2015-04-13

AkzoNobel New Powder Coating Raises Lighting Output by 30%

AkzoNobel has launched an ultra-reflective powder coating which can increase the effective output of commercial lighting fixtures by up to 30%.
Continue reading
2012-09-28

AkzoNobel again expands capacities for LED precursor Trimethyl Gallium and Trimethyl Aluminum

AkzoNobel is to boost capacity of its worldscale Trimethyl Gallium (TMGa) plant in La Porte, Texas, US - consolidating the plant’s status as the largest of its kind in the world. The investment involves extending the Trimethyl Aluminum (TMAl) unit and building a new Trimethyl Gallium plant. TMAl is a feedstock for TMGa, a high purity metalorganic (HPMO) used in products such as LED wafer manufacturing. With this multi-million expansion AkzoNobel meets the increasing demand from the semi-conductor industry, particularly for the production of light ...
Continue reading
2011-06-27

Netherlands-based AkzoNobel Sets up Two New LED Precursor Plants

Recently, Amersfoort-Netherlands based AkzoNobel , plans to enlarge its production capacity for its key products: trimethyl gallium (TMG) and trimethyl indium (TMI) to meet continued strong global demand for its High Purity MetalOrganics (HPMO) product range, which manufactures semiconductor-grade indium-, gallium-, aluminum-, zinc- and magnesium-based metalorganics used as key precursor materials in the production of LEDs, solar cells and other semiconductor devices.   In June 2010 AkzoNobel doubled its TMG production capacity at its facilities in LaPor...
Continue reading

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