Malaysian company MyLED Group, which consists of MyLED Master and MyLED Opto Technology, has injected $54.90 million to expand its manufacturing capability in solid state lighting and LED industry. The company claims to be the first local firm who will have both solid state lighting and LED manufacturing technology. The SLL technology will be under MyLED Master, while the LED technology will be under MyLED Opto Technology. According to MyLED group chairman Datuk Fauzi,"From now until 2014, we're putting in money to expand our S...

New Glasgow is to replace the current high-pressure sodium lights in street with LED lights in the coming weeks. In the spring the NDP government introduced legislation making LED lighting mandatory for roads and highways. Municipalities have five years to complete the conversion. Town CAO Lisa MacDonald said the town is proceeding with the conversion at this time, as there is financing available for the project. Last year New Glasgow converted 59 of its street lights in a trial and found they produced a higher level of lighting. Once converted, the change is...

Pressed on by its security department that was anxious to have better lighting in the hospital’s parking lot for the security cameras to operate more efficiently, the Facilities Maintenance Department of Kingman Regional Medical Center approached Howard Industrial Sales in nearby Chandler to initiate energy savings comparisons and a lighting upgrade proposal in order to increase the light output in its vast parking lot. Nestled in the foothills of the Hualapai Mountain range, the award-winning Kingman Regional Medical Center (KRMC) is a community-owned 235-bed...

LED company PowerSecure (POWR) has designed  new SuperTube LED lighting fixtures to replace overhead fluorescent tubes in commercial applications. The  new SuperTube LED lighting fixtures have passed UL certification and have already been installed for a customer.  They are specifically designed for indoor T8 and T12 retrofit applications and offer 75% greater efficiency over traditional lighting. In the meanwhile, they can reduce maintenance costs due to a long lifespan of 10 years.  ...

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...

India800 Foundation, an organisation which works for people living below poverty line ,has supported solar LED lamps for over 50 backward villages that do not have electricity. The villages would be among 120 villages that would be covered under the project in the country. This was announced by Lord Amir Bhatia, House of Lords, England and vice-chairman of the India800 foundation. Hanul Technologies is installing over 5,000 LED Lights developed by the company at BMC Software which will bring savings of around 575 mega watts hours per year for the BMC. BMC ...

Westland's Annapolis Park subdivision is to replace LED street lightings under the $20,000 remaining in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funds approved by the council . DTE owns the light poles and would replace 31 street light fixtures under a sole source bid. The new lights would be retrofitted onto the existing light poles and save an estimated $2,100 annually. In 2009, the city received $731,100 in grant funding that was used for energy retrofits at the Mike Modano Ice Arena — the single largest project — the Bailey Recreation Ce...

LedLink Optics, the Taiwan-based manufacturer for high-power LEDs, has developed a global distribution agreement with Mouser Electronics to expand global market. The manufacturer's LED lenses offer beam-pattern options ranging from 8° up to 140°. It has products for applications ranging from residential to architectural and street lighting.  LedLink Optics designs and manufactures optics for solid-state lighting companies such as Cree, Edison, Philips Lumileds, Nichia, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Samsung LED and Seoul Semiconductor. ...

According to a member from the House Committee on Ecology, the House of Representatives would be able to save at least P3 million if all the offices of the 285 lawmakers will switch to using LED products. Western Samar Representative Mel Senen Sarmiento pointed out that LED lights is not only cost-effective but also contributes in the global effort to reduce carbon emissions. As a result, the Visayan lawmaker expected politicians and other public officials should "walk the talk" in as far as contributing the smallest amount of initiative to mitigate globa...

Honolulu based nonprofit Blue Planet Foundation is to build an 8-foot diorama that will use LED lights powered by the sun. It will be powered by a solar panel canopy designed and built by the Kaneohe-based solar design and installation company Sunetric. A battery pack will store energy produced by the panels during the day so the lights turn on at night. The Lego Enthusiasts Association of Hawaii and the University of Hawaii Solar Decathlon Team Hawaii are building the display. The public will have a chance to see the display on the lawn next to Honolulu Hal...

Manitowoc Public Utilities has announced the first-ever LED Holiday Lighting Contest to encourage the use of energy-efficient holiday decorations. The contest is open to all customers of MPU, and requires all lighting must consist of LED lights only. The entries will be divided into four categories: large displays (more than 5,000 individual lights); medium displays (1,000 to 5,000 lights); small displays (less than 1,000 lights); and most innovative (illuminated displays using less than 50 individual lights). In each category, entries will be judged on the basis of crea...

The city of Livonia will receive a grant of $82,125 for LED lighting. The Michigan Economic Development Corp. has announced to fund $399,261 in the advanced lighting technology demonstration grants. And the of Livonia becomes one of six Michigan cities, townships and counties to receive part of this grand worthing $82,125 for LED lighting. The grant will fund LED street lighting along Shadyside Street next to Livonia City Hall, extending from Five Mile to the parking area behind the Livonia Police Station, and street lights in the parking lot at the Civic ...

Future Lighting Solutions is pleased to announce the successful completion of a major lighting project in Korea with Humanlitech. The challenge was to design reliable, energy efficient lighting for the Busan Cinema Center, a landmark entertainment complex in Korea. The Busan Cinema Center is the exclusive venue for screenings and events for the Busan International Film Festival and also serves as a symbolic structure representing the film culture and business in Asia. A central part of the complex’s stunning beauty is its huge roof with 42,000 LED lights, s...

Taiwan LED chipmaker Epistar has recently developed agreements with Zhejiang Yonkon Group Co., Ltd. and NVC Lighting Technology Corp. in mainland China. Under the agreement, the company’s deal with Zhejiang Yonkon will primarily stress cooperation on the development of lighting LEDs, in addition to Yonkon’s pledge to buy Epistar chips. Details of its cooperation with NVC are being discussed. It estimated the two contracts would help boost the chipmaker’s market share in the mainland to 30% in 2012 from 20% in 2011. Epistar Chairman B...

The Urbana-based company Hughey & Phillips LLC is expanding its busniess of replacing incandescent obstruction lighting — the warning lights on towers and buildings with LED lights. At present, the company has added a 50,000-square-foot building to its campus, giving it more than 70,000 square feet of space. The expansion creates more manufacturing, testing and office space, much of which will be dedicated to new product lines including its Horizon Series of LED lights. Hughey & Phillips has received Federal Aviation Administration approval for its l...

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has presented at the inaugural ceremony of Genesis Photonics Inc.'s new plant at the Southern Taiwan Science Park in Tainan City, and stated that Taiwan is LED traffic lights throughout the country and will install LED street lights and indoor lights in public buildings in the near future. According to Ma, green technology is one of the Cabinet's six key development industries. Efforts to develop the industry have turned Taiwan into the world's biggest LED lighting and molding suppliers.   Furthermore ,he pointe...

Advanced lighting creates a customized, interactive and community-friendly entertainment experience  Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced an exciting new client installation at BC Place Stadium, a landmark -- and now gem -- of the Vancouver skyline. After over 25 years of hosting a range of sports, musical, cultural, community and exhibition events featuring everything from a Pope John Paul II address, and Madonna...

MyLED Group, Malaysia’s solid state lighting (SSL) and LED manufacturer, will achieve more than RM2 billion in sales for its lighting components over the next five years with sealing sales Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with 15 international and local companies. MyLED signed sales MoUs with six Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) from Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia. Three of the OEMs, Amprex International Sdn Bhd (Japan), Light-Trend Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd (Taiwan) and Osram Opto Semiconductors (Germany...

Lighting Science has designed the BayLight industrial LED light to replace existing High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting, matching the performance of conventional 400W HID systems, while offering up to 35% reduction in energy usage. The BayLight provides an L70 rated life of over 60,000 hours at 40°C and more than 100,000 hours at 25˚C. It is available in higher and hard to reach applications, such as large storage areas, where re-lamping can be costly and time consuming. Features as following: •    LEDs help to improve efficienc...

Light pollution has become a big problem in Hong Kong as the new generation of dynamic LED and LCD advertising screens coming flood. Carl Gardner, Director of CSG Lighting Consultancy Ltd’, was recently invited by the city authorities in Hong Kong to advise them on ways that the city and its local businesses can reduce the problems of light nuisance and light pollution. Hong Kong has some of the densest living conditions in the world – high-rise residential blocks are packed tightly together, to maximise land use, and upwards light spill from lighting at...

Nordson ASYMTEK announces that it has won the 2011 Global Technology Award in the category of LED Production Equipment for its Spectrum S-922 LED jetting system for dispensing silicone. The award recognizes the best new innovations in the printed circuit assembly and packaging industries. The award was presented at the Productronica Trade Fair in Munich, Germany on November 15th, 2011.  This was the fourth time Nordson ASYMTEK has won a Global Technology award. Nordson ASYMTEK's jet dispenser enables sticky silicon phosphor to be di...

Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth is to get an LED makeover, and currently it is under the process of test. According to Sundance's marketing director, there are more than 7,600 feet of LED cable to outline about 18 buildings, primarily along Main Street. It has taken workers about 5,000 hours to install the lights and 100 hours to program them. If testing goes well, the lights will be switched on after the Parade of Lights on Friday. The system is computer-operated and has 16 million color options with unlimited program combinations, such as lighting seque...

Stamford-based LED lighting manufacturer Solais Lighting, has raised $1.8 million, according to a new filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company founded in 2008, and investors including FreshTracks Capital, Long River Ventures, and Gorann. It dedicates in making LED lamps with the lightweight, output, focused-beam and full-dimming features capable of replacing halogen reflector lamps. It designs its LEDs for track and recessed fixtures in commercial, museum, retail, hospitality and high-end residential applications. In Janu...

San Francisco Bay Area-based company Elemental LED will discount its entire inventory of products by 35% on Cyber Monday, November 28th. It’s the second year that the company will participate with online retailers in Cyber Monday, following last year when it also discounted products by 35%. The LED Lighting Cyber Monday sale will begin on November 28th at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and end on November 29th at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. The company expects call volume to be high and has allocated extra personnel to assist customers over ph...

LED lamp manufacturer MSi, has supported Furniture retailer Talsma Furniture to replacing more than 700 traditional incandescent light bulbs in the Holland Michigan store with new LED bulbs. Benefits from LEDs, total energy savings are estimated at about 5,054 megawatts per hour every year, the equivalent of planting more than 1253 trees. The LED lamps have an expected life of 10 years, reducing landfill disposal....

Fairchild Semiconductor has designed developed the FODM8801, part of the OptoHiT™ series of high temperature phototransistor optocouplers. These devices use Fairchild’s proprietary OPTOPLANAR® coplanar packaging technology to achieve high noise immunity and reliable isolation at high operating temperatures. The FODM8801 consists of an aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs) infrared light emitting diode optically coupled to a phototransistor. The device provides a guaranteed Current Transfer Ratio (CTR) for both saturated and non-saturate...

Taiwan National Tsing Hua University has established a new compound semiconductor laboratory for the development of new chip components that will support alternative green energy sources. Cheng Keh-yung, dean of NTHU's College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the inauguration ceremony,said that the lab represents the first project in Taiwan to fully integrate semiconductor component research. According to Cheng, the lab will cover passive and active component development from the epitaxy process to chip component manufacturing and testing. T...

Halifax based LED Roadway Lighting Ltd., a private company , has acquired the innovative intellectual property of Streetlight Intelligence Inc. of Victoria, B.C. According to Ken Cartmill, LED Roadway’s vice-president of business and product development, said in an interview , the acquisition of Streetlight’s wireless light management technology gives the company the ability to offer customers a full package that includes lights, lighting controls and energy monitoring systems. Cartmill wouldn’t disclose what LED Roadway paid for the Streetl...

The city of West Asheville is under the process of upgrading Phase II of a streetlight with LED bulbs, from Monday to Thursday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. with no expectations of traffic disruption. Date back to the spring of 2010, the City has successfully installed 700 lights in River District and Kenilworth neighborhoods in Phase I of the street light upgrade project. Phase II has a broader reach and will involve 2800 streetlights across West Asheville, Kenilworth and Oakley. Phase I of the four year initiative began in May 2011 and has generat...

Recently, Greensboro-based LED Retailer Fresh Market has won LED Retailer of the Year from GE Lighting  at GE’s third annual LED & Energy Efficient Lighting Trends for Retail conference in Ohio. The criteria for the LED Retailer of the Year award included having retrofitted at least 20 percent of fleet stores to LED lighting, being able to demonstrate at least 20 percent energy savings as a result, and customer recognition of improved store appearance. According to Fresh Market’s energy manager Paul Poole, the company has in...