The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (GILE 2025) officially opened on June 9, drawing lighting professionals from around the world to this major LED industry event.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of GILE, with the theme “360°+1: Illuminating Infinity – A Step toward the Future of Light” reflecting the LED industry’s push for innovation amid new challenges and development bottlenecks.

This year, LED companies across the supply chain—such as MLS, Luminus, Everlight, Xuyu, Hongli, Shenzhen MTC, Leyard, Nationstar, Aucksun, TORSHARE, Apexls (Ledman), LEDVANCE, Pak, Bridgelux, Signify, Foshan Lighting, SUNPU, CITIZEN (CITILED), ONEN, and Caimeta—unveiled new products that enhance performance and extend applications to automotive, horticulture, healthy, and aviation lighting, aiming to unlock new market growth for LED lighting and allow LED technologies to benefit more industries.

Automotive Lighting
For the automotive lighting sector, Everlight showcased its products for front lighting (headlights, daytime running lights (DRLs), front fog lights) as well as ambient lighting. The headlights focus on simple integration with optical lenses. Currently, the company has developed and is actively promoting the ALFS H, ALFS J, and ALFS JS series. Its windshield head-up displays (WHUDs) are also compatible with single-chip LED products, such as the ALFS J series that has been adopted by Great Wall Motor.

Evelight’s automotive lighting module

Everlight’s novel dual-color LED packages—functioning as taillights (red light) and autonomous driving assist lights (cyan light)—combine high-output flip chips with phosphor-in-glass (PiG) to ensure high reliability under conditions of elevated temperature and humidity.

In response to the trend toward intelligent ambient lighting, Everlight launched the ISELED-certified 3534 RGB LED, already adopted by Korean automakers and expected in Europe by 2H25. The 3030 LED ambient light is used in both interior and exterior applications. For Mini LED taillights and communication displays, the company showcased its AEC-Q102-certified CSP LED, while the 1515 LED offers enhanced optical uniformity for taillights and automotive displays.

The company also showcased comprehensive LED package solutions for lighting, appliances, industrial, and UV applications—including the 2835 (commercial and residential lighting), 3030 (high brightness and dual color temperature), 4014 (appliance interior lighting), and 5050 (outdoor and industrial use) solutions.

Everlight’s UV series supports diverse uses—UVA for curing, UVB for medical and horticulture lighting, and UVC for sterilization—and offers modular, customizable designs for easy system integration and product development.

Hongli showcased automotive-grade LEDs and automotive lighting application solutions, including ultra-high-definition Mini LED video walls and combination taillights used in Huawei’s AITO M7.

Regarding automotive-grade LED packaging, Hongli launched PPA/EMC/ceramic LEDs for all types of vehicle lighting, including high and low beams, DRLs, stop lights, front/rear position lights, turn signals, and various interior lights. These cost-effective products feature long lifespan, covering a full power range from 0.01W to 36W.

Hongli’s full automotive LED lineup with a lamp module showcased below

Horticulture Lighting
In the horticulture lighting segment, Nationstar introduced packaging platforms covering 2835, 3030, and 3535 models, with red, white, and blue light options, offering one-stop customized solution designs.

Nationstar’s horticulture lighting products

Hongli’s LED packaging brands “Hongli Optoelectronics” and “Smalite” showcased smart lighting, full-spectrum high-CRI and decorative/landscape lighting products, as well as high-power filament lamps.

Hongli’s horticulture lighting products

For horticulture, Hongli presented integrated, anti-sulfurization lighting solutions. Notably, the high-PPE ceramic series features the latest deep red LEDs (PPE up to 5 μmol/J@350mA), ultra-compact size, low thermal resistance, and wide current range.

Additionally, Xuyu launched horticulture lighting LED solutions boasting high quantum efficiency, offering customizable colors, CRI, color temperature, light distribution configurations, and spectra. Specifically, the red and white LEDs achieve a PPE of 5.0 μmol/J@350mA and 3.3 μmol/J@60mA, respectively.

Xuyu’s horticulture lighting solutions

MLS unveiled the 3030 flip-chip EVO LED (PPE > 3.15@65mA) and 3535 ceramic 660nm LED (PPE > 4.6 @ 700mA) as part of its high-efficiency horticultural lineup.

Overview of MLS’s horticulture lighting solutions

Healthy and Smart Lighting
Luminus showcased high-performance COB components, dimmable solutions, and high- and mid-power series. The energy-efficient, reliable COB models suit diverse applications—from commercial venues like hotels and museums to residential settings—offering tunable lighting that enhances comfort and color presentation.

Luminus’s products on display

LEDVANCE exhibited products such as a rosy light spotlight, clothing light, pendant, dining, and beauty lights. The spotlight features a low-power, second-gen light source with proprietary FP ratio tech for precise optical control and smooth gradient transitions. Its superior color tolerance meets professional design standards.

Luminus’s rosy light spotlight

The clothing light features a low-power, third-gen four-wave spectrum source, using multi-spectral chip mixing to enhance color rendering and garment depth.

Additionally, LEDVANCE’s dining lights provide professional-grade high-CRI light sources, using an efficient LED lighting system to present the true colors of food.

The company also displayed a high-end lighting product with a CRI of 90R and luminous efficacy reaching 200–220 lumens per watt (lm/W). This model addresses the core issue of moisture sensitivity in KSF phosphor powder through special coating technology and high-precision centrifugal sedimentation, resulting in high color stability, minimal color shift, and ultra-high luminous efficiency.

CITIZEN (CITILED), a market leader in lighting COB LEDs, presented upgraded products including the Type-F series for improved light spots and uniformity, the high-CRI UQ series for museum lighting, and a 1200K amber COB for ambient use. The latest Type-F, with a 2.4mm LES and CRI 97, supports spotlight miniaturization.

CITIZEN’s (CITILED) lighting products displayed across a grid of square booths

Additionally, according to research from TrendForce, to reduce SKUs for lighting distributors and wholesalers, dual-color tunable mixed-light COB LED products are gradually gaining market acceptance, especially in China and North America. As a result, many international package manufacturers have launched tunable white COB LEDs over the past two years.

Hongli showcased full-spectrum SMD/COB products for healthy lighting, using chip-scale packaging to simulate natural light shifts (2700K–6500K). Paired with intelligent systems, they offer low blue light (400–500nm range, accounting less than 0.6% of total output) and meet key spectral standards, making them ideal for desk lamps, downlights, and spotlights.

Hongli’s full-spectrum COB series

Nationstar developed full-spectrum healthy lighting technology that mimics natural light by expanding into infrared and violet bands, achieving blue light hazard exemption and leading color rendering and saturation levels.

For circadian lighting, it offered intelligent lighting solutions: the Empowerment version enhances alertness by simulating daylight and suppressing melatonin secretion, while the Comfort Sleep version reduces blue light and boosts warm light to support better sleep.

The elderly-friendly lighting solution features low-blue, high-red designs to improve visual clarity. By reducing short-wavelength blue light, the solution slows lens yellowing and enhances red light wavelengths for better visual clarity.

In smart lighting, Nationstar launched plug-and-play single-color LEDs, the dual-color temperature white EMC3030 with seamless tuning and independent leads—suited for indoor and smart home use, and a multi-color component enabling unlimited color control.

Nationstar’s smart lighting solution

The company also exhibited RGB display components, backlight modules, and photocouplers.

Xuyu introduced a globally patented, multi-band full-spectrum LED for healthy lighting, combining advanced optical design, materials science, and intelligent control. Using proprietary color-mixing algorithms and dynamic dimming, the product bridges lab research and real-world use, especially in settings requiring high color accuracy like museums, premium displays, and interior design.

Regarding smart light sources, Xuyu launched its flagship Blue-free Golden Light LED series, featuring proprietary technology that limits the blue light content to 0.1%, with tunable color temperatures from 1800K to 2500K and a CRI over 80, perfectly replicating natural light. The products deliver 200 lm/W luminous efficacy and support intelligent day-night rhythm switching, providing efficient white light during the day and soft golden light at night to ensure sleep quality and reduce dry eye risk. With 99.5% color purity and strong fog penetration, the series also suits outdoor lighting.

Overview of Xuyu’s Blue-free Golden Light LED

BMTC, a subsidiary of Shenzhen MTC, specializes in base material and chip technologies for compound semiconductors. At GILE 2025, the company showcased GaN, GaAs, and InP material systems. Its products span display applications—backlighting and direct-view—as well as industrial, medical, healthy, residential, commercial, landscape, and horticulture lighting. SMTC has also expanded into infrared sensing, VCSELs, and optical communications.

SMTC’s full-color LED chips

MLS showcased healthy lighting full-spectrum series that simulates natural light (400–760nm), featuring high color rendering (Ra≥95), eye-care designs with minimum blue light hazards, and dynamic color temperature and brightness adjustment.

Overview of MLS’s full-spectrum series

Signify created an elderly-friendly lighting space featuring three Anrui series models for living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens. The lineup offers customized light formulas, smart bed-leaving detection, radar-assisted ToF sensing, fall monitoring, and voice control to meet seniors’ needs.

Signify’s elderly-friendly lighting space

Special Lighting
Luminus demonstrated its RGBL product with a lime ceramic phosphor film, offering 20% higher brightness than traditional RGBW LEDs, a wide color temperature range, high CRI, and enhanced color reproduction, durability, and reliability—ideal for stage, architectural, spotlight, and fountain lighting

Luminus RGBL

Xuyu presented a cost-effective aesthetic medical LED covering 300–1500nm, offering high radiation energy to boost circulation, metabolism, and rhythm regulation while inhibiting oil secretion. It is suited for beauty devices, hair growth caps, hair removal tools, and nail curing equipment.

Overview of Xuyu’s aesthetic medical LED

Displays
Leafun, a display brand under Leyard, presented a red-dominant color scheme paired with a white base incorporating creative Olympic themes to symbolize the passion and “light” involved throughout its 30-year journey.

Leyard’s exhibition booth

As Leyard’s cultural enterprise, Leafun integrates culture, technology, and art to deliver solutions across venues, museums, shows, and tourism, driving innovation in cultural and tourism experiences.

At the exhibition, it showcased the “Above Dongting Lake” night show in Yueyang and the Huiyan Peak cultural district in Hengyang, Hunan.

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