Recently, the Kampala, Uganda Sheraton replaced many of their traditional lights in their interior as well as in the accompanying Green Restaurant with GlacialLight GL-MR16-5W LED lamps . Fitting into existing lighting fixtures, the Sheraton and their Green Restaurant did not need additional equipment for the LED upgrade. Coupled with the fact that GlacialLight's GL-MR16-5W LED lamps shine for a minimum of 20,000 hours equated to even more savings in maintenance and replacement cost. Not only did GlacialLight's GL-MR16-5W LED la...

Taiwan Delta Electronics announced the opening of its Taoyuan Plant 3 and R&D Center. The new plant employs Delta's own energy saving and industrial automation products and control systems. Eco-friendly features of the plant include solar panels, LED lighting, water resource processing and renewable energy equipment that not only trims the annual power bill by NTD 5 million, but also reduces 1,000 tons of CO 2 emissions and uses about 75% less water (around 3,000 tons). The planning and design of the Taoyuan Plant 3 and R&D Center was initiated in...

Recently, Everlight’s spokesman, P.Y. Liu, has announced the company’s prediction for LED Industry in 2012. According to him, the company will see revenue climb quarter by quarter after hitting the bottom in the first quarter of 2012. He noted that the company’s monthly revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011 will change only moderately and revenue for January, 2012, will slip from a month earlier because of the Chinese-New-Year holidays. Liu pointed out that inventories at the company’s customers are getting close to a minimum after quarters ...

Boston LED startup OnChip Power has increased $1 million to its Series A fundraise, bringing the company’s first round to $2.8 million. According to an SEC filing, OnChip Power has added one more backer to the round, increasing the investor count from four to five. CEO Vanessa Green said previously that investors included Venrock and Arunas Chesonis, CEO of PAETEC Holding Corp. OnChip is working on developing technology that would allow for a smaller, less costly power supply for LED bulbs, in an effort to help drive greater adoption of the...

Hort Americas is offering three different Philips GreenPower LED Flowering Lamps, which are UL Certified. These lamps are energy saving alternatives for extending day length for plants to control flowering and for the production of vegetative cuttings and seedling plugs. The lamps can save over 80 percent on energy costs and have been developed as replacements for incandescent lamps. The LED lamps have a standard fitting and are suitable for direct replacement of incandescent lamps in existing installations without the need for any modifications. Each of the LED lam...

Following EPISTAR LAB’s recent 216 lm/W record-breaking achievement, Epistar introduces three LED chipset products with 100, 120, and 150 lm/W package efficiency, respectively. The three chipsets are named Standard Set, Premium Set, and Deluxe Set; all feature with CRI >85 and 2700-3000K CCT: Aiming at the final system efficiency greater than 80 lm/W, the Premium Set emphasizes its  impressive package efficiency with affordable cost for 60W bulb and high performance T5 tube repleacement. Pointing towards the final system efficiency...

Recently, insiders in India showed their opinions about the tendency of LED development. According to Amrit Manwani, an alumnus of IIT-Kanpur, LEDs will take the place of conventional streetlights by 2020. He thought that the LEDs consume one-third of the power consumed by the conventional streetlights and also illuminate a larger area. Due to less power consumption, the LED bulbs and tubelights would become a part of every household. Manwani, a co-ordinator of 1972 batch, said LED tubelights and bulbs consume only 1/10 of the power consumed by tubelights and...

As new year is dawning near, the new law on phasing out the 100-watt bulbs is to take effect, however, some Southwest Floridians prefer the incandescent bulbs. A law passed in 2007 says manufacturers must phase out the 100-watt bulbs in 2012, or make them much more energy-efficient.  The government would like people to use the compact flourescent lights, CFL's, or LEDs.   Different people have different opinions. According to Jack Lurie of Tropical Hardware in Fort Myers, "They see light bulbs as an investment. They just want to screw in a bulb an...

Recently, Lighthouse and TS Sports have helped redecorate Texas Christian University's Amon G. Carter stadium with two giant IMPACT 16 LED video screens, under a part of a $105 million renovation project. Lighthouse’s wildly popular outdoor LED video solution IMPACT 16 was installed in Amon G. Carter Stadium. The IMPACT 16 uses the first outdoor SMD LED chip and features intelligent IM design for superior flatness. Exceptional color reproduction and clarity come standard, and image quality and uniformity are delivered with Light...

The vehicular mounted LED Lighting company Rigid Industries, has won the GM Design “Best New Chevrolet Truck” at the 2011 SEMA Show for their Project Chevrolet “Baja” Silverado in Las Vegas, Nevada. The concept behind the new “Baja” Silverado was to build the best off-road vehicle possible. And the GM Design Awards are an annual program that recognizes SEMA show exhibitors who showcase the most outstanding combinations of innovation, creativity, personalization and performance in their vehicle and product designs. ...

Summary: The New Year is around the corner and in the soon-to-last 2011, there are so many unforgettable moment for LED industry. As we know, global LED market faces many opportunities and challenges in 2011, with so many unpredicted problems including Japanese earthquake in March 11, Europe debt crisis, and unsatisfactory demand coming flood. Some LED companies have to declare bankruptcy, while others take active part in fighting against the trouble. When many people are immerse in the sadness comes from Japanese catastrophe, some clever LED manufactures seize ...

LG has announced the world’s largest OLED display at 55 inch, marking that we are much closer to getting mass produced OLED displays. The new TV features a ‘wider’ color gamut than LCD screens and is impossibly thin — only 5mm. Additionally, it can have amazing response times that can skirt 0.01 millisecond and refresh rates of 100,000hz as a result. It has a response time of 2-8 milliseconds and hence are capable of refresh rates of about 200Hz. OLED’s also have better contrast. LG’s 55inch behemoth has a contrast ratio of 1...

Amerlux has introduced SmartSite™, SmartSite™, powered by Intellistreets and network control system which integrates LED lighting technology. SmartSite is a 24/7 area-wide system that offers architectural luminaire styles, a robust platform, digital wireless solutions, Wi-Fi capabilities, and a myriad of homeland security features. It also offers multimedia solutions that can upgrade an existing infrastructure to provide information, advertising, security and entertainment for public spaces with streetlights that automatically adjust the lighting to illuminate t...

Netherlands based Lemnis Lighting’s Pharox 300 LED light bulb was named "Best of the Test" by the Dutch Consumers' Union. According to the company, the test, conducted in October 2011, pitted the 6-watt Pharox 300 against five other LED bulbs readily available in Europe. The Pharox bulb scored ten out of ten on four of the test's ten criteria: light output, light color, lifetime, and turning directly on. The results are significant because, while a small market, the Netherlands are particularly interested in LED technology, having been ...

Lately, Shenzhen Spark Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd has won the "semiconductor lighting technology and energy efficient products industry project" supported by the National Development and Reform Commission, which was included into the 2011 central budget investment plans. The supported projects from the central budget for investment in energy-saving plans mainly focus on engineering, circular economy and resource conservation demonstration projects and a major focus of industrial pollution control projects.   The commitment "semiconductor lightin...

Recently, Researchers from Dresden's University of Technology (TU Dresden) have made a breakthrough on a highly efficient white top-emitting OLED design that feature "outstanding" color quality, and is compatible with flexible OLEDs. In this new design a refractive index matched microlens film was laminated to the top-emitting OLED to form direct optical contact. It has a CRI of 93, CIE coordinates of (0.472, 0.430) and an emission from 410 to 750 nm that almost spans the complete visible spectrum (380 to 780 nm). The efficiency is up to 30 lm/W...

Recently, Taiwan's Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), has released a report on LED industry scale in 2011. Taiwan remains world's biggest in LED industry scale in 2011, despite lower-than-expected market growth.   As the eurozone's debt problems dragged down demand, the output value of the global LED market grew by only 2.6 percent to US$16.6 billion (NT$502.48 billion) this year from US$16.1 billion in 2010. In terms of regional performance, Taiwan still topped the market with a total output value of US$4.5...

Pakistan Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has asked the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to first launch a LED street lights pilot project in the city to assess whether the new expensive technology will help achieve the objectives. According to an official, when the directives were given to the CDA, some official are concerned about the huge cost of the project. The estimated cost of the project was over Rs 6 billion and it would cause a huge lose to the national exchequer, in case of a failure. Some high-ups of CDA also showed concern about the main...

Recently, 9-watt Energy Smart LED light bulbs from General Electric are tested in an oven at the lighting group's Nela Park headquarters in East Cleveland, Ohio. Republicans in Congress and Americans have reached a deal to postpone until October enforcement of energy standards that many fear will be the end of 100-watt bulbs and fill stores with those more expensive curlicue fluorescent lightbulbs. Environmentalists thought the delay was not a bright move....

According to Burton Councilman Steve Heffner, a $45,600 state grant will pay to install ballasts and buy LED lights at City Hall and the Department of Public Works and Police Administration buildings. And the grants also will pay to install the fixtures in parking lots outside the building. Additionally, City Controller Ginger Burke-Miller disclosed that approximately $600,000 has been set aside for street lighting in the 2011-2012 budget, an increase of $100,000 from the previous year. The company that did the audit, Macomb Township-based LumaSmart Technolo...

Energy Focus has completed an installation of more than 600 new LED lighting fixtures for USS Chafee (DDG 90). According to a recent Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) press release, "The new fixtures have a minimum 50,000-hour lifespan compared to the 1,000-hour incandescent globes and 7,500-hour fluorescents. The ship is expected to save more than $50,000 per year using the new lights. Savings are expected to exceed $100,000 per ship per year when the scope is expanded to include the T12 fluorescent fixtures. In early 2012, USS Preble (DDG 88) is ...

CSL’s Concealed LED Lighting Sets the Stage for James Wall’s Covered Terrace Installation in Acclaimed Magazine’s Second Showhouse Endeavor   CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting), leaders in energy-efficient LED downlighting and concealed lighting, is featured in ELLE DÉCOR’s 2011 Showhouse, presented as an official satellite exhibit of Design Miami/ during Art Basel from Dec. 3 to Dec. 19. CSL’s 12-V Ultra Compact PDQ Strip Lighting and Invizilite Generation 2 concealed lighting—inclu...

Lemnis Lighting, a leader in sustainable LED lighting technology, announces that the company's Pharox 300 LED light bulb was named "Best of the Test" by the Dutch Consumers' Union (Consumentenbond). The Pharox bulb scored ten out of ten on four of the test's ten criteria: light output, light color, lifetime, and turning directly on. The results are significant because, while a small market, the Netherlands are particularly interested in LED technology, having been early and wide adopters of LED bulbs since 2006. "We know how great the P...

Measures have been passed by several governments around the world to phase out incandescent light bulbs for general use. The aim is to expand usage and spur technological development of more energy-efficient lighting alternatives, such as compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and light emitting diode (LED) lamps. Brazil and Venezuela began to phase them out in 2005, and the European Union, Switzerland, and Australia started to do the same in 2009. Similarly, other nations are planning scheduled phase-outs: Argentina, Russia, and Canad...

According to the price survey of LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, the ASP of LED light bulbs for 40W incandescent light bulb replacement slightly decreased 2% in November, while the ASP in Japan plunged by nearly 10%. As for the LED light bulbs for 60W incandescent light bulb replacement, the ASP slightly increased, but the lowest price fell below US$ 24. 40W Equivalent LED Light Bulb Prices Underwent Steep Drop Source: LEDinside LEDinside’s survey indicates that, even though the ASP of LED light bulbs for 40W...

As the LED backlight market entered a plateau period, the lighting market becomes the major battlefield for the global LED makers to compete in. Given the fierce price competition, a number of LED manufacturers have shifted their focus to LED specialty lighting, plant lighting and medical lighting in seek of higher profits. With its vertical LED structure technology, American LED epitaxy manufacturer SemiLEDs developed UV LEDs of the wavelength range below 385nm. Additionally, the company optimized LEDs’ curing characteristics and developed a curin...

As New Year is drawing near, a key number in the countdown has arrived in Times Square on Wednesday. There are 526 advanced LED bulbs consist of the seven-foot-tall number "2" sign. And the number will be swapped out for one of the "1" signs from last year to make 2012. Organizers say the display shows the end of the era of Edison, and the beginning of a more efficient future. As Peter Soares of Phillips Lighting, said "It's an icon for New York, right? But more importantly, it's representation of the future, the lighting future.&q...

San Francisco based Elemental LED has teamed up with the city of Richmond, CA to expanding the REACH (Reduce Energy And Contribute to Humanity) program, which aims to help promote energy conservation in the Bay Area community. On November 29th, REACH conducted a lighting science and energy conservation workshop for the students of the RichmondBUILD green job-training academy to kickoff the new partnership. Established in April 2007, the RichmondBUILD Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Skills and Green Jobs Training Academy creates employme...

Conference Name:China International LED Application Forum 2012 Dates:19 & 21 Feb 2012 Venue: Guangzhou, China Contact number: 86 21 61573930, 61573919 Website: www.ledchina-forum.com Organizer: UBM Trust, UBM Conferences Concurrent Event: LED CHINA 2012 Conference Background: China's first International LED summit-China International LED Application Forum 2012- will be held on February 19, 21, 2012 in Guangzhou, concurrent with 8th Annual LED China 2012. As an annual get-together for the LED industry, this forum ...

San Francisco’s Lemnis Lighting is offering a charitable holiday season twist on traditional “buy one, get one” promotions, to bring solar LED lighting to Rural Zambians. With the promotion of “buy one, give one,” Lemnis is matching every US purchase of its Pharox Solar Kits with a donation to Empowered by Light, a new nonprofit foundation that is delivering renewable energy lighting to schools in rural communities in Africa that do not have access to electricity. Normally, Pharox Solar Kits sell at a manufacturer’s suggested r...