Skyworth Digital announced that the sales volume of its TV in May increased by 68% to 1.022 million units, the China TV business unit achieved an annual growth of 73% to 82.5 million units, the sales of LED LCD TV doubled to 82.5 million units. Overseas TV business unit also achieved an annual sales growth of 50% to 19.7 million units, the sales of flat-panel TV grew by 41% yearly to 150,600 units. Skyworth also said that TV sales in May increased by 73% year-Over-year, the sales of China TV business division increased by 72%, while overseas grew by 81%....

An internal wiring problem can pose fire and laceration hazards Philips Lighting Company of Bath, N.Y., is recalling about 8,100 metal halide lamps. The internal wiring can arc causing the lamp to catch fire or the glass to shatter, posing fire and laceration hazards. The company has received one report of a failure that damaged a lamp. There have been no reports of injury or property damage. The recalled items are egg-shaped, clear glass, 150-watt industrial metal halide lamps about five inches long with a medium base. Recalled lamps were manufactured between November 201...

With the increasing emphasis on environmental issues, the demand for LED lighting gradually rise, compared with the demand caused by the replacement of home lighting consumers independently conducted, the demand caused by the government-led street light replacement is more clear, but the cross-strait LED manufacturers target the street lamps cases in mainland of China, who has ignored the fact that the opportunities to replace the traditional street lights with LED lamps has began to take shape in Europe and America. Currently, the penetration rate of LED lights in U.S....

Cree has received a matching $2.3 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to advance its research and development of light-emitting diode, or LED, lighting products. The agency said the $10.1 million in competitive, matching grants to five companies are for two-year projects that "will focus on achieving significant cost reductions while maintaining quality by improving manufacturing equipment, processes, or monitoring techniques." Greg Merritt, vice president for marketing with Durham, N.C.-based Cree, said Wednesday the company has been working with the DOE...

The enigmatic smile of the "Mona Lisa" is now being illuminated by light-emitting diodes specially developed by Toshiba Corp., the electronics giant said June 5. The new LED illumination suppresses UV radiation, which will prevent degradation of Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece at the Louvre Museum in Paris, according to Toshiba. It said the system highlights the expression and skin tone of the "Mona Lisa," enabling viewers to enjoy more accurate color shades of the painting. The new lighting system, which is housed in a display...

At SID 2013, an academic conference on display technologies (lecture number: P.140L), Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) and Nippon Shokubai Co Ltd announced that they thoroughly improved the oxygen and moisture resistances of their OLED device. In addition, they utilized the new technology to demonstrate a display by playing a press preview of Open House 2013 May 28, 2013. As the development of flexible OLED displays and OLED lighting devices being advanced, their durabilities remain a big problem for commercialization. To solve this problem, the barrier capab...

Elec-Tech will release its lighting high drive current flip chips in the name of "Aurora Borealis" on Guangzhou International Lighting Fair to be held on June 9th. 1ALED lighting-class high drive current flip chip can achieve 310 lumens under the drive of 1A, and it can achieve up to 230 lumens per watt driven by 700ma current. According to the publicly available information, Philips chip with the same specifications can achieve 300 lumens and 220 lumens correspondingly, and the corresponding data for the United States Cree are 297 lumens and 223 lumens, the lumi...

The 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition will be held from June 9 to 12 at the China Import and Export Fair Exhibition Centre. The exhibition is expected to attract more than 110,000 visitors to come to visit, including GE (USA), Osram (Germany), Philips (Netherlands), LumiLEDs (United States), Cree and others from 27 countries and regions, a total of more than 2,600 exhibitors will fully participate in the meeting. In the secondary market, LED plate has begun to achieve a sharp adjustment since May 24, according to the research report recentl...

The LED China Jiuzhou City (hereinafter referred to as "Jiuzhou City") locating in Xiaolan Town will officially open for business on June 8. According to reports, Jiuzhou City covers an area of over 400,000 square meters, it is the largest LED professional market in China, Jiuzhou City can accommodate more than 2,000 enterprises, currently, and there are nearly 300 enterprises in Jiuzhou City. According to the introduction from the deputy general manager of the Jiuzhou City, the preparatory work for Jiuzhou City has begun in 2009, the overall in...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) did a study of how much electricity was saved last year thanks to the use of LED in nine kinds of applications (various kinds of indoor lights, streetlights, etc). The numbers are impressive: "In 2012, about 49 million LED lamps and luminaires were installed in the nine applications. LEDs in these markets saved approximately 71 trillion British thermal units (tBtu), equivalent to an annual energy cost savings of about $675 million"!   But what's even more impressive is the potential for improvement. There is stil...

NVC announced on June 4 that Changjiang Wu and Dongming Wang will be elected as executive directors, and Ling Wu as an independent non-executive director, this appointment letter will be implemented after the shareholders' meeting. The increasingly worsening internal conflict of NVC finally draws to a close. For this, Pei Huang, the initiator of NVC minority shareholders revolution told reporters that Mr. Wu is a professional manager after the equity was changed, the occupations are reasonable as long as they are promoted according to the rules of corporate gover...

Lite-On Technology (TW 2301) reported on June 6 that its consolidated revenue in May reached NT$16.49 billion and parent company consolidated sales amounted to NT$10.31 billion, an increase of 1% and 4% respectively over last month. All Strategic Business Groups (SBG) of of Lite-On showed stable order intakes, and cumulative consolidated sales of Lite-On Tech and its parent company from January to May came to NT$79.16 billion and NT$48.18 billion respectively. Due to the steady increases in the global demand of cloud computing application and mobile devices, ...

Taiwan-based high power LED manufacturer Edison Opto plans to provide products for TV backlight applications in 2013. According to industry sources, Edison Opto's TV backlighting products passed verification in the second quarter and will begin shipments in July. Edison Opto noted that in the past, side-lit LED TVs required light guide plates, but direct-lit LED TVs do not need such components. For 32-inch side-lit LED TVs, the light guide plate cost is around US$7/unit. Without the light guide plates, said Edison Opto, production costs can be effec...

It is an indisputable fact that LED market has gradually rebounded, but the relative excess of industry capacity is also an unavoidable reality. In the recent two weeks, the leading LED companies have introduced LED expansion plans, of course, Sanan Optoelectronics is no exception, it launched its plan on the evening of May 27 that it will raise funds about 3.3 billion Yuan to expand LED projects. According to its plan, if the program of Sanan Optoelectronics is implemented successfully, the production capacity of its new LED chip will be doubled. At present, San...

Demand for LED backlighting rebounded in the first half of 2013, Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar believes demand for LED lighting will show strong growth in the second half of 2013 and lighting applications may account for 35-40% of its total revenues. LED firms said judging from past experience, international tier-one TV makers usually slow down procurement in July-August with only China-based makers continuing to procure products. However, as China's energy-saving appliance procurement subsidies are set to end soon, demand for TV backlighting products in th...

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Recently, the leaders and experts from the National Energy Administration of South Africa and the South African National Highways Office arrived in Guangzhou to visit the urban construction. To talk about the cooperation of new energy, officials from the National Energy Department of South Africa made it clear that South Africa will import over sixty thousand sets of scenery complementary equipments from China in 2014 for the street lighting construction in the South African coastal area. Chinese enterprises with actual strength are welcomed to participate in the e...

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced three new Prescolite LED solutions for downlighting applications—a 6” LiteBox LED downlight module (LB6LEDA10L), a 6” Retroficient LED downlight (RLC6LED), and a wall wash version of the 4” LiteFrame LED downlight (LF4LED). Prescolite’s products bring an exceptional combination of outstanding light output, high efficiency, beautiful color, and greater affordability to downlighting applications.   Offering an outstanding efficacy at 87 lumens per watt...

At The Fresh Market, shoppers can catch not only a delectable aroma but also the hint of classical music in the air. When the specialty grocery retailer decided to test updated indoor lighting at its new stores—to be followed by updated lighting at some existing stores—it wanted an energy-saving LED replacement lamp with a high color rendering index (CRI) and long life. After a thorough evaluation, it found its final answer in GE's energy smart® 17-watt LED PAR38 Retail lamp. Once all installations are complete, GE's grocery store lighting solu...

The Lighting Industry Association (LIA) have developed Mini Guide to show how Lighting Controls can play a key role in helping to deliver the energy efficiency requirements for lighting required by the Building Regulations. Revisions to the Building Regulation Documents are expected to be issued by the Government during the Spring of 2013 and come into force in October 2013 and this Guide has been written based on the LIA best understanding of what the revised requirements will be. Once the final documents are published LIA will review them and if necessary make...

Satisfies Wall Mount and Area/Site Lighting Applications While Providing Increased Efficiency and Savings   Cooper Lighting, a division of diversified power management company Eaton, has expanded its Lumark Crosstour™ Light Emitting Diode (LED) line of wall packs to include the Crosstour MAXX luminaires. Designed to efficiently satisfy high lumen output needs, the Lumark Crosstour™ MAXX LED wall pack and site luminaires deliver up to 7,416 lumens replacing up to a 400-watt metal halide fixture, while consuming only 85 watts and providi...

Green Ray LED, the aggressive, locally headquartered lighting manufacturer, has produced what is being hailed as the world’s most efficient LED lamp The U.S. Department of Energy has pronounced Green Ray’s new tube lamp the brightest of all, at a record-breaking 173 lumens per watt. LED lights sold in most big-box stores are 48-60 lm/W, with specialty products running as high as 130 lm/W. "Our bulb blows the doors off,” said Peter Richard, corporate manager of Green Ray USA. "This is a real technological breakthrough that’...

Cree announced that it had shipped more than two million GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) for cellular telecommunications and provided game-changing benefits over traditional silicon-based technologies, involving higher power, higher efficiency and wider bandwidth. As mobile devices like smart phones are used more widely around the world, telecommunications companies are looking for innovative technologies to enhance channel capacity and the speed of wireless systems, while simultaneously lowering power consumption of tran...

Due to the increasing demand of customers, utilization of Ledtech Electronics in the second quarter further enhanced, the growth in utilization is good for the continuous improvement in gross margins, so that the revenue in the second quarter increases by 20 percent and profit is expected to increase sharply. Its legal person stated that the utilization in the second quarter of Ledtech Electronics will increase from 70% in the first quarter to 75% as the demand continued to improve. The improvement in utilization is favorable to the continued upturn in the gross margins, but it nee...

Although LED lighting industry develops sustainably, but before the introduction of international standardization, every market still has its own specifications, which makes the competitive market to be more chaos; while the cross-strait manufacturers have planned a general specification for nearly two years to jointly develop the LED lighting market, the cross-strait General Specifications of LED lighting products  will be released on June 18, on the part of manufacturers, it is helpful to reduce the research and development expenses and effectively lower the production co...

HENGRI Lighting will exhibit in the 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition at booth D55, hall 9.2, from June 9 to 12. "We feel so excited for this year's lighting exhibition! Our company now is growing very fast, but we have a huge ambition! We need to make a leap! That's why we are here again!" general manager Cathy Jiang said excitedly on the flight to the Guangzhou expo scene, 10 days before the opening of the lighting fair. Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition is recognized as the biggest lighting exhibition in Asia and the ...

According to the reports from foreign media, europium nanocrystals could become the missing ingredient lowering the production costs and enhancing the energy-efficient of white LED. Reported that Scientists Budai is working with a group of scientists from the University of Georgia and Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratory to study a set of new crystals, this kind of crystals can produce right mix color white LED and other purposes require. Experts from the University of Georgia consider the nanocrystals made of europium oxide and aluminum oxide powder as raw materi...

In order to make plants grow faster, the ancients pull seedlings, and the modern people apply pesticides, but Xiamen Guangpu Electronics Co., Ltd utilizes lights. On the Cross-Strait Fair for Economy and Trade (CFET) to be held on Jun 18 of this year, Xiamen Guangpu Electronics Co., Ltd will carry this self-developed LED Plant Panel Light to debut Fuzhou. As we all know, the growth and development of plant depend on photosynthesis. Photosynthesis closely relates to the light quality, while the light quality is very easy to combine and control, which is one o...

Recently, the Eco-design Directive Regulations Committee of EU Commission has conducted a discussion on the bill about the directional lights and all LED lights and related equipments; a related ErP Directive has been newly added on the mandatory CE certification of the lamps and luminaries. These ErP instructions include 1194/2012/EC directive (directional bulbs, LED bulbs, and other related equipments) and 874/2012/EC directive (energy-efficient label instructions issued by EU eco-design Directive Regulations Committee for bulbs and lamps). Applicable pro...

The data from Semiconductor Lighting Industry Association of Guangdong Province shows that the Order Status of LED businesses has performed well since this year, it increased by 20% -30% over the same period of last year and slightly declined in profits but not obviously, which would be the clear signs of the recovery of LED industry. According to the report of the first quarter of this year, the total revenues of 25 key companies of LED industry was 9.888 billion Yuan, an increase of 12% over the same period of last year, the total net profit was 719 million Yuan, a ...