2010-04-16

Focus on Novel Light and Energy Sources Lighting Industry, Green Lighting Shanghai Set for April Launch

This year’s Expo 2010 Shanghai will be an LED-intensive event, boasting over 80% of high efficiency, energy saving landscape decorations and lighting featuring LED.  At the recent Annual Sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, delegates proposed the installation of 150 million energy saving lamps to replace large power incandescent lamps.  This scheme will be subsidised by the government.  The “Ten Cities Ten Thousand LED Lights” project launched in 21 cities marks a transition towards LED lighti
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2010-04-14

U.S. Rep. Judy Chu Consults with LEDtronics on LED Technology, Its Role in U.S. Energy Efficiency

U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu with Pervaiz Lodhie, LEDtronics CEO and President. Immediately after being sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s 32nd District in July 2009, Congresswoman Judy Chu wasted no time in getting to work on behalf of her constituents. Her first task on Capitol Hill was voting on a number of important environmental bills.
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2010-04-14

Aixtron announces sale of two more MOCVD tools to LED maker Changelight

Changelight ROY UHB LED ramp boost with two more AIXTRON MOCVD tools AIXTRON AG announced today an order for two additional MOCVD tools from Changelight Co., Ltd., a company based in Xiamen’s Torch Industry Park of Fujian Province, China. The order which is for two AIX 2600G3 IC multiwafer production systems, was placed in the fourth quarter of 2009 and both systems will be shipped in the second quarter of 2010.
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2010-04-13

Green Lighting offers dimmable LED lighting and instructional videos

Green Lighting LED offers a variety of dimmable LED bulbs including MR16 track lights, PAR lamps, and globe bulbs. Each dimmable LED light retrofits in any home or business for spot, accent, or flood lighting. The dimming design uses the most updated technology of Frequency and Peak Current Modulation, which provides even and stable dimming function ranged from 0% to 100% of full luminous flux.
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2010-04-13

Cooperation Between Novaled and Ingo Maurer on Transparent OLED Lamps

Ingo Maurer, internationally renowned designer and producer of exceptional lamps and lighting systems, will exhibit two OLED lamps which are the result of joint efforts with Novaled on the Light + Building trade show in Frankfurt. Novaled AG, a pioneer in OLED Lighting- and Display-Technology, has developed some transparent, highly efficient OLED modules for this purpose.
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2010-04-13

Cree Announces Revolutionary New LED Platform Delivering 160 Lumens per Watt

XLamp® XM LEDs Are Most Efficient Lighting-Class LEDs in the Industry Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces a breakthrough new lighting-class LED platform, the XLamp® XM LED. This new single chip LED delivers record-breaking efficacy of 160 lumens per watt at 350 mA. The LED also delivers 750 lumens at 2 A, which is equivalent to the light output of a 60 W incandescent light bulb at less than 7 watts.
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2010-04-13

PHILIPS FURTHER BROADENS ITS MARKET-LEADING PORTFOLIO OF LED LIGHTING SOLUTIONS FOR CONSUMERS AND PROFESSIONALS

Launch of innovative LED solutions to personalize homes and make cities more livable. Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) is underlining its global leadership in lighting by substantially broadening its portfolio of LED-based lighting solutions which enhance the lives of people at home and in cities.
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2010-04-13

Zumtobel Launches New LED Fixtures Based on Cree TrueWhite(TM) Technology

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) , a market leader in LED lighting, announces that Zumtobel, a leading lighting manufacturer, has launched three new groundbreaking LED fixtures based on Cree TrueWhite(TM) Technology. Debuting at the Light + Building tradeshow in Frankfurt this week, these fixtures are the latest result of an ongoing, multi-year collaboration between Cree and Zumtobel.
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2010-04-12

Osram: System integrators strengthen the LED network

Greater expertise and better service at LED Light for you
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2010-04-12

MEAN WELL introduces new 96W cost effective metal case LED power supplies

In response to the increasing energy price and the global warming problem, LED related application imbued with energy-saving concept is thriving nowadays. To accommodate the growing LED lighting market, many industrial countries established LED related policies to support this prospective industry. After launching CLG-100 series, MEAN WELL introduced another 96W cost effective metal case LED power supplies with active PFC function and IP66 level ~ CEN-100 series.
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2010-04-09

New efficiency record - OSRAM's LED module achieves 122lm/W efficiency

OSRAM’s recently developed LED light engines manage the balancing act between maximum efficiency and light quality – with a light output of 122lm/W they achieve a new maximum with excellent colour reproduction (CRI >90, 2,700K). The Munich lighting manufacturer’s latest LED innovation is a winner with its warm white light (2,700K), colour-rendering index (CRI) of more than 90 and luminous flux of over 1,800lm while using only 15W of power. With its compact size it is especially suited to integration in downlights or spots.
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2010-04-09

Digital Lumens appoints veteran Feinstein to VP Sales and Marketing post

Digital Lumens, the developer of the industry's first Intelligent Lighting System™, today announced that Michael Feinstein has joined the company as Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Feinstein brings more than 25 years' experience in product management, marketing, sales and, for the past 10 years, as an investor and entrepreneur involved in markets that included clean energy and software.
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2010-04-09

Cooper Lighting Expands Halo LED Recessed Downlight Offering

New higher lumen packages and additional color temperature choices for commercial and residential general lighting applications
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2010-04-09

GE Fast Forwards to Future of LED Lighting

GE Unveils unique LED bulb designed to distribute light like an incandescent bulb, last 17 years
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2010-04-08

PowerSecure expands LED lighting business

Company Acquires Innovative LED Lighting Company to Accelerate Development and Expansion of Product Line
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2010-04-08

Cree Launches New Screen Master® 4mm LEDs with Industry’s Widest Viewing Angle

Red, Green and Blue Oval LEDs Optimized for the Outdoor Video Screen Market Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces commercial availability of the new C4SMK family of red, green and blue 4mm oval LEDs. These additions to the Screen Master® Cree LED series deliver the widest viewing angles available in the market today along with tightly-matched radiation patterns for video screen applications.
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2010-04-08

Citizen Electronics achieves mass production of white LEDs for lighting with 1/9 the conventional chromaticity range

Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd, a precision electronics manufacturer, achieves mass production of white LEDs for lighting with about one-ninth the conventional chromaticity range. Through use of “3-Step MacAdam ellipses” as a chromaticity control standard the necessary reduction in the variation in chromaticity is accomplished.
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2010-04-06

OPTREX AMERICA EXPANDS TFT LCD LINE TO INCLUDE BROAD RANGE OF TFT LCDs WITH LED BACKLIGHTS

To meet the increasing demand for LED backlighting in the industrial LCD market, Optrex America, Inc., has developed one of the broadest lines in the industry of TFT LCDs with white LED backlights.
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2010-04-02

Energy Focus, Inc. Awarded $2.1 Million in Lighting Retrofit Contracts

Energy Focus, Inc.  today announced that its turnkey lighting retrofit division Stones River Companies, LLC ("SRC") was recently awarded three additional lighting energy services contracts totaling $2.1 million, coming to a total of $16.5 million contracts awarded to Energy Focus' new business unit.
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2010-04-02

LED-Downlight E8 for "Individual Lighting" at Light+Building

LUMITECH Produktion und Entwicklung GmbH presents for the first time its tuneable white light LED-Downlight E8 portfolio for "Individual Lighting" solutions at the Light+Building, Frankfurt, April 11th-16th, 2010. The LED-Downlight E8 offers highest quality white light, individually tuneable from warm white (2700 Kelvin) up to cool white (6500 Kelvin) thus allowing customised adjustments from "Morning Sun" to "Moonlight" and up to "Firelight" with a Colour Rendering Index (CRI) of 90.
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2010-04-02

Cree Announces Winners of First Creative LED Lighting Design Contest

National Cheng Kung University Wins First Cree Cup with “Lighting to Share” Submission After seven months of intense competition, the first Cree Cup - Creative LED Lighting Design Contest for China university students jointly organized by the China Association of Lighting Industry (CALI) and Cree, Inc. has ended, culminating in an award ceremony held at the China LED Technology and Application Forum. Finalist works were showcased in the “China Hotel Lighting Exhibition.”
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2010-04-01

Arrow Electronics To Showcase LED Designs, Technologies at Lightfair

Arrow Electronics, Inc. will exhibit at Lightfair International 2010 for the fourth consecutive year. Arrow will showcase leading-edge LED designs and total lighting solutions at Lightfair, May 12-14, in Las Vegas, Nev.
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2010-04-01

GlacialLight to attend Light+Building show in Frankfurt

GlacialLight, a division of GlacialTech Inc., a global provider of PC Cooling, Power supplies, power drivers and LED lighting extends an invitation to all business and media partners from around the world to attend their display at the world's leading trade fair for Architecture and Technology to be held in Frankfurt from 11th to 16th April 2010.
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2010-04-01

TURKIYE'S FIRST LED CONFERENCE AND LED CONTEST WITH TURKIYE'S ONLY LED FAIR

LED Systems, Technology and Application Fair, which has been organized by Marmara Fair since 2007, will be held on between 30 September to 3 October 2010, in Istanbul Expo Center. One of the most prominent feature of LED Technology is contributing to enegry effiency. Therefore, this year LED Fair is supported by the Ministry of Enegy, as well as in 2009. Also within the scope of this support, Turkiye’s first LED Conference and LED Contest is being organized.
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2010-03-31

iGuzzini designs OSRAM Opto Semiconductors LEDs into highly efficient streetlamps

New Archilede, iGuzzini by ENEL Sole, street luminaire shine with OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ Golden Dragon Plus LEDs with a color temperature of 6,000K.  The color rendering of the LEDs provides a natural color impression which can enhance safety and security. Due to their directional nature, LEDs eliminate stray light and reduce overall light pollution. In additional to their high efficiency this LED also provides long life (between 60,000 and 100,000 hours depending on operating conditions) which translates to lower maintenance costs.
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2010-03-31

Lighting Science Group Appoints New Board of Directors

Zachary Gibler, Carlos Gutierrez, Michael Kempner, Joe Montana and Michael Moseley Join Board Lighting Science Group Corporation ("LSG"), a leading LED lighting technology company, announced today a distinguished group of new board members: Zachary Gibler, Carlos Gutierrez, Michael Kempner, Joe Montana and Michael Moseley. These new board members will join Robert Bachman, David Bell, Donald Harkleroad, and Richard Weinberg.
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2010-03-31

OPTEK TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPS MINIATURE INFRARED OPTOELECTRONIC SENSOR WITH LOGIC OUTPUT

For design engineers with the requirement for a compact infrared sensor, TT electronics OPTEK Technology has developed a small surface mount packaged photo light sensor with a digital output ideal for applications with limited space.  Designated the OPL611 Series, the sensors feature data rates to 250kBaud and consist of a Photologic® chip encapsulated in transparent molded plastic, providing optical coupling as well as mechanical protection.
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2010-03-30

Xicato names successful industry veteran Dave Levinson as VP sales, North America

With Dave Levinson joining Xicato, effective February 1, 2010, the company expands its senior management ranks with additional seasoned executives from the lighting industry. In this role, Levinson will be responsible for leading Xicato’s commercial organization in the U.S. and Canada, with specific focus on the development of Xicato’s OEM partners, end-user and specification markets.
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2010-03-30

Dialight Awarded Prestigious IDA Certification for StreetSENSE™ Series LED Street Lights

International Dark-Sky Association’s Fixture Seal of Approval certification recognizes StreetSENSE fixtures’ eco-conscious precision light direction for reducing light pollution.
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New XLamp® Horticulture LEDs reduce height between lighting and plants to provide more uniform lighting and lower costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high effica... 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 interest... READ MORE