ED packager Harvatek recently entered the supply chain for TV backlighting, and inventory adjustments by TV vendors had less affected on it. The company expected its September revenues will reach NT$400 million (US$12.67 million) and 3Q revenues got over NT$1 billion benefit from Japan-based TV vendors’ orders. In Harvatek’s revenues, handset business accounted for about 40-45% and lighting business accounted for about 15%, over 20% for IT (notebook and monitor) products.

Recently, LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics has began construction for its joint venture with the Kunshan city government in China. The first stage engineering of the joint venture will host 50 sets of MOCVD machines. In the new factory, Genesis has held 51% stake, and Kunshan city government has held the other stake. The new factory will start production in Q3 of 2011 and will be the largest LED chip and lighting manufacturing base in China.

Sony Ericsson has named Everlight, the best "Electronics Supplier" of the year in 2009, at Sony Ericsson's recent annual supplier conference in Beijing in September 2010. It's said that Everlight took the lead of more than 50 other Sony Ericsson electronics' suppliers.

Xodtec LED, Inc., a Taiwan-based LED lighting solutions and products provider, has appointed Yuan-Fu Cheng as its new Chief Financial Officer. It reported that Mr. Yuan-Fu Cheng previously served as chief financial officer of SiPix Group, a producer of electronic paper and display solutions, from September 2005 through July 2010.

Recently, the United States Coast Guard has ordered totaling over $1.1 million from Carmanah Technologies Corporation as part of an ongoing Coast Guard initiative to replace incandescent lanterns with self-contained solar LED lanterns.   More than 2,500 Carmanah/Sabik M700 series solar LED marine lanterns are scheduled for delivery to Coast Guard stations in 25 US states along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and the Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes regions. 

Larson Electronics added a new four foot, four lamp explosion proof LED light, with UL 844 Class 1 and Class 2 ratings for hazardous locations. The 96 watt explosion proof LED light produces more light than the same configuration equipped with T5HO bulbs. While the EPL-48-4L-LED is available for pendant or surface mount, the EPLC-48-4L-LED is configured on a cart with four casters, protective wire guard and switch and cord.

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Epistar Corporation, and Twin Hill Co., Ltd., a sales agent for Toyoda Gosei, have formally agreed to establish a joint venture in Taiwan to develop, manufacture, and market light emitting diodes (LEDs).

State-of-the-art LED Illuminators define the next generation of backlit graphic illuminators for ceilings and walls in Healthcare applications

Sunovia Energy, manufacturer of LED lighting products, announced that DePaul University has installed its high-performance EvoLucia LED lights. The university replaced 210 W metal halide lights with 90 W EvoLucia LEDs in the Sheffield parking garage at Lincoln Park campus.  The LED lights consume less than 50% of the energy consumed by the metal halide lamps. The LED lamps will provide significant savings in terms of maintenance and energy use, and will offer enhanced visibility, uniform light distribution and security to the campus.

With the official opening of Oak Ridge National Laboratories ZEBRAlliance project, Seoul Semiconductor (CEO Mr. Chung Hoon Lee, www.seoulsemicon.com) demonstrated how LEDs can help illuminate and define a home’s living area using a fraction of the energy consumed by traditional incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs.

NKK Switches, designer and manufacturer of innovative electromechanical switches, announced the availability of the KP Series of illuminated miniature pushbutton switches. The series provides design engineers with an array of options that enhance and complete front panels needing an innovative and modern look and feel.

The Lighting Change is Anticipated to Save Chili’s $3.7 Million Per Year Brinker International, parent company of Chili’s Restaurants and Maggiano’s Restaurants, has recently installed Eco-story LED lighting (www.eco-story.com) as part of a re-lamp project in all of its corporate restaurants. The project, which involves installing 125,000 LED lamps in the interior and exterior of all 827 corporate restaurants, will be the largest U.S. roll-out of LED lamp technology to date.

AIXTRON AG announced a new order for six new generation CRIUS II 55x2-inch configuration deposition systems from existing customer Genesis Photonics Inc. The Taiwan based company placed the order during the second quarter of 2010. After delivery of the systems between the fourth quarter 2010 and the second quarter 2011, they will be used for gallium nitride (GaN) green and blue LED production. The local AIXTRON support team will commission the new reactors in Genesis Photonics’ dedicated facility.

New Production Line Will Enable Larger LED Wafers, Increasing Output and Production Efficiency

 

Taiwan's LED lighting manufacture Neo-Neon revenues reached HK$730 million (US$94 million) in the first half of 2010, up 31.7% compared 2009. Gross profit reached HK$240 million, and net profit increased 134.56%r to HK$99.29 million. Recently, Neo-Neon focused on opening LED lighting market in Taiwan and china through its own brand LED lighting products and building flagship retail stores. The company firstly planed to start from indoor 7W and 9W light bulb applications.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science has given a grant to Luminus Devices to develop low cost, high efficiency drive electronics to enhance its big-chip LED technology for next-generation commercial and consumer lighting applications

The subsidiary of China Trends Holdings Limited (China Trends) ,Boss Information Systems Limited will cooperate with the subsidiaries of TCL Corporation, Huizhou TCL Lighting Appliance Technology Limited and Dooda Innovation invested by China Innovation to establish a strategic cooperation on R&D, production, sales and distribution of energy-saving LED products under CEM business model to achieve the mutual sharing on resources.

Applied LED technology specialist, Dialight has been invited to present at Strategies in Light Europe taking place from 27-29 September 2010 at the Sheraton Frankfurt Hotel & Towers Conference Center, Germany. Held for the first time in 2010, Strategies in Light Europe builds on the success of the flagship Strategies in Light event in California, USA, now in its 11th year, bringing together LED and Lighting technologies from all sectors and all stages of the supply chain, providing one event for people within the industry to find the solutions they need.

Cree continues to lead the LED Lighting Revolution with the announcement of a new 150-mm LED wafer production facility in Research Triangle Park (RTP) that is targeted to create hundreds of green jobs in North Carolina. The new LED wafer production line will be located in Cree's existing RTP production facility, and will allow Cree to produce 150-mm LED wafers that are more than double the size of current ones, increasing the number of LEDs from a single wafer, helping to make LED lighting more cost-effective.

The global LED-backlit TV market share didn’t reach the goal of 30% of the LCD TV market in 2010. Following the coming of National Day and the year-end holiday sales in Q410, Taiwan and China LCD TV suppliers started the price war to increase sales volume and gain a head-start in the LED-backlit TV market in the future.

According to the Nikkei newspaper, Mitsubishi Chemical will invest 15 billion yen ($175 million) by March 2016 to add equipment to produce materials for light-emitting diode, or LED, lighting. It' said that Mitsubishi Chemical will install a production line at its factory in Ibaragi prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, by fiscal 2012 to start mass production of gallium, nitride substrates for LED.

USA. Lehigh Township Supervisors are considering replacing traditional traffic signal light bulbs with LED lights to save money and energy. According to Supervisor Sandra Hopkins ,the township pays about $816 a month for electricity for its traffic signals, amounting to nearly $10,000 a year. So the township would have to outlay some money to replace the bulbs. The replacement cost would be $23,000," Hopkins said.

In china, LED chip makers recently planed to pay for MOCVD equipment about 1,400-1,600 sets, which attract many people in the industry concerned. From the LED supply chain, the upstream companies can got about 70% of profits, and LED chip packaging accounts for about 30%.Most china’s LED industry is in the chip packaging segment, so they wanted to develop epitaxial and LED chip production, and china government also supported that.

American Raytheon Network Centric Systems (NCS) has honored the "3 Star Supplier Excellence Award" to ON Semiconductor during the annual Raytheon Supplier Excellence Awards. It’s the fifth consecutive year that ON Semiconductor has received this honor.

Recently,Nichia Corporation has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Wilmar Corporation for infringing two Nichia patents directed to white LEDs (U.S. Patents Nos. 5,998,925 and 7,531,960) and two Nichia patents directed to LED chips (U.S. Patents Nos. 5,652,434 and 6,093,965) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Epistar has become the only Taiwan company, which gets the cross license from Toyoda Gosei .The two companies has made an agreement that both Epistar and Toyoda Gosei(including subsidiaries) can use each other's patents for specific technologies in Group III-V compound semiconductor LEDs, which include InGaN LEDs and AlGaInP LEDs.

Energy Smart Industry (ESI), known for smart and energy efficient lighting solutions, launches special outdoor LED lighting. With the new lighting, people can look forward to get powerful lights for outdoors and can also get to save on their electricity bill. The outdoor lighting retrofitting program offered by the company comes along with a special 5 years all –inclusive protection plan. 

Energy Smart Industry (ESI), one of the leading providers of LED retrofitting, announces LED Retrofit Program for Industrial Lighting. With this new lighting solution the industries can look forward to a noticeable reduction in electricity bills and can enjoy the advantages offered by LED lightings.