2012-08-24

GE LED Wall Washer

LED Architectural Lighting   GE LED Wall Washer provides uniform light and draws attention to a large area and emphasizes textures on vertical surfaces. This LED system is available with different optics to enhance the architectural design of three specific applications: Cove Lighting, Wall Washing and Wall Grazing.   Features •    3 different optics for specific applications: Cove Lighting, Wall Washing, Wall Grazing •    Field adjustable mounting for precise fixture angle •  &nbs...
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2012-08-24

Hubbell Lighting’s Prescolite Honored as NAED’s tED Magazine “Best of the Best” Awards

Hubbell Lighting’s division Prescolite, was honored for its College Support Program at the National Association of Electrical Distributors’ (NAED) “Best of the Best” Awards sponsored by the association’s publication, The Electrical Distributor (tED) magazine. Prescolite took top supplier honors in the category of Public Relations/Community Outreach. To establish a connection with college students early in their careers, Prescolite reached out to professors at six of the country’s top-ranked architecture and engineering pr...
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2012-08-23

Digital Lumens Relocated Its Headquarters to Boston's Innovation District

Digital Lumens has relocated its headquarters to 374 Congress Street in Boston's revitalized 'Innovation District', to cater for continued growth. The company signed a lease for 16,000 square feet of space to accommodate the company's growing business, customer base and staffing. The company has more than doubled space from its former West End location, allowing it to expand research and development facilities, sales and support areas. The lease was brokered by T3 Advisors based in Waltham, Mass. Earlier this year, Digital Lumens was named a "...
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2012-08-22

Missoula's City Hall Gets LED Upgrade

At Monday's city council meeting, council members authorized the mayor to sign a contract with local contractor, Paulson Electric Inc to complete LED lighting upgrade project in Missoula's City Hall. The project is being paid for by a grant from the Department of Energy given to the city as part of the Clean Air Act. It means the company will now install almost $150,000 in new LED lighting and lighting controls in the basements, stairwells, and hallways of City Hall. The current lights work just fine, but city officials said they use more than twice the ...
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2012-08-22

TerraLUX’s LED Solutions Aids Village Place Apartments to Lowers Energy Costs

TerraLUX’s innovative LED solutions have supported Village Place Apartments of Boulder, Colorado, in cutting the complex’s energy costs. Village Place Apartments is a 72-unit complex, and, like most apartment complexes, Village Place’s interior corridor lighting is turned on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During the retrofit, 56 lights were updated with the TerraLUX Linear LED Engine including: wall sconces, overhead dome lights, bathroom lights and outdoor lights. Each hallway wall sconce contained two CFL lamps and an external ball...
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2012-08-22

Seesmart’s LED Lighting Helps Ashforth Save $200,000

Seesmart Technologies, Inc. has completed the installation of LED lighting in two of The Ashforth Company's properties in Connecticut, transforming its spaces and offering a quick return on investment of only 15 months. And it is estimated that the combined savings for the project will be in excess of $200,000. Seesmart's LED retrofit replaced 1,300, 32-watt, T-8 fluorescent bulbs with high-efficiency LED tube lights throughout lobbies, common areas and garages at Ashforth's properties: 707 Summer Street, (Ashforth's headquarters) and 3001 Stamford ...
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2012-08-21

Sentry Electric Launches New Web Sits

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: •  &...
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2012-08-21

MSi LED Lighting Named To Inc. Magazine’s 2012 List Of 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies In America

MSi LED Lighting ranks number 401 on the 2012 Inc. 500 and is the only lighting company included on this prestigious list   Inc. magazine ranked MSi LED Lighting number 401 on its 31st annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.   In 2008 MSi opened its doors intent on creating a solution to the high energy consumption of hot, costly halogen lights in a myriad of applications – particularly in retail, hospitality, and museums. MSi’s LED lights last for up to 13 years, use as little energy ...
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2012-08-17

Lakeland Community College Uses Lighting Solution from Acuity Brands to Meet Key Performance and Energy-Efficiency Goals

RT Series LED luminaires equipped with nLight controlsare installed in the new 40,000 square-foot Holden University Center. Lakeland Community College (“Lakeland”) in Kirtland, Ohio, selected an integrated lighting solution from Acuity Brands, Inc.(NYSE: AYI) to meet key performance and energy-efficiency objectives for its new Holden University Center (“Center”). The integrated lighting solution installed in the 40,000 square-foot facility consisted of 483 Lithonia Lighting® RT Series LED luminaires equipped with nLight&r...
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2012-08-17

70,000 City Streetlights in Baltimore City Gets LED Makeover

Baltimore City is under the process of converting 70,000 city streetlights from sodium vapor lights to LEDs. Baltimore expects to reap an annual savings of $1.9 million on its electric bill and $275,000 in maintenance costs. Also, advocates say the lights produce less glare and are more focused, meaning less light pollution that drowns out the night stars and can disrupt ecosystems. However,critics say the new lights don't illuminate the area as well. City Councilman Robert W. Curran, who represents Northeast Baltimore, said that can be a public safety issue if sidew...
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2012-08-16

Hi Score Subsidiary Green LED Cooperates with NexPhase Lighting on Primary Source

Hi Score Corporation’s subsidiary Green LED Technology Inc, has made a deal with Miami Lighting Distributor, NexPhase Lighting, to call for NexPhase to use Green LED Tech as a primary source for its Energy Saving Lighting needs. Company COO Dominick Falso has been negotiating with top executives at NexPhase for some time.  “NexPhase is expanding its efforts in the Energy Saving Lighting end of their distribution efforts and we are honored that they are relying on us to fill these needs…it is a little too soon to predict the ...
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2012-08-15

SETi Receives ONR’s Contract to Purify Water with AlGaN LEDs

Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (SETi) has won $1.6 million contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop a self-contained portable water purification system for warfighters. The program aims to develop a portable unit that can provide a small team of warfighters with a self-sustainable source of potable water from any fresh water source. And SETi's UV LED technology for water quality monitoring and disinfection is incorporated into the system. Lately, stand-alone UV LED water disinfection efficacy has already been demonstrated at SETi...
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2012-08-15

Best Case Scenario: GE Lighting Helps Grocery/Convenience Stores Slash Energy Costs for Refrigerated Display Cases

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...
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2012-08-15

Spaulding Lighting Releases Detailed Case Study on LED illumination of an Automotive Dealership

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...
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2012-08-15

Energy Focus Releases Financial Results for Q2 of 2012

Energy Focus, Inc. announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012.   Financial results for the second quarter of 2012 include the following: --  Net sales were $7.7 million compared to $8.2 million for the second quarter of 2011. --  Gross margins improved to 22.2 percent of net sales compared to 18.9 percent of net sales for the second quarter of 2011. --  The net loss of $0.9 million improved $0.3 million compared to the second quarter's 2011 net loss of $1.2 million on $0.5 million lower sales.      &...
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2012-08-15

Power Integrations Launched 75 W Single-Stage LED Lighting Driver

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...
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2012-08-15

Global Resource Energy Signs Letter of Intent to Sell 49% of Its Exclusive North American Distribution of CLED Street Lights Rights

Global Resource Energy, Inc., engaged in the clean technology fuel cell sector, has announced to sign a Letter of Intent to sell 49% of its exclusive North American Distribution of CLED Street Lights Rights to Balon Bleu Holdings LLC. Global Resource Energy Inc.'s President, Robert Baker, states, "This Letter of Intent for a 49% purchase of the Company's Exclusive North American Rights of the CLED Street Lights provides capital and additional resources for the Company's entry into the North American Market with CLED Stre...
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2012-08-14

Cree’s LED Lighting Illuminates Seven Newport News Public Schools

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...
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2012-08-14

Onteco Corporation Received $2.9 million Stock under Its First International Licensing Agreement

Onteco Corporation, had received 2,037,948 shares of common stock of a publicly-traded company currently listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The stock is presently valued at $2.9 million U.S. dollars and is part of the payment due under the terms of the international licensing agreement signed April 30, 2012, with JARLYN S.A., ("JARLYN") a Uruguayan corporation, for Onteco's  proprietary LED intellectual property ("IP"), developed by its subsidiary, NexPhase Lighting, Inc. ("NexPhase"). Under the terms of t...
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2012-08-14

O2Micro Develops OZ8022M High Brightness Offline LED Driver Controller

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...
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2012-08-14

Rubicon Technology Develops New Sapphire Crystal Growth Platform to Manufacture Large Optical-Grade Windows for Military and Industrial Applications

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...
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2012-08-13

HexaTech Develops High Transparency Single Crystal AlN Material for UVC LED

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...
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2012-08-10

LEDinside: Global LED Lighting Market Focus Shifting to Asia under European Debt Crisis

According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, major lighting markets in the world have been affected by the European debt crisis in varying degrees. Certain Chinese LED firms whose businesses rely heavily on overseas markets have seen a decline in orders, which is particularly pronounced in the European lighting market. As a result, many LED companies start to shift their focus to the Chinese LED bidding market. In fact, China has recently restarted the bidding for LED subsidies in July, which provided hope for many LED firms.
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2012-08-10

Michigan Hospital Lights Parking Deck for $170,000 Less with GE LED Fixtures

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 ...
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2012-08-10

The LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI) 2013 Call for Speakers now open

The LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI) 2013 Call for Speakers opens today for the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference.  LFI invites speakers seeking opportunities to present in Philadelphia April 21-25, 2013, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. In the wake of new all-time attendance and trade show records set in its May 2012 showing in Las Vegas, LIGHTFAIR International invites and encourages experts from the lighting industry and other industries such as architecture, design, energy, en...
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2012-08-10

GE LED Fixtures Helps Ohio Hospital Reduce Energy Cost

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...
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2012-08-10

Albeo Technologies Develops "chip-in-fixture" Patent Strategy for LED Fixture Innovation

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...
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2012-08-09

Soraa Receives DOE Project for Bulk GaN Substrates Development

Soraa, dedicated in developing GaN solid-state lighting technology, has been selected by Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to lead a project on bulk GaN substrates development. It’s the only ARPA-E funded LED substrate project. Soraa claims to be the only LED manufacturer in the world shipping products based on superior GaN on GaN LEDs. GaN on GaN LEDs are of particular interest because they have demonstrated much higher performance than traditional lighting technologies and thus offer the potential for major energy savings. ...
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2012-08-09

Cooper Lighting's LED Innovation Center Recognized as DOE LED Lighting Facts® Approved Testing Laboratory Partner

Cooper Lighting’s Photometric Laboratory, part of its LED Innovation Center, has received U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) LED Lighting Facts®  Testing Laboratory Approval. Cooper Lighting is listed with LM-79 accreditation, the industry standard procedure for photometric and electrical measurements for solid-state lighting products. The DOE LED Lighting Facts program showcases LED products for general illumination from manufacturers who commit to testing products and reporting performance results according to industry standar...
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2012-08-09

SWARCO Receives Intertek ETL Safety Approval for FUTURLUX LED Streetlights

SWARCO Traffic Americas has received Intertek ETL safety approval for its US based FUTURLUX LED streetlights. Frank Harder, CEO of SWARCO Traffic Americas, pointed out that "We've gone from zero to one-hundred in six months opening our US headquarters, building a team, getting our FUTURLUX manufacturing in California off the ground and getting FUTURLUX approved for ETL for use throughout the country." And Jim Helmer, Director of Strategy at SWARCO, has summarized two key reasons that municipalities an...
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New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interest... READ MORE
Cree LED delivers superior brightness, light quality and efficiency for portable applications. Our XLamp® LEDs are ideally suited for torch, flashlight, tactical flashlight, head lamp, bike light, weapon light and lantern portable applicat... READ MORE