According to Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs, the island has completed the replacement of all 696,700 incandescent traffic lights with LED signals this year , which comes after Singapore to become the second city to hifted entirely to LEDs. Compared to traditional incandescent traffic signals, LED traffic lights consume 85 percent less energy, meaning that the new lights will help the island save 247 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. Additionally, the LED lighting project will further expand to include the replacement of mercury-vapor streetlights next ...

Panasonic is announced to make a restructuring plan aimed at quickly snatching up sizable share of mainland China market for LED lighting. And Taiwan’s LED Industry may benefit from the plan. In January 2012, the Japanese company is to combine the LED lighting operation with the independent Panasonic Lighting with the aim of bagging around 40% of the Chinese mainland’s market for LED lighting by the end of 2015 and boosting profit by 10% through halving costs. According to Panasonic, the consolidated entity’s sales to reach 200 billion yen (U...

As LED lighting is one of the most energy-efficient and versatile forms of lighting, the European Commission adopted a Green Paper and launched a public consultation on the future of LED-based lighting. Based on the promising future that faster LED deployment will ensure the success of Europe's lighting industry and help reduce energy use from lighting by 20% by 2020, the demands for citizens and businesses to refine the policy are increasing. As a result, a consultation will run until 29 February 2012 to collect feedback on the Commission's ideas. Digital A...

Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG), one of the world's leading LED lighting manufacturers, announced today the completion of an Atlanta Botanical Garden's seasonal light exhibit, 'Garden Lights, Holiday Nights,' which features green both as a primary festival color and as an operating energy principle. Nearly one million lights have transformed the garden grounds into a veritable winter wonderland, but Lighting Science Group's computer-animated LED installation on the Great Lawn serves as the display's undisputed flagship finale. Dazz...

Luminus Devices has made a breakthrough on its next generation CBT-90 white LED , providing equivalent system-level light output within medical and entertainment lighting, that formerly used 300W Xenon and 175W metal halide lamps. The CBT-90, consisting of a single 3mm x 3mm chip mounted on a metal core PCB, is now 25% brighter and capable of producing more than 2,200 lumens at its top end input current. Chuck DeMilo, Global Director of Product Marketing for the Lighting Business Group at Luminus Devices, pointed out that,"The new CBT-90 performan...

AIXTRON SE has received a multiple AIX G5 HT reactors in 56x2-inch and 14x4-inch configurations order from Nantong Tongfang, China. Nantong Tongfang placed the order in the first quarter of 2011. Delivery of the systems has been started in the second quarter of 2011 and will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2011. A local AIXTRON support team will install and commission the new reactors in state-of-the-art clean-rooms at the company’s factory in China. The Chinese company will use these systems for the growth of high brightness LEDs. Acc...

UV LED Curing Association publishes its inaugural UV LED Glossary of Terms.   This is the organization’s first major accomplishment since founders Integration Technology Limited, Lumen Dynamics, and Phoseon Technology announced the formation of the association just one month ago. The three companies are diligently working to define and establish agreed-upon UV LED-based guidelines for UV LED curing applications. The founders believe the association’s work will have a positive impact towards enabling the adoption of UV LED technology ...

Lumière architectural landscape lighting is used throughout Garden Lights, Holiday Nights high-tech “green” show. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, is helping to brighten Atlanta’s Botanical Garden this holiday season by sponsoring the inaugural Garden Lights, Holiday Nights show, which runs through January 7. Cooper Lighting’s Lumière LED landscape lighting luminaires are featured in and around the major attractions in ...

TESS(Top Energy Saving System Corp.)wins the Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2011,ranks No. 7 in Taiwan district and No.20 in Asia Pacific. Today, with outstanding growth of sales, TESS is able to come to the fore, due to the rise of environmental consciousness in the world, and the combination of competitive advantages of Taiwan. TESS founded in Oct. 2007, have been leading by Chairman Sunny Tsai, with the core value of enterprise - pragmatic, positive, caring, innovative, adhering to the concept of environment protection and saving energy for the busines...

Recently, Sharp has announced 50W Mega Zeni LED models featuring an efficiency of up to 100lm/W, a luminous flux of up to 4700lm and a (typical) CRI value of up to 93. It’s one of the first industrial LED solutions to replace traditional 50W HID lamps. According to Sharp, the devices are designed to maintain the same compact dimensions and high CRI values but with greater luminous fluxes. Sharp says they have a luminous efficiency of between 3590 and 4770lm, a light output of up to 100lm/W in standard operating mode and a service life of 40,000 hours at an...

SavWatt USA, Inc. will launch new LED Lights integrating the P2i process in which a patented Nano coating application is applied to the LED Light making them water, dirt, salt and fog resistant. According to Martin Gerber, SavWatt's CMO, "Last week Motorola launched the new Verizon Dr the P2i process in which a patented Nano coating application is applied to the LED Light making them water, dirt, salt and fog resistant.oid Razr; this phone was treated with a Nano application and is fully water resistant. 1,000,000 phones were processed in a 2 w...

O2Micro’s 8 claims for LED Architecture and methodology were issued under United States patent number 8,040,071. The company’s patented technology provides a very cost effective architecture, with fewer bulky components, making a solution suitable for smaller areas, such as lighting fixtures. According to Dr. Yung Lin, executive vice president, O2Micro, "The technology in this invention allows users to utilize minimum circuit components to achieve high-performance LED lighting applications for worldwide AC input."...

Samsung and LG are announced to release own-brand 60W LED light bulbs at retail prices of US$10-12 sometime in the second half of 2012, which will threaten Taiwan leading position in global LED market. With strong support of South Korean government, Samsung and LG have shown aggressive attempt to become world leader in the LED lighting industry. Samsung has equipped itself with integrated LED manufacturing capability involving epi-wafer and package manufacturing. In particular, Samsung and LG’s plans are more aggressive than that of LSG of the Unite...

Introduces New Thermal Simulation Service and Advanced Photometric Testing   Extending the support services offered to LED lighting manufacturers that were launched this fall, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces the addition of two new Cree TEMPO offerings to its revolutionary design and evaluation services. The new TEMPO (Thermal Electrical Mechanical Photometric Optical) Thermal Simulation and photometric testing options are designed to remove barriers for LED lighting manufacturers and accelerate broader market adoption of LED lighting. ...

Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L) and Jackson Township have reached an agreement on the replacement of 700 to 900 street lights with LED fixtures, as the Jackson Township Council approved the execution of a non-tariff agreement between the two parties. According to Township Attorney Jean Cipriani, the council’s recent action is the final result that came out of a meeting between representatives of JCP&L, local and state government officials, and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities in September. According to municipal officials, on...

Lusio Solid-State Lighting’s LED high bay fixtures have been accepted in the 2011 Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Report. More than 30 representatives from lighting industry leading manufacturers and lighting design firms have consisted of a committee to judge the impartial judging process. The Committee evaluates each submission on its uniqueness, innovation, and significance in the lighting industry. Lusio was one of about 150 products recognized from submissions that included products and manufacturers from all categories of the lighting industr...

Recently, GE Lighting Solutions has rolled out a series of Tetra® LED lighting systems designed for channel letters. The new products feature outstanding uniformity and use fewer modules than previous models. Below are the main specifications:   Tetra miniMAX—for small channel letters 1.5 inches in depth or greater, the new products efficacy is 43 percent greater than the previous Tetra miniMAX with 81 lumens per watt compared to 57 lumens per watt, uses 26 percent less energy and has 80 percent wider stroke spacing in a 4-inch sign. Also power supply ...

Royal Philips Electronics' LED lighting solutions have supported Zürich's Hardbrücke for Switzerland’s largest LED project. Hardbrücke wants to upgrade the lighting under the bridge and to improve security for pedestrians. Therefore, bicycle and pedestrian paths, as well as an additional lane for public transport and a newly laid tram line need to take into consideration. To meet the demands, the chosen lighting solution consists of Koffer2 fixtures on the bridge, while the underside of the 2.3 km long bridge is lit with 1,750 LEDline2 lu...

UK-based manufacturer of cadmium-free quantum dots, Nanoco, has signed a joint development agreement with a global LED lighting company. The colour performance of the quantum dot technology attracts commercial LED lighting. As a result, the cooperators will see the university spin-out's cadmium-free quantum dots (CFQD) technology used in high volume LED lighting systems. The 12 month agreement with the lighting company is expected to be followed either by further development work or by proceeding to product launch. But they haven’t disclosed the financial d...

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. announced that the Company has been named by OFweek.com as the "OFweek 2011 Best Service Provider of LEDs." OFweek.com focuses on LED market research and is one of the biggest LED industry websites in China. To highlight the state of the LED industry, every year OFweek.com teams up with industry experts to recognize innovative companies and technologies with the "OFweek LED Industry Annual Awards of Excellent Enterprise and Product." This year's winners were selected from nominated LED manu...

UK corporation Revend Recycling Ltd, has launched an innovative reverse vending recycling machine for the collection and recycling of domestic light bulbs and domestic batteries. The machine is the “FIRST” domestic light bulb reverse vending recycling machine of its type in the World and has been jointly designed and developed by Revend Recycling Ltd and Repant ASA, a corporation listed on the Norwegian Stock Exchange. Increased demand for recycling light bulbs and the international change over to CFL and LED domestic light bulbs and the recyclin...

Japanese based company NGK Insulators has released new wafer products for electronic device applications in ultra high brightness (UHB) LEDs. It has showcased at SEMICON Japan 2011 held between December 7 through 9 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba for the first time. The company targets wafer products as a major research and development theme in the electronics field. In the R&D line-up, there are bonded wafers that achieve new functions previously unavailable with a single material wafer, and GaN single crystal wafers that have low defect density and colourle...

According to Sumitomo Metal Mining (SMM)’s president, Nobumasa Kemori, the company has decided to set up a mass-produce 6-inch diameter sapphire substrates line within its fully-owned subsidiary Okuchi Electronics based in Isa City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. SMM intends to inject the capital investment of ¥1.2 billion (US $120 million) including investment already completed. Through the investment, SMM will construct a continuous production system extending from fabrication of large sapphire crystals to substrate processing. Currently, 2- to 4-inc...

By selecting interior and exterior LED lighting products, City Furniture has reduced its energy usage by more than half.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology, is pleased to announce its inclusion in a new City Furniture superstore. City Furniture, one of Florida’s most successful furniture retailers, selected three energy-saving LED products from Cooper Lighting, to help achieve its initiative for LEED Silver certification for a new 94,000 sq. ft. superstore in Boca Rato...

Russian LED manufacture Optogan has set up partnership with Ledison Patan Ltd, to form a new sales office in Koceali, close to Izmit, Turkey. Ove Sörensen, senior director sales & business development at Optogan, pointed out that ,“For Turkey, we estimate a hundreds of millions Euro market for solid-state lighting luminaries within the next two years. Turkey, being the bridge between Europe and Asia, is a key hub for Optogan. With its strong labour force, biggest GDP growth rate in Europe, and a continuously growing population (with currently over ...

Woodburn has embraced with LED lights as part of a new green initiative.West Virginia University students and members of the Morgantown community came together Friday evening for a timeless Mountaineer tradition: the lighting of Woodburn Hall. A $3.9 million renovation project to the historic building began in 2010.LED lights were selected to increase the bulb life cycle, reduce maintenance costs and reduce energy consumption.The new LED lights change from Mountaineer gold and blue to red and green for the holiday season. The lights on Woodburn will shift to white...

Recently, Koito Manufacturing Co Ltd has made use of the design freedom of LEDs to designed a head lamp and showcased it at the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show 2011. The head lamp, named "Ganriki" (eye force), is shaped like a human eye and the most distinctive feature is its winker lamp (the part emitting yellow light in the picture). The LEDs vertically arranged on the fender side emit light downwards and inward while the LEDs horizontally arranged at the bottom emit light inward. The emitted light is guided to the light guiding path made by injection molding of ...

The City of Mountain View has replaced fluorescent lamps at their Community Center with DirectLED from Bay Area LED light bulb company, GreenVantage Solution. EarthLED's DirectLED 4-foot T8 replacements are selected to be installed in classrooms and office areas at the Community Center. The T8 replacements are rated at 15 watts as compared to the 34 watts of the regular 4-foot fluorescent bulbs. The DirectLED FL series is a replacement for traditional T8, T10 and T12 fluorescent tubes, bringing LED technology to environments never before ...

The city of Bozeman intends to replace some streetlights with LEDs. It has budgeted $8,800 to replace 12 to 16 high-pressure-sodium streetlights with LEDs. Installation will take place in January or February. City staff members are still finalizing the specifics, but city engineer Dustin Johnson said LEDs could be installed in streetlights along Durston Road, from Seventh to 11th avenues, and/or along West Babcock Street, from Main to Ferguson streets. Once this winter’s pilot LED project is underway, Bozeman will measure and report potential cost a...

Altatech Semiconductor has released its first product AltaSight LEDMax system to enter into LED inspection market. According to the company, AltaSight LEDMax improves production yields for LED devices by accurately detecting process-induced defects, including those that can result during MOCVD of epitaxial layers, subsequent patterning processes and final inspection. Using Altatech’s patented sensor technology that filters out all background noise, the non-contact system generates images of surface imperfections with resolution down to 1 micron and a u...