Highlights this week:

• Chinese manufacturer tests different market strategy by focusing on niche market.

• Cree rebrands two business as Wolfspeed with strategy changes.

• Researchers creates less expensive LED with laser- like performance

• Panasonic to shot down two LED factories soon following its plants shut down in Indonesia.

Editor Recommendations

1. MLS Challenges Industry Niche Market Strategy

2. Cree Rebrands Power and RF Business as Wolfspeed

3. Chinese Company Busted for Pirating Philips Automotive Lighting Products

4. Revolution Lighting to Upgrade Major U.S. Financial Institution with LED Lighting Retrofit

5. Panasonic to Shut Down Two LED Factories in Japan by Late September

What’s Trending

• Imec Turns Clothing into Colorful LED Displays

• Sandia LED Pulser Delivers Laser-like Performance at a Fraction of The Cost

• German Researchers Create Fluorescent Protein Based LEDs

Industry News

1. Shuji Nakamura on The Next Generation Lighting Technologies and Taiwan Market Trends

2. TOGGLED Adds Ampco Lighting to Its Growing Base of LED Lighting Patent Licensees

3. Everlight Refutes Nichia’s YAG Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against WOFI

4. Panasonic Raises European Lighting Revenue Target for 2018

5. Plessey Wins GBP 6.7M Grant for LED Production Expansion

6. Indian Battery Maker Eveready Vying 10% of LED Lighting Market

7. Nichia Enforce Newly-granted YAG Patents against WOFI Leuchten in Germany

8. LSI Industries Appoints Jay Matsueda as New Marketing Director

New Products

1. Philips Unveils New Philips Hue Lightstrip Plus

2. JBL New Speaker Integrates Music with LED Visual Lighting Effects

3. Instrument Systems Unveils New Goniophotometer System with Additional Correction

4. MaxLite Introduces New LED Security Fixtures

5. Osram Launches LED Retrofit Headlight for Audi A4

6. Toshiba Expands Line-up of High Power LEDs for Lighting Applications

7. Hubbell Lighting Introduces New Efficient LED Area Luminaire

8. OSRAM Showcases LED Bike Lights at the EUROBIKE 2015

Innovative Applications

1. Klauf Light Bar 2 Brings Light to You

2. LED Siren Tornado Alert System in A U.S. Town Gives Way to Smartphone Alerts

3. BSEEN with LED Fanny Pack

Lighting Projects

1. Panasonic Transforms Traditional Japanese Kabuki into a Spectacular Lighting Show

2. Chicago’s Church Lit up with LED Lightings

3. Philips Rejuvenates 400-year old Bridge in Turkey with Smart LED Lights

4. Orion to Upgrade Several U.S. Schools with LED Retrofit Lighting Solutions