LEDinside journalists recently visited the booth of TAO, a light resource and luminaire manufacturer, on 14th Hong Kong International Light Fair (Autumn Edition). TAO is a light source and luminaires manufacturer from China, founded in 2004, managed by a mixed Sino-European team. All their products are designed and developed in the R&D center in Shanghai, where their factory is also located. With about 900 employees, TAO is now a recognized vendor in the lighting industry. Their products are mostly distributed in western countries but they can also be found ...

From October 27thto 30th, 2012 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) had its grand opening at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. As the Asia's largest, the global ranking second in the industry exhibition, Hong Kong International Lighting Fair has long been regarded as leader in the LED lighting industry. On this fair, Shenzhen Spark Optoelectronics S&T Co.,Ltd., one of the leading enterprises in the domestic lighting industry, made its appearance with self-developed  new generation of modular high power tunnel lig...

Asia’s key event for the LED/OLED lighting industry, LIGHTING JAPAN 2013 will take place from January 16th to 18th, 2013 at Tokyo Big Sight. When we talk about the current LED lighting industry, Asian market is the inevitable part of it. Taiwan and Korea have become the top suppliers of LED, as well as Japan. On the other hand, the market potential in this area is huge, as you can see in Japan (the world’s largest market of LED light bulbs)and China (the huge market wherepopularization of LED lighting is rapidly proceeding at the in...

Thanks to its technological advancement and innovation in energy-efficient lighting, MEGAMAN® achieved global recognition at Asia’s largest autumn lighting fair, the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2012. During the four-day trade show, MEGAMAN® showcased the latest LED lighting products to incorporate its cutting-edge technology and featured hundreds of top buyers from around the world, confirming MEGAMAN® as a global thought leader and pioneer in the field of LED lighting. MEGAMAN® unveiled the 16W LED Classic, 24...

Following up on the huge success at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition held in June 2012, Tridonic presents its new LED products at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2012 (Autumn Edition). The LED portfolio enables customers to develop innovative LED lighting solutions. Light engines, modules and a series of drivers are a strong addition to Tridonic’s product portfolio. The company expects visitors from all over the world at the booth to obtain information about products and technologies. In focus are the new LED products an...

Facility utilizes efficient solutions to educate students on sustainable design.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided lighting solutions to the University of Kansas’ Studio 804 design team to illuminate Galileo’s Pavilion, a student-designed building on the campus of Johnson County Community College (JCCC). Products includeHalo LED recessed downlights,Neo-Ray Straight and Narrow suspended luminaires, andSure-Lites LED...

NGK Insulators, Ltd. of Japan has announced the development of high-quality GaN wafers to reduce defects and roughly double the luminous efficiency of green LEDs over previous models. NGK achieved this breakthrough by using a crystal growth technology that it has improved through a proprietary approach. The GaN wafers developed by NGK feature low defect density across the entire 2-inch diameter of the wafer surface and have a colorless transparency. NGK achieved this through proprietary improvements to liquid phase epitaxial technology for single crystal growth. ...

The Bay Area Climate Collaborative   (BACC) and GE Lighting   announced a project to advance the energy-efficient street-lighting market. The Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative aims to catalyze the upgrade of over 200,000 municipal streetlights in the region to LED technology.   Through the Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative  , the BACC is developing educational resources and pooling Bay Area-wide interest in LED streetlight conversions with a joint procurement option to secure improved purchase a...

A group of South Korean scientists have collaborated to translate what they observed in fireflies over toward a better, less expensive, LED lens. Their work is essentially mimicking a bioluminescent organ for lighting applications Following the contemporary practice of investigating biological systems, the team attempted to copy the structure of a firefly's underbelly into work that may lead to more efficient and cheaper LED lighting. They wrote about a better anti-reflective lens for LED in their paper, "Biologically inspired LED lens from cuticular nanostruct...

Taiwan LED leading brand TESS today reveal brand new product – 12W 1000 lumens omni-directional LED Bulb, this remarkable product not only breakthrough the current technology barrier but also reflect the demand in lighting market, TESS proofs it great powerful research and development ability in LED solutions again. Core value of TESS R&D is to keep challenging technology barrier, to provide innovative LED products and to bring new concept of energy saving to next generation. This brand new omni-directional LED Bulb (12W CW-1000lm/12W WW-...

Viper Networks, Inc. has made success on both LED lighting pilot programs with Sri Lanka's Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources; and with Colombo city officials representing the largest metropolitan area in Sri Lanka. While the Company seeks to install indoor lighting and street lights for all of Sri Lanka's 18 existing harbors and 11 new harbors under construction, the anticipated agreement (upon pilot project completion) for approximately 100 to 200 indoor lights and street lights per location represent the much smaller of the two pilot programs. Th...

Digital Lumens has recently released LightRules Monitor, a new application that sits on top of its platform and delivers ongoing analysis of the lighting system performance and recommendations about how to further optimize settings. “This is the first step to a complete service offering,” said Tom Pincince, president and CEO of Digital Lumens. He noted that increased savings can come from fine-tuning daylight harvesting values or by understanding patterns in shifts of the day or seasonality. “We’re providing a level of diagnostic service and using th...

Facility utilizes efficient solutions to educate students on sustainable design. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided lighting solutions to the University of Kansas’ Studio 804 design team to illuminate Galileo’s Pavilion, a studentdesigned building on the campus of Johnson County Community College (JCCC). Products include Halo LED recessed downlights, Neo-Ray Straight and Narrow suspended luminaires, and Sure-Lites LED E...

Gross Margin 12.4%, EPS NT$0.25   Lextar Electronics Corp. (“Lextar” or the “Company) (TAIEX: 3698) announced its results for the third quarter of 2012. The Company reported consolidated revenue of NT$ 2,894 million, up 10.9% from the previous quarter and near 15% of YoY increase. Gross profit was NT$ 360 million with the gross margin of 12.4%. Lextar’s consolidated net profit for the third quarter of 2012 was NT$ 105 million, EPS NT$ 0.25.   3Q 2012 Result Highlights:   l      &nb...

AIXTRON SE today announced that the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), China, has made a purchase order for two AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) systems to extend the center’s nitride semiconductor research. The order has been placed in the third quarter with deliveries planned in the fourth quarter of 2012 and in the first quarter of 2013. One system, capable of handling 6x2-inch substrates, focuses primarily on R&D, while the other system, a CRIUS, is designed for mass production, handling up to 31x2-inc...

      There is a program for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) commercial customers in Lake County by Lake County Energy Watch, to help improve energy efficiency and save money.   The Energy Fitness Program offers lighting retrofits at no- or low-cost for customers whose electrical demand is 200 kilowats or less per month.   These retrofits are available to small businesses, nonprofit organizations and special districts, as well as city, state and federal facilities located in Lake County. The retrofits include four- and ...

Three latest green technology innovations from Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have been chosen to receive 2012 R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine. The institute has its three latest award-winning innovations: Light&Light, the first A19 all-plastic LED light bulb; a low-cost, easy-to-use voltage and current meter called AVA-Clamp; and SideLighter, billed as “the first low-cost, high-performance, transparent concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar panel” that can be used both as a structural panel or window ...

EVERLIGHT introduced several low, mid, and high power LED lighting components that adopted the LM80 test, in order to provide a broad range of high quality LED lighting components and strengthen EVERLIGHT’s concept of “The Right LED for The Right Application.” Standardization has become a key factor in LED adoption in the global lighting market - not only in safety standards and performance standards but also more importantly, in reliability and lifetime testing. LM80 is the lighting standard by which all major LED manufacturers...

About JK FLAT ‧Over 10 years of BLU technology and experience from World Top 3 field players ‧Advantage in Optical Pattern design ‧Designed By Taiwanese and Chinese team; Assemble in Chinese factory ‧Strategy Partnership with key parts suppliers ‧Strong competence of cost and parts supply Advantages of JK FLAT LED Flat Lighting   ‧Revolutionary ultra-thin flat lighting ‧Professional technology for lighting of diffusion ‧New concepts design from backlight technology ‧New design for diversified environment ap...

Lextar Electronics Corp. (“Lextar” or the “Company”) (TAIEX: 3698) announces it will participate in the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair where it will display a number of product lines such as high CRI downlight series, bulb and spot light series, tube series, panel light series and light module series. Within all the products displayed, there will also be a variety of Lextar-made LED packaging products that have received LM-80 certification, displaying the strength of Lextar’s LED vertical integration from Epi, chip, package, ...

Philips introduces the Philips DimTone BR30 LED with color temperature dimming and the commercial availability of the Philips LED A21 22 watt LED, the company's 100 watt incandescent equivalent and the LED T8 with external driver, which is one of the first TLEDs to meets the DesignLight Consortium (DLC) requirements for linear replacement lamps. These latest additions to the Philips line-up replicate the light quality of the incandescent and fluorescent technologies they replace, while offering the energy-efficiency and reduced maintenance benefits of ...

New Turnkey A19 Bulb Joint Reference Design Being Showcased at Hong Kong LIGHTFAIR Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) announced the availability of a new turnkey reference design developed with Cree, Inc. for 60-watt equivalent dimmable A19 LED bulbs, continuing the two companies’ ongoing collaboration to drive the LED lighting revolution. The new ENERGY STAR® compliant design – integrating Marvell’s latest deep dimming driver IC, the 88EM8183, and Cree’s leading edge XLamp® XB-D LED – further enables the...

Fifty years ago this month, GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED). In the five decades since, businesses and municipalities the world over have embraced LED systems for both their cost and maintenance savings, including:    The City of Las Vegas Las Vegas is best known for the bright lights of 'The Strip,' but thanks to new LED fixtures, the city's surrounding streets are starting to take on a shine of their own. Far from a gamble, an investment in GE LED streetl...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces new CXA LED Arrays, boasting high lumen output and high efficacy in a family of single, easy-to-use components. Optimized to simplify designs and lower system cost, Cree’s newest CXA LEDs can deliver system-level performance ranging from 500 to 5000 lumens and up to 146 LED lumens per watt, enabling applications ranging from LED replacement lamps to commercial downlights.   CXA LED Arrays are available in EasyWhite® color temperatures, providing the LED industry’s best color consistency for des...

CAO Group, Inc. (CAO), a leading design and manufacturer of LED signage and lighting products, announces the newly enhanced and patented Dynasty® LED BA10 Candelabra Series TM. The key feature of the new Dynasty® LED Candelabra is that it has the same look and form factor as incandescent BA10 candelabra. It features the following key characteristics: 1) 360 omni-directional butterfly light beam pattern;  2). 2700K color temperature, higher than 80 CRI, 3). higher than 50 lumen per watt overall efficiency; 4). BA10 base for 110AVC input f...

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) recently completed the installation of nearly 1,600 LED luminaires that light walkways and grassy areas in Central Park. The new luminaires from Spring City Electrical feature Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp® XP-G LEDs in each fixture and were produced using an advanced light engine from Heatron. DOT officials estimate the new LED lighting will reduce energy usage by 62 percent and deliver annual maintenance savings of nearly $30,000 compared to metal halide lighting. The NYC DOT initia...

Philips will debut its 100W-equivalent LED lamp, the A21 LED, in December. The A21 LED looks like the bulbs in AmbientLED/EnduraLED family but those naming conventions have been ended so the description will be the bulb’s name. The lamp consumes 22W, puts out 1780 lumens, operates at warm white (2700K), and is rated for 25,000 hours of life. It’s dimmable and has a CRI rating of 80. One important detail to know about the bulb is that it’s an “A21″, which refers to the shape and size. A standard, household bulb is an A19 w...

Vietnamese scientists are trying to create LED lamp products which have the light spectrum suitable with every kind of plant, which can help save electricity, churn out clean and off-season products. According to Dr Phan Hong Khoi, Managing Director of the high-efficiency public lighting project in Vietnam, LED is a special type of semiconductor diode which can generate a narrow spectrum, discrete light when excited. LED lamps can create different colors, depending on the semiconductor materials used and operating conditions. With LED lamps, scientists use two bea...

GreenWave Reality’s Connected Lighting Solution has made a dream that wirelessly influence light bulbs’ color, brightness with iPhone come true. People reside in Europe can begin to enjoy such luxuries, as GreenWave Reality’s Connected Lighting Solution combine energy star certified LED bulbs with home’s wireless network, allowing you to control your abode’s lights with the touch of a smartphone (or tablet). Unlike like LIFX version, customers won’t be able to change the color, but probably can influence their brightness, and t...

On 15th October, the LED manufacturer Optogan Group has started mass production of high-power X10 modules in St. Petersburg, Russia. Based on the innovative concept of scalability, flexibility and lean processing, the X10 modular Chip-on-Board solution significantly reduces the manufacturing costs of energy-efficient light sources based on LEDs. “The opening of the X10 production line with a production capacity of 40,000 units per month will make LED technology accessible to a wider range of customers in the near future” said Vladislav Bougrov, the Execu...