HELLA KGaA Hueck & Co., a leading global automotive supplier, could significantly increase revenues in fiscal year 2010/2011, up 23 percent to 4.4 billion Euro (2009/2010: 3.6 billion Euro), and achieve the best result ever in its corporate history. EBIT grew from 146 million Euro to 268 million Euro year on year, the annual result could be improved to 164 million Euro (2009/2010: 81 million Euro). ”We benefit from our timely focus on key automotive trends such as the increasing environmental awareness, the still growing demand for safety and the shift from con...

Accoding to Taiwan major LED manufacture Epistar and Everlight , LED Lighting is likely to play a key role over the next two years. Recently , J.Y. Fan, a vice president of Epistar, said at the SEMI Taiwan 2011, that the oversupply will compel LED makers to shift application emphasis to lighting, which is considered much more profitable as its market remains in the infant stage. Also, excessive supplies have driven down prices of LED devices, thereby reducing production costs of lighting products. Fan’s estimate revised previous thoughts that lighting...

The seven German partners in the European EnLight consortium have announced that they will aim for a further 40% reduction in the energy consumption of LEDs during R&D projects over the next three years. EnLight has received around €11 million in funding to date. Almost half of the fund has come from the project’s industry partners, and €2 million has been contributed by the European Union. Meanwhile in the US, Macy’s has announced plans for a lighting retrofit that will see one million halogen bulbs replaced with LED spotlights. It i...

Ace Lamps have launched a 36 watt LED down light that adds to the range released with their new manufacturing partner. The Space LED Down Light is designed to be used for commercial situations, large atriums or larger communal areas. It has a unique design that offers a very high 1800 lumen light output from the 12 x 3 watt LED configuration, using warm white 3200k LED’s warm white 3200k LED’s that have a life of 50000 hours making it an ideal fluorescent, halogen or metal halide lighting alternative. A high quality light weight heat sink has been dev...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, has expanded its LED indoor ambient lighting portfolio with the launch of the Lithonia Lighting® RTLED™ RELIGHT assembly kit. The RTLED RELIGHT kit is a high-quality, volumetric assembly designed to bring the advantages of LED lighting to renovation projects. It joins the RTLED, ACLED, TLED and VTLED as part of Lithonia Lighting’s versatile recessed LED indoor ambient lightin...

Panasonic Electric Works Co. will debut a slew of new LED lights, starting Oct. 21. The subsidiary of Panasonic Corp. (6752) will increase its offerings 50% to 2,000 items this fiscal year, aiming to double LED lighting sales to about 50 billion yen. A series of color adjustable lights will hit the market Nov. 21. They can emit soft yellow light during dining and bright white light for studying. The suggested retail price for this series ranges from 41,475 yen to 59,850 yen, excluding installation. The new LED models also include desk lamps and porch lights. ...

Seesmart, Inc.,has received a $1.2 million order in LED tube lights from The United States General Services Administration (GSA) for lighting retrofit project . The order constitutes the single largest purchase of LED tube lights ever made by the GSA, whose latest lighting retrofit project will span 18 buildings across 2 U.S. states. The Seesmart LED tube lights will replace fluorescent lighting in GSA buildings, saving the Administration approximately $400,000 annually in energy costs. Also, Seesmart products will cut the lighting energy consumption o...

Philips has added new UrbanScape and MetroScape to the broad line-up of its outdoor LED luminaires which offer cities and municipalities sustainable, energy-efficient solutions with all the benefits of Philips LUXEON high-power LEDs. According to Philips, UrbanScape and MetroScape offer flexible solutions that can reduce energy consumption by 40-60 percent over High Intensity Discharge  alternatives and provide a rated life of 100,000 hours. UrbanScape is designed to create a fresh modern and minimalistic look for urban projects. And MetroScape is a...

It’s reported that Coca-Cola (Japan) Co., Ltd., its 12 bottling partners and other affiliates of the Coca Cola system in Japan have scheduled to bring in LED lighting for vending machines in product displays for all new purchases of machines for beverage products in cans and PET bottles, starting from 2012. It was made under the Coca-Cola system's global business guiding principle, "Live Positively," and as part of its environmental initiatives for a sustainable society. The Coca-Cola system has cooperated with voluntary action plans of the so...

Energy Focus, Inc., a leader in providing energy efficient lighting solutions, today announced that it was recently awarded a $5 million lighting retrofit contract with a leading Southeastern Energy Services Company. The contract includes projects to upgrade the lighting of numerous military and government facilities in the Southeastern region of the United States over the next two years. Energy Focus will perform the audit of the facilities, inventory their lighting systems, create an approved energy savings design, procure the materials and oversee the lighting and electric...

Mike Bauer, President and CEO of Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (nasdaq capital market:NEXS) will present at the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium in New York on Thursday, September 8, 2011. Nexxus will be one of nine presenting companies, along with representatives from Cree, Veeco and Rubicon. The objective of the conference is to share information from leading technology companies focused on the adoption of LEDs for general lighting.  ...

Made of state-of-the-art technology and consisting of German-Russian components, Optogan says its E27 lamp has features on par with the best of world standards. The new light source is claimed to be significantly less expensive than its European counterparts. From September onwards, the first contingent of bulbs will be available for 995 Rubles in both Moscow and St. Petersburg. In early 2012 the bulb will be introduced to the global market – the target price then should be around €30. Optogan´s designer bulb is a convincing contribution to global energy...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, today announced it will webcast its presentation at an upcoming conference. John Kurtzweil, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will provide a company overview at the following conference:  * The J.P. Morgan Third LED General Lighting Symposium on Thursday, September 8, at 12:20 p.m. EDT. A webcast of the presentation will be available live and by replay. To access both the live and archived webcasts, as well as the slide presentation used during the conference, please go to ...

Reportedly, Panasonic Idemitsu OLED Lighting (PIOL) Co Ltd, a JVof Panasonic Electric Works Co Ltd and Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd, has kicked off shipping an OLED lighting panel in the Japanese and overseas markets Sept 1, 2011. According to the company, the general color rendering index (Ra) of the OLED panel is 90 or higher, which is claimed as one of the world's highest for a mass-produced OLED panel. The OLED lighting panel has a size of 97 x 90mm, a thickness of 2.11mm and a weight of 38g. The area of its light-emitting part is 80 x 80mm...

San Francisco Bay Area-based lighting company Elemental LED have joined Philips' LED luminaires licensing program which grants Elemental LED access to a portfolio of patents related to Philips' LED lighting systems and controls. According to Elemental LED , the Elemental LED engineering department designed several new products in the past year that met consumer demand for higher quality and ease of use, including a Dimmable LED Puck Light, the wall-mounted 12V LED Reign Dimmer Switch, and the portable Apollo DMX LED Color Controll...

Illumitex, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a joint research and business development relationship with Syngenta. Through the alliance, Syngenta will utilize Illumitex’s patented LED technology to develop next generation growing protocols in plant growth research projects in controlled environments such as greenhouses and indoor growth chambers. By coupling Illumitex’s precision beam control with the capability of customizing the light spectrum, Illumitex is enabling widespread adoption of LED lighting for use in the global horticulture market. Illum...

GT Advanced Technologies Inc., (NASDAQ: GTAT), today announced that Cheryl Diuguid, vice president and general manager of Sapphire Equipment and Materials will present at the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium on September 8, 2011 at 11:50am ET. The presentation will be webcast on a live and archived basis. About GT Advanced Technologies Inc. GT Advanced Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and other spec...

Power Integrations introduced a new reference design (DER-281) detailing an 85%-efficient, 15 W PAR38 downlight driver that delivers flicker-free dimming without the use of unreliable high-voltage electrolytic bulk capacitors. Typical TRIAC dimmers were designed for incandescent lights that use an order of magnitude more power than LED lights of equivalent lumen output. The low current requirement of LED lights, especially when dimmed, can cause TRIACs to switch off unexpectedly or oscillate, creating an annoying flickering effect. Early-generation LED light...

Germany’s annual power consumption is approximately 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) or 500 trillion watt-hours, with lighting accounting for almost 12 percent of that figure. Today, as much as 11.5 TWh or 20 percent of the electricity needed for lighting could be saved in Germany alone if incandescent lamps were consistently replaced by more energy-efficient LEDs. The potential saving is equivalent to the annual output of a large-scale power plant. Over the coming three years, Germany’s seven partners of the “EnLight” (Energy Efficient and Intelligent...

Aixtron SE has a new order for four CRIUS II MOCVD systems in a 55x2-inch configuration from China´s Jiangsu Canyang Optoelectronics, a joint venture with Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi). The company is seeking a smooth process transfer up from their existing CRIUS MOCVD reactors to Aixtron´s new generation platform. According to Forepi President Fen-Ren Chien, they are embarking on a whole new era of high volume blue LED production at Jiangsu Canyang. To minimise risk and interruptions they have once aga...

Due to low demand in the large-size backlight market in 1H11, LEDinside expects many manufacturers to turn their main focus to lighting products in 2H11. The phrase “replacing traditional lighting” takes on new meaning as the industry develops in a new direction. As for LED replacement of traditional lighting, North America, Europe, and China are currently showing the most rapid progress.

Based on Gekko’s award-winning technology, kedo-sk is a single-colour Fresnel-focused hard source luminaire optimised for the requirements of image capture for both film and broadcast. Available in either daylight (5600 kelvin) or tungsten (3200 kelvin) variants, kedo-sk produces minimal heat and is designed to work in an ambient temperature of up to 50 degrees Celsius. Output intensity is comparable with a 1 kilowatt tungsten source. Low power consumption (180 watts) keeps heat generation to a minimum. An integral Fresnel-based optic provides a focal range of 6:1. Inte...

IKEA Israel has discontinued its sale of incandescent bulbs, the first retailer in the Jewish State to do so. The company stopped selling the bulbs effective last Thursday, September 1. Instead, IKEA is restricting its lighting sales to items that are energy savers. Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) use 75 percent less energy and last up to 10 times longer than the average incandescent light bulb. Halogen bulbs consume 30 percent less energy, producing more lumens (lighting power) per watt than an incandescent bulb. Solar lamps are energy savers as well, re...

Sources imform that Europe’s households have set off widely banning inefficient 60 watt light bulbs from 1 September 2011. The inefficient 60 watt light bulbs are being taken place of compact fluorescent light bulbs ( CFLs ) and light emitting diode lamps ( LEDs ). Halogen lights will remain on the shelves but are only marginally more efficient than incandescent bulbs. Europeans will be able to choose lamps which are at least 75% more efficient than old light bulbs and last at least seven times longer. According to Greenpeace EU energy policy adviser Frauke T...

World-leading electronic component distributor element14 Pty Ltd has tripled its inventory of Texas Instruments products including cutting edge LED solutions that support green lighting growth.  Element14 will provide a wide range of Texas Instruments products such as LED drivers, operational amplifiers and power to facilitate the growth of emerging technologies in Asia Pacific while giving electronic and maintenance engineers a huge boost towards more energy efficient lighting solutions.  LED technology is increasingly being used in various electronic sect...

Backlight module and lighting are two main applications of LED. However, in light of the weak demand in large-size backlight market in 1H11, the revenues of LED manufacturers plummet 20% compared to last year. LEDinside expects LED makers to shift their focuses to the lighting market; “a replacement for traditional lighting” becomes another development path for the LED industry.

It’s reported that Nichia has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against white LED products of Taiwan LED manufacturer Everlight On Aug. 31, 2011 . In Tokyo District Court, the Japanse company has filed a patent infringement lawsuit to enjoin Chip One Stop, Inc. from infringing Nichia's patent (No. 4530094, or "patent No. 094") with regard to white LED products (product number: GT 3528 series) manufactured by Everlight, and imported and sold by Chip One....

It’s said that The Republic Group Handelsvertretung GmbH (TRG) has been demanded to pay € 5,000 for not complying with Nichia. Date back to January 18, 2011,the District Court Düsseldorf in Germany ordered TRG to comply with Nichia’s claims upon TRG’s acknowledgement. According to the court, TRG was requested to cease and desist from offering for sale, placing on the market or using, or importing or possessing for any of the aforesaid purposes in Germany regarding specific white LED products covered by Nichia’s YAG p...

Reportedly, Philips has developed its new daylight solution to increase the visibility of commercial vehicles, thereby ensuring safer driving during the day and at night. This introduction anticipates European legislation prescribing that all new trucks and buses – over 33 million – must be equipped with dedicated Daytime Running Lights (DRL) from August 2012 onwards. Philips LED MasterLife Daylight 8 offers a high-value DRL solution for commercial vehicles already on the road, and enables drivers to benefit from the increased safety of DRL right now...

CambridgeHOK is the first certified Philips LED Horticulture partner in the United Kingdom, as well as the first partner outside Benelux. The ceremony took place at the Four Oaks Trade show at the Philips booth (D131 and 132). Some of the CambridgeHOK personnel were trained by Philips in the field of LED lighting in horticulture last week. Philips supports its partners in projects and field tests. This can be done due to the plant physiologists from Philips and their knowledge about light recipes available in the design and supervision of projects. In the...