Newly, Philips CEO Frans van Houten has announced that the company could soon cut prices on LED light bulbs. During a conference call with analysts to discuss financial results for the fourth quarter and year that ended Dec. 31, 2011, van Houten said “The price point for LEDs in the consumer space is still a little bit out reach.”  He noted that while consumers are moving to compact fluorescent bulbs that have a price point and energy savings between LED and incadescents, they are not yet generally adopting LEDs. And van Houten has told to ana...

Lighting Science Group has become No. 1 LED light bulb producer in North America with its lines of top-quality fixtures throughout the past few years. In 2011, the company announced that it had sold 4.5 million light bulbs. This 450 percent increase from its 2010 sales now make it the largest producer of LED lights in North America. Jim Haworth, chairman and chief executive officer of Lighting Science Group, said that "As we celebrate 2011's achievements, we also look ahead to our anticipated opening of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in India,...

Philips Lumileds has released LUXEON K to set new direction for retrofit and downlight LED lighting applications. According to Rahul Bammi, VP Marketing from Philips Lumileds, “LUXEON K extends our portfolio of illumination grade LEDs engineered to optimize end-user satisfaction of specific applications. For downlights and retrofit bulbs, LUXEON K provides a unique approach that delivers the highest, most consistent quality of light in an easy-to-implement array. Our hot testing and specification at 85°C, and freedom from color, flux, and ...

As New Year brings new wishes, Taiwan’s major LED industry manufacturer Epistar shows optimistic attitudes on 2012 outlook for the LED market. According to Epistar ‘s Chairman B.J. Lee, global shipments of LED light bulbs to double from the 2011 level to 300 million units in 2012 and the LED TV penetration rate is expected to surge from 36% to 60%. Based on the brisk market forecasts, Lee forecast the company’s shipments of general-lighting chips to shoot up 300% year-on-year in 2012, translating into a 200% gain in revenue. In Lee’s...

LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, announces a family of metal-core printed circuit boards (MCPCBs) with integral connectors that eliminate soldering during the assembly of LED fixtures. The poke-home connectors, which accept 18-24 AWG wires, offer quick, solderless assembly of fixtures and can eliminate the need for OEMs to use sub-contractors because the work can be taken in-house. The boards utilize a common 50mm footprint for both the LuxiGen LZC 12 die and LZP 24 die series of high flux density emitters, helping OEMs to st...

•    Extensive Patinal® product range comprises more than 40 highly reliable vapor deposition materials •    WR Patinal® product portfolio: Anti-fingerprint and easy-to-clean surface functionality for the touch panel industry Merck KGaA has presented its developments for the optics and photonics industry at the SPIE Photonics West Exhibition from January 24 to 26, 2012 in San Francisco, California, USA. Merck’s exhibition stand will be focusing on the Patinal®, Solarpur®and Optipur® product rang...

Philips has developed what is said to be the world’s most efficient and cost effective solar powered LED street lighting solution per km of road. Philips’ latest Solar Gen2 innovation is developed together with NXP Semiconductors N.V. and presents a total solution for highly sustainable and efficient street lighting that is a serious alternative to grid connected systems, cutting back energy costs and CO2 emissions. Solar Gen2 offers a highly energy-efficient LED solution which is superior to any conventional lighting and allows for a lamp post spacing o...

euroLED organisers IntertechPira and Birmingham Science Park Aston are pleased to announce the full agenda for the 9th annual euroLED 2012 conference, bringing together major lighting companies, end users and industry specialists to provide key industry insight, topical case studies and technical market data. Taking place on 13-14 June 2012 at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK, euroLED comprises of an exhibition, showcasing all levels of the LED supply chain, a high profile technical conference and a highly popular gala dinner. The complete euroLE...

Dialight's 433 LED Rail Crossing Signal Module Features & Benefits • 5 year full performance warranty • AC / DC operation from 8 to 16 volts full output (operation down to 5 volts) • Side light indicators reflect main beam signal for extra safety • Designed for retrofit into existing lamp housings with no beam alignment necessary • Ring terminations easily attach to AREMA posts • Red tinted, UV-stabilized, and hard-coated lens for extended life • Better visibility and faster response time than incandescent &bu...

Lighting Internet Technology Enterprises (LITE) proudly announces that the revolutionary "LED Lamp Locator" will be expanded to include a new LED fixture portal component. Located at www.LEDFixtureLocator.com and officially set to launch in February 2012, the powerful new "LED Fixture Locator" will complement the existing LED Lamp Locator by providing lighting professionals with unprecedented access to information on thousands of LED fixture products currently on the market.   Covering such major LED fixture types as "D...

New Collections Electrify World’s Largest Wholesale Merchandise Mart The Littman Brands, renowned for high-quality lighting solutions, debuted the highly awaited 2012 collections of five brands during Dallas International Lighting Market from Jan. 19-23, 2012. The never-before-seen collections from Hudson Valley Lighting®, Troy Lighting, Corbett Lighting, Troy Landscape and CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) wowed thousands of buyers who visited the manufacturer’s expansive 17,000 square-foot showroom (#3902) at Dallas Market Center dur...

SHADOW health minister Andy Burnham today showed his support for new lighting technology developed in Atherton that helps NHS Trusts prevent deadly superbugs. The Labour MP for Leigh met with employees at LED lighting manufacturers MHA Lighting to learn more about how their award-winning lighting is helping in the fight against hospital acquired infections. MHA Lighting’s patented LED technology has been designed as a fully sealed unit to stop dust, bacteria and dead insects from gathering around warm light fittings and spreading superbugs. The L...

Cree LEDway® Luminaires to Replace More than 3,600 Antiquated Street Lights Taking steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce its overall carbon footprint, the City of Asheville has initiated North Carolina’s first large-scale deployment of LED street lights. There are 3,643 LEDway® street lights from Durham-based manufacturer Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) being installed, with projected savings of $260,000 annually. In the initial phase of the project, completed in June 2011, 730 street lights in Asheville’s River District and Ken...

Office Canopy Group acquires Kudos Business Technologies and secures exclusive distribution of breakthrough LED technology Leading UK LED supplier, Kudos Business Technologies, has been acquired by the Office Canopy Group (OCG), one of the UK’s leading providers of business commodity items. “OCG is focused on driving business savings driven by technology. We believe LED lighting represents a revolution in lighting solutions that is set to fast become the most efficient, cost effective and practical source of lighting,” commented OCG&rs...

One World Trade Center, soon to be the tallest building in the United States and one of the tallest in the world at a height of 1,776 feet, is the main building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. The facility was in need of a lighting control system capable of flexibly and efficiently illuminating 2.6 million square feet of office space, as well as an observation deck, restaurant, parking, and broadcast and antenna facilities.   After a rigorous selection process, Brazill Brothers was chosen to provide a LonWorks®-enabled ProSys LM Ligh...

Verbatim Americas, LLC, backed by Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) group, has announces the official ENERGY STAR(R) qualification of its new line of PAR-type retrofit LED lamps. Verbatim's ENERGY STAR qualified LED retrofit lamp product line includes: -- PAR20 -- 3000K, 500 lumen output and 9 watts -- PAR30 -- 2700K, 740 lumen output and 14 watts -- PAR30 -- 3000K, 800 lumen output and 14 watts -- PAR38 -- 2700K, 920 lumen output and 17 watts -- PAR38 -- 3000K , 1000 lumen output and 17 watts ENE...

Philips has announced to sell its LEDs which are recognized as the sole winner (so far) of the US Department of Energy’s “L Prize” competition for 60 W incandescent bulbs commercially from February. According to the DOE, 60 W incandescents are important because they are the most common household bulb in the US, with nearly a billion of them thought to be in use. And while it has qualified more than 400 LED lamps under its Energy Star program so far, the vast majority of these are relatively low-brightness and directional. At the DOE webina...

Recently, Avago Technologies has released two series of compact LEDs including ASMT-FJ70 and ASMT-FG70 devices that reduce space requirements for designing auto-focus auxiliary flash functionality into digital cameras. The ASMT-Fx70 LEDs are available in a tiny, environmentally-friendly 3.6 (L) by 3.2 (W) by 3.4 (H) mm surface-mount package that helps meet market demand for thinner digital cameras. The ASMT-FJ70 devices use AlInGaP material technology and feature a 12 degree viewing angle, while the ASMT-FG70 devices use InGaN material ...

General Electric (GE) has launched a new range of long-life LED outdoor lights, which offer up to 50 000 hours, or up to ten years, in regular operating conditions. The new-generation LED Area Lighter lumi- naires are suited to car parks, pedestrian zones or for general illumination. The optical ring design also produces vertical illuminance, efficiently delivering the required amount of light without spilling into neighbouring areas. For street and highway illumination, the new LED Road R250 luminaires have an advanced optical system that improves the uniformity of th...

Samsung Electronics has intended to inject about $41.7 billion to put more distance from competitors in 2012. There are about $22 billion will boost its manufacturing capacity for logic chips, MEMS sensors and OLED displays as well as memory and LCD production. The logic chip manufacturing is likely to focus on Samsung's ambitions to make application processors and system chips for mobile phones and tablets. Investment in logic at about $6.5 billion is set to exceed investment in memory chips at about $5.7 billion for the first time. Investment in OLEDs is exp...

Seoul Semiconductor has broken a record on applying, registering and securing more than 10,000 patents for LED. The company invests 10-20 percent of its annual revenue in Research and Development, including funding of an affiliate company. In particular, the company holds patent rights for Acrich, the semiconductor light source using a multi-cell architecture, as well as patent rights for deep UV LED technology. The company anticipates that deep UV LED technology will be commonly used in the future and it will be prepared to produce and sell this technology. &...

Recently, Japan's Tazmo has designed a new A4 in size (210x297mm) flexible Inorganic LED panel with quite efficient at 30 lm/W. The company has utilized a coating process - which is easily adapter for I-LEDs as they have a simpler element structure when compared to OLEDs. I-LED is different from LEDs as they use the EL (electroluminescence) phenomenon. And the new panel can easily be bent....

Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced the release of its comprehensive, new product catalog. Designed with ease of use in mind, the catalog enables lighting designers, architects and electrical engineers to select luminaires that will bring their ideas to life. Coming in at 500 pages, the high-quality, hardback volume details the entire Lumenpulse product line. Reflecting the Lumenpulse design approach, fixtures are grouped in pro...

Osram, glabal lighting company backed by Siemens, has announced to cut jobs in Germany for further transition to LED industry. According to Osram’s statement on Tuesday, declining volumes in the traditional lighting business due to rising LED demand and regulatory changes will lead to a reduction of about 850 domestic jobs in this field by 2014. Meanwhile, as many as 200 Osram workers may be transferred to Siemens. Currently, Osram employs about 41,000 people worldwide, including about 10,000 in its home country. But the statement didn’t mention to take si...

Recently, NetLED system developed by Tokyo-based lighting tech startup Net LED Technology Corp. will go on sale in Japan on February 20,marking Japan gets the world’s first cloud-based LED lighting system. The 40W lights of 40,000-hour lifespan come with built-in Wi-Fi: users can control each tube over the web after installing the NetLed app on a smartphone, tablet, or computer. It’s possible to dim the lights and to turn them on or off. Users can control individual, multiple, or a set of lights (which can be located in separate rooms) via the app,...

Taiwan Delta Electronics has rolled out a serious of LED productsat Lighting Japan 2012. The company claimed that it has developed the world's lightest 1000lm light bulb weighting only 130g .With a beam angle of 120 deg and 240 deg the new bulb aims to replace 100W and 80W incandescent bulbs. In the meanwhile, Delta is also demonstrating its remarkable solar-LED streetlight and wind-powered LED streetlight solutions. The wind-powered LED streetlight solution includes a 400W-system with a safety breaker for wind speed exceeding an upper limit of 42.5m/s and ...

Four landmark bridges including Platt Street Bridge, Brorein Street Bridge, Kennedy Boulevard Bridge and CSX Railroad Bridge will be bathed in a shimmering canvas of LED lights as part of the city's "Agua Luces" ("water lights") art project. According to Tampa Mayor Buckhorn, the project is a public-private partnership involving the city of Tampa's Public Art Program, Tampa Electric and People's Gas, and Lights on Tampa. it is estimated to cost about $300,000, will be funded by TECO Energy. City officials selected ...

Wire-Free LED has cooperated with Ellumiglow.com to bring the most exciting Club Lighting technology in 2012. New Wire-Free LED Par Can technology uses high output LED RGB, RGBA, and RGBW, TruWhite lighting fixtures to provide exceptional lighting quality, combined with simplicity. Capable of producing nearly every color in the spectrum, these Club Lights come with over 100 beautiful preset colors, and even produce TRUE White. Wire-Free LED Par Cans can be controlled with a smart color remote, by DMX, manually, or even with an iPhone. ...

XLM Plus comes complete with electronics and communication interfaces, and is ideal for Endoscopy, Surgical Microscopy, and Headlamp applications   Excelitas Technologies, a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customized optoelectronics to OEMs seeking high-performance technology solutions, introduced the latest LED Fiber Optic Illuminator Module in its XLM Series specifically designed for integration into OEM Medical device applications.  The new product, dubbed the XLM Plus, comes complete with electronics and communicatio...

Recently, UK designer Toby Fox has broken the design of typical LED bulbs and created energy efficient lighting project on Coroflot.   Fox’s interactive product features something he calls Light Pebbles. The light looks a little like a pea-pod and the four Light Pebbles sit in a strip of neoprene called the base unit. The base unit can be plugged in to a standard electric wall charge unit and then the Pebbles retain their glow and can slid out of the base to be used separately or as a unit. The best part of the design is the individual Pebbles that c...