Highlights this week:

Toshiba Lighting has finally made some progress in selling its less profitable Chinese production line to appliance manufacturer Konka Group. The company is withdrawing from the Chinese consumer lighting market, and plans to move operations back to Japan.

Chinese investment consortium Go Scale Capital has made a comeback in its bid for a part of Philips Lighting, a surprising move considering it’s last bid for former Philips LED component business Lumileds and automotive lighting was shut down by the U.S. government.

The OLED market has been very active over the past two weeks, with further rumors about Samsung’s scaling up OLED production for its TV business, and future iPhone models. Osram and Universal Display have also signed an OLED material evaluation agreement this week. In Europe, top OLED manufacturers have formed a new consortium and pilot production line Pi-scale to accelerate the commercialization of OLED.

Developments in lighting standards this week include ANSI Accredited Standards Committee C78 confirmation of six lighting standards, and China’s new lighting standards GB7000.1-2015 introduction of blue-light hazard regulations.

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2. Go Scale Capital to Bid for Philips Lighting Business
3. Toshiba Lighting Business to be sold to Chinese Appliance Manufacturer Konka Group
4. Niagara Falls to Glow with LED Lights and Save 82% Energy by Fall 2016
5. Samsung Scales up Investment in New OLED TV Fab
6. Universal Display and Osram Sign OLED Material Evaluation Agreement
7. Osram Sylvania Shortens Bulb Lifetime to Gain Traction in LED Lighting Market
8. China’s New Lighting Standards Addresses Blue-light Hazards
9. ANSI Accredited Standards Committee C78 Reaffirms Six Lighting Standards
10. YuanRong Photoelectric Technology Signs Strategic Deep UV LED Partnership Agreement with HKI Group

Innovative technologies

1. Fraunhofer Institute Develop Nano-Sponge Structures to Make Brighter Smart Headlights
2. Kyushu University Raises OLED Lifetime
3. Korean Researchers Make Environmental Purely Organic TADF OLED Displays
4. Top European Manufacturers Form Pilot Line Pi-Scale to Accelerate Commercialization of OLED

Government projects

• Western-Central Indian State to Upgrade Streetlights in 43,665 Villages with LEDs
• Indian States Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir Roll out LED Lighting Replacements
• Seguin City Officials in Texas Approve Installation of LED Lights Downtown

Industry news

1. NEMA: LED A-Line Lamp Shipments Posts Soaring Growth in 2015
2. Wellmax and Samsung Electronics Forges Partnership and Signs MOU for LED Technology
3. Mackwell Appoints René Joppi as New Director of Middle East Business
4. Apple Receives New OLED Display Patent, Rumored to Launch OLED iPhone by 2017
5. Professor Herald Haas Talks to Indian Government about Benefits of Li-Fi Enabled Solar Panels
6. ONCE Files Petition to CEC to Repeal 2016 Building Energy Efficiency Standards
7. Luxonic Launches New Manufacturing Base in Glasgow
8. Plessey Expands Production Capacity with AIX G5+ C Cluster from Aixtron
9. NDRC Sheds Light on DOE New Proposed Light Bulb Energy Efficiency Standards
10. LED Expo Thailand launches the VIP Hosted Buyer Programme
11. MacAdam Corporation deliver good quality of light to change the world

New products

1. KAD Aerospace Introduces New LED Anti-collision Light for Aircraft
2. Toyoda Gosei Releases High Efficiency LEDs for General Lighting Applications
3. Cree Launches Warm White Residential LED Streetlights
4. Instrument Systems Showcases New Gonionphotometer at Light & Building 2016
5. IoT Lighting Systems from PennSMART Enable Smart Cities Network
6. Trinseo to Demonstrates New Patent-Pending Technology at Strategies in Light
7. Lumileds to Unveil New Mid Power LED Breakthroughs in March
8. Dialog Semiconductor Launches New Flicker-free High Power Drivers for Commercial LEDs
9. SunLED Unveils New Reduced Size SMD LED
10. Bioluminescent Lighting from Glowee May Light up Paris Night Scene Soon
11. Optronics Introduces Surface-Mount Fusion LED Combination Lights for Automotive Applications
12. Infineon Adds New Controller IC for Mid- to High-end LED Applications
13. MONAI: A Circadian Lit-up Table that will Improve Your Day
14. Soraa Expands Product Portfolio by Adidng Lower and Higher Voltage GU10 LED Lamps
15. Noribachi Introduces New Color-Changing LED Floodlight
16. Efore Launches New Dual Dimming LED Driver for Flexible LED Lighting Control
17. Philips Lighting New Ambient LED Technology Delivers Extraordinary Cinema Experience in U.S.
18. Tittle Light: A Connected LED Mood Lighting with 3D Animated Emojis
19. Power Integrations Adds New LED Driver ICs for 20W Lights to Product Portfolio

Lighting projects

• i Light Marina Bay 2016 to Wow Singapore with Innovative Installaitons
• Vac-Con Selects Orion Lighting for Major Facility Expansion
• University of Puget Sound Installs LEDs Streetlights on Campus