Russian media quoted the data of the "whole series LED production business plan" from a professional marketing analysis company that, LED lighting proportion in the country is also growing as any other cities. In the long run, the proportion of Russia LED lighting market in the global market will be  1-5% and the growth rate of proportion in the country will reach 28-48% per year. Furthermore, the popularity of LED retrofit will break 300 million, and will continue to grow, mainly thanks to the energy efficiency and the expense of optimized power. Curren...

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...

To enter into LED lighting market, Ceradyne has acquired a minority interest with an option to acquire all of Tempe, Arizona-based Graphite Machining Services and Innovations, LLC (GMSI). And this acquisition of GMSI will not materially affect Ceradyne's 2012 financial performance. Ceradyne currently develops, manufactures, and markets advanced technical ceramic products and components for defence, industrial, energy, automotive/diesel, and commercial applications. GMSI has developed a proprietary method of applying a chemical vapour deposited (CVD) ...

Green LED Technologies, Hi Score Corporation’s subsidiary ,will be continue to receive sales orders for Energy Saving Lighting as a result of its sister company DMD Lighting, receiving its recent six figure commitment for lighting from Traylor Electric. Dominick Falso was appointed as Hi Score's Chief Operating Officer in January of last year. Mr. Falso was brought on to bolster the company's lagging gross sales volume. His efforts began to be fruitful toward the end of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012. The company has a lot of confidence in M...

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...

AIXTRON SE today announced a new MOCVD system order from National Central University (NCU) in Taiwan. Existing customer, NCU has placed an order for one 1x6-inch AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead MOCVD system, which will be dedicated to the growth of GaN epitaxial structures on 6-inch silicon substrates, for use in the research and development of power management devices. AIXTRON’s local support team has installed and commissioned the new reactor in the state-of-the-art cleanroom facility at NCU’s Microwave and Optoelectroni...

Luger Research has signed a contract with the general secretary of the Zhaga Consortium, Mr. Menno Treffers for the exclusive publishing rights of 7 articles put together by the consortium. The articles will be published in the LED professional Review #33 (LpR) and will be available in this form the 7th of September, 2012 worldwide through this channel. The Zhaga consortium is engaged in the standardization of LED light engines. To enable interchangeability of LED light engines, Zhaga has created specifications for LED light engines covering several interfaces ...

When the park surrounding Los Angeles City Hall reopened after eight months of repair work, sustainability and energy conservation were among a variety of articulated criteria for its restoration. City Hall Park was cordoned off by chain-link fence last year after police cleared hundreds of Occupy L.A. demonstrators who had camped on the lawn for nearly two months. “We were presented with a choice — Reinvest in a park that is greener, smarter and more sustainable,” proclaimed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the official reopening ceremony in July. The ...

Looking at Taiwan LED makers’ operation results, it turns out that the debt crisis will impact them to different degrees in the second half. Unity Opto Technology, had revenue of NT$785 million (US$26.2 million) in July, a 10% month-on-month (MoM) increase and a record monthly high. The company attributed the record monthly high to many positive factors including additional orders from customers for new products, increasing demand from LED backlighting modules, increasing shipments of LCD TVs and tablet PCs from Taiwan-based EMS (electronics manufact...

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...

Bloomberg has quoted from a filing with a U.S. trade agency that, Samsung Electronics Co. and Siemens AG’s Osram unit have reached a global settlement to end a LED patent fight that Samsung filed against Osram and that was scheduled for trial at the agency on Aug. 13. Osram’s case against Samsung went to trial in July, and the judge was expected to release his findings in October. According to the filing, the settlement agreement covers those cases and “other legal proceedings throughout the world between Samsung and Osram involving LED techn...

Taiwan Epistar’s board of directors has agreed with a proposal to acquire Huga Optotech Inc. as its wholly owned subsidiary by all-stock swap at ratio of one Epistar share for 4.85 Huga shares. Baseline date for the swap is tentatively set at Dec. 28 in 2012. Both companies will bring the deal to an irregular shareholders meeting on Sept. 28 for vote. Industry executives said the deal, estimated at NT$4 billion (US$133 million at US$1:NT$30), is conducive to minimizing the disorder of the upstream sector of Taiwan’s LED industry. Epistar executiv...

According to Taiwan state-funded institute, the government is paving the way to announce newly established national standards for the smart lighting industry on Aug. 14, to expand demand and worldwide business opportunities. The Institute for Information Industry (III) pointed out that these standards are expected to improve the efficiency of lighting management, improve safety during nighttime activities, create energy-saving and a smart lighting environment, and explore high value-added business opportunities worldwide. The institute said that the five sets of standards fo...

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 ...

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...

Birmingham Airport has installed GE Lighting’s 380 LEDs to celebrate London Olympic Games. The LEDs, as well as 38 LED modules, placed inside two sets of Olympic rings, have been installed on either side of the Air Traffic Control Tower. The LEDs were installed into the rings at ground level and then the entire structure was mounted onto the tower at a height of 135 feet in six days. The lighting is dimmable so the intensity of the white light produced can be adjusted accordingly. Manufactured and installed by design specialist Octink, each individua...

On August 7, DOE has released a new report to announce Philips L Prize LED Bulb passed 18000 hours test. And from the test, DOE also gets a piece of more true prediction material on lumen maintenance ratio. 200 samples are tested. The test is under the constant temperature of 45 ° C, and uses mobile integral ball to measure spectrum. According to the test data which is watched at 7000 hours, the lumens maintenance ratio of L-Prize light bulb will be 97.1%, when it lights by 25000 hours. And the possibility reaches 95%, exceed general requirement(70%). Until J...

Russian LED company Optogan has recruited logistics service provider Logwin to manage distribution of its products in Europe and Asia. Their cooperation can date back to the end of 2011. At that time,Optogan has opened a production site in Landshut in Bavaria. Meanwhile, the company commissioned Logwin to manage its global supply chain. Logistics for Optogan are centred on the Logwin warehouses in Karlsfeld near Munich and Taipei, Taiwan. Each location serves as the distribution centre for its region. Up to 7,600 pallet storage positions are available in Kar...

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...

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...

In the presence of high-ranking representatives of the Jiangsu province, OSRAM AG today laid the foundation of its new factory in the Chinese city of Wuxi. In doing so, the company is taking the next step in expanding its activities in China, the world’s largest single lighting market. LED chips will be packaged in housings at the backend facility, scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013. The production of the LED chips (frontend) will continue in the Regensburg (Germany) and Penang (Malaysia) plants. “China is already today the biggest sales market with significant future potential.

Recently Philips released a new line of LED lights - myVision and myAmbiance. The releases of these two new series, which both have a high price-performance ratio, mark Philips’ inroads into the consumer lighting market. The new products will draw more consumers to switch to LED lighting products. Philips myVision LED candle 5W (25W) Warm white  Photo credit: Philips Philips myAmbiance LED lustre 3W (15W) Warm white   Photo Credit: Philips Philips’ myVision series consists of 6W (40W) and 9.5W (60W) LED lig...

LEDinside learned that Samsung has gained full confidence from the successful development of AMOLED screen. And the South Korea Company will soon push forward some more amazing OLED products. Quote from Korea press report, Samsung is starting to produce the flexible AMOLED screen this quarter and most likely it will take out one proto which could carry the flexible screen before 2012 ends. It is reported that Samsung named the screen as Youm, which has 0.6mm thickness. Also, you could bend and fold it at will. It’s estimated that some devices will use ...

Toyoda Gosei has undergone a hard time in the first half of 2011, but its revenue firmed up till second half, to 4th quarter was fully restored. And yet its Q1 revenue of 2012 also keeps the very successful performance just like Q4 last year, even the company increase profit forecast for Q2. The LED department of Toyoda Gosei had hard time when Q3 of 2011 as well. Until the new LED product line which Saga factory lead in goes into MP and the demands of Tabled PC backlighting with LED potted elements increased, Q4 revenue recovered remarkably. Besides, the revenu...

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. ...

Recently, Senior leaders from Optogan LED Solutions, have taken a visit to Turkey to meet principal members of government and industry. Dr. Maxim Odnoblyudov, President and CEO of Optogan Group, Dr. Alexey Kovsh, Executive VP of Optogan Group, CEO Optogan GmbH, and Ove Sörensen, Senior Director of Sales  & Business Development were hosted by exclusive distributer, Ledison Patan Ltd, who is responsible for the Turkish, Middle East and North African regions.   Central to the meetings was discussion of the recent statements ...

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...

According to a paper written by scientists in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, they used a new instrument to study how clouds affect sky brightness in urban areas, and how the future of LED lighting might change the night time sky. With Light pollution has become a growing problem, and skylines continue to grow, the night sky becomes dimmer and dimmer. However, researchers estimate that that night time sky could become bluer thanks to LED lighting. Christopher Kyba, physicist at the Freie Universität and lead author of the study, sa...

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...

Cree has announced revenue of $306.8 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, ended June 24, 2012.  This represents a 26% increase compared to revenue of $243.0 million reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 and an 8% increase compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2012.   GAAP net income for the fourth quarter was $10.0 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, a decrease of 49% year-over-year compared to GAAP net income of $19.8 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the fourth qu...