The US professional lighting journal Architectural SSL Magazine has awarded Osram Opto Semiconductors for the third time in a row as winner of the Product Innovation Award in the category Market Leadership.The award also honours the work of Jianzhong Jiao, who as Director of Regulations and Emerging Technologies at Osram Opto Semiconductors has made a significant contribution to establishing industry standards for LED testing.

The Market Leadership category includes five sub-categories in which awards are given. Osram Opto Semiconductors is the 2013  winner for Industry Participation. Comprised of distinguished industrial design experts, the jury was swayed by the company's extraordinary dedication to developing a number of standards and regulations for opto-semiconductor products, and by its achievements in research and development.

In the development of new products, Osram Opto Semiconductors garnered recognition for product innovations such as the Oslon SSL LED, which achieves a value of 95 on the colour rendering index.

“The fact that we have received our third consecutive PIA award reinforces our intention to continue  along our chosen path,” emphasises Don Klase, Chief Executive Officer of Osram Opto Semiconductors in the USA.

“These awards make us very proud, and they show the public to our committed employees are capable of. They are the ones who spend every single day enhancing existing SSL."