This week, Osram announced a new LED assembly plant in Wuxi, China. The new plant will expand the company’s backend LED capacity as well as boost their presence in the world lighting market. Additionally, lighting market demand growth has spurred LED chip market demand to further increase, resulting in expanded market size, according to the latest LEDinside report. India’s LED industry could become the next big market player as the new prime minister pushes for cleaner energy, bringing massive opportunities to the LED industry. 

Only a few more weeks remain until the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. LEDinside will be holding their LEDforum on June 11, 2014. The forum will include many executives and CEOs from the LED industry who will share their insight and outlook on the market. Entrance is free this year, so be sure to register. 

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4. Large Gender Pay Gap Still Plagues Optic and Photonics Industry
   
5. Samsung to Invest US $24.39B in New Small-Mid Sized OLED Fab

Industry News:

1. Philips and Barcelona Sign Smart LED City Light Partnership Agreement
   
2. Florida Greenwood Police Department Upgrades to LED Lights
   
3. Philips Becomes Official Lighting Partner for German Football Team and its Home Stadium Allianz Arena
   
4. University of Waterloo Develops Cost-effective Nanoparticles to Revolutionize LED Manufacturing
   
5. Memoori: Global Market for LED Lighting in Buildings to Reach US$ 10.3 B by the End of 2014
   
6. GE Lighting Solutions and Jasco Products Sign Remote Phosphor Patent License Agreement

New Products:

1. Cree Announces Next-Generation XP LED Delivering 200 Lumens Per Watt
   
2. Philips Automotive Introduces LED Replacement Headlamps
   
3. LED Waves Lowers PR15 UltraThin Recessed Light Prices
   
4. Power Integrations Launches New LED-driver ICs
   
5. MaxLite Introduces LED Panel for Challenging Interiors
   
6. ADVS-Technologies Releases Intelligent Parallel View LED Lighting Solution
   
7. ThinkLite Launches High Output Driverless T8 and T5 Tubes

Interesting Applications:

1. Flexible LED Light Banks Offers Portable Lighting Option for Photographers
   
2. Katy Perry Shows Off to be Released Ashish-Topshop LED Sneakers
   
3. Mini Solar LED Tree Charger for Mobile Phones

Lighting Projects:

1. Philips Lighting Honors Founders with Light Show
   
2. GE Lighting Introduces LED T8 Lights to 7-Elevens Across Southern Thailand
   
3. Global Ad Agency Colorfully Transformed by LEDs