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...

InteLEDgent Lighting Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of Culture Medium Holdings Corp. has secured a contract with Hyatt Hotels in New York City to retrofit several of their properties with its low voltage LED bulbs. Besides from that, InteLEDgent Lighting also has contracts to install its energy saving LED bulbs in several other buildings on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, such as corporate towers, education institutions, and government facilities.  ...

It’s said that targeting to advance the market penetration of photovoltaic-powered lighting technologies, Sharp Electronics has joined hands with Carmanah Technologies, Inovus Solar andSolarOne Solutions  to set up a new industry consortium, the Consortium for Solar Lighting (CSL). According to their statement, “The mission of this group is to accelerate the adoption of reliable solar lighting technology through the development of universal specifications intended to support customers’ fair and comprehensive evaluation of commercial-scale lighting ...

Lunera Lighting announces its 5400 SERIES Lunera Lighting has won a platinum ADEX2011 award. Lunera Lighting deliver the 5400 SERIES with Armstrong Ceiling and Wall Systems. According to Rich Warmke, Lunera Director of Marketing, The 5400 SERIES is the first LED luminaire available for installation in premium Armstrong TechZone ceilings. Its sleek design, daylight quality light, and precision engineering beautifully enhance the elegant TechZone ceiling experience. Manufactured in the U.S.A., Lunera’s 5400 SERIES creates a...

Reportedly, Glen Ellyn plans to get its first new LED light system in the village within the Braeside subdivision near Interstate-355 and Roosevelt Road under the Braeside Neighborhood Lighting Improvements Project. Originally estimated at $627,000, the Oswego-based Utility Dynamics Corporation was awarded the contract for the project after submitting the lowest bid of $474,533 — about 25 percent under the engineer's estimate for the project. The project is expected begin in May and have a fully operational system by Labor Day.  ...

Affected by power shortages in Japan’s eastern and northeastern regions, Seven-Eleven Japan has planed to replace in-store and signboard lights with LED lighting at 5,000 outlets of its convenience store chain as part of a 10 billion yen program to cope with this problem. At present, Seven-Eleven Japan has some 6,000 outlets in Tokyo Electric Power’s service area alone. And it’s estimated that power saving of per store is125 kilowatts a day. The company expects to cut the consumption of electricity by 25 percent in the July-September period. It also i...

Reportedly, Osram’s OSTAR Headlamp LED has received the 17th annual Automotive News PACE Awards held at a ceremony at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit, MI. The PACE (Premier Automotive Suppliers’ Contribution to Excellence) Award is presented by Automotive News, Ernst & Young LLP and Transportation Research Center Inc (TRC Inc).   With the auto industry’s 1st ThinGaN light-emitting diodes with phosphor layer transfer, Osram’s OSTAR Headlamp LED won an award in the Product categor...

Currently, National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) has awarded to Cooper Lighting’s Photometric Laboratory, part of its LED Innovation Center, for solid-state lighting test methods in Energy Efficient Lighting Products. Administered by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), NVLAP provides an unbiased third-party evaluation to testing and calibration laboratories. According to the company, it is listed with LM-79 accreditation under photometric measurements for Solid State Lighting Luminaires - Tot...

According to the Nikkei business daily, Sharp is about to team up with the housing equipment producer JS Group Corp to construct a 50-50 joint venture as early as this year to develop and sell energy-saving housing equipment. The new company will make products like roofing with built-in solar cells and easy-to-install LED lighting fixtures. They may announce this deal this week....

Massachusetts-based Digital Lumens has acquired $10 million from all of the company’s previous investors Black Coral Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Stata Venture Partners, to develop LED lighting. The new funding brings the company’s total raised to $25 million. The company provides LED lighting solutions to industrial facilities, including warehouses, cold storage facilities, and manufacturing facilities. Americold, United States Cold Storage, Maines Paper and Food Service are its customers. In addition, its provides customized light...

Recently, China LED manufacturer NVC Lighting Holding Limited has signed strategic cooperation agreement with Cree. According to Mr. Tang Guoqing ,General Manager of Cree China, "The strategic cooperation agreement signed far-reaching significance. It will achieve cross-border cooperation with the perfect combination for Cree and NVC. And the bilateral cooperation will become a model for high-end LED lighting. " Under the agreement, both parties will achieve a win-win result and promote the development of semiconductor lighting industry.  ...

It’s said that Samsung LED has decided to team up with Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical to build a sapphire ingot plant in Daegu. They plan to break the ground in the 11,000 square meter site on April 20, with the target date for completion in coming October. According to their plan, the plant is going to begin production next year. The joint venture’s capacity is expected to reach 100,000 sheets of four inch ingot a month, which translates into five million sheets of two inch ingot a year.   If additional investments are made as planned, the capacity i...

Reportedly, Solar wafer producer LDK Solar Co will inject about $40 million to tap into the business of sapphire substrates used to make LEDs. The company plans to build a new plant, with the capacity to supply two million two-inch equivalent pieces of sapphire wafers every year, in Nanchang, Jiangxi of China.  ...

Barco’s coolest LED video wall, OL-521 LED display cub has win red dot award for outstanding design . With the OL's space-saving cube design and small footprint, while providing the brightest and warmest colors on the display thanks to novel technologies such as liquid cooling, Barco strand out from as many as 4,443 products  came from about 1,700 companies worldwide which were judged by a jury of 36 renowned experts. Barco's OL-521 is a LED-lit, rear-projection display cube designed for fixed video wall installations in command centers and control...

EnergyTrend & LEDinside are embarking on joint effort to bring a thematic session at Green Lighting Shanghai 2011 on May 11, addressing innovative approaches to energy utilization of green buildings. To address the market trend where solar systems adopted in green buildings are increasing, Dr. Mohan Narayanan, the Vice President of Technology at Hanwha SolarOne, is especially invited to speak on “Prospects of Solar Technological Development in Green Building Applications”. Previously, EnergyTrend had the privilege to conduct an interview with D...

Reportedly, Cooper Lighting’s multiple products have been recognized for excellence by the third annual Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Design Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the International Association of Lighting Designers. Cooper Lighting's awarded products were chosen as winners in the Recessed Downlighting and Wall Washing categories. The Cooper products are among the only 33 that were recognized winners for their exce...

The flow of people and orders just kept coming during this four-day exhibition that turned on prospects across the lighting industry of Taiwan. TILS (also called the Taiwan Int’l Lighting Show) at TWTC Hall one hosted 266 exhibitors who used 634 booths who connected with 1,058 foreign visitors and more than 17,000 domestic visitors from March 18 to 21.   Unanimous praise for 4 days of great results This second cycle of TILS expanded in both scale and visitor count by more than 50%. That glowing record well positions it for next year event when organizers ...

OLEDs – organic light emitting diodes – are capturing the creative fantasies of progressive light designers. Lightweight panels or "light tiles" composed of extremely thin functional layers on plastic or glass substrates make exclusive, futuristic looking OLED luminaires for home or office use. They are offered as commercial products by large vendors like Osram and Philips. OLEDs give off a pleasant warm-white light; they can be tuned to individual color temperatures and dimmed. And they are "instant-on": at their full brightness right after f...

Recently, Taiwan`s Chimei Group has announced the firm`s "Brand 133" plan, expecting to take the lead in market share in Taiwan, achieve revenue growth of over 30% and overseas sales exceeding 30% as well as generate revenue of NT$6 billion (US$200 million) this year. According to the company, it aims to sell 200,000 CHIMEI brand LCD TVs, in which LED-backlighting models will account for over 50%. Chimei targets to sell 800,000 CHIMEI LCD monitors this year, including 540,000 units globally and 260,000 units in Taiwan, and is also developin...