Bicentennial Park is first park in Sydney installed with new GE LED lights GE Lighting, together with its Australian partner UGL Limited, has completed the installation of LED lights at Bicentennial Park in Glebe – as part of the roll-out of a A$7 million project to replace street and park lights across the City of Sydney.  The new LED lights are more energy-efficient, and exude a whiter and brighter illumination compared to conventional street and park lights. Bicentennial Park in Glebe has become the first park in Sydney, Australia, to be ...

Asia’s key event for the LED/OLED lighting industry, LIGHTING JAPAN 2013 will take place from January 16th to 18th, 2013 at Tokyo Big Sight. When we talk about the current LED lighting industry, Asian market is the inevitable part of it. Taiwan and Korea have become the top suppliers of LED, as well as Japan. On the other hand, the market potential in this area is huge, as you can see in Japan (the world’s largest market of LED light bulbs) and China (the huge market where popularization of LED lighting is rapidly proceeding at the ...

Cree, parent company of Ruud Lighting, 9201 Washington Ave., has introduced a new LED light. On Nov. 2, Cree and Best Buy jointly announced the new Insignia bulb, powered by a Cree element, and manufactured and exclusively sold by Best Buy. Also, Cree has LED light bulbs for home use under the EcoSmart brand at other retailers. Cree said the Insignia bulb offers “distinct advantages” over existing LED bulbs on the market today. Unlike some others, the Insignia looks much like a traditional incandescent bulb. Like a standard bulb, it also prov...

The Taiwanese leading LED manufacturer - Edison Opto launches an energy efficient lamp for large area lighting – 150W LED high bay which provides high brightness and superior light quality. The 150W high bay was showcased in Hong Kong International Lighting Fair and was highly inquired. It attracted the attention of industry and demonstrated Edison Opto’s remarkable R&D achievements. The light source of 150W LED high bay is Edison Opto’s high brightness Federal 3535 Series component. The 150W high bay is composed of many LED emitt...

At this year’s China SSL Conference , AIXTRON again has hosted an MOCVD seminar along with the China Solid State Lighting Alliance (CSA). More than 200 decision-makers from industry and research took part in AIXTRON’s International Short Course on MOCVD held in Guangzhou. Dr. Bernd Schulte, Tim Wang, AIXTRON SE “Prices for LED bulbs as replacements for 40W incandescent bulbs in some countries are below the USD 10.00 mark”, remarks Dr. Bernd Schulte, COO & Member of the AIXTRON E...

Cooper Lighting, has announced that three of its LED architectural products have been recognized for ingenuity in Architectural Products Product Innovation Awards (PIA) competition. For the second consecutive year, Cooper Lighting has the most product awards in the lighting/electrical category. This year's LED products include the IRiS P3LED Directional Series, io Lili Gen II Recessed Indirect Luminaires, and the Lumiere Eon Bollards. Cooper Lighting has received a total of nine company awards since the competition's inception last year. ...

Future Lighting Solutions and Shanghai Grand Light are pleased to announce the successful completion of a landscape lighting project illuminating several kilometers in the commercial and cultural heart of Shaoxing City. In total, 7300 linear wall washers and 3300 sets of spot lights using LUXEON® LEDs grouped in various configurations were used. Beginning at HuaQi Road and running from XinKai He, the new lighting covers a distance of 2.6 kilometers. The General Manager of Shanghai Grand Light said, “With helpful direction and support from Futu...

Reduced total cost of ownership, high fidelity, image stability and low-maintenance are key criteria for visual systems investment Today’s commercial aviation operators are looking for cost effective, high-fidelity and stable solutions for visual displays.  The brand new Boeing 777 full-flight simulator (FFS) is being manufactured by L-3 Link Simulation &Training UK (L-3 Link UK) at its Crawley, UK facility. The Boeing 777 FFS uses the very latest projectiondesign® FL35 projectors integrated with RSI Visual Systems’ XT4 Image ...

Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced that EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company, has become a distributor for Bridgelux products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With its broad sales network and established customer base, EBV will serve as an instrumental channel partner for the rapidly growing LED chip and packaged products business at Bridgelux.   The agreement gives EBV ready access to Bridgelux’s full line of LED chips as well as LED packaged products consisting of ...

Asia’s key event for the LED/OLED lighting industry, LIGHTING JAPAN 2013 will take place from January 16th to 18th, 2013 at Tokyo Big Sight. When we talk about the current LED lighting industry, Asian market is the inevitable part of it. Taiwan and Korea have become the top suppliers of LED, as well as Japan. On the other hand, the market potential in this area is huge, as you can see in Japan (the world’s largest market of LED light bulbs)and China (the huge market wherepopularization of LED lighting is rapidly proceeding at the in...

The provider of commercial lamps and lighting products, Eye Lighting International in Mentor, announced it acquired the LED luminaire products assets of Aphos Lighting in Carrollton, Texas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Eye Lighting will move production of the Aphos-brand LED luminaires to its plant in Mentor and will sell the products under the Eye Lighting brand name. Tom Salpietra, president and CEO of Eye Lighting, said the Aphos line creates “greater scale for (the) business and strengthens (its) position and penetration in the...

According to Xinhua News Agency, experts said that if half of the lighting devices nationwide were LEDs, China could save power equivalent to the annual electricity output of two and a half of Three Gorges Dam. At a forum held on Nov 3 in Wuhan,Chen Hongda, deputy director of the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out that China could save about 210 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year if LEDs were more widely used. And in April, The Ministry of Science and Technology released its 12th Five-Year Plan (20...

Urban Barns Foods Inc. , which is specializing in "CUBIC FARMING" a revolutionary type of farming that dramatically increases yields of vegetables with radically diminished water consumption when compared to conventional farming, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Wells Communications Inc.. The purpose of the MOU is to develop and expand a framework of cooperation between Urban Barns and Wells to develop mutually beneficial programs, projects and activities using LED light fixtures. Mr. Dan Meikleham, Chairman of Urban Barns, stat...

Following up on the huge success at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition held in June 2012, Tridonic presents its new LED products at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2012 (Autumn Edition). The LED portfolio enables customers to develop innovative LED lighting solutions. Light engines, modules and a series of drivers are a strong addition to Tridonic’s product portfolio. The company expects visitors from all over the world at the booth to obtain information about products and technologies. In focus are the new LED products an...

Facility utilizes efficient solutions to educate students on sustainable design.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided lighting solutions to the University of Kansas’ Studio 804 design team to illuminate Galileo’s Pavilion, a student-designed building on the campus of Johnson County Community College (JCCC). Products includeHalo LED recessed downlights,Neo-Ray Straight and Narrow suspended luminaires, andSure-Lites LED...

Imtra has completed its ‘green’ initiative to reduce energy consumption at its corporate headquarters. Imtra’s energy saving efforts include the installation of high-yield solar panels on all suitable roofing surfaces resulting in the reduction of outside power consumption by 70%, as well as installing higher energy-efficient bulbs throughout the facility resulting in a lighting fixture power reduction of 9%. Under its Imtra Marine Lighting brand, it manufactures a series of energy-efficient, low-power LED lighting products. The Company’s weather instrum...

Some most famous bridges in London are to retain the Olympic architectural lighting scheme following a detailed evaluation of costs. Brand experience company Innovision originally commissioned lighting designer Paul Cook and a handful of experts from the electrical, lighting and design industries to illuminate the six bridges that run either side of Hungerford Bridge. London, Southwark, Millennium, Blackfriars and Waterloo Bridge, plus the Golden Jubilee footbridge, were all studied carefully before a tailor-made design was employed for each bridge. Lighting soluti...

Despite Nichia planned to enter into LED markets in China and enlarge its market share there, it has been foiled by simmering anti-Japan sentiment in China due mainly to the Diaoyutai island issue, so is considering to cooperate with Taiwanese enterprises for further development. And two Taiwanese companies, including Hon Hai Group and Epistar, will be part of the joint venture. According to senior Nichia executives and based on positive outlook towards widespread use of LED lighting, the firm focused on the ample business potential in China, having invested at le...

A group of South Korean scientists have collaborated to translate what they observed in fireflies over toward a better, less expensive, LED lens. Their work is essentially mimicking a bioluminescent organ for lighting applications Following the contemporary practice of investigating biological systems, the team attempted to copy the structure of a firefly's underbelly into work that may lead to more efficient and cheaper LED lighting. They wrote about a better anti-reflective lens for LED in their paper, "Biologically inspired LED lens from cuticular nanostruct...

Facility utilizes efficient solutions to educate students on sustainable design. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided lighting solutions to the University of Kansas’ Studio 804 design team to illuminate Galileo’s Pavilion, a studentdesigned building on the campus of Johnson County Community College (JCCC). Products include Halo LED recessed downlights, Neo-Ray Straight and Narrow suspended luminaires, and Sure-Lites LED E...

•         Available at Apple stores from October 30th •         Enables you to control light wirelessly, create and personalize light with an app on your smartphone or tablet   Building on its innovation capabilities, today Philips unveils hue, the world’s smartest web-enabled LED home lighting system. Philips hue signals a new era in home lighting both in the way we think about and experience light in our homes. It allows you to create and control the light using your smartphon...

The Asian lighting industry event - HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) has started grandly since 27th October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Taiwanese leading lighting manufacturer in LED market - Edison Opto showcases the full range new products and attracts the attention of customers. Its PLCC, COB series products and the upcoming 150W new high bay are highly inquired, which demonstrate Edison Opto’s remarkable R&D achievements. Recently, Edison Opto has launched the high lm/$, high ...

EVERLIGHT introduced several low, mid, and high power LED lighting components that adopted the LM80 test, in order to provide a broad range of high quality LED lighting components and strengthen EVERLIGHT’s concept of “The Right LED for The Right Application.” Standardization has become a key factor in LED adoption in the global lighting market - not only in safety standards and performance standards but also more importantly, in reliability and lifetime testing. LM80 is the lighting standard by which all major LED manufacturers...

Seesmart Technologies, Inc. has finished a $140,000 project with Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State to help the organization’s new West Farms Center achieve LEED design certification. Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State is a multi-service organization providing support and services for more than 100,000 individuals with cerebral palsy and developmental disabilities and their families. Its Metropolitan Division, which serves all five boroughs of New York City, recently opened the new West Farms Center in the Bronx at 1880 Bryant A...

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) recently completed the installation of nearly 1,600 LED luminaires that light walkways and grassy areas in Central Park. The new luminaires from Spring City Electrical feature Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp® XP-G LEDs in each fixture and were produced using an advanced light engine from Heatron. DOT officials estimate the new LED lighting will reduce energy usage by 62 percent and deliver annual maintenance savings of nearly $30,000 compared to metal halide lighting. The NYC DOT initia...

Vietnamese scientists are trying to create LED lamp products which have the light spectrum suitable with every kind of plant, which can help save electricity, churn out clean and off-season products. According to Dr Phan Hong Khoi, Managing Director of the high-efficiency public lighting project in Vietnam, LED is a special type of semiconductor diode which can generate a narrow spectrum, discrete light when excited. LED lamps can create different colors, depending on the semiconductor materials used and operating conditions. With LED lamps, scientists use two bea...

Marl International aims to help customers waste less light with a new Lighting Scheme Design service that provides specific recommendations on the best energy efficient LED lighting to use inside and outside buildings, car parks or industrial sites. The service is being launched at the LuxLive exhibition in Earls Court, London, from 6-7 November 2012 (Stand E02).   Marl can accept a CAD drawing of the internal or external area to be lit, or a simple dimensional drawing, and will use 3D modelling software to choose the most suitable energy efficient LED lightin...

•       £21,000 cost savings •       Energy consumption reduced by 68% •       Maintenance programme reduced by over a third Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust expect to achieve savings in the region of £21,000 after retrofitting LED lighting in several areas of the building, and payback in some areas is projected to take less than 2 years. The retrofit programme, delivered by advanced LED specialists Light Planet, has also reduced energ...

NEUTEX LED Lighting, a division from NEUTEX Advanced Energy Group Inc, has signed an electricity supply and LED Lighting reseller agreement with Dallas based Texzon Utilities. Under the agreement, the NEUTEX sales team and their distributors  will have the opportunity to offer competitive commercial energy rates directly to their customers. The Texzon Utilities corporate office and their franchise holders will be able to sell energy efficient LED lighting to complement their competitive energy offerings. "Competitive pricing and custom...

Companies to develop solutions integrating LED lighting in office furniture Philips and Haworth announced a cooperation to create workplaces designed to enhance employees’ well-being in the office. As part of the cooperation, Philips, the global leader in lighting and Haworth, a global leader in the design and manufacture of office furniture, will create innovative lighting and furniture solutions for the European market. The companies will also focus on future-looking research into office design and lighting trends.   At the office and facility show, Orgatec 2012...