With the development of the times, people require more for fashionable apparel. Beautiful and colorful clothes are very nice in the light, but in low light places where it cannot show its style. However, the advent of LED fashion clothing will enable you to shine anywhere. This LED Fashion Clothing is designed by Hussein Chalayan, Swarovski's designer, who uses 15000 units of LED to develop this "brilliant" clothing. The LED fashion clothing not only has a stylish design, also it added the application of Swarovski crystals so that it can emit beau...

The Award Ceremony of the 8th Capital Outstanding Chinese Enterprise Awards was held on July 8th at Shangri-La Hotel in Hong Kong. NVC won the unique "CAPITAL Outstanding China LED Lighting Brand Supplier" in the lighting industry. "CAPITAL Outstanding China Enterprise Awards" have been issued for eight consecutive years, "Capital Magazine" selected out 14 businesses with outstanding development in China, in recognition of the outstanding performance these companies have made in the past years, and encourage domes...

Canon Marketing Japan (Canon MJ) started selling LED bulbs from July 17, 2013. The company intended to exclusively sell in Japan the LED bulbs, which was sold in the United States by venture business headquartered in Silicon Valley. The products adopted the same housing shape of incandescent bulb E26 (Edison screw base standards), with the high diffusion, dimmable options and liquid-cooled heat dissipation technology.            Canon MJ first listed through website three LED bulbs, which respectively are 60W retrofit (810lm...

Recently, Nualight Group, appointed Shaun Gray as its new CEO, Retail technology and business services expert. With over 25 years' experience in senior business roles across global corporations and SMEs, Gray brings an established track-record working with new technologies and diverse business models in both established and emerging markets. Gray was CEO of Dione plc between 2002 and 2005, inheriting an insolvent mature business and turning it around in his first year to lay foundations for a high growth phase. In the two and a half years under Gray's stewards...

Recently, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and REI jointly announced the voluntary recall of UCO Arkac LED light made in China. The UCO Arkac LED lights to be recalled this time can be used as signal lights, lighting or USB charger, the top of lamp shade is made of red transparent plastic and removable; the base is black with red extended base. UCO Arkac LED light comes with 3.7v4Ah rechargeable lithium-ion battery, USB cable and wall charger, and it is about 7.7 inches in height and about 2.5 inches in diameter, the folded hei...

After the Three-year wait, Midea Lighting returns to LED market again. Recently, Midea Lighting launched nearly 200 units of new models, covering residential lighting, commercial lighting, electrical, light, LED, etc., which initiates a new round of impact on LED industry. Midea Lighting, founded in 2008, was the original part of Microwave oven Division, it with some experience in products and channels was upgraded as Midea Lighting Electric Manufacturing Co,.Ltd in December of 2009. In June of 2010, Midea Lighting Electric took over Jiangxi ELEGANT...

To boost brand visibility of its LED lighting and drivers in India, GlacialLight and GlacialPower, divisions of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., organized a seminar, in association with Argos International, the dealer of GlacialTech for LED drivers in India. The seminar on LED Lighting and LED Driver was held at Kalpataru Synergy, Auditorium in Mumbai. GlacialTech has showcased its product range of Dimmable (Traic, Analog, Dali), Non- Dimmable, AC-DC, DC-DC drivers for LED Drivers and LED Lights for general lig...

Alongside its ongoing activities in the area of LED, the Zumtobel Group is investing in the technology of the future, OLED. To this end, the lighting group yesterday signed an agreement to acquire all the shares from its partners in the joint venture LEDON OLED Lighting GmbH & Co KG. The Zumtobel Group set up this company jointly with the Fraunhofer research organisation and a number of Fraunhofer employees in 2009. The former joint venture LEDON OLED, which specialises in the development and manufacture of high-efficiency OLED lighting m...

In accordance with statistics in Gold membership reports of LEDinside, Green Energy Division of the Global market research firm TrendForce, thanks to strong demand in the global LED lighting market in the first half of this year, the utilization rate of MOCVD machines that the major chip manufacturers have installed and debugged shows rising trend. The chip price has been stable this year, but with the increasing capacity of chip manufacturers, it remains to be seen whether the LED chip price will be falling in the second half of this year, but in the long term, only the quit of invalid production capacity in China can help LED industry to return to supply and demand balance.

Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, announced today that its recently released Vero™ Series of LED Array products are now shipping with industry leading performance efficacy (120 lm/w nominal, 110 lm/w minimum average). This performance enhancement delivers energy savings of approximately 11% over the prior product generation and provides a significantly accelerated return on investment. Further, the Vero Series arrays are now available with 2SDCM MacAdam and 3 SDCM options – raising the industry bar ...

FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, is pleased to announce the energy-saving Flood Light, 35W, coded FZL-FL35-00. It is a perfect replacement for 70 W traditional halogen flood light, used in both residential and commercial lighting. The LED flood light comes with two color choices –warm white and cool white. The warm white type, codenamed FZL-FL35-00-WW-35, delivers 2200 lm in 3000K color temperature with CRI higher than 80, while the cool white FZL-FL35-00-CW-35 achieves 2700 lm in a 6000K color temperature. They work ...

A pioneer in LED R&D, chip manufacturer Philips Lumileds is now extending its presence in sectors that have recently entered the LED chip market lime light—the mid-power multi-chip package and mid-power LED chip market. Having achieved success in high-power LEDs, the company hopes entry into these sectors can make their lighting and commercial lighting product lines more comprehensive. LEDinside was honored to interview Lumileds CEO Pierre-Yves Lesaicherre about the company’s technological developments and future market strategy. The company’s experience in LED market and technology can enlighten the LED industry.

Mighty Bright, designer and manufacturer of innovative LED lighting products, is pleased to announce the LUX Bar LED Task Light has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Energy Star certification. The Energy Star brand is widely recognized by American consumers and businesses as a mark of environmental protection, exceptional performance, and financial responsibility. Energy-efficient and versatile, the LUX Bar LED Task Light exemplifies these standards, casting 400 lumens of bright white light while consuming only 7.5 Watts o...

Dialight, the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, recently launched an emergency version of its SafeSite Stainless Steel LED Linear Luminaire with integrated battery. The new LED emergency light operates from -20℃ to 60℃ and will deliver at least three and up to eight hours on battery backup, while most conventional emergency lights operate only within the 0℃ to 40℃ range. By being able to operate across such a wide temperature range, this first-of-its-kind LED fitting with battery backup and integrated power supply will meet the emergency lighting n...

A surge in demand for Soraa’s full visible spectrum GaN on GaN™ LED MR16 lamps has led the company to appoint two new leaders to its sales organization—George Stringer and Nick Farraway. George joins the company as Senior Vice President of North America Sales and Nick joins as Senior Vice President of International Sales; both will report to Tom Caulfield, President and COO of Soraa. “The Soraa VIVID LED MR16 lamp is widely regarded as the best in the world in terms of brightness and color rendering—this has fuel...

Sanan Optoelectronics yesterday released the contract announcement that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Anhui Sanan Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (Anhui Sanan) on July 17 signed a sourcing agreement with Shenzhen MTC Lighting Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen MTC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenzhen MTC Co., Ltd. According to the agreement, from the date of signing of the agreement for the coming year, the Shenzhen MTC will purchase total amount of RMB 500 million of LED chips from Anhui Sanan, this amount accounts for about 15% of Sanan sales revenue in 2012. An o...

As people know, Cree introduced The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb just only four months ago, now Cree announces the Cree LED BR30 Flood Light. The ground-breaking flood light leverages the same technical breakthroughs that made the Cree LED bulb possible delivering consumers a flood light that looks like and lights like a traditional incandescent BR30 but uses 85% less energy and is designed to last 25 times longer than comparable incandescent flood lights. The new Cree LED flood light comes with the same shape, same glass dome and same color light of the...

ForceField Energy Inc., an international manufacturer and distributor of energy products and solutions, yesterday announced that it signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Empresa de Servicios Públicos de Heredia (ESPH), a utility company based in Heredia, Costa Rica, for the installation of 19,000 of its LED streetlights to replace existing lighting in ESPH's territory. The project is estimated to generate more than $21 million in revenue for ForceField over the ten-year term of the agreement based upon a shared savings model. Under the terms of the...

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"For China LED industry, LED upstream technology is monopolized by the international giants, midstream is almost so, now the most important thing is that whether the downstream can design better products with more reasonable prices or not", Rongqing Liang, director of Lighting Research Institute of Fudan University, expressed in view of the current development trend of Chinese LED industry. Foreign Enterprises have Advantages in Upstream and Midstream Rongqing Liang introduced that LED industry consists of upstream, midstream and downstream. LED...

Zhenkun Wang, the general manager of NVC Lighting, recently expressed on "low-carbon lighting • Energy saving global LED lighting design, application and Innovation Forum" organized by the Chinese lighting network and Shenzhen Operations Center of NVC that sales of NVC's LED products are expected to exceed 1 billion Yuan this year. According to the National 12th Five-Year Plan, the total output value of LED will be up to 500 billion Yuan in 2015. ZhenKun Wang said that the sales of NVC's LED products was 250 million las...

Last night (July 16), Refond revealed announcement that it cooperates with TCL Group and wholly owned subsidiary of Taiwan-based FOREPI to set up a LED joint venture in Guangdong Huizhou Zhongkai High-tech Development Zone with 200 million Yuan. The new company named "Huarui Optoelectronics Technology (Huizhou) Co., Ltd.", located in Zhongkai High-tech Development Zone, Huizhou of Mainland China, and it has capital of 200 million Yuan, of which, TCL Group is the leading company, holding shares of 51%, about investment of 102 million Yu...

Dimmable, multi-topology DC/DC constant-current controller features low-side current sense Texas Instruments (TI) today introduced a high-power, multi-topology DC/DC LED driver with adjustable switching frequency and current sense threshold that provides design flexibility and low electro-magnetic interference (EMI) for automotive headlamps, fog lights and general-purpose area lighting. The TPS92690 is an N-channel MOSFET controller with low-side current sense designed to support step-up (boost) or step-up/step-down (SEPIC, Cuk, flyback) LED driver t...

QR code campaigns are getting more popular every year, yet consumers start to complain that they cannot scan QR codes easily or successfully on LED displays or LED billboards. Providing the solution of “scannable QR code”on LED display, Macroblock, devoted to LED display driver IC technology, held QR code campaign with LED display customers at Infocomm 2013 to prove the QR code scan-ability on LED displays. Audiences enjoyed both the high quality images and the fast response of QR code on LED displays through this campaign, making it a highl...

Siteco, subsidiary of OSRAM, provides 270 units of Modario IP20 LED modules for modernization of an urban railway carriage house of Linz AG. Linz Linien intended to renovate the lighting system of a 4,500 square meter-large hall for 20 suburban trains. The highly efficient trunking systems are easy to mount and save up to 30% on energy costs in comparison to the previous lighting solution. The illumination of the urban railway carriage house of Linz AG was completely renovated using this efficient LED solution from Siteco. The renovation of the long-serving merc...

Robust, accurate and powerful PIP functionality puts Calibre UK ahead of the curve for scaling and switching of LED displays. Calibre UK has further strengthened its LEDView530 scaler/switcher with the addition of new firmware for user selectable and variable picture-in-picture (PIP) flexibility. “The new PIP function of the LEDView530 scaler/switcher adds the functionality of expensive windowing solutions available from other manufacturers in the market today, but at an affordable price,” explains Tim Brooksbank, Chairman at Calibre UK. ...

Ground-breaking innovation in UV LED and UV arc curing was well-received by visitors to wide format print industry event, FESPA where Integration Technology Ltd (ITL) showcased further new developments. The show, held June 25-29 in London’s ExCel Exhibition Centre, was an important component in a concerted 2013 new product roll-out from the UK-based company. While the official show report is still to be released, ITL filed ‘highly encouraging’ visitor response to its new lines corresponding with quality sales leads generated. “...

General lighting is an industry with the same great market capacity as smart phone, and it is in the process of rapid growth. In view of general lighting market structure, energy-saving lamps accounting for almost the same proportion with incandescent lamps, about 40%, but the application of incandescent is downward, as the further implementation of global ban on the sale of incandescent lamps, the proportion of energy-saving lamps and LED lighting devices will increase. LED lighting takes up 2% -3% of the all lighting products installed. However, according to the global data in ...

Since installing the ROAM™ outdoor lighting monitoring and control system from Acuity Brands Inc., the Plymouth School District in Plymouth, Mass. has significantly reduced maintenance time and energy costs. The ROAM system allows maintenance staff to easily customize outdoor lighting needs for eight individual elementary, middle and high school campuses. The ROAM system helps the District proactively identify potential outages and lighting issues before or immediately after they occur. By knowing that the lights are operating properly at the glance of the s...

The production and imports of incandescent lighting will be banned in South Korea from next year, the government said Tuesday. Starting from Jan. 1, 2014, imports of incandescent light bulbs, which have been labeled low-efficient, will be banned permanently, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. The move is part of a decision made in 2008 to phase out incandescent light bulbs, which consume as much as six times more energy than high-efficiency LED light bulbs. Using an incandescent light bulb may cost up to 15,863 won (US$14.14) per year in electr...