2012-03-28

Albeo Technologies H-Series High Bay LED Fixture Receives 2012 Architectural SSL Product Innovation Awards

Albeo Technologies has received two 2012 Architectural SSL Magazine Product Innovation Awards (PIA) with its H-Series High Bay LED fixture. The H-Series was recognized both in the High Bay Category and one of six in the Special Citations category as the most innovative optical and control system. It is the only LED fixture of its kind to scale from one to 12 LED light bars. This modularity provides a lumen range of 6,500 to 77,000 within the same product family which is equivalent in light output to arrays of two to 24 fluorescent tubes. The Archit...
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2012-03-28

Century-Old GE Bulbs Light Up 100th Anniversary Celebration of Nela Park

One hundred years ago—March 25, 1912 to be exact—executives and employees gathered at GE Lighting’s newly forming Nela Park campus to bury a hermetically sealed time capsule packed with a daily newspaper, pamphlets, pins, photos and some GE light bulbs representing available and emerging incandescent technologies of the era.   The collection of treasures inside the capsule and an accompanying lead box filled with additional mementos placed inside a cornerstone of Marketing Building #307 were intended to speak to future generations about the state of light...
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2012-03-27

LEDucation achieves another record breaking year with a 20% increase in attendees!

LEDucation 6 CONTINUES TO CLAIM ITS’ TITLE AS the premier event on LED TechnologY WITH ANOTHER RECORD BREAKING ATTENDANCE OF OVER 2,000 Attendees. The Designers Lighting Forum of New York is proud to announce that LEDucation 6 accomplished its most successful event to date with a record breaking crowd of over 2,000 attendees.  Attendees from across North American and Europe gathered at New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March 21st to learn and experience the latest deve...
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2012-03-27

One Stop Green Sells Cree Solar and LED Powered Flashlights

One Stop Green, LLC has developed a partnership with Cree Lighting to bring Cree’s solar powered flashlights without batteries to customers. Batteries are a major source of toxins in landfills and Cree solar flashlights seek to combat this source of hazardous waste by offering Ni-MH rechargeable batteries in their flashlights that are automatically recharged via a solar panel. By exposing the solar cells to direct sunlight, Cree solar powered flashlights never run out of power providing a reliable source of LED lighting in whenever it is need....
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2012-03-27

ZON LED Selects Bridgelux’s RS LED Arrays for Billboard Lighting Retrofit

Bridgelux’s RS LED arrays have been selected by ZON LED as the LED-based light source for their billboard lighting retrofit solution permitting easy upgrades for the most common billboard lighting fixtures in North America. ZON LED is now retrofitting 6000 metal halide (MH) lighting systems for one of the largest outdoor advertisers in North America, with plans to retrofit another 4000 over the next 3 months with installations in Canada and the United States. Current billboard lighting systems use 1 to 4, 400W lamp fixtures to provide sufficient bi...
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2012-03-26

LEDs Brighten up New York City Salon

Phoster Industries’ LED lighting solutions, powered by the OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Golden Dragon LEDs have brightened the interior of New York’s Salon Ziba.   The integrated Par20 and Par30 LED lamps, as well as LED recessed down lights, have replaced existing Halogen lamps at the salon. A total of 85 LED Par30 lamps were integrated on the first floor of the salon and deliver an energy savings of more than 3.1kW — or 68 cents per hour. On the first floor alone, the salon will save up to 74% of its energy costs based on the aver...
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2012-03-26

BulbAmerica Cooperates with Kobi Electric on LED Sales

BulbAmerica has developed a partnership with LED lighting manufacturer Kobi Electric. BulbAmerica has already carved a niche for itself in the lighting industry while Kobi Electric guarantees lumen maintenance of at least 80 percent as well as a lifetime warranty for all their products. These have received 4 and 5 star reviews along with high ratings consistently. Their purpose is to make home LED lighting affordable for everyone and the team travels across the globe to find low cost lighting solutions that also meet the company’s stringent and high standards of qual...
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2012-03-23

Luminus R&D and Testing Lab Gets the Accreditation for Testing LEDs to LM-80 Standard

Boston-area R&D and Testing Laboratory from Luminus Devices, Inc., has been accredited to conduct testing on LEDs to the LM-80 standard, the approved method for measuring LED light sources. The accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 is awarded by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP), and the standard is endorsed by the Department of Energy and the Illumination Engineering Society (IES).   The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) administers the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditat...
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2012-03-23

Global Lighting Technologies demonstrating new 8” x 4’ LED-based edge- lit ceiling light at LFI 2012

Designed for office and institutional use (e.g., schools, public buildings), and particularly effective for hallway lighting due to its narrow width (8”), this recessed ceiling light is edge lit by a light guide utilizing 100 white LEDs spaced strategically along 1 edge of the light guide plate (LPG).  It is available in 4 color temperatures ranging from warm white (at 3000K) to cool white (at 6000K).  Luminous flux ranges from 2448 Lm (warm white) to 3000 Lm (cool white).  CRI is ≥ 75%, lifetime is 30,000 hours, and weight is 3.5 kg. It provides an i...
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2012-03-23

Oree Announces Planar Lighting Contribution to Fraunhofer CES’s Building Technology Showcase

Oree’s involvement in project highlights importance of advanced technologies in commercial building retrofits Oree announced its participation and contribution of planar lighting technology – the Oree LightCell™ – to the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) Building Technology Showcase, a first-of-its-kind research and demonstration building for sustainable technologies in the City of Boston’s Innovation District. Oree is one of 35+ partners contributing a combined total of $2.7 million in advanced building energy techno...
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2012-03-23

Gotham Launches Complete Line of EVO® LED Luminaires

New solid-state downlighting products are functional, attractive and adaptable to evolving technologies.   Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of the EVO® line of LED downlighting luminaires from Gotham® Architectural Downlighting. The new family of solid-state downlighting products combines high performance and energy efficiency with visual elegance and architectural aesthetics.   “The EVO line is more than just a serie...
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2012-03-23

GE LED Lamps Cast an Even Brighter Future for National Automobile Museum

Colors have never been richer at the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nev., and it has enthusiasts seeing vintage cars in a new light. Following the installation of more than 600 GE energy smart® LED replacement lamps, patrons are remarking on a "remarkable difference" and the museum is enjoying $18,000 in annual electricity savings as the result of its environmentally intelligent investment. When National Automobile Museum opened in 1989, it was reported to have set new standards for automotive exhibits with its extensive collec...
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2012-03-22

Zhejiang Shangcheng Places $12.6 million Order for GT Advanced Technologies ASF™ Sapphire Furnaces

Zhejiang Shangcheng Science & Technology Co., Ltd (Shangcheng) has continued to place a $12.6 million order from GT Advanced Technologies for additional ASF™ sapphire growth furnaces. GT's ASF(tm) utilizes the production-proven heat exchanger method (HEM) for producing high quality sapphire boules and cores suitable for the LED industry and other industries requiring high quality sapphire material. The ASF furnaces will increase Shangcheng’s production capacity, which the company believes is needed to meet expected demand from the LED...
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2012-03-22

LEDnovation Designs EnhanceLite MR16-35L Landscape Line with Narrow-Flood Beam Option

LEDnovation has designed its EnhanceLite® MR16-35L Landscape line to include a 24° narrow-flood beam angle for comparable replacement to 35 watt halogen lamps. And the new product will be available in early April 2012. This new lamp complements the EnhanceLite® MR16-35L, 11° spot already in production. Designed for use in IP66 rated outdoor fixtures, the EnhanceLite® MR16-35L narrow-flood landscape lamp is of a robust design meant to see harsh environments. The EnhanceLite® MR16-35L makes it possible to have the same high-quality, ene...
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2012-03-21

Group4 Labs Cooperates with Alfred University Researchers to Develop GaN-on-Diamond Technology for Improving LED Efficiency

Freemont, California based company Group4 Labs, has developed an agreement with Alfred University researchers to develop a sacrificial substrate to support the firm's GaN-on-Diamond technology, aiming at improving efficiencies in solid state lighting and advance the sensing and communication industries. The project will be overseen by two Inamori Professors of materials science in the Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering at AU, S.K. Sundaram and Scott Misture. And they are to develop a substrate material for Group4 Lab’s novel technology which combines d...
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2012-03-21

Albeo Technologies Raises $8 Million to Invest LED Lighting Market

Albeo Technologies has raised a total of $8 Million in Series C equity and debt financing to increase both the breadth of its LED lighting portfolio and depth of its channel presence. The equity investment was led by Braemar Energy Ventures, and was joined by existing investor Green Spark Ventures. Silicon Valley Bank provided a working capital financing line. Jeff Bisberg, CEO of Albeo, announce that, “We are extremely proud to become part of the Braemar team. With Braemar’s existing portfolio and network in the LED and lighting sector, their...
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2012-03-21

Power Integrations Introduces New LED-driver for 100 W Incandescent A19 Bulb Replacement

Power Integrations has rolled out an LED-driver reference design DER-322 for a 100 W incandescent bulb replacement in an A19 form factor - an industry first. DER-322 describes a non-isolated, 93% efficient, high-power-factor (PF) LED driver designed to drive a nominal LED string voltage of 78 V at 230 mA from an input voltage range of 195 VAC to 265 VAC (47 Hz -- 63 Hz). The LED driver utilizes the very low-profile LNK460VG from the LinkSwitch™-PL family of ICs from Power Integrations. DER-322 fits neatly inside the A19 form fac...
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2012-03-21

Cooper Lighting’s Halo Brand Named the Leader by Builders for the Fourteenth Consecutive Year

Builder magazine subscribers name Halo the leader in Brand Familiarity, Brand Used in Past Two Years and Brand Used Most.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, announced that its Halo brand of recessed, track and surface lighting products has once again been named the Brand Leader in lighting by Builder magazine. Awarded for the fourteenth consecutive year, Halo was given top honors in the lighting categories of Brand Familiarity, Brand Used in Past T...
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2012-03-21

Cree Expands Industry’s Most Versatile Family of Mid-Power Lighting-Class LEDs

New XLamp® LEDs Designed to Optimize and Simplify Luminaire Designs Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces new mid-power XLamp® ML-C and ML-E LEDs, bringing increased versatility and flexibility to a wide spectrum of lighting applications. Designed to accelerate the adoption of LED lighting, the expanded XLamp ML family now offers red, green and blue color options, high-voltage and three different price-performance options in the proven and reliable ML package. The ML LED high-voltage options can enable the use of more efficient, smaller ...
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2012-03-20

Silicon Genesis Launches GenII PolyMax System for Solar, LED, Packaging Sectors

Wafering tool supplier Silicon Genesis (SiGen) has launched its second-generation production system for fabricating thin-silicon solar wafers, as well as HB-LED, and 3D semiconductor packaging wafers.   The system tailored for silicon, GaAs, germanium, SiC, GaN and sapphire materials. The new GenII PolyMax system targets high volumes, aiming to replace wire wafer saws with a kerf-free wafering tool. The system creates thinner wafers than are possible with wire-based slicing. The proton beam-induced wafering design was created over 6 years with numerous equ...
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2012-03-20

HELLA’s Down Light Features Bridgelux RS LED Arrays

Bridgelux ‘s awarding-winning RS LED arrays have been selected by HELLA Lighting for the company's first down light designed specifically for the commercial and retail lighting markets. With Bridgelux LED array technology, the HELLA down light features an innovative, very low profile luminaire. According to HELLA, the luminaire will deliver an effective lumen output of 2600 lumens in 4000K neutral white. The new down light is designed to replace the traditional CFL and Metal-Halide lighting systems while consuming only 43 Watts of power. M...
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2012-03-19

Fikra Becomes Dealer for Cooper Lighting Products in Jordan

Lately, Cooper Lighting has signed an agreement with Fikra, the provider of LED technology and lighting solutions, for becoming a dealer for Cooper Lighting products in Jordan. Under the agreement, Fikra will provide its customers and local market with a variety of advanced systems and products of a leading lighting system brand such as Cooper that is used in a range of prestigious construction projects.   On this occasion, Mamoun Mashouka, Fikra's CEO explained that this step falls under the company's aspiration to meet the growing needs of the various ...
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2012-03-19

GE Lighting Won the ENERGY STAR(R) Sustained Excellence Award

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) has honored the ENERGY STAR(R) Sustained Excellence Award to GE Lighting President & CEO Maryrose Sylvester. It was the seventh consecutive year that GE's appliances and lighting businesses were recognized with the honor. Sylvester was pleased to receive the award and said that, "We're proud that GE Lighting has more than 500 ENERGY STAR(R)-qualified products which provide increased energy efficiency for our customers. Being recognized for sustained excellence shows the value...
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2012-03-19

Noribachi Adds over 250 Products to the Design Lights Consortium Qualified Product List

Recently, Noribachi has added over 250 products to the Design Lights Consortium Qualified Product List (QPL), increasing the size of its category six fold and contributing 86% of the total product count. Design Lights Consortium, or DLC, was conceived as an independent certifier for solid state lighting. DLC certifies LED luminaires in seventeen application categories, making it easier for consumers of certified LED lighting to receive energy efficiency rebates from utility companies. One of the most important categories is the "Retrofit Kits for Outdoor...
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2012-03-19

Lumenpulse Wins Six Architectural SSL Product Innovation Awards (PIA)

LED innovator wins unprecedented six awards for product innovation and market leadership Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, announced that it won an unprecedented six Product Innovation Awards (PIA) from Architectural SSL magazine. The company won awards in the Specialty Lighting category for Lumentalk™, a breakthrough new technology enabling digital lighting control over electrical power lines, and Lumensub™, a sub...
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2012-03-16

Cathedral Caverns Gets $9,625 Grant for LED Conversion

Cathedral Caverns State Park is receiving $9,625 grant from the National Park Foundation to replace older incandescent lights with LED lighting in the cave. The conversion is expected to be completed by September. The grant is part of the National Park Foundation's Impact Grant program, which gives parks and other significant areas the financial support needed to transform innovative yet underfunded ideas into successful on-site programs and initiatives. And Cathedral Caverns has begun converting the existing lighting to LEDs and benefited a lot as Park Ma...
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2012-03-16

Microsemi Introduces New LED Driver for LCD TV Applications

Microsemi Corp. has introduced a revolutionary non-dissipative LED backlight driver called LX27901 for LCD TV applications. The company has claimed it is the first device of its type to provide LED driving capabilities in TVs based on the LCD Integrated Power Supply (LIPS) architecture. According to Amir Asvadi, vice president and general manager of the analog mixed signal group at Microsemi, "The LX27901 continues on our long tradition of innovation in high-performance display lighting solutions, delivering power-efficiency improvements in the 7...
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2012-03-16

GE Lighting Solutions Launches New Lumination™ Recessed LED Troffers

Newly, GE Lighting Solutions has launched New Lumination™ Recessed LED Troffers bring the option of sleek, modern styling to traditionally uninspired commercial ceiling space. The chic, slim fixtures as thin as the width of a finger emit a crisp, pleasing light and instantly enhance the aesthetic of any room. When illuminated, the Lumination Recessed LED Troffers produce a perfectly even glow, delivering exceptionally uniform light to fill the space. While off, they appear free of a light source, while fluorescent fixtures are typically visible. The ultra-thin ...
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2012-03-16

US DOE Releases New Round Small Business Funding for SSL Devices

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has announced new round of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding opportunities. Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Devices and Packages have involved in the topics for this final round of fiscal 2012 funding. Specifically, improvements in SSL devices suitable for existing and future domestic building use are sought that will increase package efficacy beyond the SSL 2015 Multi-Year Program Goals of 224 lumens per watt (LPW) for packaged LED...
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2012-03-16

CCG LED Solutions Expands Its Sales Team to Meet the Growing LED Lighting Demand

Chicago-based CCG LED Solutions has attracted more staffs to serve commercial clients seeking LED lighting solutions. The company has managed LED lighting programs for clients such as Auntie Anne's, Arhaus Furniture and Medieval Times, among others in the company's target industries. Those who recently joined the CCG LED Solutions sales team include: Jim Burns, Carri-Lee Carl, Patti Haugeberg, Stephen Kowalczyk and Tonya Lamia. Under the leadership of national sales director, Rosalyn Ryan, the focus is identifying and solidifying LED...
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Figure 1. Overall concept of face-fit surface-lighting micro-LEDs (FSLED) mask. a. Optical image of the FSLED mask showing uniform surface-lighting. schematic illustration of the FSLED mask. The 2D to 3D transformation procedure b. Difference ... READ MORE

The next generation of high-performance LEDs is now available: the OSCONIQ® C 3030 from ams OSRAM. Engineered for demanding outdoor and stadium lighting applications, this cutting-edge LED series combines exceptional intensity with thermal... READ MORE