Consumer Reports has show that 3 out of 4 Americans prefer CFLs to LEDs, mainly based on LED’s high cost. In spite of current expensive price, LED bulbs have their advantages as following. Keeps strong when turned on and off frequently Consumer Reports put CFLs and LEDs side by side and turned them on and off every two minutes. Some CFLs burned out, but all the LEDs were still going strong after 200,000 cycles. Dimmed as low as an incandescent bulb Unlike CFLs, some LEDs can be dimmed as low as an incandescent bulb. Additionally, they co...

According Tech-On.com, Kyoto University’s professor Hiroyuki Yano, has added resin, etc to paper or its material (pulp) to make transparent paper. This breakthrough was announced at the New Technology Presentation Meetings, which the university organized Aug 24, 2012, in Tokyo. Yano expects that the new technologies will be applied to transparent OLED substrates, substrates of organic thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cells, electronic paper, materials for car windows, packaging containers, etc. Cellulose nanofibers, which constitute pulp, have a width of 10-20nm ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product.  Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of product: Energizer Rotating Night Lights Units: About 260,000 Importer: Energizer, of St. Louis, Mo. Manufacturer: Ningbo Sun-alps Industry Develop Co. Ltd, of China Hazard: The night lights can overheat and smoke, posing a burn hazard to consumers. Incidents/I...

Peterborough City Council has agreed a £2 million contract to replace street lights with LED lamps. The contract will see more than 4,500 bulbs replaced with LED lamps by Birse Civils. In addition, the firm will also replace approximately 800 full street lighting units and a control management system which will allow the operating times and lighting levels to be controlled remotely. Only residential and link roads will be included in the upgrade programme and streets will be identified using criteria including the technology already in place, potential energy saving...

The LED Street Lighting Alliance has kicked off a street lighting demonstration project in Fujian Province, China help it to enter into Chinese market.   According to Chien Yu-mei, deputy head of the alliance, the alliance has struck a deal to provide 14,000 lights for a 30-kilometer project to be installed in tunnels in Fujian Province by the end of 2012.   Chien said there are more than 3 million street and tunnel lights in Fujian, and she estimated that the public LED lighting market in the province would be worth nearly NT$100 billion (US$3.34 billi...

A Consumer Reports study released Thursday has shown American consumers’ attitudes toward LEDs. Only 25% use LEDs According to the study, of the 90% of Americans who have used LED or CFL light bulbs to save energy and cut costs most use CFLs. Almost 75% of consumers who have switched from incandescent bulbs currently use CFLs. In spite of LED features such as 75% less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs, last as long as 25 years, brighten immediately and often offer better light quality than compact fluorescents, only 25% use LEDs. Pr...

Lighting designers, specifiers and property managers can shape indoor spaces in engaging new ways with GE Lighting's LED Architectural Lighting portfolio. New GE LED Accent, Tetra® PowerGrid and GE LED Wall Washer lighting systems add rich layers, bold backdrops and dramatic accents to retail shops, hotels, offices, restaurants, and a variety of other commercial spaces. "Lighting evokes emotion in its subtle sophistication," said Sarah Truman, GE Lighting Architectural LED Lighting Product Manager. "What we've done here is...

Sony has decided to shift more contract orders to AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) and its production arms from Hon Hai, likely due to Hon Hai build ties-up with its major competitor Sharp in the market for LCD TVs. According to industry insiders, as soon as building partnership with Sony, AUO has seen orders for LCD TVs significantly increase since the beginning of Q3 in 2012, with lots of which allegedly coming from the Japanese customer. Meanwhile, BriView Electronics Corp., a production arm of AUO, Lextar Electronics Corp., an LED maker, and I-C...

Hubbell Lighting’s division Prescolite, was honored for its College Support Program at the National Association of Electrical Distributors’ (NAED) “Best of the Best” Awards sponsored by the association’s publication, The Electrical Distributor (tED) magazine. Prescolite took top supplier honors in the category of Public Relations/Community Outreach. To establish a connection with college students early in their careers, Prescolite reached out to professors at six of the country’s top-ranked architecture and engineering pr...

Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou has announced that the island will step up efforts to assist Tuvalu to become a low-carbon country. Ma says this latest commitment, which is in addition to the nearly four thousand solar LED lights Taiwan has already donated, will boost energy savings in Tuvalu. According to the Marianas Variety report, Taiwan plans to help Tuvalu replace its fluorescent street lights with environmentally friendly LED fixtures as part of the Lamp of Taiwan project. Launched after Ma took office in May 2008, the Lamp of Taiwan project uses ...

Recently, Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) began its fourth-time review of restrictions on Island’s Investments by Mainland Chinese as the basis of whether or not to allow mainland Chinese investors to hold more stakes in the island’s high-tech firms. The ministry is assessing the feasibility of conditionally allowing mainland Chinese investors to hold more stakes in the island’s three strategic hi-tech industries, including semiconductor, LCD panel and LED manufacturing. Date back to 2008, the island has eased the restrictions, in thr...

Digital Lumens has relocated its headquarters to 374 Congress Street in Boston's revitalized 'Innovation District', to cater for continued growth. The company signed a lease for 16,000 square feet of space to accommodate the company's growing business, customer base and staffing. The company has more than doubled space from its former West End location, allowing it to expand research and development facilities, sales and support areas. The lease was brokered by T3 Advisors based in Waltham, Mass. Earlier this year, Digital Lumens was named a "...

On August 22, AOC TV has signed Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin as brand ambassador, and has announced that it targets to double revenue from India to Rs 1,100 crore in 2013, as it looks to corner a "significant" market share in the growing LCD and LED television segment here. Yesterday, the company also showcased a range of LCD and LED TVs, priced between Rs 15,000 and Rs 40,000. The company had started its TV business in India early in March. AOC TV Director Seema T Bhatnagar pointed out that, "The LCD and LED TV ...

J P Sercel Associates (JPSA) has launched the IX-6100-MD for scribing and dicing metal layers such as molybdenum, copper, nickel, gold, silver, zinc and their alloys used in the LED manufacturing process. The IX-6100-MD is equipped with JPSA’s latest proprietary vision and scribe placement technology allowing reduction in die street size and enabling more LED dies per wafer. The key technology in IX-6100-MD is JPSA’s proprietary beam delivery system that allows the shape of the laser beam to be independently adjusted in two dimensions. T...

MANCHESTER-based MHA Lighting has helped Manchester Airport cut its lighting energy consumption by 63 per cent through a third major lighting installation. With its award-winning low energy luminaires and ability to design bespoke solutions, MHA Lighting has quickly become one of the airport’s preferred suppliers, supplying more than £500,000 worth of lighting products to the airport in the last 18 months. The latest project, which completes this month, includes replacing under canopy lighting with MHA’s patented C Lite technology. This ...

From lighting up the Olympic opening ceremony to decorating Tower Bridge (and saving 40% on its energy bills in the process), LEDs have certainly made their mark this summer. Now LED specialists Light Planet are raising the bar even further and have developed a new finance initiative to support the implementation of energy efficient lighting technology by businesses and organisations. Having successfully raised £5 million of venture capital to fund the pay-as-you-save scheme, Light Planet is offering businesses LED lighting solutions worth up to £50,000, giv...

At Monday's city council meeting, council members authorized the mayor to sign a contract with local contractor, Paulson Electric Inc to complete LED lighting upgrade project in Missoula's City Hall. The project is being paid for by a grant from the Department of Energy given to the city as part of the Clean Air Act. It means the company will now install almost $150,000 in new LED lighting and lighting controls in the basements, stairwells, and hallways of City Hall. The current lights work just fine, but city officials said they use more than twice the ...

TerraLUX’s innovative LED solutions have supported Village Place Apartments of Boulder, Colorado, in cutting the complex’s energy costs. Village Place Apartments is a 72-unit complex, and, like most apartment complexes, Village Place’s interior corridor lighting is turned on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During the retrofit, 56 lights were updated with the TerraLUX Linear LED Engine including: wall sconces, overhead dome lights, bathroom lights and outdoor lights. Each hallway wall sconce contained two CFL lamps and an external ball...

Seesmart Technologies, Inc. has completed the installation of LED lighting in two of The Ashforth Company's properties in Connecticut, transforming its spaces and offering a quick return on investment of only 15 months. And it is estimated that the combined savings for the project will be in excess of $200,000. Seesmart's LED retrofit replaced 1,300, 32-watt, T-8 fluorescent bulbs with high-efficiency LED tube lights throughout lobbies, common areas and garages at Ashforth's properties: 707 Summer Street, (Ashforth's headquarters) and 3001 Stamford ...

China National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Finance have restarted the bid for financial subsidies in 2012 ~ 2013 annual semiconductor lighting products promotion project. And there are 113 enterprises competing for the bid. The bid is estimated to be worth one billion RMB. Early in February, the government has started the bid, and the scope of subsidies consist s of indoor light, LED spotlight, LED downlight and outdoor LED streetlight. However, it comes to a failure due to the big difference offered by a few enterprises. This time, the go...

August 20, Philips (China) Investment Co., Ltd has held the groundbreaking ceremony on for its LED Professional Lighting Solutions manufacturing facility in Chengdu High-tech Industrial Development Zone. It’s the bilateral cooperation that between Philips and Chengdu has entered a new phase since the two sides signed the LED strategic cooperation agreement last December. Philips will build a fully integrated LED Professional Lighting Solutions manufacturing site to optimize the allocation of resources including production, warehousing and logistics, e...

Philips Lumileds has launched a new white LED array , which can assist LED system producers to free from the tiresome LED binning process and reduce inventory requirements as well as time to market. The new LUXEON K arrays come under a 3-step MacAdam ellipse and provide higher consistency in lumen per watt as a result of forward voltage as well as flux ranges.   The arrays suits for energy-efficient downlight and retrofit lamp applications that need high light output within a space and thermally constrained system. The Freedom From Binning commitment of...

Aiming at the huge market potential in global LED industry, Jiangsu Soul Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd merged with Goolite optoelectronic Co., Ltd at the beginning of June in 2012, establishing a subsidiary company in Shenzhen in July. The new company will incorporate the original team members of Goolite and acquire the Goolite brand. Soul has more than ten chip packaging lines, power supply and lighting products lines, covering an area of 12,000 square metres and having more than 200 staff members and over 20 senior technical personnel in R&D. The fi...

Sentry Electric, one of North America’s most experienced and knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor lighting, is pleased to announce the launching of its new web site. Designed with the user in mind, the new web site offers improved navigation, increased site content, and a host of other new features. Users will find Sentry’s new web site to be fresh, clean, and inviting.  The look and feel of the previous web site’s pages has been enhanced while the functionality has been expanded.    New features or enhancements include: •  &...

MSi LED Lighting ranks number 401 on the 2012 Inc. 500 and is the only lighting company included on this prestigious list   Inc. magazine ranked MSi LED Lighting number 401 on its 31st annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.   In 2008 MSi opened its doors intent on creating a solution to the high energy consumption of hot, costly halogen lights in a myriad of applications – particularly in retail, hospitality, and museums. MSi’s LED lights last for up to 13 years, use as little energy ...

According to OSRAM AG, the company and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. have reached an agreement to settle all patent suits between them worldwide. The patent suits have been filed in various countries amongst others Germany, South Korea and in the United States of America. The parties will dismiss all suits as expeditiously as possible, with a settlement consequently expected to be finalized by the end of August, 2012. As part of the settlement, the parties have reached license agreements for their respective LED patent portfolios. The parties have also signed a sepa...

A new information resource centre for solid state lighting in the UK has been launched today as part of an ambitious move to accelerate the widespread adoption of LED technology.   LightPlanet.co.uk will be the premier online destination for LED product data and procurement. The site has been created by advanced lighting solution specialists OCG Lighting, who have rebranded as Light Planet to reflect the broadened scope of their offering.   Light Planet will bring together leading suppliers of LED technology and allow them to share product information, ex...

Historic park surrounding Los Angeles City Hall has gotten LED makeover from LEDtronics of Torrance, California. Located around the tree-lined pathways and stairs of the 1.7-acre park are 13 lampposts whose ballasted 130-watt high-pressure-sodium post-top bulbs have recently been replaced with 27-watt LED lamps from LEDtronics. Apart from the energy savings of 103 watts per unit, the LED lamps offer much longer product lifespans than HPS or Metal Halide, resulting in reduced replacement and maintenance costs; improved visibility and enhanced night vision (a...

At the concluding leg of its third consecutive Cairo to Cape Town road show 2012, Philips has announced to launch a new initiative, which will see the installation of 100 “light centers” across rural Africa by 2015. These are areas of approx 1000m2, or the size of a small soccer pitch, which are lit using a new generation of highly efficient solar powered LED lighting. The idea is to create areas of light for rural communities which live without electricity thus effectively ‘extending the day’ and creating numerous opportunities for social and economi...

Lately, a research team from Taiwan's National Defense University has been utilizing nanocarbon materials to develop lightbulbs and tubes that are more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly than currently available products. Unlike LED lighting products, the team's invention boasts nanocarbon materials that can be used to develop a light source in a mercury-free manufacturing process, according to Ger Ming-der, a professor at the university's Department of Chemical and Material Engineering at Chung Cheng Institute of Technology. The technology also ...