Cities in northeastern Ontario are going to make LED streetlights transitions to reduce their electricity bills and save taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sudbury plans to move to LED bulbs gradually, and will take a few years to do so. But over in North Bay, the light bulb change will be much faster. North Bay will spend $2.3 million to make every streetlight bulb to LED, by the end of 2012. John Severino, North Bay's manager of environmental services, said the public doesn't pay much attention to street lighting. He said, "It's probab...

Taiwan LED manufacturer Unity Opto Technology Ltd. has exclusively supplied item’s LED backlight to “Nexus 7”, the first tablet computer jointly developed by Asus and Google, a renowned online search engine to be launched in America in July. A reliable source has informed that Nexus 7 uses touch-screen technologies of Hydis, a South Korea–based panel manufacturer, and uses LED chips from Formosa Epitaxy Incorporation (Forepi). And with Nexus 7 scheduled for launch this month, Unity begun shipping  LED backlights at least tw...

According to ElectroniCast Consultants' report, entitled “LEDs Used in General Lighting : Global Market Forecast and Analysis (2011-2021) ", only 10% of the LEDs used in General Lighting were attributed to Interior lamps in 2011. However, by 2021 the relative market share of LEDs in Interior lighting is forecast to reach 39%. The firm also says the worldwide volume of packaged LEDs in solid-state lighting general lighting will reach nearly 4.6 billion units in 2012. The global consumption value of component-level (packaged) LEDs in SSL...

Recently, LED display manufacture Shenzhen Sinolight Optoelectronics has announced to bankruptcy due to its current difficulties in securing SME loans. The company had assets in excess of RMB 100 mln and a staff of more than 400 people. According to the company's financial manager, to a great extent, the company's bankruptcy was the result of current difficulties in securing SME loans.  ...

Chinese firm Newsun has announced to develop a real AC POWER LED after seven years of research and development in collaboration with Professor Edson Products. According to Newsun, there is no need for a transformer to change the power from AC to DC. What's more it doesn't need an LED driver. Not needing either a transformer or driver means that the light source only needs a tiny space. The LED operates at 85 lumens/Watt and has a CRI of 82 at a relatively low temperature. Lamps employing the LED have a very long life because in most cases, ...

Lumenpulse Inc. has developed a strategic partnership with Singapore-based Technolite, to expand Lumenpulse’s presence in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei and the Philippines. As exclusive partner, Technolite has been supplying Lumenpulse's range of LED lighting fixtures to the Singapore market since 2011. Technolite also offers technical and commercial assistance ensuring that architects, designers and engineers are actively supported. The move to expand the relationship will ensure the Lumenpulse brand and portfolio is strongl...

Seoul Semiconductor has released a new LED product called “nPola” at 'So Gong Dong Plaza Hotel' in Jong Lo Gu, to an audience of the Korean LED industry and press on July 3rd. According to the company, the unique patented technology rights have been under development by Seoul Semiconductor for over 10 years. The brightness has been dramatically improved by 5 times over the conventional LED based on equivalent die surface area. The company expects further improvements will increase this to more than 10 times existing LEDs. Currently, th...

A report from Department of Energy has turned out that LED lamps have a slight environmental edge over compact fluorescent lamps and a significantly lower environmental impact than incandescent lighting over the lifetime of the products. Titled “LED Manufacturing and Performance,” is the second part of a DOE project to assess the life-cycle environmental and resource costs in the manufacturing, transport, use and disposal of LED lighting products. It has concluded that the life cycle energy consumption of LEDs and CFLs are similar — about 3,90...

Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) is under the process of developing high-powered LED lighting for homes and offices by a new manufacturing system called ‘liquid forging’. Chua Beng Wah, lead researcher on the project explains how the team pooled forging and casting to develop the liquid forging method, subsequently using it to manufacture high-performance LED heat sinks. The process also enables unified production of intricate light fixtures (to increase surface area) and heat sinks, significantly reducing the manufacturing costs. ...

Recently, Philips has signed a partnership contract and agreement with Gold Biotechnology Inc., a supplier of molecular biology research chemicals based in St. Louis, MO, to designate GoldBio as a certified Philips LED Horti Partner. Under the partnership, GoldBio will expand its market reach beyond an already broad base of chemical reagent users, while providing Philips with a key avenue into the research market for its innovative LED products. GoldBio brings to the partnership a multitude of long-standing relationships with research institutions and universi...

Scotland-based Braveheart Investment Group plc has injected £378,000 in mLED Ltd of Glasgow, UK. The latest equity funding round comes from Braveheart's established network of private clients, the Scottish Enterprise Co-Investment Fund and members of both mLED’s board and technical advisory council. mLED’s proprietary microLED platform technology was developed over a 10 year period at the Institute of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde, where over £7m was invested in research leading to the core patent. The firm was sp...

According to a white paper entitled “LED Manufacturing Study on CHES™ Sapphire,” ARC Energy has released results of a study showing that sapphire grown from its proprietary CHES technology yield 5% greater LED brightness than the industry standard. The study purposefully included sapphire material exhibiting a wide range of etch pit distortion (EPD) levels to determine whether or not EPD affects LED manufacturing. The study took sapphire through the complete LED chip manufacturing process and concluded that all material passed LED s...

GE Lighting has officially announced to appoint Oscar Wong as General Manager in China. And Oscar will be responsible for the whole operation in the Chinese market and making the strategy to promote the business development, so as to achieve the company’s market target.  

As Guangdong government has come out the policy to make LED transition within three years in public place, Taiwan LED manufacturers including Epistar, Unity Opto Technology have received increasing LED lighting orders from mainland China. Meanwhile, Taiwan companies such as Everlight and AcBel Polytech Inc. are actively building marketing channel in Guangdong. According to the policy issued by Guangdong government in May, the city will forced to promote new LED lighting installation in public place within three years. It’s considered to be the stronge...

Philips Electronics recently has brought in efficient and cost effective solar powered road lighting solution into the Nigerian market. According to The Communication Manager, Nick Kelso, the Solar Gen2 offers customers a highly energy-efficient LED solution, which is superior to any conventional lighting and allows for a lamp post spacing of up to 50 meters, much wider than with other solutions, while at the same time complying with stringent EU road lighting standards (ME3). By charging street lighting during the day, Solar Gen2 can also supplement the capacity of t...

Viper Networks, Inc. has submitted designs for an 'Advance LED Street Lighting System' to Florida Company Apollo Metro Solutions. Since Viper Networks is striving to develop large scale LED commercial business in both the private and public sector, including potential orders from government municipalities, the Company is building another key relationship by targeting an 'Advance Street Lighting System' for streetlights and parking lot lighting. The Company anticipates that their successful design completion for a new street lighting system wi...

SmartWatt Energy, an energy efficiency firm headquartered in Albany, NY, has helped Stewart’s Shops, a family and employee-owned chain of convenience stores in Upstate New York for saving nearly $78,000 per year in total lighting costs after a lighting retrofit installed at their corporate headquarters in Saratoga Springs, NY. This project will pay for itself in just 16 months. SmartWatt Energy conducted a construction-grade energy audit of the facility, including: offices, loading docks, laboratories, storage and freezer space, then engineered a plan to replace t...

UK Company Marl International has announced to inject £150,000 to double its manufacturing output at its site in Ulverston, Cumbria for the LED lighting market. The announcement brings the investment made by Marl in its UK manufacturing facility to £270,000 altogether. The production line has been specially modified to handle PCB boards of up to 600mm long, which are commonly required to replace conventional lighting products. Marl is not only ramping up its output of LED lighting modules that act as a direct replacement for much less efficient lightin...

U-Tech Technology Corp., backed by shipbuilder Ching Fu Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., has been contracted to support LED lighting equipment for Philips. The company’s vice president A.D. Wu, they produce the lighting equipment by making most of Ching Fu’s and its strategic partner Hui Hwa Industrial Co., Ltd.’s metal and mold technologies as well as Philips’ electronics technology. According to Wu, the products feature less than 3% in light degradation after 10,000 hours of non-stop operation, good thermal dissipation design and a 75% electr...

Samsung Display is playing as a newly merged business with Samsung Mobile Display and S-LCD activities within the Korean electronics group, to expand its activities in LCDs and OLEDs. Oh-hyun Kwon, vice chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics, said "Samsung Display is destined to attain virtually unlimited growth." In addition, the company also intends to combine OLED production technology with precision large panel operations and seasoned supply chain management. "Our combined strengths will guide Samsung's display business through t...

The electric and architectural sign manufacturer Arrow Signs has won the 2012 ISA Sign Design Competition for Electronic Message Centers with the @First Shopping Center project in San Jose, CA during the annual ISA International Sign Expo in Orlando, FL. According to Scott Reese, Arrow Signs LED Sales Specialist, the project required a great deal of collaboration and review with the customer and the San Jose sign review board. The sign code for San Jose is very particular on LED signage, and the project had to be specifically approved before c...

WEPOWER Ecolutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Holding Corp. , has cooperated with Independence LED Lighting, LLC, to distribute its Forged in America(TM) superior LED Tubes and LED Fixture products. The Company plans on complementing its existing portfolio of WEPOWER intelligent lighting ecolutions with its recent acquisition announcement of Active ES E-Series(TM), LightHawk(TM), LightOwl(TM) lighting controls, distribution of Orion Apollo(R) Light Pipe Skylights, Orion InteLite(R) Dynamic Device Motion C...

  Kingbright companies are not subject to any enforceable judgments in relations to white-light LEDs in Europe. Osram’s patent (number DE 297 24 543 & DE 297 24 848 and number EP 0 907 969) have been cancelled and withdrawn by German Federal Patent Court and the European Patent Office on 12, Jan. 2011 and 12, Feb. 2011 respectively, the German company finally cancel the infringement charges. All three intellectual property rights have been declared as null and void by the relevant German and European authorities; as a consequence, Kingbright has prevailed in the afore-mentioned infringement litigations. Therefore, there are no further proceedings pending against Kingbright in Europe relating to white-light LEDs.

According to Epistar’s chairman B.J Lee, the company will invest NT$ 5 billion (US$ 166.7 Million) in expanding production, making it become one of the top two LED epitaxy manufacturers in the world, next only to Nichia. At the company’s recent shareholders meeting, Lee said although the company’s production lines are fully booked, 20~30% of orders have yet to be filled up. If the company fails to carry out the plant expansion project, other competitors in the market will have the opportunity to grow, and therefore it has decided to launch large expansio...

Osram has taken a major step toward OLEDs that are suitable for automotive applications. For the first time the company has developed an OLED that proved capable of withstanding temperatures of up to 85 degrees Celsius for several hundred hours in a laboratory long-term test. Temperature stability is the biggest challenge when it comes to making these innovative surface area light sources suitable for use in cars. "Since the success of this research we’re now tackling their future application in production vehicles", says Ulrich Eisele, responsible for th...

Dialight has announced four of its class-leading LED hazardous location lighting products including the SafeSite® High Bay, Area Light, Wallpack and Emergency Wallpack have achieved Brazil’s INMETRO certification for safe, approved use in Zone 1 and Zone 2 applications, paving the way to penetrate new key market opportunities in Brazil’s expanding petrochemical industries.   With the U.S. Energy Information Administration reporting Brazil as the ninth largest oil producing country in 2010—producing approximately one-third of total o...

Kelington Group Bhd (KGB), which dedicated in ultra-high purity gas and chemical infrastructure, has targeted to China's LED market. According to Group president and chief operating officer Ong Weng Leong, the company already had LED jobs in China but expected to capitalise further on the growth prospects there. Meanwhile the company had also done jobs for companies in Malaysia, but felt that the prospects were no where near as great as China. According to reports, Chinese lighting market reached US$12.2bil (RM39bil) in 2010, accounting for 15.4% of the ...

Taiwan LED manufacturers have got involved in the competition in high-wattage LED. Tsannkuen 3C has launched 10 W LED bulb at the price of NT$ 279 ,and Everlight has also released 8W LED bulb of NT$ 299. Delta cooperates with B&Q to promote 10.5 W LED bulbs to take the place of 60 W incandescent bulb. Tatung prepares to join the competition with its 10 W LED bulb, and China Electric Mfg. Corporation also intends to tap the market with 9W bulb. According to industry executives, 60 watt incandescent bulb occupies a major position in the tradit...

Recently, Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI) will ship LED devices to LCD TVs and lighting supplied by mainland Chinese manufacturers via its Japanese shareholder Mitsui & Co., Ltd in the third quarter, according to FOREPI’s Chairman F.R. Chien. And the orders will keep the company’s production lines busy throughout the first quarter in 2013. Chien pointed out that in the second half of 2012, the mainland’s economic stimulus packages and subsidization project for rural consumers of LCD TVs would give a boost to the mainland market f...

“We find it difficult to conduct foreign trade business of LED lights because the customers have greatly beaten down the prices, for example, the price of spotlights (3W) has fallen from $5.80in the first quarter to $3.50. The profits of our enterprise have constantly declined, and the market competition is really suffering,” said a foreign trade manager of a small micro-LED enterprise in Shenzhen. From the realistic perspective, he thought that display screen business would be more profitable than lighting, and that a host of China’s LED enterprises were stu...