Sharp have cooperated with Al Muftah Trading to release Qatar’s first commercially available 80 inch AQUOS LED TV, and Sharp’s latest Double French refrigerators. The two new products are part of the “From Bigger to Biggest” products line-up which reiterates Sharp’s position as the leader in LCD/LED TV category thanks to its 10th generation panel technology from a company in its 100th year. The full HD Japanese made panel, Sharp’s flagship 80 inch model LC-80LE940X provides more than twice the screen area of a...

Wherever there is light, you will also find semiconductor light sources from Osram Opto Semiconductors: in the automotive sector, the entertainment industry and even the security environment. At this year’s electronica fair (booth 107 in Hall A3) the company will therefore be highlighting its role as a complete supplier of semiconductor lighting solutions. This leading international exhibition of components, systems and applications will provide an opportunity to see the new Displix LED for the first time. This LED has been designed specifically for outdoor displays. O...

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2012. The Company reported that third quarter revenue increased to $19.9 million from $17.0 million in the prior quarter driven by strong six-inch sapphire wafer sales. Revenue from six-inch wafer sales increased 62 percent sequentially as demand increased from both the Silicon-on-Sapphire and LED markets. Due to low industry pricing for two ...

Epistar has announced that Toshiba has granted a patent license regarding certain AlGaInP LED technologies and sold certain AlGaInP LED patents to Epistar. As part of the agreements, Epistar also licensed certain AlGaInP LED patents to Toshiba. The agreements recognize the value of Toshiba’s AlGaInP LED patent portfolio, and are expected to bring benefits for Epistar’s product development and enhance its patent portfolio furtherwithin the field of AlGaInP LED technologies. The exact terms of the license will not be disclosed unde...

Future Lighting Solutions and Shanghai Grand Light are pleased to announce the successful completion of a landscape lighting project illuminating several kilometers in the commercial and cultural heart of Shaoxing City. In total, 7300 linear wall washers and 3300 sets of spot lights using LUXEON® LEDs grouped in various configurations were used. Beginning at HuaQi Road and running from XinKai He, the new lighting covers a distance of 2.6 kilometers. The General Manager of Shanghai Grand Light said, “With helpful direction and support from Futu...

Reduced total cost of ownership, high fidelity, image stability and low-maintenance are key criteria for visual systems investment Today’s commercial aviation operators are looking for cost effective, high-fidelity and stable solutions for visual displays.  The brand new Boeing 777 full-flight simulator (FFS) is being manufactured by L-3 Link Simulation &Training UK (L-3 Link UK) at its Crawley, UK facility. The Boeing 777 FFS uses the very latest projectiondesign® FL35 projectors integrated with RSI Visual Systems’ XT4 Image ...

Dialight has secured an order to provide 1,224 LED lighting fixtures, with a total contract value of approximately $850,000, to a major US rig owner and operator for use on eight newly constructed onshore drilling rigs.   The Texas-based customer, who has in excess of 1,000 land rigs in its fleet, along with platform and barge rigs, has placed the order following a successful trial of Dialight’s LED light fixtures.   This contract represents Dialight’s first large rig order and consists of a combination of Class I, Div 1 and  Class I, Div 2 ...

GlacialPower, a sub-division of the experienced technology maker GlacialTech Inc., extends an invitation to all business and media partners around the world to attend their display (Booth #143/2, Hall B2) at Electronica 2012, to be held at Messe München in Munich, Germany from November 13-16, 2012. Date: November 13-16, 2012 Venue: Messe München, Munich, Germany Booth #: 143/2, Hall B2 Electronica 2012 is an excellent opportunity to learn about upcoming products from GlacialPower, even before they will be released. GlacialPower will be featuring...

Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs has put forward the LED bulbs subsidy scheme for household, and has sent to the government for approval. According to Minister of Economic Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-shiang, the first subsidy will cover low-income house. It’s estimated that 200,000 households will benefit from the plan. According to Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs, these LED bulbs will be sent to the eligible families before the Spring Festival. Every family will get two LED bulbs, nearly saving 200 kw/h electricity and more than NT$ ...

ITV plc has scheduled to install multicoloured lighting on its South Bank tower as part of the broadcaster's relaunch to be unveiled in the new year. It has applied to Lambeth Council for advertisement consent for the installation of LED light fittings from the 4th to the 22nd floor of the 1970s office block at the riverside TV studio complex in Upper Ground. According to a letter to Lambeth Council from planning agents DP9, "The lights will be directed at the facade and project different coloured light – blue, green, pink and yellow – during t...

A fourth Quincy Newspapers television station, WGEM-TV in Quincy, IL, has converted its studios to Litepanels LED lighting fixtures. Brady Dreasler, Quincy Newspapers’ Director of Capital, Facilities and Engineering, said the lights helped flesh-tones pop. He added that WGEM’s news anchors have also seen a difference with the HD cameras and the lighting. Dreasler noted that the cool operation of the Litepanels LED fixtures brought an added benefit to the talent, allowing them to wear jackets in the summer time. Prior to the conversion, t...

LEDinside journalists recently visited the booth of TAO, a light resource and luminaire manufacturer, on 14th Hong Kong International Light Fair (Autumn Edition). TAO is a light source and luminaires manufacturer from China, founded in 2004, managed by a mixed Sino-European team. All their products are designed and developed in the R&D center in Shanghai, where their factory is also located. With about 900 employees, TAO is now a recognized vendor in the lighting industry. Their products are mostly distributed in western countries but they can also be found ...

From October 27thto 30th, 2012 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) had its grand opening at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. As the Asia's largest, the global ranking second in the industry exhibition, Hong Kong International Lighting Fair has long been regarded as leader in the LED lighting industry. On this fair, Shenzhen Spark Optoelectronics S&T Co.,Ltd., one of the leading enterprises in the domestic lighting industry, made its appearance with self-developed  new generation of modular high power tunnel lig...

Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced that EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company, has become a distributor for Bridgelux products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With its broad sales network and established customer base, EBV will serve as an instrumental channel partner for the rapidly growing LED chip and packaged products business at Bridgelux.   The agreement gives EBV ready access to Bridgelux’s full line of LED chips as well as LED packaged products consisting of ...

Asia’s key event for the LED/OLED lighting industry, LIGHTING JAPAN 2013 will take place from January 16th to 18th, 2013 at Tokyo Big Sight. When we talk about the current LED lighting industry, Asian market is the inevitable part of it. Taiwan and Korea have become the top suppliers of LED, as well as Japan. On the other hand, the market potential in this area is huge, as you can see in Japan (the world’s largest market of LED light bulbs)and China (the huge market wherepopularization of LED lighting is rapidly proceeding at the in...

The provider of commercial lamps and lighting products, Eye Lighting International in Mentor, announced it acquired the LED luminaire products assets of Aphos Lighting in Carrollton, Texas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Eye Lighting will move production of the Aphos-brand LED luminaires to its plant in Mentor and will sell the products under the Eye Lighting brand name. Tom Salpietra, president and CEO of Eye Lighting, said the Aphos line creates “greater scale for (the) business and strengthens (its) position and penetration in the...

According to Xinhua News Agency, experts said that if half of the lighting devices nationwide were LEDs, China could save power equivalent to the annual electricity output of two and a half of Three Gorges Dam. At a forum held on Nov 3 in Wuhan,Chen Hongda, deputy director of the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out that China could save about 210 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year if LEDs were more widely used. And in April, The Ministry of Science and Technology released its 12th Five-Year Plan (20...

Philips will deepen cuts at a lighting factory in Belgium and eliminate an additional 218 jobs in response to falling demand for conventional lamps and the rise of LED. The job cuts are on top of 136 reductions announced in June, Amsterdam-based Philips said in a statement. The site in Turnhout, Belgium, has 1,533 employees and makes high- pressure discharge lamps for sport stadiums and stores. “The need to focus on cost efficiency is becoming more and more important,” Alasdair Waugh, director at the site, said in a statement. “We expect a decrease of pr...

Urban Barns Foods Inc. , which is specializing in "CUBIC FARMING" a revolutionary type of farming that dramatically increases yields of vegetables with radically diminished water consumption when compared to conventional farming, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Wells Communications Inc.. The purpose of the MOU is to develop and expand a framework of cooperation between Urban Barns and Wells to develop mutually beneficial programs, projects and activities using LED light fixtures. Mr. Dan Meikleham, Chairman of Urban Barns, stat...

LG Electronics has buried the hatchet with Siemen's light bulb unit Osram over an LED patent lawsuit. In addition, according to Reuters, the two companies also agreed to "cross-license each other's LED patents and drop all litigation related to lighting product technology that they filed last year against each other in South Korea, the United States, Japan, China and Germany."  Also, Osram made a similar deal two months ago with Samsung....

According to Maeil Business Newspaper reported Monday, citing securities and information-technology industry officials, Samsung Electronics and Osram AG have scrapped earlier plan to set up a joint venture to develop LED technology. "Manager-level officials here had considered the joint venture issue after a financial firm has suggested, but we stopped the discussion at an initial stage," an official at Samsung Electronics, was quoted as saying. "We have cross license contract with Osram, so will maintain good relationship with it." Early in Augu...

Thanks to its technological advancement and innovation in energy-efficient lighting, MEGAMAN® achieved global recognition at Asia’s largest autumn lighting fair, the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2012. During the four-day trade show, MEGAMAN® showcased the latest LED lighting products to incorporate its cutting-edge technology and featured hundreds of top buyers from around the world, confirming MEGAMAN® as a global thought leader and pioneer in the field of LED lighting. MEGAMAN® unveiled the 16W LED Classic, 24...

Following up on the huge success at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition held in June 2012, Tridonic presents its new LED products at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2012 (Autumn Edition). The LED portfolio enables customers to develop innovative LED lighting solutions. Light engines, modules and a series of drivers are a strong addition to Tridonic’s product portfolio. The company expects visitors from all over the world at the booth to obtain information about products and technologies. In focus are the new LED products an...

YAH JUANG ENTERPRISE LTD launch several appearance patent LED COB products at 2012 Hong Kong international lightingfair (autumn edition), continuation of the high demands of the LED light source, the installed COB LED light source passed the LM80 test, by maintain the temperature of LED PCB within 75 degrees, continuously light-up over 5000hrs,the measurement of light decayis less than 2.5%. Coordinate with a highpower-factor (PF> 0.9) driver, and a unique design of cooling heatsink. This time, theirmain purpose of product design, is to...

Facility utilizes efficient solutions to educate students on sustainable design.   Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided lighting solutions to the University of Kansas’ Studio 804 design team to illuminate Galileo’s Pavilion, a student-designed building on the campus of Johnson County Community College (JCCC). Products includeHalo LED recessed downlights,Neo-Ray Straight and Narrow suspended luminaires, andSure-Lites LED...

Imtra has completed its ‘green’ initiative to reduce energy consumption at its corporate headquarters. Imtra’s energy saving efforts include the installation of high-yield solar panels on all suitable roofing surfaces resulting in the reduction of outside power consumption by 70%, as well as installing higher energy-efficient bulbs throughout the facility resulting in a lighting fixture power reduction of 9%. Under its Imtra Marine Lighting brand, it manufactures a series of energy-efficient, low-power LED lighting products. The Company’s weather instrum...

Some most famous bridges in London are to retain the Olympic architectural lighting scheme following a detailed evaluation of costs. Brand experience company Innovision originally commissioned lighting designer Paul Cook and a handful of experts from the electrical, lighting and design industries to illuminate the six bridges that run either side of Hungerford Bridge. London, Southwark, Millennium, Blackfriars and Waterloo Bridge, plus the Golden Jubilee footbridge, were all studied carefully before a tailor-made design was employed for each bridge. Lighting soluti...

As one of the foremost and largest medical facilities in Asia, The KLES Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Belgaum, are considering rolling out the conversion from traditional lamps to carbon efficient LEDs to all of their institutions. During a recent refurbishment of the facility, KLES commissioned eco lighting experts Carbon Reduction Technology to fully refit their ward corridors with carbon efficient lighting. The interior eco lighting refit included the installation of 250 LED units, which was completed in July 2012.  A ...

West St. Paul will soon be lit up by LED streetlights. Recently, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) gave Xcel Energy approval to install 529 LED streetlights in the city as a two-year test. The company had told the city it would start installation in 2012. Most Minnesota cities hire Xcel to handle their street lighting. The test will allow the company to gather information on how much they cost to install, how they perform and how long they last, factors that will help Xcel determine how much to charge cities that use them. The citywide test in...

According to a report on the global lighting industry made by the LEDinside, a subsidiary of TrendForce, an international research institute, the LED market value for LED lighting application market in 2012 is 2.66 billion US dollars, which was 23.5% higher than that in 2011. The greatest markets come from architectural lighting market and indoor lighting market, such as par lamp and light bulb. In addition, because the prices continue to go down, LED lighting market demand rose due to an increasing penetration rate and a decreasing price. A look at the global LED ligh...