2013-10-09

San’an Becomes Biggest Shareholder for Formosa Epitaxy

Chinese LED chip manufacturer San’an announced on October 8th, 2013,  their purchase in FOREPI stock shares by wholly owned subsidiary Xiamen San’an was finalized on October 2nd.
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2013-10-09

UNICEF Partners Nuru to Light Up Burundi Rural Communities with LED

Under the blistering sun, Pedro Guerra, UNICEF child protection specialist and Leonard Ndirahisha a coordinator for Burundian NGO FVS Amade track the trails and hills of Gitega province in central Burundi. The two are out on a mission to collect feedback of portable bicycle-powered Nuru LED lights in a pilot project to offer safe and affordable lights to rural families.
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2013-10-09

Oree Offers Plug-and-Play Design for LED Lighting

Oree Illumination Solutions Inc., developer of LED-based planar lighting technology, today announced the expansion of its LightCell™ Plus range to include drivers, connection cables and an installation guide – a complete system offering. This will simplify development and accelerate time to market for LED lighting designers and fixture manufacturers. Additionally, new product features provide greater protection of the LightCells against external mechanical forces.
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2013-10-08

Everlight Releases Ultra Mini ITR Photo Interrupter

Everlight Electronics Co., a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry with three decades of experience, has introduced the latest member of its ITR series of photo interrupters for use in optical switches, digital cameras and printers, the ultra small outline slotted type ITR1205ST11A/TR. A slotted type opto interrupter detects an object when it enters the gap of the slotted switch and blocks the light path between the emitter and detector.
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2013-10-08

TV Inventory Adjustment Cause Unity Opto September Revenue to Drop

Unity Opto says that 3Q revenue results were affected mainly by Chinese TV client’s inventory adjustments, and expects4Q revenue to rebound. Benefiting from the new household electricity subsidy and by European and U.S. holiday sales gradual revenue growth is anticipated for 4Q.
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2013-10-08

LG Begins Mass Production of OLED Smartphone Screens

Not to be outdone by compteitor Samsung, South Korean electronics giant LG, recently announced it has started mass producing OLED smartphones screens for phones to be launched on the market by 2014, according to reports by BBC, the Verge, Engadget and other media. Although, Samsung will be launching its new OLED phones later this month, LG is close behind with its new smartphone.
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2013-10-08

September Holidays Affect LedLink 3Q Revenue

Secondary optics manufacturer LedLink’s September revenue was affected by the lengthy holiday season this September.
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2013-10-08

Philips Signs MoU with Dubai to Transform Buildings with Smart LED Lights

Dubai municipality and Philips sign MoU to transform Municipality buildings from conventional to intelligent LED lighting LED lighting can help save 50% of energy consumption and 6,200 tons of CO2 emissions per year in the Municipality’s 262 buildings
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2013-10-08

Flextronics Expands into LED Lighting Solutions

Company enables original equipment manufacturers, commercial and industrial customers to improve cash flow, accelerate time to market and meet energy efficiency targets globally
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2013-10-08

Remodelers Choose Halo from Eaton’s Cooper Lighting Division

Halo wins all lighting categories in Remodeling magazine’s readers’ survey.
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2013-10-08

Revolution Lighting Technologies Acquires CMG Energy Solutions Products

Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. today announced it has acquired a portfolio of general illumination LED lighting products, including several product lines from CMG Energy Solutions (“CMG”).
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2013-10-08

Ledzworld LED Lamp Sales Growth Fuels Manufacturing Expansion

Company partners with Maxtek Digicom Ltd to increase volume by 10 million lamps per year.
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2013-10-07

LED Demand and Supply Under Pressure for 2014

The market is focused on the moment that LED industry can leave oversupply behind. China LED chip manufacturers growing number of new MOCVD equipment in 2014 will no doubt put pressure on the LED industry demand and supply. China’s large LED chip manufacturer San’an Optoelectronics, and vertically integrated Elec-Tech International Co. (ETI) both have expansion plans, while Nationstar Optoelectronics Co. is planning to invest in a second phase LED chip expansion project. 
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2013-10-07

Mid-Power LEDs VOP Surpass High-Power

With the LED lighting market soaring and backlight products increased incorporation of mid-powered LEDs, it is unsurprising that mid-power LEDs were most popular in 2013.
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2013-10-07

Lextar September Revenue Dips

Lextar had a September 2013 revenue t decrease compared with August and but experienced growth since September last year.
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2013-10-07

San’an Acquires Subsidy of RMB $56 Million

San'an released a statement that on September 30th they received Anxi county finance bureau “sapphire substrate project."
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2013-10-07

Chinese Experts on Danger of Blue LEDs

Many consumers are shying away from LED lighting due to potential harm blue LED bulbs can have on the retina of the eye. The media has even confused blue lights emitted from blue-ray and blue LED light. So what exactly are blue LEDs then?
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2013-10-07

Veeco Ships Two MBE Systems to University of Nottingham

Veeco Instruments announced that the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, purchased two GENxplor™ R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Systems for its School of Physics and Astronomy. The systems will enable the growth of high quality, large area layers of graphene and boron nitride for advanced electronic and optoelectronic applications.
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2013-10-07

GE Lighting Showcases Automotive LED Headlight Technology at AAPEX

GE Lighting delivers improved visibility and a long life rating for drivers with its GE NIGHTHAWK™ LED headlights, which are designed to last for 15,000 hours and draw less amperage than standard halogen headlights.    
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2013-10-07

Nesora Wins Two Awards at Lighting for Tomorrow LED Competition

Nesora Light Technologies earned high praise from lighting industry judges and took top honors in two key LED categories in the annual Lighting for Tomorrow competition that serves to advance the arts and sciences of LED lighting for a variety of applications.
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2013-10-04

Editor’s Weekly Picks for Sept. 30-Oct. 4

This week Walmart has pushed LED manufacturers into hot water as it releases a US$ 9 LED bulb line, while German manufacturer Osram slashed 900 jobs in the U.S. as part of its restructure plan. Goldman Sachs on the other hand has remained upbeat about LED growth in 2014, and has cast a rather rosy light on the industry. Below are LEDinside’s editor team’s pick of some important news over the week, that you might not want to miss out:
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2013-10-04

Genesis Breaks Into Smartphone Flash LED Supply Chain

LED chip manufacturer Genesis Photonics flip chip components have obtained Japanese smartphone manufacturers certification to be used to make smartphone flashes.
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2013-10-04

Walmart Shows Aggressive Streak by Launching Under US$ 9 LED Bulbs

Just one day after Walmart announced working with GE to sell US$ 10 LED bulbs, the retailer has gotten even more aggressive in its push to make LED lights available to all. The retailer is launching a new line of in-house LED bulbs to be priced below US$ 9, according to a Verge report.
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2013-10-04

Hubbell Lighting Launches Upgrade Program For Commercial Buildings

Hubbell Lighting today announced a new solution to cut electricity costs, enhance the quality of light and reduce the financial risk of upgrades–resulting in up to a 3% increase in net operating income while at the same time improving the property value and attractiveness for tenants.  
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2013-10-04

Austrian Designer Creates Interactive OLED Photobooth

Design website Designboom recently introduced a creative interactive OLED photobooth designed by Vienna-based designer Talia Radford of Talia Ystudio and media artists Jonas Bohatsch at Vienna Design Week 2013. The photo booth uses Osram’s high-tech OLED mirrors, which acts as a flash and display in conjunction with a camera that creates instant lo-fi thermal image print outs, according to the Designboom article. Two conductive plates are on the bottom of the contraption. Photos are shot when skin contact occurs between two people standing on the plates, and for about 20 seconds OLEDs flash and develop pictures onto a small scroll of paper.
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2013-10-04

LED Canada Releases Energy Star™ Listed LED PAR Series

LED Canada announced today their newest LED Lighting series, LED Canada’s PAR20-PAR30 and PAR38, have all qualified for Energy Star program and feature cUL, FCC, and now Energy Star certification.
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2013-10-04

RAB Lighting Introduces LED Doorway Light

RAB Lighting's ENTRA is the new affordable, high performance, low maintenance LED doorway light with a 12W, long-life LED. This sleek doorway light will outshine and outlast your traditional high-pressure sodium fixtures.
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2013-10-04

Acclaim Lighting Offers Customizable Flex LED Circuit Strips

Acclaim Lighting offers its Flex line of low-profile LED circuit strip, which can be cut to any length needed to provide high-output lighting in a variety of cove, millwork, signage and other applications.
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2013-10-03

3D Plus LED, the Next Major Energy Saving Projector Trend

As electricity prices shoot up, projectors with energy saving LED lights and 3D features will allow consumers to enjoy the benefits of energy saving and a feeling of presence.
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2013-10-03

Taiwanese LED Manufacturers to Benefit from China’s Street Light Opportunities

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will be releasing a new energy policy, according to LED industry sources. Starting from Nov. 2013, bids for China street light construction projects will be divided into three phases. Most of the projects are aimed at second tier and third tier cities. Scale of the new project is expected to be three times larger than the first phase of more than 100,000 streetlights in 10 cities. Due to the new LED street light bid specifications, Taiwanese LED manufacturers including Everlight, Delta Electronics, and Leotek that that already have street light bids in Taiwan received quality recognition for their products.
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