Currently, Hi Score Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary, DMD Lighting and Energy Control Systems, has supported the board of Southview at Aventura to replace the existing 250 watt fixtures with 56 watt LED fixtures on its parking lot. Southview will benefit from LED retrofit. It should save approximately six thousand dollars per year in electricity and maintenance costs. Also, the Green LED Lighting will provide more consistent lighting in the parking area creating a safer environment. Besides, the conversion will reduce its carbon footprint.  ...

Reportedly, James Haworth who was former Philips Professional Luminaires North America head of marketing and strategy as well as former chief executive officer of JJI Lighting Group is appointed as CEO by Lighting Science Group.   Haworth is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a BBA from Loyola University of Chicago and a MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University. He is a member of several professional associations, including The Presidents Forum and the American Institute of Certified Public A...

As report goes, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) scheduled to transfer its solar and solid-state lighting businesses into two new subsidiaries. Its LED-based solid-state lighting business will be transferred at a value not exceeding NT$2.8 billion ($96.9 million) to serve as initial paid-in capital for TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd. And its previously-announced solar business will be transferred value not exceeding NT$12.5 billion ($432.8 million) to serve as initial paid-in capital for TSMC Solar Ltd.. TSMC expects the establishme...

PowerSecure International, Inc. is announced to receive $15 million of new awards for products and services across its Energy and Smart Grid Solutions business lines.   Among the awards, there are including orders for $2 million of LED lighting products, $5 million of Utility Infrastructure projects, and approximately $8 million of Interactive Distributed Generation® (IDG®) smart grid power systems.   The largest of the awards includes an Interactive Distributed Generation system to support a municipality, the installation of a new substation on ...

Reportedly, Guizhou Haotian Optoelectronics Technology Co. LTD (HTOT) has ordered the advanced sapphire crystallization furnaces totaling $218.9 million from GT Solar. This Chinese LED company plans to launches operations to manufacture sapphire and other crystalline products used in LEDs. Additionally, the order not only marks HTOT’s entrance into the fast-growing LED industry, but also continues GT Solar’s market momentum for its sapphire crystalline growth technology. The order will be included in GT Solar’s backlog for its cu...

Lighting Science Group is reported to team up with Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation USA, Inc. to bring its high performance, low cost LED infrastructure lights to Eastern China. Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation USA will serve as Lighting Science Group's exclusive agent for LED infrastructure products beginning in the Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces. In addition, the two companies are exploring the possibility of contracting eligible factories in the aforementioned locations to both manufacture and assemble Light...

For the second year in a row MSi LED lighting will shine brightly before this gathering of the world’s top lighting professionals. MSi Solid State lighting is proud to be an exhibitor at the Lightfair International (FFI) trade show May 15-19 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. This annual trade show attracts the world’s top engineering, architectural, design and lighting professionals who attend seminars and view exhibitions of the latest developments in technology and design for both commercial and residential lighting. “This ...

Veeco has released its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011. According to Veeco's Chief Executive Officer, John R. Peeler, the company has received strong revenue first quarter, with revenues of $255 million, gross margin of 51% and non-GAAP net income of $57 million, all complied with their expectation. As predicted, revenues were down 15% sequentially, but increased 89% from the prior year first quarter. LED & Solar revenues were $215 million and Data Storage revenues were $40 million. Veeco's first quarter bookings totalled $...

Sunovia Energy Technologies’ EvoLucia LED Cobra Head SCHX5 has received the award for Best Outdoor Street Light from the U.S. Department of Energy, the International Association of Lighting Designers and the Illuminating Engineering Society in the 2010 Next Generation Luminaires™ Solid State Lighting Design Competition. This recognition provides the highest lighting industry validation of EvoLucia's patent pending Aimed Optics™ technology. The DOE, IALD and IES evaluated five of EvoLucia's Aimed Optics &...

It’s reported that Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a new method for manufacturing green-colored LEDs with greatly enhanced light output. Led by led by Christian Wetzel, professor of physics and the Wellfleet Constellation Professor of Future Chips at Rensselaer, the research team etched a nanoscale pattern at the interface between the LED's sapphire base and the layer of GaN that gives the LED its green color. It has received a good result. The new technique results in green LEDs with significant enhancements in light...

Cree has signed a license agreement with Nippon Steel Corporation on silicon carbide (SiC) materials. According to the agreement, Nippon Steel Corporation, and affiliates including Nippon Steel Materials Co., Ltd., have been given the right to manufacture and sell silicon carbide materials for electronic device applications. For Cree, it will receive certain financial considerations from Nippon Steel over the lifetime. It was also granted rights to Nippon Steel’s relevant SiC-related patents.   Other terms of the agreement were not disclosed. No t...

Time & Place of Award Presentation and Display Time: July 6 -9, 2011 Venue: Shanghai New International Expo Centre Consultation Units Shanghai Science and Technology Committee World Expo (Group) Co., Ltd Organizers National Semiconductor Lighting Project Industrialization Base Shanghai Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Lighting Shanghai Institute of Quality Supervision, Inspection Technology LED Industry Salon in China Sponsors Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Lighting ...

Reportedly, to celebrate London 2012 Olympic Games, Tower Bridge wil be decorated with a new state-of-the-art lighting system following a deal that includes Olympic sponsors, GE and EDF. A new LED-based lighting system will replace the current flood lighting system under a deal between City Hall, the City of London Corporation, EDF and GE. As part of the deal EDF, who are the sustainability partners of London 2012 and a Tier One sponsor, will become the lighting electricity supplier for the Bridge and has agreed to match every unit of electricity suppl...

Recently, Everlight has announced its sales revenue of first quarter. Its pretax profits is NT$538 million, or NT$1.28 per share, more than double the earnings of NT$262 million posted a quarter earlier. Thanks to the decline in LED prices helping to boost downstream packagers’ gross profit rates generally, the gross profit rate improved to 25% from 20%. The firm expects a double-digit revenue growth, with the gross profit rate to keep trending upward to between 25% and 28%. However, its sales revenue for the first quarter declined 4.28% from a quarter earlier t...

Philips has released its first quarter results for 2011, and LED-based sales played a important role with 27 per cent compared to the first quarter in 2010 - representing 14 per cent of total lighting sales. LED components accounted for 7 per cent of the lighting division’s total revenues of €7.6 billion - approximately €530 million - over the period, which represents an increase of approximately 50 per cent compared with the previous year. Philips sales of LED-based lamps and luminaires accounted for approximately €600 million in revenues over the pas...

The Foley City Council is thinking about making a trial program for a system to use LEDs to replace florescent and incandescent lights. The council is scheduled to vote this program on May 4. According the official, the system will start by installing the lights in a few locations in city buildings and officials will decide if the savings are worth the costs of converting other structures to the new lighting. He said an LED light will pay for itself in energy savings in about four years.  ...

Aixtron’s latest Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD platform system, the CRIUS II, has supported the Chi Mei Group for mass production, outperforming expectations as to process stability, uniformity, and throughput. Chi Mei has installed the 55x2-inch wafer configuration CCS CRIUS II and became the first customer in Taiwan to receive this new system. The CRIUS II can easily be tuned to the optimum performance and can further be converted from 2- to 4-, 6-inch or larger wafer size production. Compared to the CRIUS, the CRIUS ...

Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHI) and Trilux GmbH announced that they have entered into a license agreement allowing Trilux to access Philips’ patent portfolio as made available in the Philips LED Luminaire licensing program. “We are very pleased that Trilux has joined our licensing program. Philips believes that sharing its LED lighting solutions through licensing will accelerate the adoption of LED lighting and foster the growth of the LED industry”, said Arian Duijvestijn, General Manager Lighting at Philips Intellectual Property...

It’s reported that Chinese company ShineOn has raised $51.5 million in two rounds from investors such as Mayfield Fund and IDG-Accel Capital, specializes in packaging. Currently, ShineOn focuses mostly on components for LEDs for TVs and monitors and will move over time to mass-produce components for general lighting.  ...

Lately, the research and development team from Energy Focus, Inc. have received a $600,000 Phase 2 Small Business Technology Transfer ("STTR") program grant named as “Innovative Solid State Lighting Replacements for Industrial and Test Facility Locations," from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ("NASA"). Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO, was delighted to have received the Phase 2 notification grant, and commented that “The award is to replace existing test stand and parking lot fixtures with high per...

Reportedly, OSRAM SYLVANIA has scheduled the addition of a comprehensive portfolio of energy-efficient lighting fixtures for commercial and residential use.   As the latest expansion of the company's solid state lighting portfolio, the SYLVANIA fixture line contains LED modules, power supplies, controls, lighting services and the number one line of LED retrofits in North America. Featuring solid-state light sources and streamlined design, the introductory SYLVANIA fixture line includes luminaires for outdoor, hospitality and residential a...

FZLED announces expansion plans and new website   FZLED, a sub-division of the thermal and metal products manufacturer FZTech Inc., is announcing their plans to enter multiple international markets around the world and begin offering several lines of high-performance LED products to consumers. Receiving ISO-9001:2008 certification in November, 2010, FZLED is already turning heads with their innovative products like their newly released on/off switch dimming T8 LED Tube Lights. FZLED's newly designed website: //www.FZLED.com.tw is now...

Recently, Sino American Silicon Products is reported to divide its semiconductor and LED departments into two independent companies  named as “Huanchiu Wafer “and “Sapphire Technology”  ,completely owned by the company, which will retain its core photovoltaic business.The base day for the split is set on October 1. And the two new companies will apply for listing their shares on the domestic bourse within one year. Opposite to the trend of merger in the local PV industry, the spin-off will transform the structure of Sino American into ...

Currently, the new-build Rohrdorf area of the Pielenhofen community near Regensburg is installing nine street lights with LED technology from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors to shed their light on the future development. The street lights to be deployed in Pielenhofen community are of the "Kassel" type, from the manufacturer Herkules: these are equipped with a kit for retrofit purposes and with Golden Dragon Plus LEDs from OSRAM; in stages, they will also replace the sodium vapour lamps in the community area.  As a pilot project, the mayor, Reinh...

Lately, Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and his Deputy Minister of State Martin Zeil have made a visit to Optogan´s LED plant in St. Petersburg. Optogan group introduced the recent developments in the field of LED lighting and reported on their development aims for the Russian and global market. According to the company, it has office locations, among others, in Landshut and St. Petersburg. The plant in Landshut produces high performance LED chips, conducts and directs the international business. St. Petersburg is responsible for the LED...

Taiwan Epistar has ordered Aixtron G5 HT reactors in a 14x4-inch configuration for high brightness LEDs. Aixtron G5 HT reactor is a further endorsement of G5´s very rapid time-to-production and excellent system-to-system reproducibility. Ming-Jiunn Jou, President of Epistar, was please with the new reactors and thought that it will form the backbone of their planned capacity expansion for their high brightness LED production program. It’s said that the systems are delivered in the first and second quarter of 2011. Aixtron´s local support tea...

TESS (Top Energy Saving System Corp.), a leading LED lighting developer and manufacturer in Taiwan, has a debut on Taiwan's emerging stock market on April 20, 2011 and reveals two remarkable high efficiency LED bulbs to market: one is 20 watt 2000 lumen LED bulb and the other is 20 watt dimmable LED bulb. This new 20 watt 2000 lumen LED bulb is cool white version with small size and high lumen output and presents a superior luminous efficiency of 100lm/W. The other 20 watt dimmable LED bulb is warm white version and has a CRI of 90 that can accurately ...

Onteco Corporation’s subsidiary, NexPhase Lighting, Inc. is announced the completion of the first installation and testing of its LED 100 Watt High Bay fixtures installed at City Furniture’s main distribution warehouse in Tamarac, Florida. According to Jon Cooper, President of NexPhase, they use replaced a mere dozen of 100 watt High Bay LED fixtures that consume only 1200 watts of power to replace eighty T8 fluorescent fixtures that consumed 5,600 watts of electricity. And they expected that the return on investment to be less than 2 years when ta...

As part of Chinese pilot cities “10 cities, 10,000 lights” SSL application engineering project, the city of Xi'an deployed energy-saving and environment-friendly roadway lighting project by replacing 500 traditional High Pressure Sodium lamps with GE’s award-winning EvolveTM LED roadway lights along Mingguang Road, the second main road of its National Economic & Technological Development Zone (ETDZ). This 5,000- meter block serves as a demonstration to all municipal roads in the entire zone of a higher-efficiency lighting system. It&...

It’s said that GE Lighting plans to present SPARC , the lighting industry’s event which will start from June 6 ,and end on June 8. The company prepares to introduce their first GE LED innovative solution for office, commercial and educational retro-fit applications. GE Lighting says the new product is a direct replacement for conventional lighting with significant energy savings. Aside from Philips, Osram and Gerard Lighting and 44 other exhibitors from Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia have signed to the event which restricts part...