2011-08-10

UK morning show wakes up to ETC Selador® LED lighting

When Daybreak, a UK TV ‘breakfast show,’ was launched at the end of last year, it was with a flourish. Not only did the station spend a great deal of money enticing stars from other channels but they knew the set needed to look great.   The studio, on the south bank of London’s River Thames, has windows on three sides, facing iconic St Paul’s Cathedral. In the winter it’s dark out when Daybreak comes on air at 6:00am, but gradually it gets brighter (until full sunlight potentially streams through the windows) by the program’s end at ...
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2011-08-09

General Nutrition Centers Benefits from Science Group's LED bulbs

Recently, General Nutrition Centers (GNC) has adopted Science Group's  high-performance and ultra-efficient LED bulbs at its corporate owned locations across the country. It’s said that the ENERGY STAR® qualified LED bulbs now lighting GNC retail display shelves are approximately 80% more efficient than the halogen bulbs they replace, are fully dimmable and have approximately 50% more lumens than competing products. Asides from that , the stores will also save money on maintenance and cooling costs, since the company's bulbs will last 5...
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2011-08-09

Illumitex Announces Partner With Gerard Lighting Group

Illumitex, Inc. announced today that it has signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement with Gerard Lighting Group Limited(ASX:GLG). In addition, GLG has invested $3 million into Illumitex for a small minority interest as part of the LED company’s latest round of private equity financing. Under the strategic agreement, effective immediately, GLG will become the exclusive general lighting integrator and distributor of Illumitex’s innovative LED products in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. “Gerard Lighting’s commitmen...
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2011-08-09

Sharp Elevates LED Ceiling Lights, Light Bulbs

Sharp Corp announced new products of LED ceiling lights and LED light bulbs with enhanced efficiencies, etc Aug 5, 2011. The company will release the LED ceiling lights and E17-base small LED light bulbs Aug 27, 2011, and E26-base LED light bulbs Sept 23, 2011. Improved efficiencies of LED ceiling lights Sharp announced three types of LED ceiling lights, and their input powers and installed fluxes are 73W and 5,750lm (up to a 12-mat (19.44m2) room), 48W and 3,750lm (up to an eight-mat room) and 32W and 2,600lm (up to a six-mat room). The luminou...
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2011-08-08

Philips Won The Department of Energy’s L Prize

Recently, Philips Lighting North America has won The Department of Energy’s L Prize for the 60-watt replacement bulb category of the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition. the Philips LED bulb was submitted in 2009, and successfully completed 18 months of demanding field, lab, and product testing to meet the rigorous requirements of the L Prize competition. Zia Eftekhar, CEO of Philips Lighting North America,believed that the L Prize challenge as an opportunity to innovate and develop an energy efficient alternative to a product tha...
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2011-08-08

Evluma Plans to Expand Product Line

Evluma announces plans to expand its product line beyond the popular 40W & 50W outdoor dusk-till-dawn Clearlight and intends to enter the indoor lighting market with a dimmable LED PAR 64 ceiling light designed. Prototypes of the PAR 64 LED lamp, plus a Clearlight horticultural lamp, a low pressure sodium equivalent lamp, and an acorn fixture LED Retrofit with multiple mounting options were demonstrated at The LED Show on July 27, 2011 in Las Vegas. Evluma anticipates the announcement of formal release dates for these new products in 2012. Testing and pilo...
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2011-08-08

China Lebelight Technology Made a Breakthrough on Cutting-edge Product 150 lm 1w LED

Reportedly, Lebelight Technology Co. Ltd, a high power LED company from Xiaoyi, Shanxi of China has set up a new record on cutting-edge product 150 lm 1w LED on 12th, July 2011. 1w of its green lighting products needs only 350 mA of drive current to achieve 150-160 Luminous Flux, which has increased the world record by 70% and also reduced the cost in producing the same quantity of products. It’s said that this development is another world-famous breakthrough of Lebelight since its white lighting LEDs reached 98 lm on 3rd November 2010. It indicates that ...
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2011-08-08

Philips Launches LED DayLight Running Lights for Vehicles

Recently,Philips Automotive Lighting North America has launched two new versions of its Daytime Running Light -- LED DayLight 8 and 4. According to the company, its LED DayLight 8 and 4 are equipped with Philips LUXEON(R) Rebel LEDs and are SAE and DOT compliant. Moreover, these stylish, energy efficient solutions are the slimmest DRL modules on the market. Both of them give vehicles a distinctive appearance setting the driver apart from the crowd. Philips DRLs substantially increase the visibility of the car to other drivers and pedestria...
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2011-08-08

New LED Bulbs Show Bright Light, High Efficiency

Research has found LEDs are comparable not only in brightness to the old incandescents, but much more efficient than even compact fluorescent lights. LEDs are also built to last 15 years, compared to five years for CFLs and one for incandescents. "The LEDs are costly now, but the price is dropping very rapidly. So we have a very bright and cool and thrifty future," Chu says. Supporters say saving $10 to $11 a year in energy costs more than makes up for the initial outlay. Analysts expect LEDs to drop to $20 a bulb within two years, which is about wh...
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2011-08-08

Test of LED lights on De Pere Bridge Finish Soon

Four different vendors are providing LED, or LEDs, for the city to test on the south side of the Claude Allouez Bridge. The energy-efficient lights cut energy usage in half and last two to four times longer than the traditional metal halide lamps. City workers could begin taking down the test LEDs as early as next week as the three-month trial comes to an end. But officials are taking notice of the advantages they provide and hope to replace the entire bridge with LED technology by 2012, assistant city engineer Karen Heyrman said. The traditional light fixtures on...
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2011-08-08

Ushio Lighting Launches New LED Spotlight

Ushio Lighting Inc launches an LED spotlight that general color rendering index(Ra) is as high as 97 on Aug 5,2011, in Japan. The spotlight named “Cool Spot LED” is aimed for facilities in hotels and halls. It has lower consumption and longer product life that compared with spotlight using halogen lamps. Ushio Lighting employed the "Natural Light LED" for the light source of the spotlight, which is a white LED made by combining a purple LED chip and red, green and blue fluorescent materials. Among 15 kinds of color rendering indexe...
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2011-08-05

Energy Focus Received $23 Million to Provide IntelliTube(TM) LED Lighting

Energy Focus has been awarded a $23 million Navy supply contract to provide LED fixtures and its proprietary IntelliTube LED lamps for use on the U.S. Navy fleet. "EFOI's advances in LED technology will allow the Navy to save 50-90% of their lighting energy cost," said Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO. The majority of the contract includes sales of fixtures using the company's new IntelliTube(TM) lamps, which are intelligent plug and play LED lamps to replace the existing linear fluorescent tube lamps used in most of the Navy's ...
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2011-08-05

Lunera to Unveil a Lease-to-Purchase Program

Lunera is borrowing a page from California's fast-growing rooftop solar industry. On Thursday, it plans to unveil a lease-to-purchase program that lets commercial building owners retrofit their lighting for no money down. The lease is believed to be the first in the commercial lighting sector. Lunera offers a five-year lease-to-purchase agreement with fixed monthly payments. The tenant or building owner owns the lighting fixtures, which means they, not Lunera, reap the benefits of tax depreciation. Lunera sees a strong market for its lease in cities along the East and We...
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2011-08-05

Bridgelux Adds $60 Million for LED Push

Bridgelux Inc. has raised $60 million in a Series E round of venture capital funding. They would use the money to accelerate R&D in key areas including GaN-on-Silicon development and LED chip-on-board packaging. "Craton Equity Partners is a top growth-stage investor in clean tech, and we welcome their support as we work to expand the market for solid state solutions for general lighting - which we expect to triple this year to over $3 billion," said Bill Watkins, Bridgelux's CEO, in a statement issued by Craton....
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2011-08-05

Kyma Adds n+ Bulk GaN Substrates

Kyma’s  new n+ GaN substrate product line will boast a bulk resistivity specification of  < 0.02 Ω -cm, which is two orders of magnitude lower in resistivity than Kyma’s previously offered n-type GaN. What’s more, Kyma has successfully produced n+ bulk GaN wafers with measured carrier concentrations of up to 6 x 1018cm-3and corresponding bulk resistivities of < 0.005 Ω –cm.  The firm’s n-type GaN product is still being offered and, for distinction, is being relabelled as n- GaN (“nminus” GaN). I...
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2011-08-05

Lumenpulse LED Fixtures Illuminate “Lantern of Hope” at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Gilbert, AZ

Lumenpulse Inc. , a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today released a customer case study focused on a project for the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Gilbert, AZ. Lumenpulse fixtures were used to illuminate a 60-foot high, metal tower over the soon-to-be main entrance of the facility, to create the ‘Lantern of Hope’. The center, due to officially open in September 2011, set a design goal of transforming the metal tower structure into ...
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2011-08-04

Bettendorf Developers See the Light with LED Project

More than 100 new manufacturing jobs are one step closer to Bettendorf. That's as a developer plans to create an LED lighting plant. Doug Borgeson, BEM Lighthouse Development, decided to reverse the trend that companies went overseas. The company found Bettendorf by way of Finland and Florida. It plans a $10 million project to create nearly 140 jobs in Bettendorf. Jobs, which could have gone to China, will instead pay local employees nearly $17 an hour. The project comes at a time when Iowa is looking to grow manufacturing jobs. Replacing corn with constr...
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2011-08-04

Cree’s New Light Bulb Still Too Expensive

Cree revealed a new LED light bulb that boasts the same output as a 75-watt incandescent bulb while consuming about one tenth of the electricity. The bulb produces 152 lumens, producing around 1,300 lumens using Cree’s new “TrueWhite” technology, exceeds the performance goals set by the U.S. Department of Energy’s L Prize competition. They could reduce energy usage in the United States by 16.5 percent. Cree did not indicate how much the new light bulb would cost. In general, LED lighting is still much too expensive for typical consumers ...
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2011-08-04

China aims for LED global domination by 2015

Korea, Japan, and China appear to have the solutions to see steady and positive proliferation of LED lighting products, key price points could trigger real commercial demand. “The rapid increase in the market for LEDs used in various applications such as notebook backlights and automobile headlights is spurring heavy capital investments by LED makers”, noted Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network. “LEDs are creating a niche market for conventional suppliers of semiconductor processing tools and a lucrative market for MOCVD suppl...
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2011-08-04

Cree Shows New LED and Program

Recently, Cree has revealed a new XLamp XT-E Royal Blue LED, which is optimized for use in remote-phosphor lighting and other applications with similar requirements. XLamp XT-E Royal Blue LED Cree says its new XLamp XT-E LED delivers the industry’s tightest wavelength bins to simplify remote-phosphor designs and lower system costs. What’s more, Cree is announcing a remote-phosphor-component patent licensing program, providing access to Cree’s pioneering remote-phosphor patents. The program is to drive the LED lighting revolu...
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2011-08-03

LED Manufacturer MIC Electronics to Come into Retail Business

Hyderabad-based MIC Electronics Ltd, a manufacturer of LED lighting and display systems, is reportedly set to enter the fast-growing LED lighting retail segment. According to reports, the company would take a call on pan-India retail plans in its board meet scheduled to be held on August 5, and the company would initially focus on the southern market. Reports quoted CMD MV Ramana Rao as saying that, “We are currently utilising Rs. 50 crore worth of production. The new expansion is going as scheduled and will take a year from now to go for mass production...
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2011-08-03

Hubbell Lighting’s New Beacon Products Band

Beacon Products, a division of Hubbell Lighting, a market leader in innovative lighting technology, design, and manufacturing for over 120 years, has recently completed a LED outdoor lighting fixture retrofit project for the City of Carmel, Indiana. Turned to Bradenton, FL based Beacon Products for guidance and ultimately the installation of its LED Retrofit Kit with Direct V Optics in all 800 of its downtown decorative post top lighting fixtures. After evaluating the options, including a test installation, it was determined that employing Beacon Products LE...
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2011-08-03

Electrical Contractors Publicize LED Savvy to Offer New Lighting Options

More electrical contractors are publicizing their knowledge of LED to offer new lighting options. With 60 to 80 percent of electrical contractors now directly influencing or specifying lighting brands, a creative blend of traditional lighting with fast-emerging LEDs solves lighting challenges and meets green requirements. According to John Maisel, publisher, Electrical Contractor by the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), 40 percent of our readers’ lighting projects are design/build. They educate how to bring value to their customers. MS E...
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2011-08-02

Cree LED 22-Watt Spotlights With Dimmer Option and 4 Beam Angles Now Available in FZLED's PAR38-03 Series

FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, today reveals a stunning new range of 22-Watt LED Spotlights featuring cutting edge long-lifetime high power Cree LEDs. The PAR38-03 series is a simple money-saving plug-and-play replacement for inefficient traditional lights in E27/E26 sockets. Options include both switch dimmable and non-dimmable versions, with a clear or frosted lens. FZLED's PAR38-03 series is the clear lighting choice for all interior locations with a choice of both a warm white (FZL-PAR38-03-WW-22) and a cool white (F...
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2011-08-02

LUXEON Rebel LEDs Honored with Electron D’Or 2011 Award

LUXEON Rebel LEDs were recognized with in Paris, France with the Electron D’Or award from ElectroniqueS. Thirteen innovative products in different categories were recognized for excellence. With new combinations of correlated color temperature (CCT) and color rendering (CRI) for white LEDs as well as a broadening of the color portfolio, LUXEON Rebel LEDs are uniquely positioned to meet the needs of the lighting community. Complete information about the LUXEON Rebel portfolio, the award winning LUXEON A and LUXEON S illum...
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2011-08-02

Panasonic Electric Works to Display Its ECOOL Products at LED Lighting Exhibitions in Korea

Panasonic Electric Works is to display its “ECOOL” high thermal conductive glass composite circuit board materials at the LED Tech Korea2011 (August 17-19, 2011). From the commencement of sales in April 2009, “ECOOL” has continuously expanded the sales for use in high thermal radiation circuit board applications including LED lighting and backlights. Now we intend to actively engage in global sales promotions of ECOOL products with the particular aim of accelerating sales in overseas markets, by starting to display at these exhibitions...
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2011-08-02

Verbatim to Show LED Lighting Products at IFA 2011

Verbatim is set to showcase its two categories of LED lighting products, one for professional installers and the other for retail at this year's IFA, being held from the 2nd to the 7th of September 2011 in Berlin. The new professional range includes products with high specifications including built-in temperature control systems, very good dimming compatibility and a highly-efficient heat sink design.   The range includes PAR16, PAR30, PAR38, AR111, MR16, R63, Classic A and Classic B.  Packed in convenient boxes (single and multipacks) to mini...
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2011-08-02

Pets Corner Stores Saves Energy with LED Eco Lights

LED Eco Lights has made a deal to supply its recently-launched GoodlightTM range LED lighting for all new and existing Pets Corner stores throughout the UK. Pets Corner is a chain of premium quality pet stores occupying key niche locations nationwide. Currently, it operates 63 stores based in garden centres, supermarkets and owned sites. The company plans to achieve 200 stores and has scheduled openings of up to 15 stores each year. All new stores will be fitted with GoodlightTM LED lamps as part of the company’s wider green objectives which include bu...
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2011-08-02

German Networking Researchers Applied LED Light in 800 Mbit/s Networking

Reportedly,networking researchers come from the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin, Germany, have used LED lighting to distribute Full HD movies to notebooks, smartphones and other devices, in a system that could join WiFi and PowerLine networks in shuttling high-speed data around the home and office. The optical WLAN co-opts white LEDs used for regular illumination to transmit data at up to 100 Mbit/s, by flickering it more rapidly than the human eye can see. The lighting units – which rely on norma...
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2011-08-02

Cree Prototype Exceeds DOE's 21st Century Lamp L Prize(SM) Requirements

Continued Innovation Results in Lamp That Delivers More than 1,300 Lumens at 152 Lumens Per Watt Full Deployment of Lighting this Efficient Could Reduce U.S. Energy Consumption by 16.5%, Equivalent to 1987 Levels Demonstrating the future of lighting, Cree,Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) today unveiled a concept LED light bulb from its lighting research and development team. Redefining what is possible with high-performance LED lighting, the lamp delivers more than 1,300 lumens at 152 lumens per watt (LPW) using Cree TrueWhite® Technology. Cree'...
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Sumitomo Chemical will participate in SPIE Photonics West 2025, the world’s largest optics and photonics conference and exhibition, to be held in San Francisco, California, the United States, from Tuesday, January 28 to Thursday, January... READ MORE