Lighting Science Group has signed an agreement on reselling the company’s A19 LED bulbs with FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit public charity founded by inventor Dean Kamen, strives to cultivate young people’s interest and participation in science, technology, engineering and math. The agreement encourages FIRST middle school and high-school students to sell LED bulbs, produced by Lighting Science Group, in their home communities. A modern-day twist on traditional fundraising methods, the...

SemiLEDs has released its not so bright financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, ended August 31, 2011. According to the company ,revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $5.3 million, a 54% decrease from $11.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. GAAP net loss attributable to SemiLEDs stockholders for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $13.6 million, or a loss of $0.50 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income attributable to SemiLEDs stockholders of $5.3 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of fi...

A recent meeting held Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has made a conclusion that the ministry must revise current strategies on Taiwan’s LED industry development, and the MOEA pledged to work out revised strategies within a month. Economic Minster Y.S. Shih met with top brasses of Taiwan’s leading LED industry in a bid to brainstorm ideas concerning how to help the manufacturers go through hard competition compounded by the economic downturn. Everlight Chairman Y.F. Yeh, Lextar Chairman David Su, EpistarPresident M.J. Jou, and...

Lately, GE Lighting has hold the 3rd annual LED & Energy Efficient Lighting Trends for Retail conference at the lighting unit’s global headquarters in East Cleveland, Ohio. There are 45 retailers gathered to share best practices, learn about new technologies and discuss emerging trends that can deliver immediate and sustained environmental and financial gains, while enhancing the visual appeal of products. Among the retailers, The Fresh Market and Walgreens were honored for their efforts in lighting efficiency by GE Lighting. The Fresh Market took h...

According to Sandia National Laboratories recent research, diode lasers could eventually compete with LEDs for home and commercial lighting solutions. Sandia National Laboratories recently asked participants to rate various LED and diode laser lighting scenarios and found that in some situations consumers preferred the diode lasers. As we know, LEDs are the most energy-efficient replacements for the incandescent bulbs. But less people know LEDs lose efficiency at currents higher than 0.5 amps. The diode laser actually improves at higher currents, which means it ca...

Recently, Bavaria Technology Solutions in Al Ain has made a deal with the main contractor / MBEC for Abu Dhabi Judicial Department to supply LED lighting for the new security buildings being built at the perimeter of the New Court Building in Abu Dhabi. Selection of LED lighting in building specification is increasingly becoming a popular choice for environmentally -conscious architects and builders in the UAE and around the World for its many green benefits, as well as to meet strict environmental guidelines set by regulating authorities. Harald Ehrl, m...

Photometric Testing has set up Gloucestershire-based laboratory to provide specialist optical test and measurement services for LEDs, lamps and luminaires. Test services will be offered in small and medium businesses in the lighting industry, and specialist approach to LED testing. The company has employed a 1m diameter integrating sphere with high resolution spectroradiometer detector for measuring luminous flux, chromaticity, colour temperature and colour rendering. For measuring beam distributions and the variation of luminous intensity with angle, Photometric Testi...

According to OSRAM, it has claimed to created the world's most efficient OLED lighting panel with an efficiency of 32 lm/W and a birghtness of1,000 cd/m².   OSRAM's flexible OLED research was conducted as part of the TOPAS 2012 project - the same project in which OSRAM developed the 87 lm/W white OLED panel back in June.  ...

Everlight has released a 3-step MacAdam Ellipse binning of all warm white color temperatures -- 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, and 4000K CCT -- for the Shuen (C06) and Shwo (C19) high power lighting LED series. Everlight’s ‘Smart Binning’ initiative is aimed at reducing the variation in chromaticity in lighting applications. Color consistency is a key determinant of a product’s quality and appeal in lighting applications. This consistency is not only determined by the control of chromaticity from LED to LED inside a product but from one comple...

Energy Focus has harvested totaling $2.5 million awards in key additional lighting retrofit contracts. The new projects include retrofits to upgrade the lighting at a new Fortune 500 company as well as a large school system in the Southeastern United States. Currently,the company has completed the audit of the facilities, inventoried their lighting systems, created an approved energy savings design for these contracts and is now procuring the materials and overseeing the lighting installations. Joseph Kaveski, CEO, Energy Focus, commented: "I am encouraged by th...

Coming after from China announces the roadmap of banning incandescent , the US Department of Energy (DOE) has also been accelerating funding for the production of LEDs to help the country be competitive in LED industry and the overall clean energy race. The DOE will be accepting funding applications through December 15, 2011, for developers of energy-saving lighting technologies involving LEDs in some of the latest developments. The Obama Administration authorized up to $10 million for manufacturing research and development on SSL, including HBLEDs as ...

Recently, Columbus, Ohio based lighting manufacturer and electrical controls designer Weldon, a division of Akron Brass, has supplied LED lighting products and V-MUX® multiplexing solutions on the new eTrans Type A all-electric school bus manufactured by Trans Tech Bus based out of New York. School buses benefit from Weldon’s patented V-LED technology.Due to its extraordinary brightness and signaling power,Weldon’s patented V-LED technology with serviceable LED increases student safety . Additionally, V-LED diodes are field upgradea...

Officials from San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge are about to unveil plans for a light display to mark the bridge's 75th anniversary on Thursday morning on Treasure Island.  The $7 million display would go up next year and feature 30,000 white LED lights on the west span's suspension and suspender cables,according to the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The independently-controlled lights would create patterns based on traffic, weather and the motion of the bridge. According to Leo Villareal, the artist who designed the display, it would be visible fr...

Lighting Science Group has launched its BayLight(TM) LED high bay fixture. The new BayLight(TM) LED high bay fixture uses 35% less electricity, has a longer operating life and requires less maintenance than conventional HID high bay fixtures. Careful thermal management of the overall system and drivers gives the BayLight a L70 rated life of over 60,000 hours at 40 degrees C and over 100,000 hours at 25 degrees C. With an IP66 Rating for the LED panel, the BayLight is certified for damp location. Furthermore, the BayLight contains no mercury or lead...

Taiwan LED manufacrurer FZLED has showcaesed its LED lighting products at the FZTech booth (number T6.5 in Hall 7.2) during the trade show, Interlight Moscow, being held at the Expocentre Fairgrounds in Moscow, Russia, November 8-11, 2011. During the show, the company will be highlighting their FZL-DL-06 and FZL-DL-08 ultra-slim, cost effective, and easy to install LED downlights that feature cutting-edge light guiding technology to make illumination gentle, pleasant, and perfectly balanced. Additionally ,the company also show their extremely popu...

Integration Technology Limited, Lumen Dynamics, and Phoseon Technology join together to form the UV LED Curing Association. The new association has been established to address a growing need within the market for current and potential researchers, suppliers, integrators and end users to gain a better understanding about UV LED technology and the significant benefits it brings to numerous applications.    The UV LED Curing Association is focused on providing greater insight into the various UV LED solutions currently in the marketplace, as well as ...

The 24th annual Holiday Lights at Gring’s Mill in Wyomissing has taken place on December 2nd-30th, Wednesday through Sunday, 6-9 p.m., and closed December 24th & 25th. This year promise to be brightest year so far for the program, as several thousand more incandescent lights have been replaced with LED bulbs. The walk through light display combines festive ground light displays with trees strung with hundreds of lights. Of the trees decked out in lights, most of them have been converted to LED this year. Several of the ground displays have also been conver...

The 800-foot Tower Bridge in London will have an LED makeover with the support of General Electric and EDF Energy who are sponsors of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The bridge lighting will be installed by the French firm Citelum, which has designed lighting for landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. GE said that its multi-colour LEDs with variable intensity will illuminate the bridge's Victorian gothic turrets, granite and stone towers, as well as an a...

Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has hosted a forum with representatives of local LED manufacturers, including Everlight and Delta Electronics to discuss the strategy to boost demand for LED lights. MOEA promised local LED makers that it will lauch a NT$500 million (US$16.6 million) subsidy program for townships to install LED streetlighting in 2012. The ministry said the figure will be a substantial increase from the NT$170 million allocated this year for the purpose. Additionally, the ministry plans to build "model cities" in ...

Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, released a customer case study focused on a project for the iconic 1950’s Cermak Shopping Plaza outside of Chicago, IL.  Already a clean-tech energy saver, the Lumenpulse LED fixtures are going further green with the building owner choosing to power them with wind turbines.   Built in 1956, the plaza has a rich history including cameo appearances in Hollywood movies (1992’s Wayne...

McGraw-Edison Valet LED Luminaires help Detroit Windsor Tunnel reduce overall electricity cost by 72 percent. The Detroit Windsor Tunnel, a subterranean passage connecting the United States and Canada, recently upgraded its lighting fixtures to include energy-saving LED products from Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry. Project goals, like providing ample lighting and reducing energy cost, were easily met with McGraw-Edison Valet™ LED Luminaire...

Dialight has developed its new DuroSite® LED Area Light, the newest addition to its class-leading line up of LED industrial lighting solutions. The DuroSite LED Area Light delivers 79 lumens per Watt to effectively replace up to a 250W HID unit slashing energy consumption by nearly 70 percent. The DuroSite LED Area Light offers a CRI greater than 70 in either cool white or neutral white CCT. The unit delivers optimum performance at operating temperatures ranging from -40°F to +149°F with instant on to eliminate the warm-up common wit...

Recently, mainland China and Taiwan major LED manufacturers have paid more attention on the strategy to depeen LED development. As we know, China’s  National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has announced its plans to phase out incandescent lamps within five years, including phasing out incandescent lamps starting with ≥100W by Oct. 2012, then ≥60W by Oct. 2014, and then ≥15W by Oct. 2016,seen as providing important visibility into the nation's burgeoning market for LEDs. For Taiwan major LED manufacturers ,they are pushi...

System Solutions, part of the Gearhouse South Africa Group of Companies, has been commissioned by ANGT (Agence Nationale Des Grands Travaux) who represent the Gabon government, to design, supply and construct large format outdoor LED screens and a control system each for the brand-new stadium in Libreville and the existing stadium in Port Gentil.   The Amitie stadium in Libreville - a gift from the Chinese government - is currently under construction and is due to complete in time to host the 28th CAF Orange Africa Cup of Nations in January 2012 whic...

On October 21, 2011, the Eighth China-Asean Expo was held in Guangxi Nanning exhibition center. Chinese premier Wen jiabao, the prime minister of Malaysia Najibu , Cambodia prime minister hun sen, Burma's vice President Tin Aung Myint , Laos deputy prime minister song access, deputy prime minister of Thailand Auspicious drops le, Vietnam deputy prime minister RuanChunFu attended the exposition, business and investment summit. Asean secretary-general Lin, and China and other Asean countries business, environmental protection, quality inspection, financial, tel...

During the October Autumn Session of Light Fair in Hong Kong 2011, Estar received a pre-order from an Italian firm for 500,000 LED Bulbs. Estar LED Light Company Limited visited Light Fair in Hong Kong this year, During Estar's visit at Light Fair in Hong Kong, Estar is pleased to announce that we have received a pre-order for our Signature Candela LED Light Bulb Design during Light Fair in Hong Kong 2011 October session Said Rick McCoy, Director of LED Light Company Ltd. The Italian company that placed the Pre-order is exp...

Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) drew to an end in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on Oct. 30. During the event, the lighting division of Shenzhen Absen Optoelectronic Co., Ltd. has showcased a full line of LED lighting products with over 20 patents, including the new products released in 2011. As Absen’s high-quality LED displays enjoy rising popularity at home and aboard, its lighting products have gained increasing plaudits among customers, thanks to its foresight and early investment in the LED lighting industry. C...

Lighting Science Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Haworth has received a award of a national "Champion of Change" from The White House for his efforts to steer the country towards a more environmentally and economically sustainable future. The honor was bestowed as part of President Obama's "Winning the Future" initiative that celebrates ordinary Americans accomplishing extraordinary feats to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu,said "The cleanest energy is ...

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...

MINGYAO Department store, located in the central shopping area in Taipei, a Taiwan traditional department store for 23-year old which held a grand reopening on Sep. 23, 2011 after seven months of renovation. The opening of the Uniqlo flagship store coincided with the grand opening in MINGYAO. For the grand reopening of MINGYAO, ARC SSL. has equipped the exceptional lighting fixtures with LED solution in dynamic lighting display. The LED cluster fixtures are installed and provide splendor lightshows in multi-sides with the one control system. ARC...