The building works for these two exciting project have commenced and are due to be completed in early 2016. Already the UK’s largest independent lighting test laboratory, the LIA Laboratories’ new facility will house ‘state-of-the-art’ testing equipment that ordinarily would be out of reach of many of the Lighting SME’s, creating a UK wide national lighting-testing asset.

MaxLite provides the nostalgic look and warmth of Edison-style filament incandescent bulbs with the energy-saving benefits of LED technology in its new Filament Lamp Series. Designed for retail, residential and hospitality applications, the line of vintage lamps includes a full range of decorative bulb shapes (A19, ST18, T14, G30 and B11) to complement ceiling, pendant, wall, and post top fixtures. The lamps are constructed of a tinted, antique-looking glass cover and visible linear LED filaments that deliver the warm, amber glow of their incandescent counterparts, but offer a much longer lifetime of 15,000 hours. All MaxLite LED filament lamps are UL listed and dimmable with standard incandescent dimmers.

Plessey announced today that its dotLED range, designed specifically for wearable applications, has been expanded with a wider selection of colours, including red, green and blue. The extremely small LED die have a footprint of only 0.2mm x 0.2mm, which makes them a perfect fit for low profile electronic wearable applications.

Hudson Valley Lighting®, a leader in classic, contemporary and transitional lighting fixtures for more than 20 years, is proud to announce that esteemed, award-winning, New York-based interior designer, Jamie Drake has signed a multi-year contract to design a series of collections. This new alliance was announced by Brent Fields, vice president of Hudson Valley Lighting. The first “Jamie Drake for Hudson Valley Lighting” collections will launch at Dallas International Lighting Market in January 2016.

The Energy-saving LED UV drying technology option supplied with the ROLAND 700 Evolution offers many benefits for printers, enabling more vibrant color and higher levels of productivity on a wide range of substrates, along with significant cost and environmental benefits and greatly increased viability for short-run printing. LED technology provides instant drying, on paper, synthetics or metalized stocks, and because it does away with the need for spray powder, it also offers significant environmental benefits.

Proprietary Broad-Color Spectrum Stimulates Remarkable Plant Growth, Supports Healthy Human Vision and Provides Significant Energy Savings Lighting ScienceGroup Corporation (OTCQB: LSCG), a leading global manufacturer of innovative LED lighting solutions, today announced the launch of its next-generation VividGro™ V2 LED Grow Fixtures, featuring state-of-the-art spectral technologies and industry leading efficiency. This proprietary combination delivers one of the most effective LED grow fixtures in the horticulture industry. The VividGro™ V2 fixture is suitable for both commercial growers and the do-it-yourself horticulturalists across a wide range of applications, and has produced remarkable results in commercial indoor growing facilities, greenhouses and the fast-growing cannabis industry.

The energy-efficient luminaires are provided as a seamless upgrade solution for the Canadian market, where 347-volt supply circuits are commonplace in commercial and industrial settings. Vapor Tight and Utility Wrap fixtures are designed to replace traditional fluorescent lighting with more than 50% energy savings and a significantly longer, 50,000-hour lifetime that minimizes maintenance interruptions and downtime in business productivity. The 347-volt-compatible models are available as four-foot-long, 30- or 50-watt fixtures in color temperatures of 4000K and 5000K.

MEAN WELL has been involved in the LED power supply field for years. Many models, such as CLG, HLG and HLG-C series, with the supreme product specification and high reliability, have been extensively exploited in various kinds of outdoor or indoor luminaire applications. In order to cope with the intense competition in LED lighting market, MEAN WELL is now introducing the ELG family, the optimal price-performance ratio model with a highly competitive pricing.

Versatile Fixtures Bring Intelligent LED Lighting to New Environments Digital Lumens, the leader in intelligent LED lighting systems, today unveiled the industry’s first high bay to offer both direct and indirect lighting capabilities in a single fixture, as well as LightRules 2.11, a new release of the company’s award-winning lighting and energy management software.

CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting), manufacturer of high performance, energy-efficient lighting solutions for commercial and residential projects, has released their newest Eco-Downlight offerings: 1", 3" and 5" LPD (Low Power Density) Eco-Downlights. Introduced at the June Dallas Market, the new LPDs round out CSL’s Eco-Downlight collections. As LEDs continue to become brighter and brighter you need less and less wattage per square foot. “Low Power Density” LEDs have the reliability and quality of CSL’s normal downlights in a smaller wattage package.

Lumileds launches the LUXEON 3535L Color Line, giving  builders of emergency vehicle lights, signs, color tunable bulbs and architectural lamps access to high quality, single color mid power LEDs in Red, Red-Orange, Phosphor-Converted (PC) Amber, Lime, Green and Blue. “The tremendous success our customers have had with our high power color emitters convinced us that multiple markets could benefit from similar colors in the mid power performance range” said David Cosenza, Product Manager for the LUXEON 3535L Color Line.

Designed to precisely and beautifully light small objects and spaces, Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaNTM LED technology, launched today the first full visible spectrum 4-degree AR111 LED lamp. The IEC size standard, 6W AR111 4D LED lamp has outstanding peak intensity; flawless beam definition and edges; exceptional color (CRI of 95 and R9 of 95) and whiteness rendering; and is customizable with the company’s SNAP System.

GlacialLight, the diversified LED technology provider, announces an emergency backup module for its PL0606 & PL0312 ceiling panel lights and an emergency light version of its TL0606 troffer light. The new GL-EM01F emergency backup module installs directly on the PL0606 and PL0312 panel lights and powers the emergency light version of the TL0606 troffer light, providing 90 minutes or more of constant-current power to keep these LED luminaires running in case of building power loss.

An ideal track lighting solution for challenging applications, WAC Lighting unveils the latest Paloma lighting design, a museum-quality LED luminaire with an adjustable LED beam angle that ranges between 15 and 60 degrees using easy and convenient fingertip control.

Huntkey Enterprise Group has expanded its product lines with a series of consumer electronic products, including power banks and LED lights.

Cree announces the new XLamp® XHP35 family of LEDs with 50 percent more light output than Cree’s previous highest-performing single-die LED, setting a new performance standard for the 3.5mm footprint. Built on Cree’s SC5 Technology™ platform, the XHP35 LED introduces Cree’s breakthrough high-voltage power die architecture, empowering manufacturers to unleash the full capacity of extreme high power LEDs using existing drivers. The new XHP35 LED delivers up to 1,833 lumens without the optical inefficiencies of a multi-die LED to enable new designs with reduced size and lower system costs.

Intermatic Incorporated, a leader in energy management solutions, today announced the offering of the PX50 Safety Transformer for pool and spa use.

Bringing 10% higher efficacy and unmatched “punch” to its extensive range of chip-on-board LEDs, Lumileds delivers even better options for designers of spotlights and downlights.

Providing widespread light distribution with market-leading efficacy, MaxLite presents LED Barn Lights as a perfect energy-efficient replacement for high-pressure sodium or metal halide fixtures in yards, driveways, barns, docks and other areas requiring ample lumen output and coverage.

Leica Microsystems has launched two instruments of the laser microdissection microscope series, the Leica LMD6 and the LMD7, with LED illumination for transmitted light. Users can now choose between halogen and LED illumination. LEDs are an energy-efficient light source providing homogenous illumination and a constant color temperature. They also save energy, and their lifetime of up to 25,000 hours is longer than that of halogen lamps. The Leica LMD6 succeeds the Leica LMD6500, the Leica LMD7 succeeds the Leica LMD7000. The upright microscope Leica DM6 B, successor to the Leica DM6000 B, is integrated in both new LMD systems.

Heat is often the enemy of performance in today’s intricate electronic systems, Techsil’s new thermally conductive, pressure sensitive adhesive tapes provide a cooling solution by efficiently transmitting heat away from sensitive components. These double-sided tapes are designed for bonding heat sinks on PCBs, LED strips and IC packages, mounting of ICs, GPUs, heat pipes and for heat sink assembly.

MaxLite expands its DirectFit line of ballast-compatible LED products with a T8 U-bend Lamp designed to upgrade fluorescent fixtures with energy-efficient lighting in a matter of seconds. 

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today unveiled the HERCULES® NIL—a fully integrated track system that combines cleaning, resist coating and baking pre-processing steps with EVG's proprietary SmartNIL™ large-area nanoimprint lithography (NIL) process in a single platform. Offering industry-leading productivity and throughput, the HERCULES NIL provides a complete, dedicated UV-NIL solution that is ideally suited for high-volume manufacturing (HVM) of emerging photonic devices. 

The new MTCS-C3 product family enables users to implement their own True Color Colorimeter into lighting, backlight, LED tests, color selection or other applications. The MTCS-C3 is ideal to measure color coordinates (XYZ), CCT or brightness levels. The sensor system is based on the JENCOLOR® standard components MTCSiCF (True Color sensor) and MCDC04 (Signal converter).  The sensor is based on the CIE1931 XYZ color standard, while the signal converter allows an output at 16/20 bit at a dynamic range of 1-to-1,000,000. The Evaluation Kit is prepared for specific customer calibrations.

With the evolution of LED technology, the cost of LED lighting is reducing and performance of the light is better than ever. ALT, the leading high-power LED lighting brand in Taiwan, has announced new products equipped with CREE’s latest LED chips, in order to improve the lighting quality and return the favor to its customer. ALT patterned heat-dissipation and power management technology, it can well drive the flagship chipsets CREE XPL and single light source CREE MHB and MHD, bringing the advantage of higher brightness, higher color rendering, and beautiful lighting effect.

Litecool (//www.litecool.co.uk), has produced LED packages using a new dielectric material that has a thermal conductivity of 1000 W/mK – 3 times higher than copper and 30 times better than alumina ceramic.

From its all-new Endurance series, WAC Lighting introduces Hawk LED Luminaires.These exterior fixtures can be mounted in any direction for direct and indirect illumination for both residential and commercial applications.

LEDtronics announces its latest series of UL-Listed LED Universal Retrofit Kits that is a true screw-in retrofit unit for installation into just about any existing lighting fixture. Other Retrofit Kits require the user to bolt/strap in a plate or heavily modify their existing fixture to accommodate the device—This next-generation Retrofit Kit does not!

U.S.-based LED company, Diode Dynamics, has taken a major step forward in automotive lighting technology, by designing and manufacturing the first products using brand-new LED components, featuring an independent white chip in addition to multicolor functionality.

MaxLite announces that StaxMAX, the company’s modular LED flood light, now carries a 3G vibration rating that conforms to standards for roadway and area lighting set forth by ANSI C136.31 on its ELLF405UXXX models. The StaxMAX tested was the heaviest fixture configuration, a triple LED module mounted with an arch yoke bracket.