2015-07-01

Citizen Develops World’s Thinnest Multi-Color LED with Reflector

Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Fujiyoshida City, Yamanashi Prefecture. President: Yoshihiro Gohta) has developed the CL-426 Series that is the world’s thinnest side-lighting type multi-color LED with a reflector.  Shipment of samples will start in July 2015. 
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2015-07-01

Universal Display Showcases OLED Luminaire and Reading Light

Universal Display, enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED® technology and materials, unveiled new and elegant OLED white lighting design prototypes and technologies at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Thursday, June 18th. Exhibited items highlighted the Company’s device architecture and material and manufacturing process core competencies. These proof-of-concept panels and products, including the new Loop Lamp prototype, demonstrate how OLEDs offer flexibility, transparency, thinness and manufacturability on plastic for unbreakable displays and luminaires.
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2015-07-01

Amerlux Launches New LED Downlight with Patented Low Beam Angle Technology

Engineered with a patent-pending optic that delivers the lowest possible beam angle without sacrificing fixture efficiency, Amerlux® unveils Cylindrix III Mini LED in a smaller size and cleaner look than the original version. At just 21 watts, the accent delivers superior efficacy and lumen output, innovative TIR optics and extraordinary aesthetics for retail, hospitality and commercial environments.
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2015-06-30

v2 Lighting Group Announces New Pendant LED Luminaire

v2 Lighting Group, an innovator in specification grade LED lighting, has released a range of Up + Down Pendants. These new LED fixtures, with up to 8000  total lumens, are perfect for lighting large space above and below. The Up + Down Pendant is shipping today in a multitude of styles, finishes and lumen options.
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2015-06-30

Cree Upgrades LED Candelabra Bulbs

Cree continues to raise the bar in LED applications with the introduction of the TW Series™ LED Candelabra bulb, delivering the exceptional lighting experience consumers expect from Cree’s best-selling LED Bulb portfolio. The Cree® LED Candelabra bulbs emit a warm, decorative light while consuming up to 88% less energy* than traditional incandescent bulbs – making it ideal for candelabra fixtures, wall sconces and chandeliers. Available as 25- and 40-watt replacements, the new Cree LED Candelabra bulbs are sold in three-bulb multi-packs at The Home Depot® stores for US $19.97.
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2015-06-30

Hubbell Lighting Launches New LED Emergency Lights

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced that Dual-Lite has launched the NEMA 4X Dynamo Emergency Light. Designed for complex industrial applications, the high output Dynamo enables spacing up to 74’ at 12’ mounting heights or 81’ at 7.5’ mounting heights—the widest spacing in the industry. Plus, the LED emergency egress luminaire includes a lifetime LED warranty—an industry first. 
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2015-06-29

Kenall Mfg. Launches New Bacteria-killing LED Light for Hospitals

Kenall Manufacturing introduced Indigo-Clean™, a light fixture that uses Continuous Environmental Disinfection technology to continuously kill harmful bacteria linked to hospital acquired infections (HAIs). The technology behind Indigo-Clean™ inactivates a wide range of micro-organisms that are known causes of HAIs, including MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), C.difficile and VRE (Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus).
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2015-06-26

Lighting Science Group to Release New LED Lighting Products as Part of Commercial Business Transformation

Lighting Science Group, a global manufacturer of LED lighting solutions, announced comprehensive refreshes and redesigns across the company’s entire commercial product portfolio. Being rolled out in a phased approach beginning this quarter, this revamp will begin with the general availability and release of the new and improved value-based GP19 lamp.
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2015-06-25

Dialight Adds Higher Lumen Output LED Floodlight for Hazardous and Industrial Locations

Dialight, the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, announced the launch of its new 15,000 lumens DuroSite® and Safesite® Floodlight in UL, CE and C1D2 versions. The higher lumen Floodlight can replace up to 400W traditional HID lighting fixtures and represents the future of energy efficient illumination for industrial and hazardous applications worldwide.
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2015-06-24

Molex Releases Portable LED Magnet Light for Wet Locations

Molex Incorporated announces the availability of its wet-location-rated Woodhead® LED Wide-Area Portable Magnet Light. This durable solution offers contractors and maintenance, manufacturing and quality personnel a light that consumes just 40 watts of power to produce 2700 lumens output lasting 50,000 hours. This delivers significantly longer life expectancy when compared to traditional lights such as high-pressure sodium (HPS) and metal-halide (MH). The light also features a heavy-duty magnet, allowing it to be quickly, easily and securely mounted on a variety of metal surfaces.
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2015-06-22

EarthTronics New LED Recessed Retrofit Downlights Meet Stringent CEC Guidelines

EarthTronics offers a full line of Energy Star rated LED Recessed Retrofit downlights in 4- and 6-inch diameters, providing 550 to 1200 lumens for architectural/décor lighting applications. The energy efficient LED Recessed Retrofit downlights easily replace popular, less proficient 4-, 5- and 6-inch aperture fixtures and produce a full flood light with a 90° beam angle. They are ideal for use in medical and long-term care facilities, hotels, resorts and restaurants as well as light commercial properties.
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2015-06-22

Philips Vaya Tube for Outdoor and Indoor Lighting Applications

Direct View lighting is a growing application space as architectural building materials are shifting more and more to glass and steel, requiring fixtures that integrate directly into the façade structures and cladding elements.
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2015-06-18

Lunera Lighting to Feature Plug-and-Play HID LED Lighting Replacements at BOMA

Lunera® Lighting, a leader in lighting innovations accelerating the transformation to advanced LED technology, will be featuring the Susan Lampand Lucy Lamp high-intensity discharge (HID) plug-and-play LED replacement lamps in Booth# 944 at BOMA International's Every Building Conference & Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center, June 28 - 30, 2015.
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2015-06-18

DEUTZ-FAHR Intros Industry-First LED Light Package for Its 7 Series Tractors

DEUTZ-FAHR in collaboration with HELLA has developed an industry-first LED light package for its award-winning line of 7 Series tractors.
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2015-06-17

Seaborough Introduces Universal Plug and Play LED Tube Solution

Seaborough Research BV, one of the R&D companies of the Seaborough Group, introduces the world’s first, universally interchangeable, LED tube solution to retrofit legacy fluorescent TL lamps. The revolutionary oneTLed electronic circuittechnologyprovides compatibility with every type of driver, electronic or magnetic, and can be incorporated in all linear LED products. The oneTLed solves all the retrofit incompatibility problems found with LED tubes currently on the market, which are sometimes even unsafe to use with drivers found in existing luminaires. Notably the oneTLed solution offers a payback well within one year. 
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2015-06-16

WeMo® and OSRAM SYLVANIA Launch Three New WeMo-Enabled LIGHTIFY™ Starter Sets

Continuing to grow its award-winning Internet of Things ecosystem, WeMo® and OSRAM SYLVANIA today announced the availability of three new lighting starter sets featuring WeMo-enabled OSRAM LIGHTIFY™ LED products. Designed to provide a fun, easy entry point to smart lighting, each WeMo LIGHTIFY bundle includes a WeMo Link ZigBee®-to-Wi-Fi bridge and a single combination of LIGHTIFY products including the Gardenspot Mini RGB, the Flex RGBW, and the Tunable White A19 LED bulb.
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2015-06-16

ProLight Unveils Next Generation COB LED with 2-Step MacAdam Ellipse

Since the introduction of COB LED packages for lighting in 2010, ProLight has continuously improved the COB packaging technology. Recently, ProLight announced the new COB series with 2-step MacAdam ellipse guarantee to be industry leading standard in light quality.
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2015-06-16

Lextar Electronics Launches DCOB LED Light Engine

Lextar Electronics (Lextar), the LED vertical integration manufacturer, has launched a DCOB (Driver on COB) product, using Lextar’s in-house high voltage Chip to design an integrated light module without an external driver, providing the most convenient plug-and-play LED light engine for the traditional lighting fixture manufacturers. Lextar presents a complete series of AC-in Driver-on-Board module at Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition from 9th to 12th of June, 2015.
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2015-06-16

CreateLED's LED Screens Make an Impact in the Worldwide Audiovisual Market

CreateLED Electronics, a leading provider of LED video solutions, announced that a host of new customer endorsements for its recently introduced AirMAG-2 high performance display screens is helping to drive the growth of the company's business internationally.
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2015-06-15

Conrad Business Supplies Releases New SMD Terminal Blocks for LED Applications

Conrad Business Supplies continues to expand its selection of electrical components with new versions of the 2060 Series terminal blocks from leading manufacturer WAGO. These latest additions will complement over 16,000 other WAGO products stocked by Conrad.
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2015-06-12

Rechargeable UV LED Leak Detection Flashlight for Heavy Duty Fleets

The Tracerline® OPTI-PRO(TM) Max (P/N TP-8630) is a cordless, state-of-the-art, True UV LED leak detection flashlight. It makes heavy duty/fleet vehicle leaks easy to spot, while slashing valuable diagnostic time for technicians.
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2015-06-10

Samsung Introduces COB LED Packages with Small LES and Advanced Color Quality

Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced component solutions, today introduced new chip-on-board (COB) LED package lineups, including small LES (light-emitting surface) COB packages, high CRI (color rendering index) COBs, and vivid COBs. The new COB packages with their outstanding color quality and scaled-down light emitting space, will provide a major design alternative for LED lighting makers.
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2015-06-10

Lumileds Publishes Lifetime Data for the LUXEON 3535L Mid Power LEDs

Lumileds announced breakthrough LM-80 test results for its LUXEON 3535L Mid Power LED line. Completing 10,000 hours of LM-80 testing at 55˚C, 85˚C and 105˚C, Lumileds has exceeded lumen maintenance requirements of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR® program, qualification by the DesignLights Consortium™ (DLC), as well as other emerging specifications. Projections based on TM-21-11 show that the devices will maintain 90% of their initial lumen output (L90) for a minimum of 60,000 hours at a 200 mA drive current and Ts temperature of 85˚C. Exceptional lifetimes were extrapolated at all test conditions. This performance means LUXEON 3535L LEDs can operate in an LED fixture for 13 years* while maintaining at least 90% of their initial brightness.
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2015-06-10

Samsung Display Introduces First Mirror and Transparent OLED Display Panels

Samsung Display unveiled the industry’s first Mirror and Transparent OLED display panels in a dazzling state-of-the-art showcase for personalized shopping and informational browsing, held this week at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exhibit features the first retail use of advanced commercial OLED panels – a “virtual necklace” display for the world renowned Chow Sang Sang jewelry company.
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2015-06-10

Zilog Releases New Receiver and Controller Reference Design Using MCUs for LED Lighting and Sound Controls

Zilog, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IXYS Corporation and a pioneer supplier of microcontrollers (MCUs) providing solutions for the industrial, telecommunication, automotive and consumer markets, today announced the release of Zilog’s new DMX Reference Design Kit which includes a DMX512-A Receiver with our Z51F0811 MCU and a DMX512-A Controller using our Z51F3220 MCU.
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2015-06-10

Excelite Introduces Polycarbonate Products for LED Lighting Market

The LED lighting systems are being adopted for a number of commercial and residential applications. This has been for the fact that most customers are demanding for energy efficient options.  It’s for this reason that Excelite Plastics Ltd. has been investing in an array of LED products. They aim to meet the desired design and performance requirements.
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2015-06-10

iLuv Launches Multicolor Smart LED Bulbs

iLuv Creative Technology announces the company's first app-enabled, Bluetooth® smart LED light bulb, Rainbow7™. Rainbow7™ is an easy-to-use, energy efficient LED bulb that allows owners to control their lighting wirelessly through their mobile devices. As part of iLuv's new Connected Home - Connected Life series of smart products, Rainbow7™ helps owners manage and control their lives with greater ease and efficiency.
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2015-06-09

Megaman Adds LED Filament Bulb and Smart Lighting Retrofits to Product Line

Energy saving LED lighting expert Megaman UK has now added LED Filament lamps to its ever increasing range of products.  Part of the company’s popular Economy Series, the Filament range has been designed for use in decorative light fittings to produce eye-catching and stunning visual effects. Megaman’s LED Filament lamps are ideal for a wide range of applications that include hotels, bars and restaurants.
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2015-06-08

Lutron Launches Apple® HomeKit-enabled Caséta® Wireless Smart Bridge Lighting Controllers

Lutron Electronics is announced its new Caséta Wireless Smart Bridge supports Apple's HomeKit. The Smart Bridge is part of the Caséta Wireless Lighting Starter Kit, available at the Apple Store® beginning today. With the HomeKit-enabled Smart Bridge, homeowners can now control their Lutron Caséta Wireless dimmers using Siri on their iPhone®or iPad®.
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2015-06-08

SemiLEDs’ Phosphor Converted LED Chip Series with ReadyWhite™ Phosphor Technology

SemiLEDs Corporation (NASDAQ: LEDS), a global provider of vertical LED technology solutions, announced sampling and volume availability of its Phosphor Converted, or PC LED chip series. The series launches with PC Amber, PC Green and PC Red LED chips in a 40mil (1mm x 1mm) chip size. SemiLEDs PC LEDs utilize SemiLEDs’ proprietary ReadyWhiteTM phosphor technology to minimize blue pass through, thus achieving higher luminous flux, efficiency, and lumen maintenance over time and temperature compared to monochromatic LED chips.
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New XLamp XFL LEDs are fully specified and optimized for flashlights and other portable lighting applications  Cree LED has just launched the new XLamp® XFL LED family, comprised of three LEDs designed for maximum performance in flash... READ MORE

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