2009-01-06

Taiwan’s Streetlight Market Poses Lucrative Business to LED Makers, estimates LEDinside

LEDinside, Taiwan LED industry research institute, estimates Taiwan’s streetlight market to show perspective business valued at around NT$40-50 billion for the Taiwan’s LED firms due to the government’s plan to spend NT$200-300 million to install LED streetlights on some of the island’s roads in 2009 as demonstration for the use of the new light source in streetlight.
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2009-01-05

Nexxus Lighting Announces New CFO

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. announced that Gary Langford has been appointed as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer effective January 5, 2009. Mr. Langford will replace John Oakley, who has resigned to pursue an opportunity as CFO and Senior VP of Operations at another publicly traded company outside of the lighting industry.
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2009-01-05

OTP demonstrates the energy efficiency of LED lighting

This year retailers have offered more LED holiday lighting choices than ever before and at lower prices. To demonstrate the energy efficiency of LED lighting and to reduce energy use, Otter Tail Power Company replaced about 780 C7 incandescent bulbs outlining the roof and corners of its general office building in Fergus Falls with C9 LED bulbs, whose bases were compatible with the existing light sets.
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2009-01-05

Cree Elects Robert Ingram to Board of Directors

Cree, Inc. reported that Robert Ingram, vice chairman Pharmaceuticals of GlaxoSmithKline, was elected to the Company’s Board of Directors and to the Board’s Compensation and Governance and Nominations Committee beginning December 29, 2008. Robert Ingram does not have the electrical engineering background of some of the board members, but he has gained some notoriety for his role at the pharmaceutical giant.
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2009-01-05

Opto Tech Delays Factory Construction in China

Taiwan LED chips and products maker Opto Tech has decided to delay its factory construction in Ningbo, China. Opto Tech indicated the delay is for an unspecified period, and construction will begin when the business environment becomes favorable.
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2008-12-31

Thousands of LEDs to illuminate New Year's Eve ball in Times Square

Everything else in the economy may be shrinking, but there's one thing that's getting bigger: the ball that drops on New Year's Eve, according to a recent report.
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2008-12-31

Taiwan’s LED Makers to Benefit From LED backlit popularity

Taiwan LED makers, including Epistar Corp., Everlight Electronics Co. and Opto Tech Corp., are hopefully to benefit from LED backlight notebook PCs sales boom with increasing popularity of LED backlight notebook PCs to generate demand for 1.5-2 billion LED chips in 2009.
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2008-12-31

Energy Focus Provides LED Lighting Solutions for Shipboard Use

Energy Focus Inc., a maker of LED lighting based in Solon, Ohio USA, announced that it has installed LED lighting to retrofit the high-bay lighting in a hanger deck on board an Arleigh Burke class Destroyer.
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2008-12-31

Small and mid-size LED makers are busy running manufacturing lines

During the economic downturn, many manufacturers are setting to reduce the output and dismiss workers at manufacturing lines. But, small and mid-size LED makers are busy running manufacturing lines.
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2008-12-31

Osram to Order Automotive LEDs from Harvatek in 2009

Taiwan surface-mounted chip LED manufacturer Harvatek Inc. recently announces that it would start an automotive-LED partnership with Osram in 2009 after two years of effort.
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2008-12-30

NYC streets to take further with LED streetlight poles

Ann Arbor, Michigan, the first US city to go 100% LED, will join an ever-growing list of cities with its plan to take advantage of long-lasting LED street lighting, but NYC is going to take it all one step further with new streetlight poles.
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2008-12-30

Orient introduces high power UFO LED grow light

Orient Lighting introduces its high power UFO LED grow lights. LED Grow Lights do not consume as much power, do not require ballasts and produce a fraction of the heat of HID lamps, which adopt ideal wavelength LED emits only Photosynthetically Active Radiation to grow plants effectively and affordably. Besides, they produce little heat and save Save 75% power over HID grow lighting.
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2008-12-30

Europe largest LED facade lighting installation

On January 2, state-of-the-art lighting technology featuring 40,000 LEDs will illuminate the 5,100 sq-m glass facade of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, New Views of Humankind. This innovative facade illumination was planned and installed by Multivision, a Marchtrenk-based firm founded in 2002.
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2008-12-30

Cree settles patent lawsuit with Bridgelux

Cree Inc. has announced that it and Boston University have reached agreement with Bridgelux Inc. to settle the parties’ patent infringement litigation and to dismiss all claims and counterclaims in the suits. As part of the settlement, Bridgelux, a privately held company based in Sunnyvale, Calif., will pay royalties and license fees to settle litigation over patents held by Cree and Boston University.
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2008-12-29

LEDs are best choice as grow lights used in gardening

As we know, light is so important to plant health, the purchase of grow lights requires a bit of thought and consideration. Fluorescent grow lights are very efficient and cool compared with incandescent bulbs, which are not a particularly good choice because of the heat generated.
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2008-12-29

CES 2009: LG to unveil the world’s slimmest LED LCD TV

It’s reported that LG will unveil the world’s slimmest LED LCD TV - “LH95” at CES in January in Las Vegas. The LG LH95 is expected to be only 24.8mm thick, which should be good enough to back the manufacturer’s claim. The LH95 will feature a 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio screen and come with 240Hz TrueMotion Drive technology. It’s disclosed that this LED LCD TV will be the 2009 CES Innovation Award winner in the Display category.
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2008-12-29

LRC’s LED Lighting Institute goes on road to North Carolina

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) has enhanced its outreach education by taking the LED Lighting Institute “on the road.” In addition to the traditional three-day seminar held each spring and fall at the LRC, a two-day LED Lighting Institute program option has been added, which will be hosted at a program sponsor site each year.
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2008-12-29

LED dance floor

Recently, Luxmore introduces its new fashion LED product - LED dance floor. It is the first one in the world which has the sensitivity function to people's dance or steps. The tile will change color automatically according to when people step on it. In addition, it has more interesting functions such as SoundActive, Auto Run, easy computer programing (software free), IP65, easy mounting bracket, ultra bright LED, no dark area, MIDI input......
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2008-12-26

Economic downturn does not affect LED sales, says paper

After several years of foundering holiday sales for energy-efficient LED lighting, LED manufacturers and retailers reported sales that were surprisingly brisk even during an economic downturn.
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2008-12-26

Look at Winter Light Festival in Seoul

Hi Seoul Winter Festival 2008 was hold at Cheonggye Square in this Tuesday evening. Numerous lights along Seoul’s Cheonggye Stream brighten the dark winter sky.
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2008-12-26

Wyked Illuzionz Offers Pink LED Lights for Motorcycles

Recently, Wyked Illuzionz introduces pink LED light for motorcycles. The new pink motorcycle LED lights are filling a demand primarily of the female rider market. Motorcycle owners have been able to purchase LED lighting in colors such as amber, blue, green, jade, orange, purple, red, white and a few other colors but pink, although often requested, has not been available until just recently introduced in the Stingerz line of products.
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2008-12-26

LED lamp powered by candle flame

Look at the following photo that was shot at Nextreme Thermal Solutions Inc of the US. This is a demonstration in which the heat of a candle flame was converted into electric power to turn on an LED.
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2008-12-25

Let your meals shine with LED placemat

The following is a LED placemat. The 11 inches by 16.5 inches are treated with Scotchgard for simple spot cleaning. The Fiber-optic LED placemat illuminate and decorate any family gathering space, from the kitchen to the dining room. They’re fun, bright, and festive. Just push a button to activate, and enjoy the ambiance as the lights gently twinkle.
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2008-12-25

Large holiday light show starts converting to LEDs

One of America’s largest holiday light shows, the Winter Festival of Lights at Oglebay in Wheeling, West Virginia, started converting to LEDs this year. The energy-saving LED lights will be used in all new displays including the Mountaineer Christmas Display, added to the show this year. The conversion of all existing displays to LED lights begins in 2008 and the entire show should be LED by 2012.
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2008-12-25

Toshiba’s New 8-Channel LED Drivers Produce Superior Illumination on Consumer Electronics Displays

Recently, Marktech Optoelectronics, Toshiba's optoelectronic partner in the U.S. expands its LED driver product family with two new high-performance devices from Toshiba - TB62777FNG and TB62778FNG. Their constant current LED drivers delivering a continuous current that can be regulated for superior illumination in the back-lighting of LCD panels, TV displays and notebook PCs, as well as light control for large RGB panel LED displays.
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2008-12-25

MAGA Essense Ltd develops LED light bars and T8 LED lighting fixture

MAGA Essense Ltd. is promoting its LED light bars and T8 LED lighting fixture. The light bars are ideal for stairway lights, parking lot lights, showcase lights, cove lights, and fridge lights while the T8 fixture is made for offices.
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2008-12-24

OSRAM Golden DRAGON Family chosen for ATD’s LED Street Lighting Luminaires

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors announced that its series of Golden DRAGON LED has been chosen by Advanced Thermal Devices, Inc (ATD) for its LED illumination projects in Taiwan. Integrating the cutting edge chip technology and fitted with a silicone dome for greater light extraction efficiency, OSRAM’s Golden DRAGON and Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs provide high quality lighting solution for outdoor illumination. Both of them are characterized by an exceptionally long lifetime. There are two LED illumination projects ATD has been working with OSRAM.
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2008-12-24

Scientists achieve new record in efficiency of blue OLEDs

It’s reported that University of Florida materials science and engineers have achieved a new record in efficiency of blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which is a step forward towards better and efficient lights. Because blue is essential to white light, the advance helps overcome a hurdle to lighting that is much more efficient than compact fluorescents, but can produce high-quality light similar to standard incandescent bulbs.
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2008-12-24

LED lighting could reap $1.8T savings, RPI is concentrating on develop LED new apps

According to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)’s recent study, the emerging solid-state lighting that replaces incandescent and fluorescent bulbs with LED can reap enormous savings in cost, natural resources and pollution. The firm claims that over the next 10 years, savings of more than $1.8 trillion will eliminate the need to burn almost a billion barrels of oil in power plants that would otherwise produce 10 gigatons in the carbon dioxide emissions.  
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2008-12-24

Nexxus Lighting to Lanuch Its new Array Lighting Brand LED Light Bulbs

It’s reported that Nexxus Lighting, Inc. has begun production and sale of its new Array Lighting brand of LED lamps including Array Par 30, Par 16, G4, MR16 and GU10. The new Array Lighting Par 30, Par 16 and G4 LED are the first bulbs to begin production and offer direct replacement for conventional incandescent, halogen and CFL Par/R light bulbs and T3 bi-pin bulbs.
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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