Soraa has launched its OUTDOOR LED MR16 lamp to instead of standard 40W MR16 halogen lamps. Soraa's OUTDOOR MR16 lamp line is designed and tested to operate in challenging environments, suitable for use in outdoor fixtures, or indoors in fully enclosed, recessed, or confined, non-ventilated track fixtures. It meets and exceeds the performance of halogen lamps, while saving 75% of the energy. The lamp, available in 2700K and 3000K correlated color temperatures, provides halogen-equivalent brightness and light quality without requiring a mechanical fan. ...

New LED NEMA Head offers energy efficient lighting solutions for dark, open areas   Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of the LED NEMA Head Series (LNH) luminaire from American Electric Lighting®. The LNH luminaire maintains the familiar NEMA Head aesthetic, but uses LED technology to produce a comfortable and efficient white light that significantly reduces operating costs and extends the fixture life.   In...

High-Performance CR Series is Now Bigger, Better, Faster and Even More Affordable One year after introducing the revolutionary CR Series LED Troffer, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) is expanding the CR Troffer family to address more applications and to eliminate the use of antiquated fluorescent technology in new or retrofit commercial and industrial settings. Cree is also announcing new pricing to drive even faster payback for building contractors, designers and owners. The CR Series offers payback-friendly pricing and a no-compromise alternative to fluor...

Philips Lighting has won a total of seven Product Innovation Awards (PIA) from Architectural SSL Magazine. Products by Philips Lightolier, Philips Roadway Lighting, Philips Hadco and Philips Lumileds were recognized. Lytespan products from Philips Lightolier received awards in the track lighting category. The Lytespan Mini LED Micro Cylinder is an exceptionally small 10-watt fixture with superior beam and glare control while the 15-watt Lytespan Spot LED delivers powerful accent lighting using only 15 watts of power. The 15-watt Lytespan also recei...

Bridgelux has developed new Bridgelux(R) Micro SM4(TM) surface mountable LED component for commercial buildings. The Micro SM4 is a light source, analogous to the heated gases or hot wires found in fluorescent bulbs and incandescent lights. The difference comes in energy consumption, longevity and control. The Micro SM4 light source consumes only 4.2 watts, but it emits as much light as a 20-40 watt incandescent or 20-35 watt halogen B10-style bulb and will last thousands of hours longer. The Micro SM4 component also delivers high flux density in a smaller footpri...

The NEC in Birmingham has completely refitted its Skywalk with award-winning LED lighting to improve the visitor experience while saving energy and lowering carbon emissions. The NEC asked experts at lighting specialists MHA Lighting to devise a bespoke solution for the Skywalk that would reduce energy bills whilst improving light quality. MHA Lighting were also selected to replace the traditional fluorescent lighting in their Concourse and Gallery suites with their unique LED lighting that uses wave guide technology to achieve energy savings of up to 80% with...

More and more frequently, luminaires in the professional sector are equipped with LEDs. This applies both for indoor and outdoor lighting solutions. In the process, luminaire manufacturers give particular importance to durable, efficient and high-quality LEDs. “The demand for high-quality and robust light emitting diodes will continue to increase in the future. The Duris P 5 represents a true leap in innovation, in particular owing to its minimal error rate during long-term use,” explains Christian Neugirg, product manager at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. D...

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....

UK-based clean tech firm Zeta Controls has developed an aluminium cage fitted with small LEDs that are positioned to diffuse light in the same way as a 60W incandescent bulb while using just 9W of energy. Anthony McClellan, commercial director at Zeta Controls, introduced that, "The aluminium cage structure allows air to flow through the bulb, cooling it without the need for a heat sink. That means you can create a bulb that is the same shape as standard bulbs. One of the main obstacles to deployment of LED bulbs has been they have tended to be different shapes an...

Philips Lighting’s LEDs will support the Montparnasse Tower in Paris, France to embrace the first night of spring 2012. The Montparnasse Tower will be lit up every night, using different lighting scenarios which will change with the seasons. Scenography is part of a temporal rhythm: On behalf of the co-owners of the Tour Maine Montparnasse, the lighting designer, Régis Clouzet has thus imagined 4 scenarios of light - one per season - based on various lighting effects, multiple scattering rhythms and a wide range of colours. The installed illuminating st...

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...

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...

With their much flatter profile the new OSRAM Ostar Stage LEDs provide the basis for compact spotlights with an extremely narrow beam and high luminance. These LEDs are ideal for moveable stage lights, known as moving heads, which provide powerful light beams for rock concerts and other impressive lighting arrangements. Instead of the usual lens, OSRAM Ostar Stage LEDs have a flat glass cover with an anti-reflective coating, giving the LED a much flatter profile. It is now only 1.23 mm high – one quarter of the usual height. Spotlights can therefore be...

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...

Sharp has added a new white high-performance LED series to its Pico Zenigata LED portfolio. The line-up now comprises three different series that shine with luminous flux levels of up to 72.5 lumens and with an efficiency of up to 125 lm/W. With just a single LED, the types of the GM2BBxxQK1C series achieve luminous flux levels of up to 24.5 lumens and an efficiency of up to 125 lm/watt. Luminous flux and efficiency of the other two series were improved accordingly: above all the GM2BBxxQKAC (2 LED dies) reaches up to 46.7 lumens with an effective powe...

Ideal measuring system for mid-sized SSL luminaires and LED modules Instrument Systems, the global market leader for LED metrology, launches a new measuring system for Solid-State Lighting applications with the LGS 250 Goniophotometer. The LGS 250 was developed specifically for the analysis of angle-dependent spatial radiation properties from small to medium-sized SSL luminaires, lamps and LED modules. This closes a gap with the very large goniometers. The horizontal alignment of the Type C coordinate system facilitates a particularly convenient and com...

Lately, NEC has brought the old Bluetooth speaker idea into the design of LED ceiling light. According to the company, the users connect their phone to the light via Bluetooth and an Android application, which then lets them control the music as well as the light. And they can also create effects by synchronizing light and sound. Light fittings are in the middle of rooms. Then this system enables light and sound to spread from the center of a room to the entire space. It also enables the user to control the effects with a smartphone. Currently, it’s just a con...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Philips is to brighten the Nelson Mandela Bridge in downtown Johannesburg on 21 March 2012 in support of 10 000 runners’ 10km night race, "Nike Run Free. Run Jozi". John Westermeyer, marketing manager of Philips Lighting South Africa, said that, "This is part of our city beautification project and we are proud to be helping to light this event. Philips would like to wish all the runners the best of luck for their run through the city.” LED lighting is increasingly being used in cities and urban spaces to distinguish landmarks with colour...

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 ...

SAFC Hitech®, a member of the Sigma-Aldrich® Group, today underlined its commitment to the Asia-Pacific electronics markets with the opening of its new multi-million US dollar facility in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The 270,000ft2 expansion significantly increases the site's existing capacity for the high-volume manufacturing of high-quality Trimethylgallium (TMG), Triethylgallium (TEG) and Trimethylindium (TMI) precursors for High Brightness LED (HBLED) applications. The site will also produce Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Chemical Vapor ...

Lumenpulse Wins International Seal of Quality for Outstanding Industrial Design Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced that it won a prestigious red dot award for its high-performance projector, the Lumenbeam LBX. The competition is hotly contested by manufacturers from all fields of industrial design including makers of cars, computers and furniture. Lumenpulse's Lumenbeam LBX was selected by a 30-member exper...

Lusio to display new line of high efficacy commercial and industrial fixtures at LEDucation 6, March 21st at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City   Lusio Solid-State Lighting announced plans to display the company’s newest line of  high efficacy commercial and industrial LED fixtures at LEDucation’s sixth annual educational expo sponsored by the Designers Lighting Forum of New York. The event takes place March 21st at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.  Lusio recently announced the general availability of its new line ...

Zhaga members show the first Zhaga-compliant, interchangeable LED modules at Light+Building 2012 The international lighting industry has so far lacked clear guidelines to ensure the interchangeability of LED modules made by different manufacturers. With Zhaga that is now changing. Since its foundation in February 2010, the consortium has developed specifications for LED module interfaces. These interfaces enable easy LED module integration into luminaire designs and reduce overall system design cost. At Light+Building 2012, from 15 to 20 April in Frankfurt am M...