Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces that more than 930 LR6(TM) six-inch LED downlights and LR24(TM) LED lay-in luminaries have been installed at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base as part of an overall renovation currently underway. Located outside of San Diego, Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps, serving as its prime amphibious training base for nearly 100,000 Marines. Prior to installation, Accelerated Electric, Inc., the electrical contractor for this project, and RA...

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology maker GlacialTech Inc., is excited to announce that their display at INTERLIGHT MOSCOW will feature an exceptional line-up of high-quality and superbly designed LED lighting products for buyers and journalists to see first-hand. Interested parties are invited to visit the GlacialLight Booth #NO.T1.3, Hall 7.2, from November 8-11, 2011, at the Expocentre Fairgrounds in Moscow, to test products, ask questions, and procure GlacialLight's most advanced LED lighting solutions offerings. Dat...

Larson Electronics' Magnalight.com has announced the addition of a portable LED task light to its line of LED lighting products. The SCLED-H5 rechargeable LED task light provides both a spot beam and floodlight capability for applications where distance as well as wide area illumination is needed. A magnetic mounting base and integrated grappling hook allow users to easily secure this light in a variety of locations and a rechargeable and removable battery provides an economical power source. The SCLED-H5 rechargeable LED task light provides operators wit...

Pune based IT company, BMC Software has launched an initiative to " gain by saving" by replacing lighting fixtures in its Pune office facilities with higher efficiency LED lights resulting in over 65% savings in power. These savings have been utilized to donate solar power LED lighting system to a remote village near Sakur in Sangamner taluka of Ahmednagar district. Tarun Sharma, site leader and vice president of research and development for BMC Software said, "A significant part of the savings made from reduced power bills will be applied to the co...

Solid Apollo’s value based LED Wizard 10 Zone Controller incorporates the same features found in high end led controllers yet at a budget conscious price. Each RGB LED Controller provides users the option of controlling up to 10 zones individually or collectively from the convenience of a single wireless controller. The LED Wizard RGB LED Controller includes Solid Apollo’s exclusive Touch Wheel Color Selector which gives users the ability to dial-in any color of the rainbow at the flick of a finger. In addition, users can control brightness, col...

A smart office is one which uses less energy, where wireless sensors placed on workstations and personal computers "talk" to each and relay information about the room back to a computer or base station, which then "tell" individual LED lights installed on the ceiling how much to light up, dim or switch off. Such a smart grid lighting system can result in energy savings of some 45 per cent compared to conventional fluorescent lighting. Yesterday, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) announced a tie-up with JTC Corporation and Royal Philips El...

Researchers working at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently announced they had improved the performance of LEDs through the use of zinc oxide microwires. Scientists from Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering affirmed they had been working to create technologies that could potentially improve the performance of LEDs, which are increasingly common in homes and businesses as a lighting source. The research was funded with grants obtained from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Department of Energ...

MINGYAO Department store, located in the central shopping area in Taipei, a Taiwan traditional department store for 23-year old which held a grand reopening on Sep. 23, 2011 after seven months of renovation. The opening of the Uniqlo flagship store coincided with the grand opening in MINGYAO. For the grand reopening of MINGYAO, ARC SSL. has equipped the exceptional lighting fixtures with LED solution in dynamic lighting display. The LED cluster fixtures are installed and provide splendor lightshows in multi-sides with the one control system. ARC...

Larson Electronics' Magnalight.com has introduced a powerful LED hand lamp to its line of explosion proof approved work lights that provides the versatility of a compact hand lamp with the high output of an LED equipped bulb assembly. The EPL-FL26-LED-100 is a compact yet powerful work light that produces three times the illumination of comparable fluorescent work lights without the problems of fragile glass lamps and bulky ballasts or transformers. Equipped with 100 feet of explosion proof cord and constructed to withstand rigorous use, this lamp is ideal for close wo...

Cooper Lighting, a leader in energy-efficient solutions offering the broadest selection of recessed downlights including the first ENERGY STAR®-qualified HALO LED downlight and IRIS high-performance architectural products, has partnered with LIPA to offer its universal All-Pro LED Retrofit Recessed Downlight to promote both energy efficiency and cost savings. Through its Residential Energy Efficient Lighting Program, one of the many programs under LIPA's Efficiency Long Island, customers can purchase Cooper Lighting's All-Pro...

LED Holiday Lighting, premier online LED Christmas lighting retailer, is pleased to announce the expansion of their LED lighting product line with launch of their newly redesigned and completely restructured website. LED Holiday Lighting website is now easier to navigate and provides customers with more quality LED lighting products to choose from just in time for Christmas shopping. The updated product line features premium and commercial grade LED lighting products along with an array of NEW! LED decorative light products you won’t find anywhere else...

High-Definition LED Video Screens Installed at Michigan Stadium Football fans of the University of Michigan kicked off the 2011 season enjoying a new look to Michigan Stadium, now complete with newly upgraded scoreboards from Lighthouse Technologies. The state-of-the-art video displays and scoring systems feature Screen Master® high-brightness LEDs by Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), delivering crystal-clear, high definition images to fans throughout “The Big House.” A college football icon, Michigan Stadium was built in 1927 and is the lar...

Tsannkuen Japan, a subsidiary of a Taiwanese company, has involved in infringing Nichia's patent (No. 4530094, or "094 patent") and Nichia claims damages for the infringement with regard to LED light bulbs manufactured by Tsann Kuen. According to Nichia, it has filed two patent infringement lawsuits at the Tokyo District Court with Tsann Kuen as the defendant and Unity Opto Technology Co. Ltd., as its supporting intervener. In addition, Nichia also confirmed that Tsann Kuen sold LED light bulbs with E17 bases (product number: TK-BE05L, ...

Lately, at the launch of GE Lighting’s European Lighting Experience Centre in Hungary,the company’s president and CEO (EMEA) Phil Marshall has anticipated a 150 per cent growth in LED sales but that the company will adopt a strategic decision that not to invest large amounts of money in takeovers when there was still so much uncertainty in the LED market. He pointed out that “I don’t think you have to be a chip manufacturer to be successful in the LED market. We’ve been investing on a smaller and more organic scale to build up ou...

Recently, AIXTRON has supplied its new AIXTRON AIX G5 HT MOCVD reactor to Infineon Technologies for the development of GaN-on-Si power HEMTs. In September 2011, Infineon Technologies confirmed process acceptance of the system in a 8x6-inch wafer configuration with the option to upgrade to 5x8-inch. Dr. Franz Auerbach, Senior Director R&D for Power Management & Supply Discretes at Infineon Technologies,said that “We look forward to further enhance our plans in the field of GaN on Silicon. Our teams are confident that...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Municipal Solid-State Street Light Consortium (MSSLC) recently released model guidelines for specifying LED streetlights for municipal installations. This document was created with the input and cooperation of a working group of Consortium members as well as LED lighting manufacturers. The MSSLC created the model to serve as a starting point for municipalities considering new, or adding to existing, LED streetlight installations. Additionally, the guidelines will serve as a useful tool for putting together effec...

The City of Stamford will receive a $357,000 rebate from Connecticut Light and Power for its use of energy efficient LED street lights made by General Electric. What’s more the City’s recent switch to the new GE Cobrahead lights will save it about $146,000 annually on its electric bill. According to a press release, Stamford plans to use the rebate funds to install an additional 467 GE LED Cobrahead streetlights next year. “The new LED streetlights are making an important contribution to Stamford’s sustainability efforts, as well ...

Walmart will open its first store in the United States that utilizes all-LED lighting on the interior. The store, a Walmart Neighborhood Market, is located at 2111 N. Amidon, Wichita, Kan. The company said it expects to see a 40% savings on the energy-efficient lights, which also last at least six years beyond conventional lighting, reducing maintenance costs. "We are delighted to have all LED interior lighting in our newest Wichita store," said market manager Michael Overton. "This is part of Walmart's commitment to be a good steward of the e...

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, today announced the introduction of the NCP1840, a multi-LED driver with the ability to drive up to eight LEDs independently, using any illumination pattern the user creates. The NCP1840 is ideal for multi-LED status indicators that communicate status and diagnostic conditions to the user, and can help differentiate an end product via LED animation. By utilizing the NCP1840, engineers can offload some of the work normally handled by the...

Project Supports Korean Government’s LED Lighting Penetration Goals   Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced that luminaire manufacturer Ilsung Moolsan of Korea has selected energy-efficient Bridgelux LED arrays for the installation of 1000 of their high quality high performance downlights at the new Sheraton Hotel at D-Cube City in Seoul. Bridgelux’s award-winning RS and ES LED arrays are specified to light various areas of the hotel including lobby, lounge, publi...

Last Friday , Everlight has shown its “deeply sorry” for the anxieties it had caused society because of the unpaid leave plan. And it has scrapped the plan . After the company has released its unpaid leave plan,some critics have highlighted the fact that Everlight Chairman Ye Yin-fu’s was recently able to donate NT$100 million to his alma mater, National Taipei University of Technology.They have also questioned the necessity of the furlough plan in light of the company’s profitability. Everlight posted pre-tax profit of NT$538 million for the ...

OSRAM, one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world, announced today that Shun Li Industrial Park is the first to implement OSRAM’s High Power Modular Street Light (HPMSL) to illuminate the streets in the industrial estate in Singapore.    With the customers’ heavy reliance on ample around-the-clock outdoor lighting, the park made the decision to replace its aging high pressure sodium (HPS) street lamps with OSRAM’s new HPMSL solution for better light and power efficiency, as well as in a reduction of time and mo...

Mighty Bright, designer and manufacturer of innovative LED lighting products, introduces the portable LED Sewing Machine Light at The International Quilt Market 2011, the premier conference and tradeshow for quilters and sewers, being held at George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, October 29-31, 2011. Mighty Bright’s new Sewing Machine Light is a versatile, energy-efficient and cool-to-the-touch LED light for use in sewing, embroidery, and detail-intensive projects. Mighty Bright’s Sewing Machine Light fills a gap in the craft ...

An exhibition of Taiwanese LED lighting products in the United Kingdom has received a warm welcome, the show's organizer, the Taiwan Trade Center in London, said Friday. The organizer said the LED products' quality and designs earned high praise from visiting U.K. vendors, and it expected that Taiwan's share of the British lighting market would grow in step with rising global awareness of the need for energy efficiency. The show, held at the Gusu Art Gallery in western London, featured a number of top Taiwanese LED makers, including Navitas Gr...

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp announced the "Normal Light Bulb-type 10.6W," a new LED light bulb with a wide light distribution angle. Its light distribution angle is 260°, which is equivalent to that of a bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp. And the brightness of the new LED light bulb is equivalent to that of a 60W incandescent light bulb. It will come in two types, a daylight color type and an incandescent color type, whose luminous fluxes are 1,000 and 810lm, respectively. "As a light bulb with a wide light distribution angle, it has the h...

Faced with shrinking budgets and expanding responsibilities, municipalities are being asked to do more with less when it comes to city improvements. The City of Stamford was up for the challenge when it began exploring how to light its town more efficiently. The resulting solution, a switch to energy-efficient LED streetlights, will save the city more than $146,000 annually. To jump-start the project, the city was awarded an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, an initiative funding energy efficiency and conservation programs across the country. The grant paved t...

OSRAM unveiled a beautiful new OLED installation at the Qubique Berlin Tempelhof 2011 exhibition, which uses over 1,400 OSRAM round Orbeos panels. It was designed by Labme, OSRAM's new open source OLED lighting design platform. It is the largest OLED lighting installation ever produced, replacing Philip's Living Shapes OLED wall installation which had 1,152 Lumiblade panels. But the amount of panels is still small compared to Mitsubishi's 6-meter OLED GeoGlobe which uses 10,362 PMOLED displays. Anyway, here's a nice ...

Tivoli, the original innovator of linear LED solutions is pleased to announce that the University of Oregon’s (UO) John E. Jaqua Academic Center was recently awarded a prestigious Architectural Lighting Magazine's Light & Architecture Design award. The annual awards program honors outstanding and innovative projects in the field of architectural lighting design. The UO Jaqua Center was awarded a Commendable Achievement in the Whole Building Design Category recognizing and rewarding excellent lighting design. Architectural firm, ZGF Partner...

Recently ,due to the slackened demand in LED industry, including Huga Optotech, Everlight have asked their staffs to carry out unpaid leave. According to Robert Yeh , chairman of Everlight, due to the high inventory level, the LED industry has entered an off season. Everlight staffers will take two to three days of unpaid leave in November and five days in December. The unpaid leave gives Everlight the flexibility to skip a layoff program. In the contrast, Epistar reported that it won’t follow the practice of Everlight. Neither did Chimei-Innolux have the...

Future Lighting Solutions has announced plans to unveil its newest lighting innovation, the Remote Phosphor Downlight Solution at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair, October 27-30, 2011. Visitors to the Future Lighting Solutions booth, located at 1D-D32 in the Hall of Aurora, will learn about the latest LED technologies and how they can help decrease time to market. Featured will be an innovative Remote Phosphor Downlight Solution, comprised of LUXEON® Royal Blue LEDs, a Cubilux mixing chamber from CerFlex International, a ChromaLit...