It’s reported that Taiwan LED wafer and chip manufacturer Formosa Epitaxy plans to establish a big-sized semiconductor lighting plant in Rushan, Shandong, east China. Chien Fen-ren, chairman of Formosa Epitaxy, disclosed that the Taiwan company is projected to invest USD 150 million in the coming firm, which will be mainly engaged in the R&D, manufacture, and sales of LED epitaxial wafers, chips, and related innovative electrics products. By now, the coming firm has been registered.

Philips Lighting now offers a 3-year warranty on all its LED-based luminaires. LEDs become increasingly popular for white light applications as well as for dynamic color displays, Philips, as the leading player in the fast-growing LED lighting market, product integrity is essential. The introduction of this guarantee underpins Philips Lighting’s commitment to provide high quality LED solutions with outstanding performance and reliability customers can trust.

Elation Professional has introduced new IP-rated Design LED 36 Pro, the company notes it like a chameleon so that rugged and powerful LED color changer can adapt to any application, whether indoor and outdoor architectural, entertainment, exhibition and production applications — anywhere a color changer is needed.

Albeo Technologies announces that it has received the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Next Generation Luminaire (NGL) Market Ready Award for their C-Series(TM) white-LED Solid-State High Bay light fixture. The NGL award recognizes manufacturers who develop innovative commercial luminaires that are energy-efficient and provide high lighting quality and consistency, glare control, lumen maintenance, and luminaire appearance needed to meet specification lighting requirements.

It’s reported that Future Lighting Solutions has provided key technical design assistance for new energy-saving LED light fixtures unveiled last month on the Hong Kong MTR (Mass Transit Railway). The new fixtures, each comprised of 32 high-powered LEDs, are designed to reduce energy consumption on the city’s trains, extend bulb life to lower replacement costs, and provide more natural lighting than conventional fluorescent tubing for commuter comfort.

LED light manufacturer GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is launching a brand new LED-MR16 light bulb. GlacialTech states that their management leverages all their expertise, coupling together all the necessary experience to manufacture the best LED lights in the business. The new green energy saving LED light is a much more enhanced version of current LED MR16 models available in markets today.

In addition to the LED Lighting Module “Zenigata“, Sharp plans to expand its LED Line-up with white and RGB high brightness chip LEDs. It consists of 21 different types of white light LEDs and 11 different types of monochrome and RGB LEDs. The company notes they offer a high light performance of up to 90 lumen per watt.

Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd(TSE:2393) embarks into module design for lighting applications by introducing the SL-Dolphin Street Light series. Following two years of research and development, this product series offers a very wide range of characteristics making it best in class.

ENERTRAIL has introduced 335-A2 LED Street Light with advanced multi-chips on board LED packaging technology for good heat dissipation solution.

Recently, eldoLED has introduced a highly integrated 15 Watt RGB(W) LED driver -  L-Dot Pico. The company says the L-Dot Pico is ideal for integration into the smallest of lighting fixtures. The company stresses that the L-Dot Pico is a breakthrough in LED drive, networking and control form factor. eldoLED technology drives up to 4 LED colour groups from a single, high-precision LED current source, which made the L-Dot Pico’ power efficiency of up to 95%.

China's major home appliance maker Konka Group Co. Ltd, recently stated construction of a LED backlight factory in east China's Jiangsu Province. The factory based in Kunshan City, with a total investment of 886 million yuan and covering an area of 33 hectares, is expected to produce 7.2 million Liquid Crystal Modules (LCM) and 3.6 million televisions with eight LCM production lines.

Advanced Lumonics, LLC, an early leader in the direct replacement LED lighting market through its consumer oriented EarthLED brand has announced its EvoLux and ZetaLux LED light bulbs have achieved UL Listing and FCC Certification. The company says that the UL Listing will allow the use of EvoLux and ZetaLux in a variety of projects that require this certification prior to installation and open up many previously untapped markets for LED technology.

Recently, HessAmerica, a subsidiary of Hess AG of Germany, has introduced a large-scale light column - Sierra 6500. The company says Sierra 6500 is a large-scale illuminating column for outdoor area lighting. Standing twenty-one feet in height and ten inches in diameter, the column provides rich colored illumination from LEDs.

UK lighting manufacturer LiteLED has released the SL Series linear LED luminaire, a strip light that is smaller, longer lasting and provides superior task efficiency compared to the neon or fluorescent lamps. LiteLED says the SL Series was designed to address the specific demands of under-cabinet, cove and refrigeration lighting applications.

Starchips announces SCT2024 the latest member of its LED Display Driver Family. SCT2024 is a constant current LED driver with 16-bit Serial-In / Parallel-Out interface capability. In application, an external resistor is used to set full-scale constant current from 5mA up to 45mA. The built shift registers and data latches making SCT2024 effective solution in driving LED display. The output enable (OE) function gates all 16 outputs on and off, and is fast enough to be used as PWM input for LED intensity control.

LEDtronics introduces its latest generation 15-degree narrow-beam PAR30A-style LED spotlight bulb. The company says the PAR30 bulbs combine advanced LED technologies, standard AC voltages, 26mm Edison screw-in base, and light-optimizing design, produce 367 lumens or an impressive 2,938cd Total End Foot Candles of vivid warm-white light.

Neo Neon supplies their market leading LED Streetlights to Swedish municipalities through their Swedish agent RBIecolight. In 2007, Neo Neon’s LED Streetlights in Sweden were firstly installed in Kjellbergsgatan, Jönköping Municipality, and have now been in use for two years. The reaction of the public and the Municipality has been very positive. Because of many successful projects completed by RBIecolight, Neo-Neon now has many projects which they are evaluating with clients in a number of different countries.

Philips Lumileds reveals that test data for its Luxeon Rebel LEDs shows performance that exceeds Energy Star® guidelines in terms of the ISEMA's LM-80 lumen maintenance benchmark for 6000 hours.

Recently, RECOM Electronic GmbH has introduced its RCD series of constant current LED Drivers. They deliver a maximum of 1200mA to provide the higher currents needed by the next generation of high brightness LEDs. The company says the LED drivers have been designed to be as reliable as the LEDs they are driving and contain no electrolytic or tantalum capacitors.

Recently, ON Semiconductor has introduced a new 6W LED driver - the CAT4106. The company says the LED driver with an integrated, high-power DC-DC boost converter and on-chip diagnostics can maximize efficiency in larger, general purpose LCD panel backlighting applications.

Philips announced that it has reached an agreement to buy Italy-based Ilti Luce Srl, one of the leading LED design companies in Europe for architectural indoor lighting. Ilti Luce will become part of the Professional Luminaires business within the Philips Lighting sector.

Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) has introduced new high-brightness LED-based backlight assemblies that enable independent control of the brightness and color of individual zones within the backlight. The company says they can be used to achieve color fading, pulsing, or steady state illumination, and can be utilized in a wide array of consumer electronics displays as well as in keypads/keyboards used in mobile phones and laptop and desktop PCs.

ilumisys, Inc., a developer and producer of next-generation solid-state lighting technology, announced that its channel partner IHNcorp has installed several LED light tubes at Four Seasons Resort Aviara in Carlsbad, Calif. illuisys notes Los Angeles-based IHNcorp and its subsidiary Ecogreen Solutions Inc. replaced fluorescent lights with ilumisys MK1 T-8 LED light tubes in select areas of the hotel.

UV LEDs are reportedly beginning to challenge the traditional $500M UV lamp business. The report notes that the UV lighting business is a market of about $500 million with traditional UV lamp technology. Thanks to its compactness, lower cost of ownership and environmental friendly composition, UV LEDs are expected to replace traditional lamps and also open the door to many new applications, especially portable ones.

At Strategies in Light (SIL) 2009, Nuventix unveiled three new active cooling solutions for LED lighting industry: the SynJet PAR20 LED Cooler, SynJet 3-inch LED Cooler and SynJet PAR30 LED Cooler. All three of these patented, quiet, adaptable and extremely reliable active thermal management solutions house Nuventix’ SynJet technology as well as standard heat sinks to effectively and uniquely cool LED lighting solutions.

The winners of the first annual Next Generation Luminaires(tm) competition have been disclosed at Strategies in Light conference(SIL) in Santa Clara, California, February 18-20, 2009. The awards recognize excellence in the design of energy-efficient LED luminaires for general illumination, using white light in commercial lighting applications.

Macroblock launches a new 40V PWM-embedded 3-channel constant current LED driver, MBI6030, for LED architectural lighting applications. MBI6030 may cascade over 250 RBG LED clusters or large LED pixels at a distance of 2 meters between two clusters or pixels. Moreover, MBI6030 provides 16-bit gray scales at a low clock frequency of 4MHz.

Royal Philips Electronics let the Titan Crane in Clydebank, Scotland more striking visual display at night. This great icon to the River Clyde’s shipbuilding heritage has been fittingly restored after a £3m redevelopment plan to transform it into a unique exhibition and visitor center. The two-year restoration project was carried out by urban regeneration company, Clydebank Re-built, whose vision also included a spectacular lighting design to show off this historic landmark to full effect.

At the International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference (nano tech 2009), Toshiba Corp showcased a near-ultraviolet LED that is being developed for use in next-generation LED lighting. The company says the LED features a high external quantum efficiency of 36% and an emission wavelength of 380nm band.

Leadis Technology, Inc. has announced that its proprietary LED-Sense(TM) Temperature Sensing and Compensation Engine, implemented in the LDS8160, is now available for licensing to third parties as an embedded, stand-alone IP block.