ISE 2015 will be the largest professional AV and systems integration trade show ever held in Europe, bringing together manufacturers, distributors, integrators, specifiers and technology managers from over 100 countries worldwide.

With a full regular season in the books, the New England Patriots are set to host a playoff game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, a venue which showcases new freeform LED elements covering the "Gillette" lettering above the video displays at each end of the field from Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota. These two displays together create one of the largest freeform LED installations in a sports setting to use the puck-shaped technology.

“Market uncertainties” are corporates top concern when entering any new market. Local regulations, cash flows and logistics are all essential information foreign companies need to acquire.

Top LED industry leaders attended the 7th Edition Lighting Japan 2015, which took place on Jan. 15, 2015 at Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a new GATEWAY report that summarizes the results of a survey regarding conversions to solid-state lighting in museums. The survey was sent to members of the museum community who had requested a copy of “The Guidelines for Assessing Solid-State Lighting for Museums,” the pivotal resource co-authored by Jim Druzik and Stefan Michalski in 2011.

Kateeva today announced a key partnership with Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd. (Sumitomo). Sumitomo is a global solution OLED materials leader. Kateeva is a leading provider of novel inkjet printing equipment for OLED mass production. The non-exclusive agreement calls for Sumitomo to pair its world-class inks with Kateeva's world-class YIELDjet™ platform to help speed affordable OLED TVs to market.

A German media team have used lighting projections to create a stunning illuminating forest effect.

New LED lighting has been installed on an advertising billboard in Mumbai, India.  The luminaires, designed and manufactured by Leo Integrated Technologies Pvt Ltd, leverage the Bridgelux Vero(R) 29 LED Arrays to produce higher quality colors and brighter illumination than the existing metal halide.

Are you a lighting designer, architect or a specifying engineer seeking the right floodlighting solution for your design? Whether looking to accentuate fine details, highlight a monument, boldly draw attention to an architectural façade or simply bring definition to a space, the PHILIPS GARDCO ClearScape LED Architectural Floodlights will bring your design to life.

MoriLite 100% own designed, particularly the 1st manufacturer in the world to combine & integrate the C.O.B. with Flip Chip + Vapor Chamber technology on our LED resource.

Access Fixtures, a leader in commercial and sports lighting, has announced new T8 LED retrofit tube lights that are designed to perform efficiently in place of fluorescent lamps. The long-lasting, energy-efficient T8 LED tube lights incorporate integral drivers, eliminating failure-prone fluorescent ballasts, and simplifying T8 lighting systems. The T8 LED tube lights connect directly to line voltage for easy installation.

LEDinside Chief Analyst Market Seminar 2015, was successfully held in Shenzhen Marco Polo Hotel located in Shenzhen, Guandong Province, China on Jan. 9, 2015. HC SemiTek was the honored title sponsor of this year’s seminar. LEDinside analysts shared their latest research findings on the LED industry, and an unprecedented number of industry elites gathered at this year’s hall.

Cree’s act of filing lawsuits against Feit Electric and Unity Opto recently shows the firm’s struggle to maintain dominance in U.S. LED lighting market amid growing popularity of LED lighting products, according to a Bloomberg report.

U.S. LED manufacturer Cree’s recent lawsuit against Unity Opto and its luminaire client Feit Electronics will not impact the company’s revenue performance in 2015, a UDN report cited Unity Opto Spokesperson Jacky Wen saying.

The installed base for ‘smart’ street light luminaires is set to grow rapidly, with network controlled nodes set to rise from 2 million today to 40 million by 2019, finds ABI Research.

L.J. Star Inc., a leading supplier of sight glass lighting, has released a new white paper that explains why the wrong kind of vessel lighting can make a stainless steel vessel appear scratched or contaminated when it’s really not.

What is “Vapor Chamber” Vapor Chambers provide far superior thermal performance than traditional solid metal Heat spreaders at reduced weight and height. Thermal spread resistance is almost neglectable and thermal resistance is x times lower than (refer to copper, carbon nanotube compound, nano diamond compound). Vapor Chambers enable higher component heat densities and TDPs(Thermal Design Power) at safe operating temperatures, extending the components and products life.

NEUTEX LED Lighting has recently announced a major expansion to its corporate, manufacturing and warehouse headquarters based in Houston, TX. After three months of planning and design, the NEUTEX LED expansion project is near breaking ground.

Alessandro Farini, head researcher of the Visual Ergonomy Lab at the CNR-National Institute of Optics in Florence, Italy, shares in this UN International Year of Light blog entry the impact of lighting on visual perception.

 “I have to believe that we are on the verge of some major breakthroughs, in large part because of the versatility and tunability of LED lighting.” So said the National Lighting Bureau’s outgoing chair, Howard P. Lewis (Viscor Group of Companies), in reviewing the Bureau’s 2014 accomplishments at the conclusion of his fifth and final year in office. The Bureau is an independent, IRS-recognized, not-for-profit lighting-education foundation that has served as a trusted public-information source since its founding in 1976. Its purpose is to help people make better decisions about lighting.

Rainbow Light is a self-own brand of Rainbow Light Technology Co., Ltd.  Based on MEMS micro spectrometer technology , its products, such as micro spectral module, LED and light-relative measurement, transmittance measurement, and lux meter, etc., that are all manufactured professionally, with exclusive technology, professional RD capability, and holistic management system.  Micro spectrometer is with tiny dimension, extra-low cost, high resolution, anti- seismic, and precise features and can be applied on photoelectric measurement, environmental monitor, biomedical monitor, and Commodity Industry.        

By the injection molding process of plastic, we transfer the patterns of LED film into the plastic ball. With LED behind, the stunning effect shows up ahead. It could also be shape into various forms. Let the stunning ball embellish you life!

Company Name:  StrongLED Website:   www.strongled.com   (StrongLED/LEDinside) i-City Vision CV9C Linear Luminaire Features: High brightness slim profile outdoor linear LED luminaire for architectural and decorative lighting. Elegant design guarantees perfect integration with architectural intent even when switched off. CREE, OSRAM or Lumileds LED in whites, blue, amber and RGB choices. Good color stability and excellent lumen maintenance. Seamless luminous lines form...

Cree has filed complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against Feit Electric Company, Inc. and its Asian supplier, Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd., to curb infringement on Cree’s patented technologies and to address Feit’s false and misleading advertising claims that certain of its products meet ENERGY STAR® specifications. The suits allege infringement of 10 patents related to LED lighting.

Everlight has breached the high revenue barrier to become a new official member of the “US $1 billion Club” as the company’s consolidated annual revenue for 2014 soared up 23.99% to NT $30.61 billion, according to a news report from China Times.

The main objective of Epistar’s acquisition of TSMC SSL is to obtain key LED substrate technology to prevent Japanese manufacturer Toshiba from taking the lead in GaN-on-Si technology, according to a Chinese-language Wealth Magazine report.

Epistar Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) Board of Directors held simultaneous meetings to approve the sale of all shares of TMSC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL)  to Epistar at NT$ 1.46 per share, with the total price amounts to NT$ 825 million. Epistar will control 94% of TSMC SSL holdings after this acquisition. While TSMC will completely relinquish its control of TSMC SSL, the business operations will be jointly manned by the present TSMC SSL team and Epistar personnel.

Indian LED light manufacturers might be benefiting from a new government initiatives to promote the usage of energy saving bulbs, which the government projects will reach INR 200 billion (US $3.27 billion) by 2020, according to a report by Business Standard.

As a leading supplier of LED low temperature lighting and COB (Chip-On-Board) components, Ledtech Electronics has applied its advanced technology in high wattage COB modules and develops a brand new ceramic based Driver On Board light engine module which is far way different from existing SMD type DOB modules. Ledtech’s new design on DOB could better make use of the efficiency from each chip and at the same time save the cost and space wasted on the PC board. 

Agartala has completed the first phase of its 35,000 streetlight retrofit project last Thursday, according to a report of The Free Press Journal.