Changzhi , the city in southeastern Shanxi province, China is to develop its LED industry to boost the city’s economy. According to the city s mayor Zhang Bao, the coal industry "has once contributed much to Changzhi, but over-dependence on the industry led to difficulties," so they "made a strategic choice to seek some new sources of development." The LED industry is one of the solutions. The LED industry is believed to be a new engine to boost the Changzhi's economy with the nation's only one full LED industrial chain establishe...

Xiang Nang Hualei Optoelectronics Ltd, of Hunan Province, China, has placed an order of eight new AIXTRON MOCVD reactors including six CRIUS II reactors in a 55x2-inch wafer configuration and two AIX G5 HT 56x2-inch wafer configuration systems to boost capacity for GaN HB LEDs. The order includes six CRIUS II reactors in a 55x2-inch wafer configuration and two AIX G5 HT 56x2-inch wafer configuration systems.   A local AIXTRON service team has installed and commissioned the new systems in Hualei Optoelectronics´ stat...

Employees from Absen’s International Sales Department were invited by a client to watch a Talent Show, hosted by Ukraine TV Station in Kiev Independence Square on October 15, 2011. The event was displayed perfectly on the M15 and C30 of Absen full-color outdoor LED displays, receiving praise from the sponsor.   The ring-shaped LED is the Absen C30 140m2 and the largest screen is the Absen M15 60m2   Talent shows are very popular in the Ukraine. For this event, the TV Station simply erected the stage in the main street leading to Kiev I...

Benefited from national energy efficiency regulations for flat-panel TVs released in December 2010, LED TV sets will gradually replace Standard LCD TV sets in first tier city markets by the Chinese New Year holidays in late January 2012,according to Li Qi, head of consumer electronics sales at Chinese consumer electronics and home appliances retailer Suning's Beijing branch.   A 32-inch LED TV set uses approximately 60W compared to the 80W consumed by an equivalent-sized LCD TV. Prices of LED TVs have decreased as manufacturers have rampe...

Leedarson Lighting will be demonstrating a smart lighting solution with a wide-range of intelligent CFL and LED light bulbs CFL, LED lamps and fixtures, empowered by lighting technology from NXP and intelligent lighting platform from GreenWave Reality, at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair. The smart lighting solution enables consumers to control their lighting via remote control, smartphone applications or in-home sensors that detect changes in motion or lighting conditions, all without requiring any rewiring of the home.  The result is that consumers ...

Taiwan and mainland China have joined force to deepen cross-Taiwan Strait industrial cooperation on LED lighting, TFT-LCD, wireless cities, low-temperature logistics, and electric cars. The two sides have reached an agreement during a meeting between P.K. Chiang, chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation, and Chen Yunlin, chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits in Tianjin on Oct. 20....

Recently, Aixtron has received an order for one AIX 2600G3 IC system in a 12x4-inch wafer configuration and one VP2400HW with 6x4-inch wafer capacity from Nanjing Electronic Devices Institute (NEDI),which is s devoted to providing leading edge technologies on material growth, device design and manufacture in China. NEDI will use the systems to investigate power devices and LEDs. The new systems will be installed and commissioned by a local AIXTRON service support team alongside the company’s already existing AIXTRON MOCVD systems at t...

Sponsored by the Zhongshan municipal government, the China Lighting Association, and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade's light industry council, The 10th China (Guzhen) International Lighting & LED Applications Fair is announced to take place from Oct 18 to 21 . The fairs is expecting more than 600 exhibitors, including 276 LED firms. The fairs are a crucial part of the township's efforts to develop further and grow into a global lighting hub in the foreseeable future, one official pointed out. Back to a year ago, the 9th ...

Recently, a plant of Epicrystal, a subsidiary of Taiwanese LED maker Epistar, in Changzhou, Jiangsu was officially inaugurated, underlying Epistar’s endeavor of making inroads into the Chinese market. The inauguration ceremony of Epicrystal Mr. Biing-Jye Lee, the Chairman of Epistar, addressed the audience. Mr. Biing-jye Lee, the Chairman of Epistar, indicated that the successful inauguration of the new plant attributed to the support from shareholders and the government. He hoped that Epicrystal’s new products are able to meet the market&r...

Sources inform that recently, Walsin Lihwa Corp. has kick off volume production at an LED-epitaxy venture in Shanxi Province, mainland China. According to the company,the venture is designed to have annual output of 150,000 4-inch epitaxy wafers with 20 MOCVD chambers, estimated to bring in Walsin Lihwa around NT$1.3-1.5 billion (US$43-50 million at US$1:NT$30) in revenue a year.   Walsin Lihwa has spent around US$127 million on the investment of the venture. And the company will see return from its investment in LED industry over the next one to two...

Officials of the Guangdong Provincial Government stated that they are working towards the goal that by 2015, LED lighting will make up 30% of the interior lighting in Guangdong. Street lighting is the breaking point for the government to popularize LED lighting: in the next two years, there will be over 600 thousand LED street lamps lightening up the night sky of the Pearl River Delta. The government will implement the LED plan starting in 2012 and aims to increase the penetration rate of LED in interior lighting to 30% by 2015. At the moment, there are 200 tho...

An LED light manufacturer has claimed an 83 percent reduction in energy used for lighting thanks to the technology. By replacing conventional 300Wmercury lights with GlacialLight’s 60W LED spotlights it has been possible to make massive reductions, and provide an environmentally friendly solution. The Taiwanese firm also reports that maintenance is reduced for large businesses and chains with a life span of over 30,000 hours for its LEDs. According to LED lighting expert at IMS Research Jamie Fox, LED lighting will generally offer good savings whe...

While the prospect of selling their products abroad seems dim to many domestic LED makers that lack patented core technologies, Fujian Wanbang Optoelectronic Technology Co Ltd could have a bright future due to "new breakthroughs" in chip-related research. According to He Wenming, board chairman of the company, The new technologies solve heat problems while lowering costs and improving the lifespan of products. Compared to conventional bulbs, LED lamps can reduce energy consumption by 90 percent and even offer further reductions of 50 percent over the energy-sav...

SEMI has released its China LED Fab Industry Report, summarising China's rapidly growing LED industry. It discusses .capital and equipment spending, fab capacity and sales rankings of Chinese LED manufacturers. Subsidies for China fab projects are included, along with new LED fab projects, names of China's sapphire wafer suppliers, and company profiles of China's top LED manufacturers.  China has developed a government support infrastructure for LED manufacturing and consumption. China is the world's leading consumer of solid stat...

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 ...

Sources inform that on this Tuesday, LG Electronics gets together with its component-making unit, LG Innotek Co., to file a lawsuit in the No. 2 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing,  China against Osram and auto parts maker Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., seeking a ban on sales of Osram's LED products and Hella's headlamps in the Asian country. It is the latest development in a legal spat between South Korean and German firms over LED lighting technology. Osram wasn't immediately available for comment. According to LG , it also...

Reportedly,LED lights have placed a position in Shandong Weifang city limits. According to the Weifang City street management office,currently, there are 12 million street lights and landscape, and the proportion of LED lights is up to 84% with the amount of 95,653. During the several years, LED lights have gradually grown in the city. Shandong Weifang functional lighting in the city to make a pilot LED light source applications, since the beginning of 2006, and the first pilot in the North Sea Road, LED light source used in the calculation to obtain energy-s...

Huizhou-based NVC Lighting Holding Ltd, in China is reported to intend to acquire small and medium-sized European firms for new markets expansion. In the mean time, the company is also actively tapping the emerging markets of India, Brazil and South Africa. On Monday,NVC has just made a agreement with the Olympic Council of Asia to become its long-term lighting and service partner. In addition, NVC has applied to become the sole lighting supplier for the Asian Games in South Korea and the Asian Beach Games in Thailand in 2014. The company will also ...

Diodes Incorporated  has hosted a ground breaking ceremony for Diodes Technology (Chengdu) Company Limited at the Company’s new production site at Chengdu Hi–Tech Industrial Development Zone (CDHT) on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. It’s said that Diodes Technology (Chengdu) Company Limited was Established in December 2010, as a joint venture between Diodes Incorporated and Chengdu Ya Guang Electronic Company Limited (5% ownership). The new facility will focus on performing semiconductor manufacturing assembly and test functions. It ...

Unity Opto Technology’s new plant located in Beijing, China is announced to be completed in early 2012 and will start mass production in the first quarter of next year. According to the company’s chairman, C.H. Wu, initial monthly capacity at the Beijing plant will be about 200 million LEDs, to be supplied mainly to Chinese makers of TFT-LCD panels, including BOE Technology Group for LCD TV panel backlighting. industry sources estimated that Unity Opto`s Beijing plant would become BOE`s major LED supplier as well as a major maker of il...

Based on drivers’ complaint about LED boards affacting their vision, Shanghai will amend a law to tighten control on light pollution caused by electronic LED boards. According to officials from the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau, the original regulation, issued in 2004, didn't cover LED technology, which was new and rare at the time. The draft of an amended urban lighting regulation includes LED management and will be finalized soon. Li Shuzhi comes from  the Shanghai Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Solid-S...

Reportedly, producer of FTTx telecom, video software and networking products, Suzhou New Sea Union Telecom Technology, schelules to invest 270 million yuan into Suzhou Nanojoin Photonic. New Sea Union will have 90% share in the target company, whose registered capital will be increased to 85 million yuan. Nanojoin Photonic will focus its business on the ranges from the research and development of LED to the sales of semiconductor lighting. And it will invest a total of 689.89 million yuan to produce nanocrystalline photovoltaic LED epitaxial wafers and in chip ...

LED equipment manufacturer Novellus Systems has shipped a VECTOR(R) plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system to Xurui Guangdian Co., Ltd. ("China SemiLEDs") for producting SemiLEDs' MvpLED(TM) high-efficiency LED products. With a multi-wafer carrier configuration, the VECTOR LED system can handle all wafer sizes -- 2", 3", 4", 6", 8" and 12" -- with exceptional throughput, film quality and uniformity at each size. In contrast to a traditional PECVD reactor used in LED m...

Recently, Taiwan based packaging company, Harvatek is about to team up with TCL to built LED packaging plant in Huizhou, China. Both of the two companies will own 50% share in the new plant individually. The new facility will go into production at the end of March, 2012 and its goal is to reach 2 billion capacity after one year. Harvatek disclosed that it expected for further vertical integration by cooperating with LED chip maker.  ...

AquaLite in China has placed a new order from Aixtron for 55x2-inch CRIUS II reactor which will be dedicated to the growth of materials for high brightness LEDs and high Voltage (HV) LED production. The system was ordered in the first quarter of 2011 and the local Aixtron support team will install and commission the new reactor in the second quarter of 2011 at the dedicated AquaLite power chip LED facility within its mainland China production plant. it’s said that with state of the art epitaxial crystal growth and chip process technology, AquaLite&rs...

Taiwan –based Foxconn is reported to make a plan to invest in 19 new projects in Central China's Henan province, including factories that will produce camera lenses and LED lighting rigs, as well as more branches of Foxconn's retail chain Cybermart. Terry Guo, chairman of the Foxconn Technology Group, said during an economic forum held in Taipei, "We are going to fully expand our investment in Henan, using Zhengzhou (the provincial capital) as the base." However, Guo did not reveal the total amount of investments for these projects....

Reportedly, Chinese Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua will sign industrial Standardization MOU with Chairman of the non-profit Sinocon Industrial Standards Foundation, R.L. Chen, a former economics minister, who represents Taiwan`s counterparts for three high technologies including LED, LCD panel and solar energy  in both sides of the Taiwan Straits. As LED plays a pivotal role in the mainland’s12th Five Year Development Plan, the two sides this time will sign agreements to set up common standards for LED ind...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that Tsinghua Tongfang Company, a Beijing-based publicly listed division of the Tsinghua Holdings Company Limited, has placed an order for Veeco's new TurboDisc(R) MaxBright(TM) Multi-Reactor MOCVD System for production of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs). Professor Liu Gang, General Manager of Nantong Tongfang commented, "Last year we selected Veeco as our primary supplier for our new production facility in NanTong, China that was completed at the end of 2010. We are ...

Thermal Technology’s Model K1 sapphire crystal grower was utilized by Hefei Crystalbridge Optoelectronic Materials Co. Ltd. to produce China’s first commercial grade sapphire crystal of nearly 100kg.   Crystalbridge estimates these crystals will yield 4,000mm of “two inch equivalent” (TIE) rods, or about 5,700 high quality 2-inch substrates.  Crystalbridge grew the crystal in14 days, an increase in productivity of more than 25 percent compared to most other Chinese producers.  “Achieving this milestone only one month from...

It’s said that Lattice Power Corp. has joined force with ShineOn Inc.to demonstrate the world's first high-brightness LED product based on GaN-on-Si technology. Combining the LP1000 chip which is a thin-film vertical structure device built entirely on Lattice Power's proprietary GaN-on-Silicon technology and ShineOn's MOZ3535, a compact ceramic packaging platform with low thermal impedance and superior optical performance, the GaN-on-Si based high-brightness LED device can take 350–1000mA current input and deliver more than 100-lume...