2016-03-07

Indian City Kolhapur Struggles to Find Economic Model to Finance LED Streetlight Project

More than a year has passed since Kolhapur, a city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, had launched tenders and appointed a firm to install the new LED lights, but the city council has not found a sustainable economic model to finalize the feasibility of the INR 280 million (US $4.12 million), reported The Times of India.
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2016-03-07

British City Gloucester Upgrades to More Energy Efficient Car Parks

The Gloucester City Council in southwest UK is implementing two major upgrades in local parking lots to make them more energy efficient and environmental friendly, reported Gloucester Citizen.
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2016-03-07

Houston Astros to be Lit with Musco’s LED Lighting System and Save up to US $1M within 10 Years

When Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros take the field on April 11 against the Kansas City Royals at Minute Maid Park, it will be under Musco’s cutting-edge SportsCluster Green™ LED system. As part of a significant renovation to Minute Maid Park, the new lighting system will provide unprecedented levels of energy efficiency and enhance the spectator experience at the ballpark.
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2016-03-07

Verbatim to Showcase Vx-filter Technology with Enriched Colors and Improved Detail Rendering

Verbatim’s Vx-filter delivers precise changes to the spectral distribution curve of existing LED products to ensure that colours and finer details of objects appear as they would be perceived in natural daylight. This improvement in colour fidelity and vividness is a solution that is particularly useful for retailers, museums and hospitality venues in spaces where small differences in colour hues, tints and textures can have a significant impact.
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2016-03-07

Malaysian Company Elsoft Starts Production of LED Test Equipment

A Malaysian manufacturer Elsoft Research has started producing 40 LED test equipment that is valued to reach an estimated RM 20 million (US $) by the first half of 2016, reported Malaysian media StarBiz.
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2016-03-07

Xcel Energy Tackles Wisconsin Town Residents Lighting Concerns with Well-Designed LED Streetlights

A U.S. lighting installer Xcel Energy is tackling lighting complaints from residents in Eau Claire, Wisconsin with better designed LED streetlights, reported Leader Telegram.
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2016-03-07

European Scientists Make Breakthrough in OLED Technology to Achieve Cheaper Lighting and Flexible Solar Cells

In more than three years of work European scientists finally made future lighting technology ready to market. They developed flexible lighting foils that can be produced roll-to-roll – much like newspapers are printed. These devices pave the path towards cheaper solar cells and LED lighting panels. The project named TREASORES was led by Empa scientist Frank Nüesch and combined knowhow from nine companies and six research institutes in five European countries.
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2016-03-07

Philips LightVibes Brought Imagine Dragons Concert Film to London Audience

Last night at an exclusive screening at London’s independent Genesis Cinema in Mile End, Philips Lighting brought one of the world’s hottest bands to the silver screen as never seen before.
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2016-03-07

Acclaim Lighting Addds New Intelligent Dimmable Light to its Product Portfolio

Acclaim Lighting, a leader in innovative and advanced solid lighting technology, announces its latest innovation to the solid state LED lighting market, Ai Dim. Abbreviated for Acclaim intelligent dimming, Ai Dim is the combination of a finely tuned dimming curve and a specific grouping of LEDs, which results in a near perfect representation of incandescent dimming. Acclaim meticulously designed every detail of the Ai Dim system, from the custom LED chipset and driver to the smooth dimming curve, which brings the best of LED and incandescent lighting together.
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2016-03-07

Cambridge Hardware Conference Sheds Light on Up-to-date LED Technologies

Organisers of the UK hardware developers’ conference H/WExpo have announced that LED specialist supplier, Intelligent LED Solutions (ILS) and LED manufacturer OSRAM Opto-Semiconductors, will jointly present a free two-hour workshop that will be an introduction to LED technologies and associated products, in both visible and non-visible areas.
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2016-03-07

Edison Opto Demonstrates Intelligent Lighting at Light+Building 2016

Edison Opto, the Taiwanese leading LED packaging manufacturer, will participate in the world’s grand event for lighting and intelligent buildings. To answer this high profile lighting event, Edison Opto will bring their latest LED products, such as high efficiency components, AC modules with smart lighting system and the comprehensive street light solutions to demonstrate their R&D achievements. We invite you to visit us at booth E91 in Hall 4.2, and experience the latest developments in LED lighting technologies. 
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2016-03-04

Hot Picks of the Week Feb.29-March 4

Toshiba Lighting has finally made some progress in selling its less profitable Chinese production line to appliance manufacturer Konka Group. The company is withdrawing from the Chinese consumer lighting market, and plans to move operations back to Japan.
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2016-03-04

YuanRong Photoelectric Technology Signs Strategic Deep UV LED Partnership Agreement with HKI Group

YuanRong Photoelectric Technology (YuanRong) announced recently that its wholly owned subsidiary YuanRong Health Technology (temporary translation, the company does not have an official English name) has signed a global strategic partnership agreement with HKI Group to develop Deep UV (DUV) LED technologies, reported Chinese media Sinai.
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2016-03-04

Market Oversupply Drives Nan Ya Photonics Incorporation to Exit EPI-Wafer Market

Waning market demands, price wars and severe oversupply of LED chips in LED industry has urged Nan Ya Photonics Incorporation (NYPI), a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics Group, to  announce earlier this week its exit from the upstream LED EPI-wafer manufacturing business, and shift its focus to downstream market, including light bulb production and lighting system.
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2016-03-04

ANSI Accredited Standards Committee C78 Reaffirms Six Lighting Standards

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) announced that ANSI Accredited Standards Committee C78 reaffirmed six standards now available for purchase on the NEMA website. 
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2016-03-04

Fraunhofer Institute Develop Nano-Sponge Structures to Make Brighter Smart Headlights

According to statistics, the majority of accidents occur at dusk or at night – poor visibility is often the trigger. Intelligent headlights adapt to the current traffic situation, and can be a remedy. In collaboration with industry partners, Fraunhofer researchers have developed a high-resolution illumination system with more than 1,000 LED pixels: It offers considerably more options for precise light distribution than previous solutions have and is also energy efficient.
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2016-03-04

Western-Central Indian State to Upgrade Streetlights in 43,665 Villages with LEDs

Officials from the Maharashtra state located in western-central India has announced plans of replacing CFL streetlights in 43,665 villages with LEDs, reported Moneycontrol.com.
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2016-03-04

ONCE Files Petition to CEC to Repeal 2016 Building Energy Efficiency Standards

Once, Inc., a technology company specializing in photobiology and optogenetics, announced the submission of its Petition to the California Energy Commission (CEC) to repeal the 2016 Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Standards). The Standards pose additional requirements for lighting companies and fall in line with the scientifically disputed view that lighting operating under 200 Hz is unpleasant to humans due to flicker and less energy efficient. The Standards impose additional data reporting requirements that would increase the cost of production, which ultimately translates to an increase in cost to the consumer.
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2016-03-04

Cree Launches Warm White Residential LED Streetlights

Cree introduces the Cree RSW™ LED Street Luminaire, the first of a new generation of streetlights that deliver LED energy savings and reliability in a warm color temperature that is preferred in many residential applications. The revolutionary RSW™ LED streetlight utilizes Cree’s proprietary WaveMax™ technology to provide warm, even light with market-leading color quality and efficacy. Cree’s RSW Series ushers in a new era of street lighting that will transform the way cities and municipalities light their residential streets, interchanges and expressways.
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2016-03-04

Toyoda Gosei Releases High Efficiency LEDs for General Lighting Applications

Toyoda Gosei has developed a new LED package for lighting that produces up to 200 lumens per watt (lm/W), while maintaining color fidelity. The LED package is designed for general lighting applications, such as bulbs, tubes, downlights, and ceiling lights. This new package gives our clients cost-effective alternatives to fluorescent and lower CRI (Color rendering index) LED products and can help reduce overall energy consumption.
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2016-03-04

Seguin City Officials in Texas Approve Installation of LED Lights Downtown

In a vote 7-1, city officials of Seguin in Texas, U.S. approved the purchase of LED lights to be installed in the downtown area, and agreed to year-round illumination before sunset till 10:00 PM, reported Seguin Gazzette.
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2016-03-04

Power Integrations Adds New LED Driver ICs for 20W Lights to Product Portfolio

Power Integrations, the leader in high-efficiency, high-reliability LED driver ICs, today announced the LYTSwitch™-3 family – the latest addition to the company’s LYTSwitch line of LED driver ICs. Ideal for bulbs, tubes and downlights up to 20 watts, LYTSwitch-3 ICs offer excellent dimming performance with both leading-edge and trailing-edge TRIAC dimmers, and support both isolated and non-isolated topologies.
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2016-03-04

Wellmax and Samsung Electronics Forges Partnership and Signs MOU for LED Technology

On March 1, 2016, Samsung Electronics, the world’s second largest semiconductor supplier, signed a comprehensive strategic partnership MOU with Shanghai Wellmax Lighting Industry (WELLMAX) at Samsung Electronics’ Shanghai head office. The MOU identifies WELLMAX as one of Samsung Electronics’ first group of global ingredient brand partners together with top brands including GE and The Home Depot. WELLMAX is the first and so far the only company that receives Samsung’s ingredient brand authorization in China.
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2016-03-04

Tittle Light: A Connected LED Mood Lighting with 3D Animated Emojis

SPIN-R introduces Tittle Light (#TittleLight), a unique LED lamp that instantly transforms any home environment by titillating users’ senses with a variety of beautiful and custom mood lighting and 3D animated emojis. Complemented with an iOS, Android and web app, Tittle allows users to instantly immerse themselves in their ideal lighting environment with the touch of a finger through the app’s color, brightness, mood, timer and animation controls. In order to bring this product to life, SPIN-R has launched an Indiegogo (#indiegogo) campaign. The campaign, which can be found at //igg.me/at/tittlelight, features limited Super Early Bird specials of $199.00 USD (40% off MSRP) along with other great perks.
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2016-03-04

Efore Launches New Dual Dimming LED Driver for Flexible LED Lighting Control

Efore  introduces the newest addition to its ROAL Digital Light brand LED Driver portfolio this week at Strategies in Light in Santa Clara, CA, and on March 13 – 18 at Light & Building in Frankfurt, Germany. With its multi-mode dimming feature, this new driver series, called CIELO, answers the need for more flexible LED lighting control options.
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2016-03-04

Noribachi Introduces New Color-Changing LED Floodlight

Noribachi, a leading U.S.-based custom LED manufacturer for high output commercial and industrial lighting solutions, announced today the launch of its new color-changing Floodlight.L RGBW which can create more than four billion different colors including any shade of white.
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2016-03-04

MacAdam Corporation deliver good quality of light to change the world

MacAdam Corporation Deliver good quality of light to change the world. Quality . Affordable . Personality                 MacAdam Corporation •      Established in 2015. •      Formed by a group of experienced professionals from Semiconductor, LED packing, and lighting fixture industries. •      Focusing on LED special lighting area, such as automotive and industrial lighting. •      Providing design capability from light source to the light module with thermal, optics and driver system. 
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2016-03-03

China’s New Lighting Standards Addresses Blue-light Hazards

One of the markedly visible changes to China’s latest lighting standard GB7000.1-2015, which addresses luminaires general test requirements, is the introduction of blue-light hazard regulations, stated the Machinery and Electrical Products Testing Center under Shanghai’s Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.
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2016-03-03

Apple Receives New OLED Display Patent, Rumored to Launch OLED iPhone by 2017

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Apple a flexible OLED display patent recently, reported MacRumors.
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2016-03-03

Osram Sylvania Shortens Bulb Lifetime to Gain Traction in LED Lighting Market

Osram Sylvania is introducing a novel strategy to reduce LED bulb manufacturing costs, and keep it competitive on the market, according to a report from Forbes.
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Violumas, provider of high-power UV LED solutions and inventor of 3-PAD LED technology, is proud to launch the release of new 275nm and 265nm LEDs in mid-power, high-power, and high-density packages. The radiant flux of the new 275nm and 265nm... READ MORE

DURHAM, NC – November 12, 2024 –– Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), today announced the launch of its new CV28D LEDs with FusionBeam™ Technology, a groundbreaking advancement for the LED signage market... READ MORE