2010-09-16

Energy Smart Industry Announces LED Retrofit Program for Industrial Lighting

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.
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2010-09-16

The Chinese government invested over 10 billion yuan to develop innovative green technologies

It's reported that the Chinese government has invested over10 billion yuan (1.47 billion U.S. dollars) in research and development of green technologies for the 2006-2010 period. Zhang Laiwu, vice minister of science and technology at a press conference in Beijing pointed out that, China had developed key technologies that could cut greenhouse emissions . More than 1.6 million LED lights were being used in 21 cities in a pilot program to promote the use of LED lights, which will save more than 164 million KWH of electricity annually. 
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2010-09-16

Philips announces a new LED light bulb

Royal Philips Electronics announced a new light bulb that produces equal light as a 60-watt incandescent with the same energy use as a compact fluorescent but with a much longer life and mercury-free at the Lightfair International tradeshow in Las Vegas.
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2010-09-16

Panasonic unveiled a colorful LED HDTV

Panasonic has unveiled a new Viera Pure Line comes with shiny purple, satin silver and silky white, which appears different colors depending of the lighting in the room. They are available in four screen sizes (37", 32", 22" and 19"),the 2 smaller sizes come with a built-in iPod dock, while the 2 larger come with Panasonic's own Viera Cast service (complete with Skype).
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2010-09-16

HP released a new 23-inch HP 2310e HD widescreen display

Hewlett-Packard released a new 23-inch HP 2310e HD widescreen display. Below are the main specifications: 1. Full HD 1,920 x 1,080 resolution 2. 8,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio 3. 16:9 aspect ratio 4. 250 nits of brightness 5. 5ms on/off response time 6. Displays 70% of the color gamut
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2010-09-16

Carmanah supplied 52 solar LED flashing beacons to Bethany district school zones

Carmanah Technologies Corporation has supplied 52 solar LED flashing beacons to the City of Bethany, Oklahoma to improve the safety of the City's district school zones. And these beacons will be sold by local Carmanah distributor, Gades Sales Inc..   According to Carmanah, the R829 solar LED flashing beacon is designed specifically for school zone applications and features wireless communication between beacons, an easy-to-use calendar program for activation, and maintenance-free operation for up to five years.
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2010-09-16

Daintree Networks Brings Wireless Intelligence to Lighting Control with its Revolutionary ControlScope™ Platform

Unveils Partnership with Easylite and First Customer Implementation to Usher in a New Era in Cost-Effective, Easy-to-Implement Wireless Lighting Control
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2010-09-16

Toshiba launched WX800 line of 3D LED HDTVs

Toshiba launched new Cinema Series for 2010 includes the WX800 line of 3D LED HDTVs. The WX800 3D series is compatible with Blu-ray 3D specifications, and requires 3D glasses manufactured by Toshiba. They are available in 55-inch and 46-inch sizes and Toshiba boasts the line as their "most meticulously designed and engineered [HDTV] to date."
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2010-09-16

Dialight announces new General Manager and Sales Director for EMEA

Gary Ashburner and Richard Gill join the UK team to strengthen Dialight’s position as a forerunner in the field of industrial LED lighting Dialight , an innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, announced two senior appointments who bring between them a combined experience of more than 40 years in LED technology. Together they will oversee the sales in Europe, Asia and the Middle East for the company's growing solid state hazardous area lighting business.
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2010-09-16

SETI received a $475,000 award to develop all-LED water treatment

Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.(SETI) has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award which is worth of  $475,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop water disinfection units based on solid state deep ultraviolet LEDs. According to the SBIR program, SETI will design, develop, fabricate and demonstrate advanced all-LED water treatment units with reduced power consumption and extended reliability.
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2010-09-16

Future Electronics helped the students of McGill University to study lighting project

Future Electronics has cooperated with Montreal-based McGill University in student engineering projects, which relates to four lighting and renewable energy projects designed by 41 engineering students as part of their senior-year course requirements.   One of the projects won the Mechanical Engineering department's annual Harry Pearce Prize used 48 neutral white LUXEON® Rebel LEDs to illuminate an underground train station platform.
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2010-09-16

Light Middle East 2010 to be held from October 31 to November 2

Light Middle East 2010 will be held from October 31 to November 2 at Dubai International Covention and Exhibition Centre. According to Ahmed Pauwels, chief executive officer of Epoc Messe Frankfurt, the conference will train the focus on the need for coming up with energy efficient lighting solutions. Speakers will discuss the effects of new technology and trends in the industry worldwide and put the spotlight on the benefits of alternative lighting sources such as LED technology.
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2010-09-15

Philips updated its medium term financial targets

Philips has updated its medium term financial targets over the 2011-2015 period .It aims at an EBITA of between 10-13% of sales as well as an average sales grow of at least at 2% higher than global GDP in 2011-2015.
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2010-09-15

Acer unveiled AT58 LED TV series

Acer has unveiled AT58 LED TV series with Pininfarina design. The new TVs are equipped with backlit LED panels, features slightly curved edges, ultra-thin profile and transparent frame with the logo designed by Pininfarina and the lustrous platform and they also allows energy saving of 68% compared with the traditional LCD monitors.
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2010-09-15

Daintree developed a new ControlScope lighting control platform

Cooperate with Easylite, Daintree developed a new control platform for SSL and other energy-efficient lighting options. And lighting control systems can save money. The new ControlScope software platform without requiring new wiring to connect with fixtures, switches, sensors, and other devices, can control installations that scale from a small office to an entire enterprise and reside on the Wireless Area Controller (WAC).
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2010-09-15

SPIL went into LED packaging market

Currently, Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) has been developing wafer-level LED packaging technology, and planed to produce on a large scale in 2011. Now, SPIL had offered 25W high brightness (HB) LEDs for general lighting for the three American customers. It is possible more customers choose SPIL’ LEDs.
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2010-09-15

Genesis expected its revenues will increase above 40% in Q310

Genesis Photonics hoped its Q3 revenues of 2010 increase 40% straightly, and get about NT$1 billion (US$31 million) from LED billboards in China.
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2010-09-15

BenQ launches VA-panel LED monitors

BenQ launched 16:9 full HD VA-panel LED monitors, the 24-inch - EW2420 and VW2420 LED's and the 21.5 inch VW2220. Compared to a regular Twisted Nematic (TN) panel before notable brightness and color shifts, the monitors offer wider viewing angle (178º/178º), so they can be used along more angles.   The EW and VW series also feature true 3,000:1 native contrast ratio on a true 8-bit panel.
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2010-09-15

Bridgelux 's LED Arrays caught the $10 billion LED retrofit bulb market opportunity

Bridgelux has expanded its LED Arrays to meet the price and performance demands of the $10 billion LED retrofit bulb market opportunity.   The Bridgelux LS Array Series includes options designed for low voltage lighting. They enable both diffuse and directional light sources, and are suit for landscape lighting, residential lighting, track lighting, MR16 lamps and other 12 volt retrofit light bulbs, delivering between 240 and 360 lumens in warm and cool white.  
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2010-09-15

Bayer MaterialScience designed 1.5mm polycarbonate for LED lenses

German Bayer MaterialScience has designed a 1.5-mm-thick Makrolon FR7067 polycarbonate plastic for LED lenses, which can meet the UL-94 V0 ratings for flame-retardant characteristic at half the thickness of most polycarbonate lenses. And it's thought that Lenses made with this material can improve light transmission efficiency to almost 90%.
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2010-09-15

HEICO Lighting™ and Future Electronics partner and sign a Worldwide Distribution Agreement

HEICO Lighting™ and Future Electronics are pleased to announce that both companies have signed a worldwide distribution agreement for HEICO Lighting™ LED lighting solutions.
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2010-09-15

Philips' new CEO will go on with the former leader's five-year stategy

According to Royal Philips Electronics, its current CEO Gerard Kleisterlee, will step down in April 2011 and will be replaced by Frans van Houten, a former Chief Executive of Philips' semiconductor business NXP, and van Houten will continue to build on the Dutch company's current strategy, seeking to benefit from an aging population, growth in emerging markets and increased awareness of energy efficiency.
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2010-09-15

Seoul Semiconductor' LEDs support ZEBRAlliance's project

Seoul Semiconductor's Acriche A3 AC LED is supporting ZEBRAlliance's project to boost the energy efficiency of residential lighting.
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2010-09-15

Diodes Incorporated designed a new LED driver AL8805

Diodes Incorporated has designed an LED driver AL8805 which operates at between 6V and 30V.
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2010-09-15

Fairchild Semiconductor to highlight LED lighting at Arrowfest

Fairchild Semiconductor will attend Arrow Electronics' 22nd annual coast-to-coast technology exhibition, which will be held in Chicago, Ill., Chanhassen, Minn., Santa Clara, Calif., Toronto, Canada, Los Angeles, Calif., and Boston, Mass ,to highlight innovative LED lighting and medical solutions.
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2010-09-14

AIXTRON gains CRIUS® follow-up order from Long De Xin for GaN HB blue LED production

AIXTRON AG has announced today a new order for two further CRIUS® 31x2-inch configuration deposition systems from Long De Xin. A company based in the PR China, Long De Xin placed the order during the second quarter of 2010 with both systems scheduled for shipment in the third quarter of 2010. They will be used for the manufacture of GaN ultra-high brightness (UHB) blue LEDs. The local AIXTRON support team will commission the new reactors at the new Long De Xin facility at their mainland China production plant.
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2010-09-14

The selling price of Sapphire substrates to be up US$30 in 4Q10 due to Supply disconnected

Following the contuse lacing of Sapphire substrates, some LED manufactures thought its price would be over US$30 in 4Q10, so they start making purchase on Sapphire substrates with cash. In Q1 of 2010, 2-inch sapphire substrates offering price was not enough US$15, but up straightly to US$25-30 in Q 3, and recently has been to US$30-35. To prevent idle production lines, some LED chipmakers had to begun price negotiation for Q4, while Some LED chipmakers had halted production lines and moved back delivery of MOCVD machines.
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2010-09-14

Taiwan consumer product promotion delegation to visit S. Korea and Japan

Organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), a consumer product promotion delegation which comprises 74 local consumer product producers, will take an visit to Seoul of South Korea and Fukuoka, Osaka and Tokyo of Japan between Sept. 30 and Oct. 9. According to a TAITRA official, during this trip, they will promote patented consumer products, including LED related goods, toys and household products as buyers in the two markets appreciate innovation and high quality designs.
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2010-09-14

Energy Smart Industry introduces LED lighting

American Energy Smart Industry introduces better innovative LED lighting for residential and offices to improve the lighting and save money. These LED lights, includes Vision HB 1000X which is apt for large spaces like gyms, warehouses and other such places. And Vision ML–60 X are prepared for offices .
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2010-09-14

SETI teamed up with Kyma Technologies to develop deep UV LEDs and optoelectronics

US Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETI)has teamed up with semiconductor materials supplier Kyma Technologies to create low-defect AlGaN substrates for use in next-generation deep UV LEDs and optoelectronics. SETI used deep UV LEDs in high-power applications such as water disinfection, with the company having recently created a prototype all-LED based portable water disinfection system.
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