2011-07-20

NVC Lighting Eyes to Overseas Sales

Huizhou-based NVC Lighting Holding Ltd, in China is reported to intend to acquire small and medium-sized European firms for new markets expansion. In the mean time, the company is also actively tapping the emerging markets of India, Brazil and South Africa. On Monday,NVC has just made a agreement with the Olympic Council of Asia to become its long-term lighting and service partner. In addition, NVC has applied to become the sole lighting supplier for the Asian Games in South Korea and the Asian Beach Games in Thailand in 2014. The company will also ...
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2011-07-20

First Source Bank Installs New LED Lights for Energy Saving

First Source Bank held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday to celebrate their new energy saver project  of implementing new LED lights to reduce carbon footprint. The Bank has replaced 20 exterior lights with new LED lights saving  62 percent energy use as well as reducing the amount of green house gas emissions of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide that goes into the atmosphere. Under this project, Bank officials hope it will open more doors to save more energy in the future.  ...
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2011-07-20

Acuity Brands Received US DOE 2011 Lighting Facts Special Recognition

Recently, Acuity Brands has become one of nine companies honored with the 2011 Lighting Facts(R) Special Recognition by the United States Department of Energy,at the Solid State Lighting Market Introduction Workshop in Seattle, WA. Lighting Facts is a voluntary participation program from the DOE that includes LED products for general illumination from manufacturers who commit to testing products and reporting performance results according to industry standards. The program emphasizes consumer education, with the goal of enabling the appropriate comparison ...
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2011-07-20

Diodes Technology Company Limited Located in Chengdu, China

Diodes Incorporated  has hosted a ground breaking ceremony for Diodes Technology (Chengdu) Company Limited at the Company’s new production site at Chengdu Hi–Tech Industrial Development Zone (CDHT) on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. It’s said that Diodes Technology (Chengdu) Company Limited was Established in December 2010, as a joint venture between Diodes Incorporated and Chengdu Ya Guang Electronic Company Limited (5% ownership). The new facility will focus on performing semiconductor manufacturing assembly and test functions. It ...
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2011-07-20

Luminus Devices CBM-380 Big Chip LED Supports for Philips Vari-Lite VLX Wash Luminaires

According to Luminus Devices, its CBM-380 color mix Big Chip LEDTM  powered Philips Vari-Lite VLX Wash luminaires , are at the heart of the replacement lighting rig recently installed at the iconic Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. The new rig not only need to replace the flood damaged rig, it also had to be flexible enough to light a wide variety of stage performances and TV broadcasts yet mobile enough to make the Opry’s seasonal move for their Winter Series performances. Luminus’ CBM-380 chip that is the solid-state light engine o...
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2011-07-20

Energy Focus Received $1 Million Grant to Develop Low Cost IntelliTube(TM) Light Sensor

Energy Focus has received a $1 million grant from the Ohio Third Frontier Sensors Program to develop an ultra-low cost light sensor to complement IntelliTube(TM), Energy Focus' LED based fluorescent replacement technology.   Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO thought it was exciting to be selected for the Ohio Third Frontier Sensor grant. He thought the funding would accelerate the development of CRICKET ('Cost-effective Real-time Intelligent Collective Knowledge Environmental Transmitter'), the world's first ultra low-cost wireles...
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2011-07-20

New Standard and Custom QUASARBRITE™ UV LEDs from LUMEX Combine 10x Longer Lifespan and up to 50% Cost Savings

New UV LEDs also lower energy consumption by 70% while providing superior light performance Lumex announces the global expansion of the QuasarBrite™ UV family of LED technologies to include three new standard wavelengths and also announces the availability of custom UV LED arrays.  QuasarBrite UV LEDs provide up to 10 times longer lifespan, up to 50% cost savings , up to 70% energy consumption savings,  and superior light performance compared to alternative technologies. The RoHs compliant QuasarBrite UV LEDs are now available in stan...
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2011-07-20

$10 Million and GE Collaboration Light Way for Growth of Nuventix, Maker of LED Cooling Technology

Nuventix, creator of an LED cooling technology for energy-efficient lighting, announced that GE (NYSE: GE) has provided capital alongsideother investors and recently entered into a license agreement to access Nuventix’s extensive patent portfolio.   GE unit GE Energy Financial Services and The Bergquist Company joined existing investors Braemar Energy Ventures, CenterPoint Ventures, InterWest Partners and Rho Ventures to complete a $10 million investment round to fund Nuventix’s global expansion and technology advancements.  GE&rsq...
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2011-07-19

Unity Opto’s Beijing Plant will Become a Major Maker in Northern China

Unity Opto Technology’s new plant located in Beijing, China is announced to be completed in early 2012 and will start mass production in the first quarter of next year. According to the company’s chairman, C.H. Wu, initial monthly capacity at the Beijing plant will be about 200 million LEDs, to be supplied mainly to Chinese makers of TFT-LCD panels, including BOE Technology Group for LCD TV panel backlighting. industry sources estimated that Unity Opto`s Beijing plant would become BOE`s major LED supplier as well as a major maker of il...
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2011-07-19

NexPhase Lighting Completes Its LED Delivery to 1050/1060 Brickell

NexPhase Lighting, a subsidiary of Onteco Corporation, has completed the delivery of product to 1050/1060 Brickell. According to Ty Ramsey, COO of NexPhase, this installation of NexPhase LED product is expected to save 1060 Brickell over $ 425,000.00 of energy, maintenance and HVAC costs over the next five years. And they will continue to implement a proactive selling strategy....
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2011-07-19

Taiwan Unity Opto Technology Received $9 Million Orders from Europe

Reportedly,Taiwan Unity Opto Technology has received a great deal of around US$9 million orders from several European lighting heavyweights for its LED lamps. Its revenue for this year is likely to double from last year to NT$3 billion. According to Unity Opto executives, the company will begin shipping the products in August, which are mostly indoor lightings such as light tubes and down lights. Asides from that , the March 11 Japan earthquake and Germany’s decision to shut all of its nuclear power plants by 2022 also have an important impact on the marke...
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2011-07-18

Shanghai to Amend a Law for LED Boards Limitation

Based on drivers’ complaint about LED boards affacting their vision, Shanghai will amend a law to tighten control on light pollution caused by electronic LED boards. According to officials from the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau, the original regulation, issued in 2004, didn't cover LED technology, which was new and rare at the time. The draft of an amended urban lighting regulation includes LED management and will be finalized soon. Li Shuzhi comes from  the Shanghai Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Solid-S...
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2011-07-18

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Adds to its TOPLED Black Series Portfolio

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has added three colors to its TOPLED Black Series 60° beam angle portfolio and now offers all five colors with a 30° beam angle. “This means that we have the broadest portfolio of ‘black’ LEDs on the market and can cover a wide range of applications”, said Product Manager Sven Weber. The LEDs are particularly suitable for monochromatic and multicolor displays, such as those in electronic  road signs, travel information displays, parking control systems and price information pillars at gas stations. T...
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2011-07-18

LG Innotek Creats World’s Single Largest LED Production Complex

LG Innotek announced that the installation and operation for one-year of LED lights for all lighting sources at its Paju LED Plant translates into the effect of planting 63,000 pine trees,which is equivalent to the amount of trees it would take to cover an area the size of Yeouido Park in Seoul. LG Innotek’s Paju LED Plant has installed more than 10,000 LEDs, including those at production lines, welfare facilities and streets, and initiated the plant’s operation as an eco-friendly site in July of last year. The Paju LED Plant comprises LED...
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2011-07-18

City of Tempe Selects US Lighting Tech’s LED for Energy Saving

The City of Tempe, Arizona,has selected US Lighting Tech (USLT) to supply efficient street lights for the energy-efficient street lighting program of the municipality. USLT will supply the municipality 1,000 units of its Cobra 100 Series Induction Streetlight and the installation of the lights is anticipated to commence this month. The company’s 70 W Cobra 100 Series induction streetlights will replace the present obsolete type of 125 W high pressure sodium and metal halide systems. The induction lights are designed to save around 60% of energy and 80...
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2011-07-18

LED Video Jacket for Bicycle Lighting

There is a 60” LED video display installed over a jacket’s body  and sleeves,which is desigend for wearable and interactive bicycle lighting. LED jackets can provide a high-tech alternative to the luminous yellow tabards favoured by soem cyclists.   The jacket gives off more than enough light for the urban cyclist. In addition,the moving images could display messages to other road users.Large flashing arrows be highly-visible turn signal and messages such as ‘too close’ , ‘thank you’ and ‘stopping’ would prove useful...
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2011-07-18

OSRAM SYLVANIA Honored for DOE’s Lighting Facts Program

OSRAM SYLVANIA is honored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with a Special Recognition for going above and beyond typical consumer education efforts by integrating Lighting Facts into everyday business practices and demonstrating staunch commitment to product evaluation. It is one of nine Lighting Facts partners recognized by the DOE at the Solid-State Lighting Market Introduction Workshop yesterday in Seattle. The Lighting Facts program is a voluntary pledge that showcases LED products for general illumination from manufacturers who commit ...
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2011-07-18

Obelux Launches World’s First High Intensity LED

The Finnish-based Obelux Ltd has designed the world’s first high intensity LED,delivering outstanding 600 000 candelas, to replace old Xenon technology on over 150 meter tall buildings and masts. Kuokkala water tower in Jyväskylä The new, groundbreaking high intensity LED light has the effective power of 200 000 candelas and it delivers total of 120 000 lumens,as well as provides over 10 years of reliable life....
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2011-07-18

Samsung LED Files Infringement Lawsuits against OSRAM in the United States International Trade Commission and Federal Court in Delaware

On July 15, Samsung LED Co., Ltd. filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (“ITC”) in which it has requested the ITC to issue an exclusion order barring importation of products of OSRAM, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, and OSRAM Sylvania Inc. into the United States. Samsung LED also filed suit for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware to seek damages and a permanent injunction barring OSRAM’s infringement. Samsung LED alleges infringement of...
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2011-07-18

Philips' LED Supports Malaysian Highway for Going Green

Recently, Philips has made a deal with the Malaysian government to light a 63.1-kilometre stretch of highway, including the roads leading to Subang Airport, the Federal Highway and Middle Ring Road 2, with its LED road-lighting technology. According to Philips Lighting's senior vice president and general manager for emerging markets Olivier Piccolin, switching to energy-efficient LED lighting systems for public infrastructure projects provided a triple-win proposition by improving safety and security, beautifying the landscape and reducing energy consumption. I...
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2011-07-18

The World Bank Encourages Taiwanese Firms to Light up African LED Market

According to a local industrial group, Taiwanese companies are encouraged by the World Bank to pursue commercial opportunities in the African LED lighting market in support of the group's program to light up the continent.  Rodd Eddy, an International Finance Corp. (IFC) consultant, disclosed that,because the island was among the world's largest LED and photovoltaic goods makers, the World Bank hoped Taiwanese companies would participate in the "Lighting Africa" program. The IFC also expected Taiwan would provide cutting edge LED li...
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2011-07-15

Toshiba Breaks the Green Gap in LEDs

Toshiba's Tamonari Shioda has presented the company’s new discovery about the green gap in LEDs at the ninth International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS). Currently, the green gap in LEDs is that the rapidly declining efficiency of green light emitters at longer and longer wavelengths. According to Toshiba's Tamonari Shioda, by inserting thin AlGaN layers in the active region of a conventional device, this approach could increase the output power of green LEDs by a factor of almost ten.  ...
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2011-07-15

Samsung Sets up New Record on Nitride LEDs on 200 mm Silicon

Reportedly, Samsung Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (SAIT)  has set up a new record of manufacturing nitride LEDs on 200 mm silicon. Instead of sapphire,with this platform, the widely used substrate for making LEDs promises to cut the cost of LED deposition and processing. Growth of high-quality GaN layers on silicon is not easy,because of  differences in both the lattice constant and the thermal coefficient of expansion of the two materials. SAIT has addressed both these issues by creating a crack-free template featuring AlN/Al...
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2011-07-15

NexSense LED Troffer Series Receives UL Compliance Approval

NexPhase Lighting, Inc.,the subsidiary from Onteco Corporation, is announced to clarify the significance of the UL compliance approval it received for it's 2x2 NexSense LED Troffer Series No. TRO75RWD from Intertek.   Jon Cooper, CEO of NexPhase, thought highly of the significance of the UL compliance approval. He believed that UL compliance approval was an essential safety requirement for LED Luminaries and without it they were unable to reputably sell LED lighting fixtures to customers. It was also an essential requirement to use the nu...
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2011-07-15

Translucent’s New GaN-on-Si Wafer Template with Embedded DBR Mirrors

Translucent, Inc., has designed a proprietary GaN-on-Si wafer template with embedded DBR mirrors for low-cost LED growth application. With its new embedded silicon solution (Mirrored Si™), LEDs can now be grown directly on top of the GaN-on-Si template that includes an embedded DBR mirror, directly lattice matched to the silicon substrate. On top of this DBR mirror is a layer of proprietary patented Rare Earth Oxide (REO), which allows GaN to cap the template and does not require subsequent removal of the substrate. At present, the company i...
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2011-07-15

Novaled Develops White OLED of 60 lumens/watt

Novaled recently makes a breakthrought on white OLED with light output of 60 lm/W at a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2. According to the company,  these LED have 100,000 hours lifetime at an initial brightness of 1,000 cd/m2 while using commercially available fluorescent blue emitting material. The color rendering index  is also tested high of 87 for these LEDs. A very broad light emission spectrum and good CIE color coordinates (0.470/0.429) were achieved, which is close to illuminant A and inside the US Department of Energy  quadrangles meeting the DO...
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2011-07-15

Philips Eyes to LED-illuminated Wallpapers

According to Philips, there may be a promising future for ambient lighting in glowing walls, therefore the company has scheduled to wallpapers containing integrated LEDs. The luminous sound-absorbing textiles would glow in variety of colors to cater to he user's requirements. Philips is collaborating with customizable acoustic panels Denmark-based anufacturer Kvadrat Soft Cells to evelop the luminous wallpaper panels. Soft Cells acoustic panels are flexible and can be tailored to fit a wide variety of interiors. The Philips' LED illuminated texture wallpape...
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2011-07-15

Mark Verheyen Appointed as TerraLUX’s CEO

Longmont-based LED lighting company TerraLUX, Inc.has appointed lighting industry veteran Mark Verheyen as President and CEO, effective July 11, 2011. It’s said that started from his lighting career in sales and management roles at Osram, Verheyen has more than 20 years of sales and senior management experience in the lighting industry. Before joined TerraLUX, he most recently served as Senior Vice President of International Sales & Business Development at Universal Lighting Technologies, a division of Panasonic. Prior to that, Verheyen he...
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2011-07-15

Taiwan-based FZLED Sees Serious Growth Case Studies Find That LED Brand Is Being Embraced Worldwide

FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, is excited to announce extremely high customer-satisfaction levels and exceptional growth. FZLED has been expanding quickly with consumers embracing their numerous lines of high-quality LED bulbs that offer dust-free lighting and several innovative options, like their easy-to-operate on/off switch-dimming feature. To date, FZLED boasts customers in many countries including the UK, Canada, France, South Africa, the UAE, and the United States. Because of the popularity of FZLED’s products, the ...
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2011-07-14

Heraeus Design Optimization for SCB Substrates, LEDs, Fraunhofer

More light in the long run •    Junction temperature and thermal management of High Brightness LEDs (HMLEDs) optimized •    Fraunhofer Institute completes tests on substrates In close collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) Heraeus has continued to work on the design optimization of its SCB substrates for LEDs. Quite apart from the results already gained in the field of short duration LED applications, the focus this time was put on applications of a longer duration. ...
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Tokushima, Japan - 6 March 2024: Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, has started mass production of the new UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs in its popular 434 Series packa... READ MORE

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 interested... READ MORE