Panasonic is planning to donate up to 100,000 of its solar LED lanterns to people without electricity in several countries in Africa and Asia by 2018, the 100th anniversary of the company's founding.   The initiative, dubbed the 100 Thousand Solar Lantern Project, will see Panasonic donating its solar technology to electricity-deprived communities in developing countries, mainly in Asia and Africa. In February, the company donated 3,000 of its compact solar lights to NGOs working in Burma in south-east Asia. Panasonic has also donated 5,00...

The US professional lighting journal Architectural SSL Magazine has awarded Osram Opto Semiconductors for the third time in a row as winner of the Product Innovation Award in the category Market Leadership.The award also honours the work of Jianzhong Jiao, who as Director of Regulations and Emerging Technologies at Osram Opto Semiconductors has made a significant contribution to establishing industry standards for LED testing. The Market Leadership category includes five sub-categories in which awards are given. Osram Opto Semiconductors is the 2013 ...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) will hold a Technology Tuesday educational series on April 23 at Lightfair International (LFI) 2013 in Philadelphia. Technology Tuesday will explore advanced technologies that are paving the way for solid-state lighting. “The purpose of LFI 2013 is to pair industry experts with lighting professionals to help advance the lighting industry,” said Steve Lydecker, Acuity Brands Senior Vice President of Technology.  “Technology Tuesday allows attendees to learn about revolutionary technologies and take an...

  Germany's Osram is launching a new LED light bulb that costs less than 10 euros ($13.10) to battle rivals, such as Cree and Samsung Electronics, for a share of the fast-growing market.   LED - known for lighting flat ,screen televisions and tablet PCs ,LED are increasingly replacing other lights in homes, stores and on streets because they use less energy and are more durable. But they cost much more than incandescent bulbs or compact fluorescent lights, putting off consumers from buying LED lighting for their homes.   A spokesman for O...

Audi’s LED headlights are reported to be recognized by The European Union as an energy efficient technology that can help cars reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions. According to a press release from Audi (media credentials required), LED headlights can achieve this greater fuel efficiency because they use less power– a little more than half what traditional halogen lights on low beam setting would use. The EU Commission found in its studies of the technology that LED headlight-equipped vehicles emit 1.61 fewer grams of carbon dioxide per mile than...

Recognizing that retailers desire high-impact environments that create unique brand experiences and lead customers to action, Stylmark introduces the Optima LED StretchLite Backlit Light Box for tension fabric graphics. The latest addition to Stylmark’s family of Optima LED light boxes, the Optima LED StretchLite combines the brilliance, uniformity and longevity of backlit LED technology with the dramatic dimensions of tension fabric displays to help retailers, designers and visual merchandisers achieve unrivaled visual impact.   Designed to accommod...

LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $4.8m, down 23% on $6.2m last quarter and 39% on $7.9m a year ago, for its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to end-February). Impacted by the drop in revenue, a decline in the average selling price (ASP) of LED chips, and excess capacity charges for the firm’s LED chips, gross margin has deteriorated further, from negative 9% a year ago and negative 53% last quarter to negative 69%. “Demand has improved; however, the pricing environment for the general lighting market remains...

UK, Belfast City Hall has become the first building in Europe to install a new intelligent lighting system, with its LED floodlighting becoming the biggest single building project of its kind in Europe.   The council says it will help reduce both the energy bill and CO2 emissions, saving around £14,000 on the annual electricity bill.   The hall uses 433 light fittings, individually controlled, meaning the city hall can be illuminated by up to 16m different colour options. The council plans to light up the building for different occasions, such as green ...

PowerSecure, which focuses on a variety of energy products and services, said it was expanding its LED business with the purchase of Connecticut-based Solais Lighting. Solais provides LED lamps and fixtures that are focused on commercial and industrial uses. PowerSecure already offers a number of LED products and services. “The expertise Solais has demonstrated in developing best-in-class innovative technology in parallel with some of the most effective sourcing, procurement and manufacturing in the industry will provide us with catalysts to accelerate the grow...

Today's LED retail and office lighting fixtures that marry fashion and function are creating more modern ceiling landscapes and visually striking possibilities for lighting designers. With the new Lumination™ EL Series LED Luminaire, GE continues to lead the way to inspired indoor spaces with a never-before-seen LED lighting technology option. Minimal and exceptionally thin, the blade-like fixture stabs at the heart of conventional design while slashing energy costs at the same time.   The new Lumination™ EL Series LED Luminaire is sus...

  The widely anticipated 2014 GE Edison Awards Preliminaries has officially kicked off this week. Preliminaries are being held across Asia Pacific to encourage the participation of regional lighting designers and professionals in this prestigious global competition.   The GE Edison Awards were inaugurated with the aim of providing recognition to lighting professionals worldwide for outstanding design and high-quality lighting projects. The awards seek to encourage......

Recolight, the WEEE compliance provider, has implemented a system for recovering the rare earth minerals from Gas Discharge Lamps (GDLs) and making them available to lamp producers. In recent years, shortages of rare earth materials, which are used to make the phosphor coatings in lamps, have led to price fluctuations in the lamp market which manufacturers have had to pass on to their clients. The amount of rare earths used in the manufacture of phosphors is second only to that used in magnets. Alex Hawkins, operations manager of Recolight said: “This is a real s...

Spark successfully wins the bidding of a solar LED street light project aided by Ministry of Commerce of P.R.C (MOFCOM) for Egypt recently.   This LED street light project is initiated by China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE); it is a measure taken to implement Eight New Measurements to Africa, and also a governmental aided demonstration project for Egypt, to combine solar energy and LED lighting.   This project is situated in Kuraymat, N29°16′, E31°15′. Kuraymat is abundant in s...

Heatron LED Solutions, introduces Ascendia – a high brightness 8” round LED module developed to meet the needs of luminaire manufacturers and speed time to market. Delivering up to 7400 lumens from an 8” diameter module, Ascendia offers luminaire manufacturers a low profile module which easily integrates into cans, cylinders, pendants and surface mount down light fixtures. Designed for mounting heights up to 30 feet, Ascendia works well in many types of lighting applications, ranging from atriums to corridors, auditoriums to sanctuaries. Versatile and c...

Soraa Inc will ramp up orders with its contract manufacturers in Malaysia for its LED modules used in directional light LED lamps, riding on an approximate US$4bil (RM12.16bil) global market size for such illumination products in the replacement segment. Soraa outsources the manufacturing of LED modules to Globetronics Technology Bhd in Penang and another local electronic manufacturing company in Ipoh. Soraa chief operating officer Dr Tom Caulfield said the demand for its directional light lamps was increasing, especially from the commercial and special lighti...

Improvements to the iPad's LED backlighting will allow Apple to create a thinner iPad 5, according to NPD DisplaySearch's Paul Semenza. "It's likely that part of the thinner/lighter design will be reducing the size of the LED backlight, partly by making the display more efficient and partly by using more efficient LEDs," said Paul Semenza, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, in an e-mail to CNET. The Retina displays of the third and fourth generation iPads required a dual-LED backlight along with a bigger battery, which caused th...

Romsey Dental Care, a modern dental practice and cosmetic studio in Hampshire, UK, recently took steps to reduce energy costs by replacing their existing lighting with LED luminaires. The practice won a Green Business Award last year for commitment to reducing energy use. LED and CFL light sources vary considerably in terms of light quality in terms of color rendering, which is required for making accurate patient assessments. Patients at Dental practices in particular suffer visual discomfort from very bright low energy sources. As a way of solving these issues, S...

With the inauguration of Rs 2.3-crore LED street-lighting project of Rajkot Urban Development Authority (RUDA) by state Energy Minister Saurabh Patel, it became operational from April 14  evening. The project has been implemented by Philips Electronics India Limited. RUDA has installed more than 400 LEDs to light up around Six kilometers long stretch of a four-lane road connecting Rajkot with Metoda GIDC (Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation) on the western outskirts of the city. "We have made only the capital expenditure of Rs 2...

First LED lamp prototype delivering 200 lumen per watt high quality light, halving the energy use compared to current LED lamps Royal Philips Electronics announces a new innovation in LED lighting, creating the world’s most energy-efficient LED lamp suitable for general lighting applications. Philips researchers developed a tube lighting (TL) replacement TLED prototype that produces a record 200 lumens per watt of high-quality white light (compared with 100lm/W for fluorescent lighting and just 15lm/W for traditional light bulbs). This prototype TLED...

The lighting is the last piece of the Congress Parkway reconstruction project that began in late 2010, according to the Chicago Department of Transportation. About 600 decorative luminaires and towerlike panels that change colors were flipped on along Congress Parkway Thursday night, marking the completion of $24 million in road and streetscape improvements, officials said. The work included redesigning parts of Congress between Wells Street and Michigan Avenue to improve traffic flow and signal timing for the 63,000 drivers who use the corridor each weekday, officials s...

The Supervisory Board for AIXTRON SE, proposes Dr. Andreas Biagosch and Dr. Martin Komischke as candidates for election to the AIXTRON Supervisory Board at the 2013 Annual General Meeting.   Dr. Biagosch worked for 28 years as an engineer for the international consulting firm McKinsey & Co. on various international projects for high-tech and other industries and was part of McKinsey’s global Shareholder Council. Dr. Biagosch currently works as an independent entrepreneur. Dr. Komischke, who is also an engineer, is currently Chai...

Intematix Corporation has been awarded a new U.S. patent. Patent 8,376,580 for LED based lightingsSystems is related to the firm's remote phosphor technology. This patent marks the 21st remote phosphor patent the company has received. This new patent contains broad and fundamental claims covering a wide variety of remote phosphor systems and applications. Allowed claims cover various two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes used in remote phosphor systems. Application coverage includes remote phosphor systems where the phosphor is provided as a surface layer on a c...

GT Advanced Technologies has appointed Linda Reinhard as vice president, new business development and product management for the company's sapphire, DSS and HiCz products. Reinhard will report to Dan Squiller, GT's chief operating officer. She will be responsible for leading GT's growth into new market segments and driving the product roadmap to capitalise on these new opportunities including sapphire for cover and touch screen applications. "Linda brings deep experience and a proven track record in both product management and new business develo...

Seoul Semiconductor announced it will launch the global campaign named ‘Acrich for Trees’ to actively encourage the use of eco-friendly AC LED bulbs with Acrich LEDs from April 11 to April 30, 2013 via their official website, //www.seoulsemicon.com. Among participants who access the website and subscribe to the Seoul Semiconductor Newsletter, 1,000 subscribers will be chosen to receive a LED bulb or a LED desk lamp. This global campaign hopes people to use eco-friendly LED bulbs with Acrich LEDs to save more trees than conventional DC LED...

YAKIMA, Washington -- Some new street lights are helping the city of Yakima cut its electric bill. The lights have been up for about a year and have already saved  thousands of dollars. About 400 lights throughout the city have already been upgraded. The first set was paid for with about $400,000 worth of grant money. The new high-efficiency LED lights are anywhere from 40% to 60% more efficient than traditional bulbs, and have saved the city about $30,000 in just the first year. "There again, big energy savings, big maintenance savings, and the light, general...

 KLA-Tencor Corporation has been recognized as one of 17 companies receiving Intel Corporation's Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for their performance in 2012. KLA-Tencor Corporation is recognized for their significant contributions providing Intel with process control capital equipment and services, deemed essential to Intel's success.  "KLA-Tencor is honored to receive Intel's Preferred Quality Supplier award for a second consecutive year—a true testament to our employees' expertise and world class inspection and metrology equipment and services," ......

  At the start of summer, outgoing Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Coney Island amusement park officials will toss the switch on a makeover of the iconic Parachute Jump, which is so bright it can be seen from space. The amusement area’s main ride operator has installed and will maintain the $2 million space-age LED lighting scheme on Coney’s tallest structure. The 8,000 colored lights replaced the 450 lights in the old, Design will be programmable with funky rhythmic displays for shows and concerts. So that the tower can put on colorfu...

Larson Electronics released the RFM-LED-7 roof mounted, pan and tilt LED light.  Equipped with a handle and shaft suited for most standard vehicles, this roof mounted LED light can be positioned quickly and easily by operators from inside their vehicle. Larson Electronics released the RFM-LED-7 roof mounted, manual controlled LED light.  Equipped with a handle and shaft sized for most standard vehicles, this roof mounted LED light can be positioned quickly and easily by operators from inside their vehicle.  The six inch LED head is nearly im...

A manufacturer of printed circuit boards and other electronics, will reduce energy lighting costs by 40 percent, or $50,000 in annual costs, thanks to an installation of LED lighting at its facilities, one of the largest installations of manufacturing space in New England. Employees at Norwell, Mass-based Bluestone Energy, a division of OpTerra Energy Group, spent 3,000 hours retrofitting the Mack Technologies 108,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Wesford, Mass., which will help Mack meet its sustainability goals, improve lighting for employees and save on costs...

Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-scale grocery retailer in the northeast United States, recently selected energy-efficient LED lighting by Cree, Inc. to illuminate its 51,364-square-foot store in Geneva, NY. The store, which opened in November 2012, features Cree CS18™ luminaires and CR24™ troffers lighting the aisles, specialty departments and pharmacy for an estimated energy savings of 70 percent over the T5 fluorescent lighting that Tops Markets had previously installed. “Tops Markets has always been progressive in designing energy effici...