Lately, Carmanah Technologies Corporation and Ruud Lighting, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cree,have discontinued their exclusive marketing agreement on November 6th, 2011. This agreement was established in May, 2008 and effectively paired Carmanah stand-alone solar power engines with Ruud Lighting's specification-grade BetaLED(R) exterior LED luminaires. The alliance between the two companies has resulted in Carmanah's portfolio of award-winning solar outdoor lighting products, including the EverGEN 30, EverGEN 1500, and EverGEN 1700 se...

Ohio –based company TCP has announced its LED lamp series of products earned the ENERGY STAR® certification, further confirming the company's commitment, with one of the largest number of ENERGY STAR qualified lamps in the industry. Vice President of Marketing at TCP, Jim Crowcroft, said that "We are excited that our LED series has earned the ENERGY STAR. Our LED strategy has been to produce products that exceed the ENERGY STAR requirements and provide them at a value price.  Achieving ENERGY ST...

Recently,Panasonic has won a Good Design award for an LED bulb which mimics the look of traditional incandescent bulbs while offering the energy efficiency of LED technology. According to the Good Design Award, Panasonic's managed to engineer around LEDs two main challenges: spreading the light around and casting a warm tint onto its surroundings. LEDs are often very cool light sources, which looks strange to our incandescent-trained eyes. Supposedly Panasonic's cracked that problem. The light produced is not reminiscent of an LED bulb but has a warm ...

According to Toshiba , it has completed the first stage of renewing external lighting at the Louvre, and it will continute to install the warm glow of new LED lighting in the Pyramid, the three pyramidions and the Colbert pavilion of the Louvre on December 6. The Louvre museum recognized the value of replacing the old, high energy xenon lighting with LEDs, and selected Toshiba as its partner in this endeavor. Toshiba has delivered and installed its latest LED products and fittings. Working in close collaboration, Toshiba and the Louvre have designed the lighting to ...

Havells-Sylvania has announced the appointment of Rajiv Goel as President of Global Operations for the Havells-Sylvania Group (formerly known as the Sylvania Group, prior to the 2007 acquisition).  In this role, Rajiv Goel will be fully responsible for driving strategic direction and growth.  Making this announcement, Anil Gupta, COO Havells India, Ltd said, “Rajiv’s proven track record in senior management at Havells coupled with his corporate financial expertise puts him in an ideal position to drive growth across our global business. ...

Xiang Nang Hualei Optoelectronics Ltd, of Hunan Province, China, has placed an order of eight new AIXTRON MOCVD reactors including six CRIUS II reactors in a 55x2-inch wafer configuration and two AIX G5 HT 56x2-inch wafer configuration systems to boost capacity for GaN HB LEDs. The order includes six CRIUS II reactors in a 55x2-inch wafer configuration and two AIX G5 HT 56x2-inch wafer configuration systems.   A local AIXTRON service team has installed and commissioned the new systems in Hualei Optoelectronics´ stat...

Osram Sylvania has released s new survey about Americans’ awareness on light bulb changeover. According to Osram Sylvania’s new survey, Americans’ awareness about using LED light sources as replacements for regular bulbs is growing. Americans come to know that federal legislation will phase out “most traditional incandescent lighting by 2014.” And the poll found that 55 percent of respondents were aware of that fact, up from 36 percent in 2010 and 26 percent in 2009. According to Stephanie Anderson, a spokeswoman for Osram Sylvania, &ldquo...

Tivoli, LLC announces the publication of a new comprehensive venue and auditorium catalog.  Featuring a variety of specific wall, row, step, seat and guide lighting solutions for today’s venues and theaters, the 32-page, full-color glossy catalog is a complete resource guide with recommended solutions for today’s popular VIP illumination solutions.    The catalog, which includes Tivoli’s ADA, Life Safety Code and ETL compliant systems, is formatted for easy product look-up, and is organized by application such as “VIP Venues,&rd...

The historic Schinkel street lights in the city of Leipzig has got an LED makeover with Braun Lighting Solutions of Berlin and Future Lighting Solutions. Compared with the 85W power consumption of the lamps they replace, the LED lamps consume only 22W. It is expected to reduce the street lights’ CO2 emissions by 60.8 tonnes per year. Future Lighting Solutions helped in the design phase by providing a simulation of the first prototype, implemented at its Lighting Resource Center in Montreal, Canada. It also helped with the selection of electronic lig...

Digital Lumens has announced new 18,000- and 26,000-lumen highbay LED lighting fixtures -- all with integrated daylight harvesting sensors -- and enhancements to LightRules(TM), the Digital Lumens centralized control system that maximizes energy efficiency. The new products are designed for use in an expanded range of commercial and industrial environments, including those requiring an IP 65 rating for washdown capabilities, the new fixtures are a lumen-for-lumen replacement of existing T5 and T8 High-Intensity Fluorescents (HIF) and feature:     ...

Leading Wireless Lighting Controls Company Adds Six Members to Partner Program Daintree Networks, Inc., the leading provider of wireless lighting control solutions for intelligent buildings, announced that six new companies have joined its ControlScope Connected Program, the only program of its kind in the lighting industry. With the latest additions, this growing ecosystem now consists of 16 partners that manufacture a variety of products including sensors, wall switches, ballasts and LED drivers for lighting and beyond. Through the ControlScope Connected Pro...

LED-lighting company Nualight, which is a venture capital-backed firm that specialises in the lighting of food retail displays, has won the overall Judges Award at the 2011 Cleantech Connect Awards in London. Some of the hottest and fastest-growing green-tech firms in Europe came down to the final 10 at the awards. The 10 finalists came from a variety of clean-tech sectors, including water, solar, smart grid, transportation, and energy efficiency.According to the organisers, the Judges Award is given to "the overall favourite, a leading contender in all categories. ...

Finnish-based lighting design firm Greenlux Finland Ltd, has developed a partnership with AB Fagerhult, the largest company in the lighting industry in the Nordic Countries. According to their agreement, Greenlux will deliver LED luminaries suitable for general lighting to Fagerhult for marketing and sale under the Fagerhult brand name. The first targets for collaboration will include large-scale projects in which the number of units in a single sale, when completed, will be larger than the total number of units produced by Greenlux in three years.   ...

Albeo Technologies was honored as Best of Energy Efficiency/Green Building by the Global Cleantech Cluster Association,demonstrating the company’s significant success in the growing cleantech industry and validates their leadership in the Energy Efficiency/Green Building sector. As its rapid growth, superior technology, industry leading installations, and high value job creation, Albeo was nominated for the GCCA Later Stage Award by GCCA Member Cluster, Colorado Cleantech Industrial Association  in May 2011. Jeff Bisberg, Albeo Technologi...

San Francisco Bay Area-based LED lighting company,Elemental LED has offered one Mini Screwdriver Kit with each order that the company ships between November 15th and January 1st,  as a special gift for the promotion of its products. The kit is small enough to easily fit inside a Christmas stocking, making it a perfect item to regift to fix-it and tinkering types. The compact kit is also practical, and includes six jewel screwdrivers in one case: a #0 and #1 Phillips, and a 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, and 2.0 mm Flat-head. The case is branded with the Elemental LED logo. ...

New three-dimensional offerings provide lighting systems with design flexibility and custom lighting distributions tailored for general lighting applications Intematix, a leading innovator of patented phosphors and phosphor components for high-quality LED lighting, announced the production availability of its ChromaLit™ Ellipse, Candle and Dome light sources for use by manufacturers of LED light bulbs, fixtures and other indoor and outdoor lighting applications. These new three-dimensional patented remote phosphor ChromaLit products provide designers with wide angle...

Growth in Demand for LED Lighting Triggers Need for Increased Warehouse and Manufacturing Capacity Cree, Inc.’s Ruud Lighting subsidiary, based in Racine, Wisc., will hold a groundbreaking ceremony to highlight a 208,000-square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility. The company’s $24.5 million investment will focus on manufacturing and assembly of LED lighting and is expected to create 469 new full-time jobs over the next four years. “Cree’s recent acquisition of Ruud Lighting and its BetaLED® products brought together two...

Employees from Absen’s International Sales Department were invited by a client to watch a Talent Show, hosted by Ukraine TV Station in Kiev Independence Square on October 15, 2011. The event was displayed perfectly on the M15 and C30 of Absen full-color outdoor LED displays, receiving praise from the sponsor.   The ring-shaped LED is the Absen C30 140m2 and the largest screen is the Absen M15 60m2   Talent shows are very popular in the Ukraine. For this event, the TV Station simply erected the stage in the main street leading to Kiev I...

Recently, Dialight’s DuroSite LED High Bay has recevied an industry award, this time for LUX magazine's Industrial Retrofit of the Year. The award was collected by customer Paul Cope, Managing Director of March Foods, at the first annual LUX Live trade show. The winning installation is a 6,500 sq metre warehouse facility in Cambridgeshire where the 150W Dialight LED High Bays paired with occupancy sensors replaced 84 450W high pressure sodium fittings, resulting in more than 70% energy savings, while reducing the amount of CO2 emissions b...

Columbia Lighting has designed epoc® LED, its first LED luminaire with solid-state electronics from Universal Lighting Technologies, available for schools, office buildings and other general illumination applications. According to Columbia Lighting, epoc® LED is carefully tuned using precise standards to maintain superior color consistency within each fixture, from fixture to fixture, and throughout its lifetime. The luminaires are passed through the company’s custom-designed test booth where each receives a unique QR code capturing its exact initial c...

International Green Systems (IGS) has signed a contract with Mi Tierra to replace more than 100,000 bulbs and lamps at the downtown Market Square restaurant with LED bulbs. Mi Tierra’s owners expect to cut electricity use by more than 5.4 million kilowatt hours and reduce greenhouse gases by the equivalent of 123 vehicles. Mi Tierra is making use of CPS Energy’s Commercial Lighting Rebate program. With rebates, CPS Energy will cover about 60 percent of the cost of the new lighting. Mi Tierra will unveil the new lighting on Nov. 15 at a spe...

The worldwide traffic movement presents a considerable burden for the environment – even public transport carriers in the aviation industry. Therefore, Innsbruck Airport has declared preventive environmental protection measures to be an integral part of its corporate strategy and focuses on sustainable solutions for the expansion of airport infrastructures: The apron lighting systems developed by ewo focuses completely – in a hitherto globally unique method – on energy-saving LED technology. The 14 high mast systems with varying mounting heights (ranging from 13...

Lighting Science Group has signed an agreement on reselling the company’s A19 LED bulbs with FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit public charity founded by inventor Dean Kamen, strives to cultivate young people’s interest and participation in science, technology, engineering and math. The agreement encourages FIRST middle school and high-school students to sell LED bulbs, produced by Lighting Science Group, in their home communities. A modern-day twist on traditional fundraising methods, the...

SemiLEDs has released its not so bright financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, ended August 31, 2011. According to the company ,revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $5.3 million, a 54% decrease from $11.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. GAAP net loss attributable to SemiLEDs stockholders for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $13.6 million, or a loss of $0.50 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income attributable to SemiLEDs stockholders of $5.3 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of fi...

A recent meeting held Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has made a conclusion that the ministry must revise current strategies on Taiwan’s LED industry development, and the MOEA pledged to work out revised strategies within a month. Economic Minster Y.S. Shih met with top brasses of Taiwan’s leading LED industry in a bid to brainstorm ideas concerning how to help the manufacturers go through hard competition compounded by the economic downturn. Everlight Chairman Y.F. Yeh, Lextar Chairman David Su, EpistarPresident M.J. Jou, and...

Lately, GE Lighting has hold the 3rd annual LED & Energy Efficient Lighting Trends for Retail conference at the lighting unit’s global headquarters in East Cleveland, Ohio. There are 45 retailers gathered to share best practices, learn about new technologies and discuss emerging trends that can deliver immediate and sustained environmental and financial gains, while enhancing the visual appeal of products. Among the retailers, The Fresh Market and Walgreens were honored for their efforts in lighting efficiency by GE Lighting. The Fresh Market took h...

According to Sandia National Laboratories recent research, diode lasers could eventually compete with LEDs for home and commercial lighting solutions. Sandia National Laboratories recently asked participants to rate various LED and diode laser lighting scenarios and found that in some situations consumers preferred the diode lasers. As we know, LEDs are the most energy-efficient replacements for the incandescent bulbs. But less people know LEDs lose efficiency at currents higher than 0.5 amps. The diode laser actually improves at higher currents, which means it ca...

Recently, Bavaria Technology Solutions in Al Ain has made a deal with the main contractor / MBEC for Abu Dhabi Judicial Department to supply LED lighting for the new security buildings being built at the perimeter of the New Court Building in Abu Dhabi. Selection of LED lighting in building specification is increasingly becoming a popular choice for environmentally -conscious architects and builders in the UAE and around the World for its many green benefits, as well as to meet strict environmental guidelines set by regulating authorities. Harald Ehrl, m...

Photometric Testing has set up Gloucestershire-based laboratory to provide specialist optical test and measurement services for LEDs, lamps and luminaires. Test services will be offered in small and medium businesses in the lighting industry, and specialist approach to LED testing. The company has employed a 1m diameter integrating sphere with high resolution spectroradiometer detector for measuring luminous flux, chromaticity, colour temperature and colour rendering. For measuring beam distributions and the variation of luminous intensity with angle, Photometric Testi...

According to OSRAM, it has claimed to created the world's most efficient OLED lighting panel with an efficiency of 32 lm/W and a birghtness of1,000 cd/m².   OSRAM's flexible OLED research was conducted as part of the TOPAS 2012 project - the same project in which OSRAM developed the 87 lm/W white OLED panel back in June.  ...