Russian media quoted the data of the "whole series LED production business plan" from a professional marketing analysis company that, LED lighting proportion in the country is also growing as any other cities. In the long run, the proportion of Russia LED lighting market in the global market will be  1-5% and the growth rate of proportion in the country will reach 28-48% per year. Furthermore, the popularity of LED retrofit will break 300 million, and will continue to grow, mainly thanks to the energy efficiency and the expense of optimized power. Curren...

Case Study highlights merging energy efficiency, environmental responsibility, and community friendly requirements into project design   Spaulding Lighting, a Hubbell Lighting Inc. brand, has announced the release of a new case study on illuminating a new Lee Toyota / Scion automotive dealership in Topsham, Maine with the latest in LED site lighting.  With a directive for a “green approach” from the dealership owner, Adam Lee, the case study reiterates the architect’s plan of designing a project that was environmentally responsible and as commu...

Energy Focus, Inc. announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012.   Financial results for the second quarter of 2012 include the following: --  Net sales were $7.7 million compared to $8.2 million for the second quarter of 2011. --  Gross margins improved to 22.2 percent of net sales compared to 18.9 percent of net sales for the second quarter of 2011. --  The net loss of $0.9 million improved $0.3 million compared to the second quarter's 2011 net loss of $1.2 million on $0.5 million lower sales.      &...

Power Integrations has added two new devices to its LinkSwitch™-PH IC family. The new devices allow commercial lighting applications up to 75 W to benefit from single-stage design, reducing BOM cost and enabling a smaller driver with high efficiency. LNK410EG (dimming) and LNK420EG (non-dimming) provide a constant-current output with a PF- corrected and low THD input. The capabilities of the new devices are showcased in RDR-290, a reference design describing a single-output driver for high-bay lighting. RDR-290 is 92.2% efficient at 230 VAC...

Global Resource Energy, Inc., engaged in the clean technology fuel cell sector, has announced to sign a Letter of Intent to sell 49% of its exclusive North American Distribution of CLED Street Lights Rights to Balon Bleu Holdings LLC. Global Resource Energy Inc.'s President, Robert Baker, states, "This Letter of Intent for a 49% purchase of the Company's Exclusive North American Rights of the CLED Street Lights provides capital and additional resources for the Company's entry into the North American Market with CLED Stre...

To enter into LED lighting market, Ceradyne has acquired a minority interest with an option to acquire all of Tempe, Arizona-based Graphite Machining Services and Innovations, LLC (GMSI). And this acquisition of GMSI will not materially affect Ceradyne's 2012 financial performance. Ceradyne currently develops, manufactures, and markets advanced technical ceramic products and components for defence, industrial, energy, automotive/diesel, and commercial applications. GMSI has developed a proprietary method of applying a chemical vapour deposited (CVD) ...

Green LED Technologies, Hi Score Corporation’s subsidiary ,will be continue to receive sales orders for Energy Saving Lighting as a result of its sister company DMD Lighting, receiving its recent six figure commitment for lighting from Traylor Electric. Dominick Falso was appointed as Hi Score's Chief Operating Officer in January of last year. Mr. Falso was brought on to bolster the company's lagging gross sales volume. His efforts began to be fruitful toward the end of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012. The company has a lot of confidence in M...

Newport News Public School District in Virginia recently installed more than 185 Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) LED exterior luminaires, becoming the first Virginia school district in the area with a significant LED lighting installation. The district selected Cree THE EDGE® security, area and parking structure luminaires to illuminate the exteriors of seven schools: General Stanford Elementary, Greenwood Elementary, Lee Hall Elementary, Palmer Elementary, Crittenden Middle, Booker T. Washington Middle and Denbigh High. “These energy ef...

AIXTRON SE today announced a new MOCVD system order from National Central University (NCU) in Taiwan. Existing customer, NCU has placed an order for one 1x6-inch AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead MOCVD system, which will be dedicated to the growth of GaN epitaxial structures on 6-inch silicon substrates, for use in the research and development of power management devices. AIXTRON’s local support team has installed and commissioned the new reactor in the state-of-the-art cleanroom facility at NCU’s Microwave and Optoelectroni...

Ever since the world came to be, light has always remained a very vital part of the universe. Without light, darkness will simply rule the world. The power of light cannot be ignored in any sector of life.   The Sunlight and the moonlight have great impact in our world.   The same scenario holds for electric light.  We can’t do without   incandescent bulbs, fluorescent tubes, LEDs, halogens and other light sources.  In this write-up, the practical aspects of electric lighting systems and sources are discussed. By way of simple defi...

Due to the electricity tariff increase’s trend, LED bulb has become the popular choice for the home lighting. Ecomaa Lighting Inc. officially launched it’s own brand Ecomaa LED driver module Bulb series in this summer, to lead the industry's breakthrough innovative light source design, together with spreading the green living and corporate concept over the society. Ecomaa new LED driver module Bulb 7.5W series has the brightness similar to a 40W incandescent lamp; there are 3000K and 6000K color temperature and 110 or 220 voltage choices, up to 550lm ,...

Luger Research has signed a contract with the general secretary of the Zhaga Consortium, Mr. Menno Treffers for the exclusive publishing rights of 7 articles put together by the consortium. The articles will be published in the LED professional Review #33 (LpR) and will be available in this form the 7th of September, 2012 worldwide through this channel. The Zhaga consortium is engaged in the standardization of LED light engines. To enable interchangeability of LED light engines, Zhaga has created specifications for LED light engines covering several interfaces ...

When the park surrounding Los Angeles City Hall reopened after eight months of repair work, sustainability and energy conservation were among a variety of articulated criteria for its restoration. City Hall Park was cordoned off by chain-link fence last year after police cleared hundreds of Occupy L.A. demonstrators who had camped on the lawn for nearly two months. “We were presented with a choice — Reinvest in a park that is greener, smarter and more sustainable,” proclaimed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the official reopening ceremony in July. The ...

Germany’s OSRAM, the lighting firm under Siemens, is a well-organized company – its OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is speclizaed in LED epitaxy, LED package and is an vertically integrated company. It also has a subsidiary company for LED phosphor business. OSRAM establishes strategic alliances with international major companies and OEMs to strengthen its leading position in the global market. LEDinside staff flied to Penang, Malaysia to do a report on OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ LED production base (the biggest in the world). T...

Looking at Taiwan LED makers’ operation results, it turns out that the debt crisis will impact them to different degrees in the second half. Unity Opto Technology, had revenue of NT$785 million (US$26.2 million) in July, a 10% month-on-month (MoM) increase and a record monthly high. The company attributed the record monthly high to many positive factors including additional orders from customers for new products, increasing demand from LED backlighting modules, increasing shipments of LCD TVs and tablet PCs from Taiwan-based EMS (electronics manufact...

Onteco Corporation, had received 2,037,948 shares of common stock of a publicly-traded company currently listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The stock is presently valued at $2.9 million U.S. dollars and is part of the payment due under the terms of the international licensing agreement signed April 30, 2012, with JARLYN S.A., ("JARLYN") a Uruguayan corporation, for Onteco's  proprietary LED intellectual property ("IP"), developed by its subsidiary, NexPhase Lighting, Inc. ("NexPhase"). Under the terms of t...

O2Micro® International Limited has developed the OZ8022M High Brightness Offline LED Driver Controller. O2Micro's patented Free Dimming technology enables LED bulbs to dim using any on/off switch, thus eliminating cost, installation and compatibility problems associated with traditional incandescent dimmers. O2Micro's patented Free Dimming technology works with any on/off switch, including wall toggles, paddle switches, pull cords, rotary switches and other types of on/off switches commonly found on walls, extension cords and table/desk lamps. Acc...

Sapphire is an ideal material for windows used in extreme environments, but producing large-form windows is difficult Rubicon draws on its expertise to develop a unique new crystal growth platform Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical industries, announced a ground-breaking project, dubbed Large-Area Net-shape Crystal Extraction (LANCE), developed to produce large-area sapphire windows of optical quality for military sensing applications. The project is support...

Lextar Electronics Corp. (“Lextar” or the “Company) (TAIEX: 3698) announced its results for the second quarter of 2012. The Company reported consolidated revenue of NT$ 2,611 million, up 19% from the previous quarter and near 10% of YoY increase.  Gross profit was NT$ 650 million with the gross margin of 15.1%, a 3.2 percentage point QoQ growth.  Lextar’s consolidated net profit for the second quarter of 2012 was NT$ 126 million, EPS NT$ 0.3. For the first half of 2012 Lextar’s consolidated revenue reported NT$ 4,805 million with an EPS of NT$ 0.3.

Bloomberg has quoted from a filing with a U.S. trade agency that, Samsung Electronics Co. and Siemens AG’s Osram unit have reached a global settlement to end a LED patent fight that Samsung filed against Osram and that was scheduled for trial at the agency on Aug. 13. Osram’s case against Samsung went to trial in July, and the judge was expected to release his findings in October. According to the filing, the settlement agreement covers those cases and “other legal proceedings throughout the world between Samsung and Osram involving LED techn...

HexaTech, Inc. has developed a new class of high transparency single crystal Aluminum Nitride (AlN) material. This new material provides a significant reduction in optical absorption in the UV-¬C wavelengths, resulting in dramatic improvements in the processing and performance of UV-¬C optoelectronic components. according to the company,this enhanced material will offer an improvement of lifetime and power output for UV-¬‐C LEDs. For the rapidly growing water purification market, the requirement for extended lifetime and improved efficiency are critica...

Taiwan Epistar’s board of directors has agreed with a proposal to acquire Huga Optotech Inc. as its wholly owned subsidiary by all-stock swap at ratio of one Epistar share for 4.85 Huga shares. Baseline date for the swap is tentatively set at Dec. 28 in 2012. Both companies will bring the deal to an irregular shareholders meeting on Sept. 28 for vote. Industry executives said the deal, estimated at NT$4 billion (US$133 million at US$1:NT$30), is conducive to minimizing the disorder of the upstream sector of Taiwan’s LED industry. Epistar executiv...

According to Taiwan state-funded institute, the government is paving the way to announce newly established national standards for the smart lighting industry on Aug. 14, to expand demand and worldwide business opportunities. The Institute for Information Industry (III) pointed out that these standards are expected to improve the efficiency of lighting management, improve safety during nighttime activities, create energy-saving and a smart lighting environment, and explore high value-added business opportunities worldwide. The institute said that the five sets of standards fo...

According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, major lighting markets in the world have been affected by the European debt crisis in varying degrees. Certain Chinese LED firms whose businesses rely heavily on overseas markets have seen a decline in orders, which is particularly pronounced in the European lighting market. As a result, many LED companies start to shift their focus to the Chinese LED bidding market. In fact, China has recently restarted the bidding for LED subsidies in July, which provided hope for many LED firms.

Spectrum Health, one of Michigan’s largest not-for-profit health systems located in Grand Rapids, has an aggressive customer-centered sustainability program. When focusing on revamping their parking decks used by patients, visitors, and employees, they had three goals in mind: improve security, reduce maintenance costs and save energy. After retrofitting 1.25 million square feet of parking garage space and more than 3,500 parking spaces with 1,500 GE Evolve™ LED Garage fixtures  , Spectrum accomplished its three goals at the medical center.   Lighting ...

GlacialPower a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce a compact GlacialPower LED drivers with high power efficiency – GP-LS50PH-142C, GP-LS70PH-100C, GP-LS100PH-142C and GP-LS100PH-71C. With the compact dimensions of 177 x 57 x 37mm (LxWxH), these 4 LED drivers make LED lighting installations even easier compared to bulkier drivers. Even while being small, this series has a high power conversion efficiency rate of 91% ensuring low power consumption. These four fully integra...

The LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI) 2013 Call for Speakers opens today for the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference.  LFI invites speakers seeking opportunities to present in Philadelphia April 21-25, 2013, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. In the wake of new all-time attendance and trade show records set in its May 2012 showing in Las Vegas, LIGHTFAIR International invites and encourages experts from the lighting industry and other industries such as architecture, design, energy, en...

Birmingham Airport has installed GE Lighting’s 380 LEDs to celebrate London Olympic Games. The LEDs, as well as 38 LED modules, placed inside two sets of Olympic rings, have been installed on either side of the Air Traffic Control Tower. The LEDs were installed into the rings at ground level and then the entire structure was mounted onto the tower at a height of 135 feet in six days. The lighting is dimmable so the intensity of the white light produced can be adjusted accordingly. Manufactured and installed by design specialist Octink, each individua...

On August 7, DOE has released a new report to announce Philips L Prize LED Bulb passed 18000 hours test. And from the test, DOE also gets a piece of more true prediction material on lumen maintenance ratio. 200 samples are tested. The test is under the constant temperature of 45 ° C, and uses mobile integral ball to measure spectrum. According to the test data which is watched at 7000 hours, the lumens maintenance ratio of L-Prize light bulb will be 97.1%, when it lights by 25000 hours. And the possibility reaches 95%, exceed general requirement(70%). Until J...

Russian LED company Optogan has recruited logistics service provider Logwin to manage distribution of its products in Europe and Asia. Their cooperation can date back to the end of 2011. At that time,Optogan has opened a production site in Landshut in Bavaria. Meanwhile, the company commissioned Logwin to manage its global supply chain. Logistics for Optogan are centred on the Logwin warehouses in Karlsfeld near Munich and Taipei, Taiwan. Each location serves as the distribution centre for its region. Up to 7,600 pallet storage positions are available in Kar...