineer Dr Bob Metzger, and it was incorporates many of the features...

According to Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, it has made a partnership with Oxford Instruments PLC, a U.K.-based high-tech tool systems company, to set up a research center for LED, which will focus on wafer-level packaging processes and integrated micro-structure technologies for high-brightness LEDs. ITRI President Shyu Jyuo-min pointed out that “With Taiwan’s most advanced Microelectromechanical Systems Open lab, ITRI will provide the best research and development capability in the field of LED packaging.”...

It’s reported that people at MiniWiz have created a useful little solar Bulb Lamp which will make use of the old plastic bottles. There are 0.18W solar module cells that can give you some light .Take any plastic bottle and attach the fixture to the mouthpiece, and you will have up to 6 hours of illumination. Because of a solar panel, it needs to be in the sun to charge up, and is best used for mood or garden light. It comes in a variety of colors....

OSRAM SYLVANIA has teamed up with Lowe's to introduce SYLVANIA LED Recessed Downlight Kit. The kit includes a six-inch LED recessed downlight with white trim and a medium base socket adapter. The sleek design complements most ceilings with its flush mounting style and aesthetic appeal.   Available in 3000K color temperature, the 11-watt version delivers 625 lumens of light, comparable to a standard 65-watt incandescent BR30 light bulb.  Moreover, the light can be quickly and easily installed into most standard six-inch can fixtur...

It’s said that the Future Lighting Europe conference will be held on 5th-6th April 2011 at Radisson Blu Hotel, Amsterdam.   Rogier van der Heide, Vice President of Philips Design and Chief Design Officer of Philips Lighting will present at the conference and show his opinion on LED innovations.   He will lead a session discussing the challenges faced by the lighting industry and provides his view on the LED technologies in the future, as well as the importance of the Open innovation approach. Besides, he will share his insight into the stan...

Digi-Key Corporation is announced to promote its sales with Cree-based printed circuit board (PCB) LED development kits. These kits, also known as star boards, are designed to simplify LED ease-of-use. PCB development kits, when combined with thermal heat sinks, can shorten time-to-market by forming the foundation for LED designs. PCB configurations are available for Cree XLamp XR-E, XR-C, XP-G, XP-E, XP-C, MX-6, and MC-E LEDs.  ...

Recently, LK Technology which comes from South Korean has set up a LED lighting assembly plant in Kaunas. And it prepares to manufacture in April and market not only to Lithuania and the Baltic States but also to Western Europe. According to Deputy Director of LK Development Rasa Incerauskaite, the Lithuanian plant will produce the latest generation LED lighting systems, indoor and outdoor ligthting equipment, lamps, as well as collaborate with such South Korean companies as Samsung. Plus, another South Korean company, LK Green Energy, opened a simi...

Reportedly, Black and McDonald has spent $3,199,500 on the replacement of 2,500 high-pressure sodium lights with LED lights across the Nova Scotia province in Canada. Amherst-based LED Roadway Lighting (LRL) will produce and deliver the LED luminaires. And Bill Estabrooks, the Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister, has supplied the funding for the project.  ...

Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co Ltd., organiser of the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition to be held 9 - 12 June 2011, has announced that among international trade fairs focusing only on the lighting industry, the show is now the world's largest lighting event in terms of exhibition size.  

AIXTRON SE  has announced  that its Close Coupled Showerhead® MOCVD Platform, a CRIUS® CCS reactor in the 6x2-inch (3x3-inch or 1x6-inch) wafer configuration, has been ordered by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). The Hong Kong based institute placed the order during the third quarter of 2010 and following delivery in the first quarter of 2011, the systems will be used for As/P/Sb based materials grown on Silicon substrates for electronics and photonics research applications. AIXTRON´s local...