Samsung LED (CEO, Jaekwon Kim) announced on September 20th that its mid-power 2323 LED package has now exceeded 6,000 hours of independent, EPA recognized 3rd party IES LM80 testing and the company is now able to provide LM80 test data upon request. IES LM-80-2008 is the industry standard that defines the method for testing LED lamps, arrays and modules to determine their lumen depreciation characteristics. The goal of LM-80 is to allow a reliable comparison of test results among laboratories by establishing uniform test methods. This test data now enabl...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces its entire family of LED-based troffer replacements, including the latest Cree CR series of troffers, have been qualified by the DesignLights Consortium™ (DLC), ensuring they meet the highest level of quality standards. Cree’s CR14™, CR 22™ and CR24™ troffers, along with the LR24™ and LR24-HE troffers, are the most efficient and have the highest CRI of any products rated in the DLC “Linear Panel” categories. A collaboration of ut...

Reportedly, Seattle City Light (SCL) has started to the old high-pressure sodium streetlamps with new LED lights in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park on Sept. 20. The newer LED technology uses approximately 48 percent less energy than current high-pressure sodium lights, and they are expected to last at least three times as long. The project cost, which was originally estimated at between $25-24 million, has dropped in the last year to $20 million for all 41,000 residential street lamps. A small portion of this cost will be covered by federal stimulus funds and SLC w...

Seesmart, Inc., a division of Seesmart Holdings, Inc.,has completed LED retrofit in a global supplier of eyewear, Zyloware Eyewear’s, new 50,000 square foot facility based in Westchester County, New York. The retrofit began at the end of last year and now Zyloware's offices and distribution center shine with 700 clean, energy-efficient Seesmart LEDs. Seesmart's LED lighting is 50%+ more efficient than fluorescent lighting and is rated for up to 50,000 hours of operation. LEDs produce far less heat than fluorescents, decreasing the demand on air con...

A new study has found that exposure to white LED bulbs suppresses our brain's production of melatonin that is responsible, among other things, for the regulation of our biological clock, more than exposure to the bulbs emitting orange-yellow light. In this study, conducted by astronomers, physicists and biologists from ISTIL- Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute in Italy, the National Geophysical Data Centre in Boulder, Colorado, and the University of Haifa, researchers for the first time examined the differences in melatonin suppression in a variou...

Sources inform that Lighting Science Group (LSG) will cooperate with BSES Rajdhani Power in the area of LED lighting. Both LSG and power distribution company BSES Rajdhani have entered into an agreement for the collaboration, where the two entities would "explore avenues to demonstrate and promote energy efficiency using the next generation LED lighting". According to BSES Rajdhani CEO Gopal Saxena said in a statement, scope of the association would also involve conducting field trials of various LED based lighting options, such as ma...

City officials announced that a program to replace more than 35,000 streetlights with brighter, energy efficient bulbs is under way. About 80 percent of the city's streetlights over the next 17 months will get new magnetic induction lights that have a whiter illumination over the current sodium vapor lamps. "The city will save $2.2 million annually from reduced energy and maintenance costs, and the higher-quality light will make our neighborhoods safer," Mayor Jerry Sanders said. According to the city, the life span of the new bulbs runs up to 100,000 hours, or ...

Light-Based Technologies (LBT) has closed the second tranche of a financing round totalling $7.5m. The series B Round of investment was lead by cleantech-focused venture capital firms VantagePoint Venture Partners and Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital. As part of the investment, LBT has added to its management team, appointing Art Aylesworth as CEO, Matthew Watson as COO and Barry Hagglund as CTO. Aylesworth was recently CEO of Carmanah Technologies for five years, during which time sales grew to over $60m and the workforce increased by more than t...

Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA (which claims to be the only vertically integrated maker of LED solid-state light sources specifically for the lighting industry) has been chosen by the editorial team of AlwaysOn and industry experts worldwide as a GoingGreen Global 200 winner (a “leader among green-tech companies and a player most likely to disrupt markets”). “Inclusion in the GoingGreen Global 200 list validates our commitment to leading innovation and speeding market adoption for LED lighting,” says Bridgelux CEO Bill Watkins. &ld...

The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST) has developed a new concept: a biocompatible, flexible Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED that can detect prostate cancer. A flexible LED can conformably place on the human heart, situate on the corrugated surface of the human brain, or roll upon the blood vessels, diagnose or even treat various diseases. GaN LED, a highly efficient light emitting device, has been commercialized in LED TVs and in the lighting industry. Until now, it has been difficult to use this semic...

The newest addition to the DPS website is a universal LED banner stand light. This LED light is noted as one of the most highly sought after models due to the light displays ability to fit nearly all banner stand models on the market. The owner of Digital Pre-Press Services, Inc. , Ara Abrahamian, was asked what prompted DPS to include the new LED light display kit and he responded “ One of the main reasons that we added this product is that Fire Marshals may actually ask the exhibitors to take down the halogen lights or turn them off; we heard this ha...

With European Union officials making efforts to reduce electricity consumption and to eliminate traditional, inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2012, European LED chip and luminaire maker Optogan says that it has entered a new market for solid-state lighting (SSL) luminaires in Romania. The market for solid-state lighting luminaries has significant potential over the next 3–5 years, given the EU’s efforts to reduce energy consumption by up to 80%, says Optogan. “In the Balkan area, we estimate a €25–30m market for SSL luminaries by th...

Optogan, the technology leader in the manufacturing of light emitting diodes (LED) and Atlantic Elektronik, electronics distributor and provider of advanced system solutions signed a distribution agreement for the pan-European market in August. Aim of this new cooperation is the marketing of energy-efficient lighting solutions and the latest LED applications "Made in Germany". The focus is on the sales of white LEDs, chips, and additional components such as driver ICs. The focus of this new partnership is a perfect mutual assistance in the care of new pro...

Taiwan’s LED manufacturer EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., recently has ordered AIXTRON CRIUS II-L MOCVD system in a 69x2-inch wafer configuration,for the volume production of ultra-high brightness (UHB) Gallium Nitride (GaN) based blue LEDs. The system was ordered in the second quarter of 2011 and following delivery in the third quarter of 2011, will be installed and commissioned by a local AIXTRON service team in EpiLEDs’ state-of-the-art facility in Tainan, Taiwan. Steve Ku, President of EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., ...

Source inform that Aixtron, has slashed its sales guidance for 2011 and reduced its order backlog by €100 million, based on talks with its Asian customers revealed increasing macro-economic concerns. Previously, Aixtron’s target was  €800 million-€900 million.However, it now expects to post sales of between €600 million and €650 million. With the average cost of a piece of MOCVD kit around €2-2.5 million, the new guidance suggests that Aixtron has cut its shipment expectations for 2011 by as many as one hundreds units. It may has a...

Newark /element14, a leading multi-channel, high-service electronics distributor in the Americas and a business of global Premier Farnell, announced today that it has signed a franchise agreement with Fischer Elektronik to market its board-level heat sinks for common package semiconductors plus extruded and finger-shaped heat sinks to support LED design and industrial applications. This agreement extends an existing franchise with Farnell, Newark/element14's sister distributor in Europe. "Fischer is well known in Europe for developing innovative thermal management ...

DEKOR™, a Colorado based designer and innovator of LED lighting, deck and railing products, has solved under cabinet lighting dilemma with new LED under cabinet lights. LIGHT QUANTITY DEKOR™ LED Under Cabinet Lights not only meet but exceed the light level recommended by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America for critical task such as chopping and dicing. The lights are also dimmable. DEKOR™ LED Under Cabinet Lights have a wide angle and sufficient LEDs placed close together to provide a smooth, ev...

The LED industry has now gained enough momentum and reached a critical mass to entice equipment and material providers into developing dedicated solutions for LED manufacturing. The recently released Yole Développement report, LED Packaging 2011, predicts more than $2 billion will be invested over the 2011-2016 period in new equipment for LED packaging. Packaging typically accounts for 20% to 60% of the packaged LED total cost and therefore represents the single largest opportunity for cost reduction, according to Yole Développement. Today LED...

Reportedly, Chip One Stop, Inc. has come to an agreement with Nichia on the patent infringement litigation regarding Nichia's patent No. 4530094 ("patent No. 094") that had been pending in Tokyo District Court by settlement out of court. Chip One has acknowledged that the white LED products (product number: GT 3528 series) manufactured by Everlight and sold by Chip One falls within the scope of the claim of patent No. 094, and agreed to terminate the sale of all white LED products manufactured by Everlight and to respect Nichia's intellectual ...

Lighting manufacturer Lighting Science Group today unveiled a new LED light for ceilings. The 15-watt Glimpse LED light is intended to replace 65-watt BR30 lights, and can be retrofit into most preexisting 5- to 6-inch recessed lighting cans or a J-Box. The light is dimmable down to 5 percent lighting capacity, according to the company. The Energy Star-qualifying bulb is also "fully recyclable" and free of toxic chemicals, according to Lighting Science Group. Like almost all LEDs, it is also free of mercury. The Glimpse LED is currently avai...

There is "general and widespread" confusion among the British public when it comes to LED lighting, suggests Light IQ. With the EU's ban prohibiting retailers from buying new stocks of incandescent 60 watt light bulbs now coming into full effect, consumers will have to adapt their usual shopping habits when it comes to lighting up their homes. This isn't going to be easy says Victoria Lee, client relationship manager at Light IQ, with many homeowners reluctant to move away from traditional lighting. It's something that shouldn't be feared ...

Luminous Power Technologies Limited, provider of power backup solutions for home, commercial, telecom towers & renewable energy systems has launched LED based Solar Lighting Solution, a low cost solution for rural home lighting requirements. The energy efficient LED based design of this new product with a single light output is at par with 11 watts CFL. The equipment can provide light output ranging between 11 to 102 hrs. About 39% of households in rural India still use kerosene to meet their lighting requirements. They plan to use new solar lighting instead of...

Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, announced today the availability of the 2210 SERIES. A DC direct powered, ultra thin, architectural grid lay-in luminaire, the 2210 SERIES is compliant with Armstrong® DC FlexZone™ Ceiling Systems, making it the first LED fixture that provides voluminous quality light directly from solar generated power. The 2210 SERIES is the first EMerge® Alliance Registered LED luminaire, and is ideally suited for office, sch...

OSRAM SYLVANIA, North American lighting leader, announced it has been honored with two Lighting for Tomorrow awards at the American Lighting Association (ALA) annual conference taking place this week. The winning products, the SYLVANIA ULTRA LED A-line 100-watt replacement lamp and the SYLVANIA ULTRA RT4 LED Recessed Downlight Kit, plus honorable mentions for the SYLVANIA ULTRA LED PAR38 lamp and the SYLVANIA ULTRA LED B10 lamp were the most by any manufacturer. The SYLVANIA ULT...

NexPhase Lighting, Inc., the subsidiary of Onteco Corporation, has completed LM79 testing for its Linear LED Luminaire Series No. COV20BMB41. Ty Ramsey, COO of NexPhase, stated, "We have completed an important milestone in establishing our NexPhase products as clearly 'best of class' and well ahead of the competition. Today, we received testing completion notification from CSA, our independent LM79 testing lab, that our Linear LED Luminaire Series No. COV20BMB41, has successfully completed all LM79 testing. What this means ...

Suppliers in Taiwan are boosting production of vertical LED chips, expecting the type to be the mainstream component for high-power LED applications in coming years. They are optimistic they can catch up with international leaders such as SemiLEDs, Osram and Cree. The increasing emphasis on the category is largely driven by its many advantages over transverse or lateral counterpart. Vertical LED chips can be classified according to substrate and emitted color. For the first, there are GaN, GaP and ZnO. The second category has red, green, blue and UV. The ...

MOM’s Organic Market has switched over from using traditional incandescent lights to LED bulbs in all seven of its stores. MOM’s operates stores in Alexandria, Va., and Bowie, College Park, Frederick, Jessup, Rockville and Timonium, Md. The grocer is slated open a location in Herndon, Va., next month, and stores in Merrifield, Va., and Waldorf, Md., in 2012. The LEDs deployed at MOM’s last an average of 25,000 hours and use 18 watts per bulb. The old incandescent bulbs lasted about 3,000 hours and used an average of more than 60 watts ...

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Energy Costs Reduced by Nearly 67 Percent with Cree XLamp® LEDs at California Waste Connections Facility In a move to improve lighting quality and safety at its Cold Canyon Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE: WCN) upgraded its lighting system with Cree-powered Xeralux LED high-bay fixtures. The Xeralux fixtures feature Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp® XP-G LEDs, helping Waste Connections reduce its energy costs by almost two-thirds and nearly eliminating its maintenance c...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, has enhanced its LED indoor ambient lighting portfolio with the launch of an expanded line of diffuser lens options for the Lithonia Lighting® TLED luminaire. The TLED luminaire is a high-quality, general-purpose troffer with flexible diffuser options, and along with the RTLED, ACLED, and VTLED is part of Lithonia Lighting’s versatile recessed LED indoor ambient lighting product family. The TLED l...