Hall 6 at Light+Building 2012 was for decorative lighting exhibitions, where the major European lighting companies showcased their latest endeavors. The exhibiting products consisted of assorted decorative lighting products, including indoors chandelier, table lamp and lighting decorations.   Unlike the excessive lighting at other halls, Hall 6’s lighting gave out a magnificent vibe. The participating companies used a great amount of warm white lights to create a warm atmosphere.   Different types of crystal chandeliers have become a part of dec...

According to LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, European LED lighting market’s compound annual growth rate will hit 38% in the next five years, becoming another mature LED market besides Japan. In particular, the architectural lighting and commercial lighting markets are less price-sensitive, so they have higher acceptance of LED lighting, and therefore, LED’s penetration rate sees faster growth in both markets. According to LEDinside’s “2011-2015 European LED Lighting Market Report (2012 Version),” the global...

Recently, NTL Electronics India Limited, the Rs. 550 Cr (US$ 110 million) Lighting Electronics major from India, has announced sales of 2.19 million LED lamps for the annual year 2011-2012.   According to the company, the sales came in not from a whole year of operation but from manufacturing LED bulbs for 9 months during the period. The LED market is expected to grow manifold over years, so the growth for NTL Electronics is also going to be exponential. Therefore, the company garnered over 5% of the total sales of LED lamps globally. NTL Ele...

AIXTRON SE announced a new MOCVD system order from the University of Warsaw, Poland. The contract is for one Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) reactor in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration, to be used for the growth of gallium nitride (GaN) materials. The system was ordered in the fourth quarter of 2011 and will be delivered in the second half 2012 as part of a project co-financed by the European Union titled "Physics as the basis for new technologies – development of modern research infrastructure at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw...

World’s most famous office building teams with Philips Color Kinetics to create state-of-the-art, dynamic lighting system that can change building’s mast colors in real-time Globally recognized as an engineering marvel and symbol of New York City, the Empire State Building (ESB) has selected Philips, the world’s leader in lighting, as its partner to transition the building’s iconic tower lights to innovative LEDs. The two organizations have pushed the boundaries of LED technology to develop a state-of-the-art dynamic lighting system from Phil...

Marvell has teamed up with Cree on new LED lamp joint reference design. The new A19 60-watt dimmable LED lamp reference design combines the Cree® XLamp® LEDs and Marvell® 88EM8183 deep-dimming TRIAC LED driver integrated circuit (IC), enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original device manufacturers (ODMs) to offer the highest compatibility with existing dimmers. The new design delivers industry-leading deep dimming performance with system efficacy of more than 75 lumens per watt. At Lightfair International 2012, the A...

Bringing imagination to life through the medium of light, Lighting Science Group launched three new color changing architainment lighting products—PriZmaline™ Cove, Graze and Z Series. These new fixtures will help translate the visions of lighting designers, architects and artists alike into standout structures. "With PriZmaline, the creator's imagination is the only limit to how distinctive or avant-garde an installation can be," said Jim Haworth, chairman and chief executive officer of Lighting Science Group. "These products will act...

Sharp Electronics Corporation plans to launch a new portfolio of market-leading LED downlighting, track lighting, and recessed troffer solutions, designed and manufactured in its facilities in the US for shipment in late summer 2012. These Sharp LED offerings will include 6-inch and 4-inch diameter downlights, in both round and square options, multiple lumen packages, and a variety of finishes and colors; track lights in two sizes and lumen packages, with a number of color and beam angle options; and 2'x2' and 2'x4' recessed troffers available in variety of cu...

Next Lighting Corp., a leading developer of LED-based linear lighting products, announced the appointment of Dr. Thomas Katona as Vice President of Products.  He will have responsibility for all aspects of product marketing and engineering. Katona joins Next Lighting after previously working with Soraa Inc., serving in various management roles in engineering, marketing and business development since 2009.  He has been working with LEDs for over 13 years, having received a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barb...

From Las Vegas to Superior, Neb., GE’s Evolve™ LED Roadway fixtures are saving cities big and small a bundle on energy costs. With the installation of more than 41,000 GE Evolve LED streetlights, Las Vegas will reduce combined electricity and maintenance expense to nearly $2.7 million a year, while in Superior, 600 LED fixtures have shaved $20,000 off annual spending for the town of 2,000.   Whether a metropolis of millions or hometown to hundreds, GE’s LED street lighting savings are universal for all cities. Evolve LED Roadway fi...

The I-BEAM LED high bay luminaire is an affordable, configurable one-for-one replacement for fluorescent and HID fixtures. Acuity Brands, Inc. introduces the I-BEAM® LED high bay from Lithonia Lighting®. This LED solution is the latest addition to the I-BEAM family, the most widely specified high bay family in the industry. The I-BEAM LED luminaire offers higher quality illumination, longer life and consumes less energy than comparable fluorescent and HID fixtures. Plus, I-BEAM LED high bays provide a payback in as little as t...

The 2011 GE Edison Award is presented to Glenn Heinmiller, Paul Zaferiou and Dan Weissman of Lam Partners for lighting the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, USA. A personalized Steuben crystal award for the winner of this 29th annual lighting design competition was presented by GE Lighting on May 8, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first permanent home of the United States Institute of Peace is prominently located near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The translucent wing-like roofs that connect the building’s three ...

New laser bar series of Osram Opto Semiconductors with 200 Watt continuous power An extremely high efficiency of up to 65 percent at 200 Watt optical output power – these are the outstanding features of Osram Opto Semiconductors’ new laser bars. They can simplify the design of laser systems and reduce their cost. Laserline, one of the leading manufacturers of diode lasers for industrial material processing, now also makes full use of these advantages. Laser bars from Osram Opto Semiconductors are the core of the latest and most powerful fiber-coupled diode l...

Advanced Lighting Technologies, Inc. (ALT) proudly announced the achievement of a high-efficiency and highly reliable LED lamp driver solution (LED driver) comprising no bulky, unreliable components such as capacitors, coils or EMI filters. Unlike the few other companies announcing similar products, ALT’s target is to offer an ultra reliable “AC LED Light Engine” comprising only an LED array and a tiny 8 pin or 16 pin chip, requiring no other parts except two wires to connect to the AC outlet. The ALT LED driver is fully compatible wit...

Austrian major lighting company Zumtobel, one of the leading companies in the European lighting industry, has been striving to make inroads into the LED lighting market over the recent years. According to LEDinside, the company’s exhibition area at Light+Building 2012 was mostly located at Hall 2. Aside from the mother company Zumtobel, subsidiary companies TRIDONIC (control system and power module) and LEDON (light source) also exhibited at Hall 2. Zumtobel is a high-end product maker and cooperates with many world-class lighting designers. Unl...

According to the latest price survey by LEDinside, the LED research division of TrendForce, the global LED light bulb price downtrend did not persist in March – 40W equivalent LED light bulb ASP went up by almost 7%, with the uptrend mostly attributed to Japan and the United Kingdom. On the other hand, 60W equivalent LED light bulb ASP dipped by 1.6% in March at US$ 33. TrendForce indicates, aside from the United States, the prices around the world stopped sliding in 12’Mar; prices in certain areas even saw a rather large rebound. Besides t...

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Company reported revenue of $10.2 million and a loss of $0.15 per share for the first quarter. While the LED market is beginning to rebound, demand for sapphire substrates from that market remained weak in the quarter, resulting in a sequential decrease in revenue. Rubicon reported a sequential increase in revenue from the Silicon-...

Several Zhaga-standardized engines were released at the Light+Building 2012 fair held in early April in Frankfurt, Germany. As a member, Taiwan Epistar’s Chairman B.J. Lee thought that interface standards that Zhaga Consortium, which consists of over 195 individual LED companies around the world, is working on for LED light engines will make LED lamps prevalent in three years. In Lee’s opinion, architects have been loath to design LED lighting fixtures into their works all because of the inconsistent interface specifications among LED light eng...

Trinity Material in China has cooperated with ARC Energy to use ARC Energy’s CHES furnaces for sapphire production. The two companies are paving the way for new industry expectations and opportunities based on c-axis growth orientation for LED manufacturing. Trinity Material is successfully ramping up to produce very high volumes of sapphire crystals to meet the growing demand for large diameter sapphire wafers in the LED market. Sapphire boules are grown on c-axis by ARC Energy’s CHES method compared to conventional processes where a-axis bo...

CS163X Family of LED Controllers Offers Up to 30 Percent Higher Lumens Per Watt Compared to Single-Channel Drivers While Providing Improved Color Temperature Quality Cirrus Logic Inc. (Nasdaq: CRUS) has introduced its second family of digital LED controllers with digital TruDim™ dimmer compatibility technology designed to accelerate worldwide adoption of LED retrofit bulbs. In addition to providing near 100 percent compatibility with the world’s installed base of dimmers, the new CS163X family provides two-channel LED color mixin...

GT Advanced Technologies is to host a LED manufacturing symposium in Shanghai, China, May 9-10, 2012. The event will bring together a wide range of manufacturers from the LED value chain throughout Asia, from sapphire crystal growers to epi-wafer and LED device producers, to discuss the metrics that matter most in producing high yielding and high quality LEDs. Particular focus will be on the role that high quality sapphire material plays in driving downstream yield improvements and costs reductions. Presenters include representatives from Philips Lumileds, Ari...

Chinese based LED Company SunSun Lighting has received $30 million in Series B financing from GSR Ventures and Oak Investment Partners and additional commitments from its original angel investors. Oak, a multi-stage venture capital firm, is leading the round. Allan Kwan, a China-based advisor for Oak, is joining the board of SunSun. SunSun Lighting eliminates the performance and cost trade-offs of current LED lighting technology by offering a complete LED system, including power electronics, housing, packaging, and optics. The company's patented P...

SWITCH Lighting™ Shows Off Full Family of Liquid-Cooled LED Lamps, New Technology at LIGHTFAIR   SWITCH Lighting™, the first company to offer a true LED replacement to the incandescent with no compromises, is announcing the availability of its highly-anticipated family of LED A-lamps. They are the only liquid-cooled LED A-lamps that can be used in any fixture, any orientation, and anywhere – indoors and out. After first introducing their innovative technology last year, SWITCH’s LED lamps are now in produ...

New 30W Constant Current Driver Optimized for Residential and Commercial Lighting Applications Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today unveiled a new dimmable LED driver module optimized for worldwide residential, commercial and industrial light fixtures. The 30 watt (W) LXMG221W-0700030-D0™ LED driver enables start up times of 150 milliseconds (ms) or faster, closely emulating the "lights-on" performance of a typical incandescent...

- Compact, efficient, long life LED panels for lower cost interior lighting GlacialLight, a division of experienced global technology leader, GlacialTech Inc., has launched the GL-PL0312 LED Panel Light, another outstanding addition to the popular GlacialLight's range of LED lighting products. This high efficiency 58W LED panel is an ideal replacement for older, less-efficient light sources. Its key advantages are surprisingly low energy and maintenance costs, thanks to LED technology which brings greatly reduced power costs, long life, and low heat. ...

Germany major company Osram AG, the forerunner in the European lighting industry, has a subsidiary company OSRAM OS which is dedicated to producing LED light source and chip. According to LEDinside, the company’s main exhibition area was located at Hall 2 at Light+Building 2012 with a few booths at other halls. The main area was divided into two sections – innovative technologies and lighting applications.   Outdoors Lighting Products In regard to outdoors lighting, the company released Bergmeister luminaries, whose reflecting des...

SemiLEDS is a world’s leading LED chip maker, possessing many LED-related patents and technologies. Recently, LEDinside conducted an interview with Dr. Chuong Anh Tran, President, Chief Operating Officer & Director at SemiLEDs Corp, who shed light on SemiLEDS’ recent LED technological breakthroughs and the company’s latest endeavor on UV LED chips.   LED Lighting to See Upswing in 2H12 and 2013 Chuong stated, SemiLEDS has expanded the capacities of its Taiwan and China production lines, whic...

Philips is to launch a 23-watt LED bulb as bright as a 100-watt incandescent lamp this fall. The company will add to its EnduraLED line with a lamp that gives off almost 1,700 lumens, or about the amount of light as a 100-watt incandescent, and consumes 23 watts. The price isn’t disclosed but it is expected to be in the $40 to $50 range. This latest EnduraLED has a color temperature is a warm yellow at 2,700 Kelvin, is dimmable, and has a color rendering index of 80. The existing EnduraLED bulbs are rated to last nearly 23 years based on three hours of us...

Lighting Science Group, announced that former chairman of Philips North America K.R. (Kaj) den Daas, will be joining Company's board of directors. From 1977 to 2010, Mr. den Daas served in various capacities with Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., including: from 2006 to 2009, as Chairman of Philips Lighting North America and CEO of BU Professional Luminaires North America; from 2003 to 2006, as COO of BG Lamps and Executive Vice-President of Philips Lighting B.V.; and from 1999 to 2003, as CEO of Philips' Business Unit - Lam...

As Japan closed its last nuclear reactor a few days ago, the country’s electricity shortage is estimated to surge to 13% this summer. And industry executives estimated the power shortage may run up to 20% if the summer heat rises higher than expected. But it brings new opportunities to Taiwan Delta Electronics Inc., Lextar Electronics Corp. Since the March 11 earthquakes of 2011, Japanese market for the energy-saving lamps has been thriving. LED lamps in Japan’s market is estimated to spike 69% to 373.8 billion yen (US$4.6 billion at US$1:80 yen) this yea...