Recently,Panasonic has won a Good Design award for an LED bulb which mimics the look of traditional incandescent bulbs while offering the energy efficiency of LED technology. According to the Good Design Award, Panasonic's managed to engineer around LEDs two main challenges: spreading the light around and casting a warm tint onto its surroundings. LEDs are often very cool light sources, which looks strange to our incandescent-trained eyes. Supposedly Panasonic's cracked that problem. The light produced is not reminiscent of an LED bulb but has a warm ...

According to Toshiba , it has completed the first stage of renewing external lighting at the Louvre, and it will continute to install the warm glow of new LED lighting in the Pyramid, the three pyramidions and the Colbert pavilion of the Louvre on December 6. The Louvre museum recognized the value of replacing the old, high energy xenon lighting with LEDs, and selected Toshiba as its partner in this endeavor. Toshiba has delivered and installed its latest LED products and fittings. Working in close collaboration, Toshiba and the Louvre have designed the lighting to ...

Havells-Sylvania has announced the appointment of Rajiv Goel as President of Global Operations for the Havells-Sylvania Group (formerly known as the Sylvania Group, prior to the 2007 acquisition).  In this role, Rajiv Goel will be fully responsible for driving strategic direction and growth.  Making this announcement, Anil Gupta, COO Havells India, Ltd said, “Rajiv’s proven track record in senior management at Havells coupled with his corporate financial expertise puts him in an ideal position to drive growth across our global business. ...

Xiang Nang Hualei Optoelectronics Ltd, of Hunan Province, China, has placed an order of eight new AIXTRON MOCVD reactors including six CRIUS II reactors in a 55x2-inch wafer configuration and two AIX G5 HT 56x2-inch wafer configuration systems to boost capacity for GaN HB LEDs. The order includes six CRIUS II reactors in a 55x2-inch wafer configuration and two AIX G5 HT 56x2-inch wafer configuration systems.   A local AIXTRON service team has installed and commissioned the new systems in Hualei Optoelectronics´ stat...

Osram Sylvania has released s new survey about Americans’ awareness on light bulb changeover. According to Osram Sylvania’s new survey, Americans’ awareness about using LED light sources as replacements for regular bulbs is growing. Americans come to know that federal legislation will phase out “most traditional incandescent lighting by 2014.” And the poll found that 55 percent of respondents were aware of that fact, up from 36 percent in 2010 and 26 percent in 2009. According to Stephanie Anderson, a spokeswoman for Osram Sylvania, &ldquo...

Tivoli, LLC announces the publication of a new comprehensive venue and auditorium catalog.  Featuring a variety of specific wall, row, step, seat and guide lighting solutions for today’s venues and theaters, the 32-page, full-color glossy catalog is a complete resource guide with recommended solutions for today’s popular VIP illumination solutions.    The catalog, which includes Tivoli’s ADA, Life Safety Code and ETL compliant systems, is formatted for easy product look-up, and is organized by application such as “VIP Venues,&rd...

The historic Schinkel street lights in the city of Leipzig has got an LED makeover with Braun Lighting Solutions of Berlin and Future Lighting Solutions. Compared with the 85W power consumption of the lamps they replace, the LED lamps consume only 22W. It is expected to reduce the street lights’ CO2 emissions by 60.8 tonnes per year. Future Lighting Solutions helped in the design phase by providing a simulation of the first prototype, implemented at its Lighting Resource Center in Montreal, Canada. It also helped with the selection of electronic lig...

Digital Lumens has announced new 18,000- and 26,000-lumen highbay LED lighting fixtures -- all with integrated daylight harvesting sensors -- and enhancements to LightRules(TM), the Digital Lumens centralized control system that maximizes energy efficiency. The new products are designed for use in an expanded range of commercial and industrial environments, including those requiring an IP 65 rating for washdown capabilities, the new fixtures are a lumen-for-lumen replacement of existing T5 and T8 High-Intensity Fluorescents (HIF) and feature:     ...

Leading Wireless Lighting Controls Company Adds Six Members to Partner Program Daintree Networks, Inc., the leading provider of wireless lighting control solutions for intelligent buildings, announced that six new companies have joined its ControlScope Connected Program, the only program of its kind in the lighting industry. With the latest additions, this growing ecosystem now consists of 16 partners that manufacture a variety of products including sensors, wall switches, ballasts and LED drivers for lighting and beyond. Through the ControlScope Connected Pro...

To give you an idea of what the new generation of LED-based exterior lighting can mean to your projects, think back to what your life was like in 1990. That was over 20 years ago. Your cell phone, if you had one, was so big and heavy, carrying it probably qualified as an exercise program. Businesses and governments threw tons of dollars at something known ominously as Y2K, which was supposed to throw us back into the Stone Age. (It didn’t, but they still spent billions on new IT systems).  The washing machine and dryer you bought that year? They’re probabl...

Over the recent years, the global LED capacity has been expanding rapidly, which is attributed to the booming growth of LED backlight and LED lighting market triggered by the capacity expansions of LED upstream and downstream players. LED sapphire substrate industry is the upstream sector most relevant to the LED chip industry, as sapphire substrate is one of the most important materials of LED chips. The development and directions of related equipment makers are also closely followed by the market. LEDinside conducted an exclusive interview with Cheryl Diuguid,...

Shuoen, a professional graphite heat sink manufacturer in Taiwan, launches two graphite heat sinks for MR16 LED bulb with model no V304 and V402.  These two new innovative LED graphite heat sinks adopted Shuoen’s patented technology of porous graphite manufacturing method.  The heat sink using porous graphite provides good heat conductivity and large specific surface area to transmit and dissipate heat away from LED heat source very efficiently, and it is the best solution for high-power LED bulb. The MR16 V304 graphite heat sink, equipped with 32 ...

LED-lighting company Nualight, which is a venture capital-backed firm that specialises in the lighting of food retail displays, has won the overall Judges Award at the 2011 Cleantech Connect Awards in London. Some of the hottest and fastest-growing green-tech firms in Europe came down to the final 10 at the awards. The 10 finalists came from a variety of clean-tech sectors, including water, solar, smart grid, transportation, and energy efficiency.According to the organisers, the Judges Award is given to "the overall favourite, a leading contender in all categories. ...

Finnish-based lighting design firm Greenlux Finland Ltd, has developed a partnership with AB Fagerhult, the largest company in the lighting industry in the Nordic Countries. According to their agreement, Greenlux will deliver LED luminaries suitable for general lighting to Fagerhult for marketing and sale under the Fagerhult brand name. The first targets for collaboration will include large-scale projects in which the number of units in a single sale, when completed, will be larger than the total number of units produced by Greenlux in three years.   ...

Albeo Technologies was honored as Best of Energy Efficiency/Green Building by the Global Cleantech Cluster Association,demonstrating the company’s significant success in the growing cleantech industry and validates their leadership in the Energy Efficiency/Green Building sector. As its rapid growth, superior technology, industry leading installations, and high value job creation, Albeo was nominated for the GCCA Later Stage Award by GCCA Member Cluster, Colorado Cleantech Industrial Association  in May 2011. Jeff Bisberg, Albeo Technologi...

San Francisco Bay Area-based LED lighting company,Elemental LED has offered one Mini Screwdriver Kit with each order that the company ships between November 15th and January 1st,  as a special gift for the promotion of its products. The kit is small enough to easily fit inside a Christmas stocking, making it a perfect item to regift to fix-it and tinkering types. The compact kit is also practical, and includes six jewel screwdrivers in one case: a #0 and #1 Phillips, and a 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, and 2.0 mm Flat-head. The case is branded with the Elemental LED logo. ...

New three-dimensional offerings provide lighting systems with design flexibility and custom lighting distributions tailored for general lighting applications Intematix, a leading innovator of patented phosphors and phosphor components for high-quality LED lighting, announced the production availability of its ChromaLit™ Ellipse, Candle and Dome light sources for use by manufacturers of LED light bulbs, fixtures and other indoor and outdoor lighting applications. These new three-dimensional patented remote phosphor ChromaLit products provide designers with wide angle...

Growth in Demand for LED Lighting Triggers Need for Increased Warehouse and Manufacturing Capacity Cree, Inc.’s Ruud Lighting subsidiary, based in Racine, Wisc., will hold a groundbreaking ceremony to highlight a 208,000-square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility. The company’s $24.5 million investment will focus on manufacturing and assembly of LED lighting and is expected to create 469 new full-time jobs over the next four years. “Cree’s recent acquisition of Ruud Lighting and its BetaLED® products brought together two...

Employees from Absen’s International Sales Department were invited by a client to watch a Talent Show, hosted by Ukraine TV Station in Kiev Independence Square on October 15, 2011. The event was displayed perfectly on the M15 and C30 of Absen full-color outdoor LED displays, receiving praise from the sponsor.   The ring-shaped LED is the Absen C30 140m2 and the largest screen is the Absen M15 60m2   Talent shows are very popular in the Ukraine. For this event, the TV Station simply erected the stage in the main street leading to Kiev I...

From October 27th to 30th 2011, the 16th Hong Kong International Lighting Fair was grandly held in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Spark demonstrated independently-developed Mini LED street lights, 4 * 6 module street lights, nano-coated ultra-light high bay lamp, second optical designed tunnel lights and other new products on the fair. Shenzhen Spark Optoelectronics Science & Technology Co., Ltd with 11 years of continuous research and develop experience in LED lighting and top quality products, was highly appreciated as a commercial lighting exper...

Recently, Dialight’s DuroSite LED High Bay has recevied an industry award, this time for LUX magazine's Industrial Retrofit of the Year. The award was collected by customer Paul Cope, Managing Director of March Foods, at the first annual LUX Live trade show. The winning installation is a 6,500 sq metre warehouse facility in Cambridgeshire where the 150W Dialight LED High Bays paired with occupancy sensors replaced 84 450W high pressure sodium fittings, resulting in more than 70% energy savings, while reducing the amount of CO2 emissions b...

New infrared Power Topled with Nanostack technology The new Power Topled with lens (SFH 4258S/4259S) from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has an 80 percent higher optical output than the standard version of the infrared LED – despite the same surface area and the same current. This boost comes from a special thin-film chip which, thanks to Nanostack technology, has not just one but two p-n junctions that are grown one on top of the other. The resultant increased range will above all benefit applications in the security sector and in gesture recognition. More l...

About JK FLAT Over 10 years of BLU technology and experience from World Top 3 field players. Advantage in Optical Pattern design . Designed By Taiwan / China team, Assembly in China factory. Strategy Partnership with key parts supplier , strong competence in cost and parts supply. Advantage of JK FLAT LED Flat Lighting Revolutionary ultra-thin flat lighting Professional technology for lighting of diffusion New concepts design from backlight technology New design for diversified environment application LED PANEL L...

Columbia Lighting has designed epoc® LED, its first LED luminaire with solid-state electronics from Universal Lighting Technologies, available for schools, office buildings and other general illumination applications. According to Columbia Lighting, epoc® LED is carefully tuned using precise standards to maintain superior color consistency within each fixture, from fixture to fixture, and throughout its lifetime. The luminaires are passed through the company’s custom-designed test booth where each receives a unique QR code capturing its exact initial c...

International Green Systems (IGS) has signed a contract with Mi Tierra to replace more than 100,000 bulbs and lamps at the downtown Market Square restaurant with LED bulbs. Mi Tierra’s owners expect to cut electricity use by more than 5.4 million kilowatt hours and reduce greenhouse gases by the equivalent of 123 vehicles. Mi Tierra is making use of CPS Energy’s Commercial Lighting Rebate program. With rebates, CPS Energy will cover about 60 percent of the cost of the new lighting. Mi Tierra will unveil the new lighting on Nov. 15 at a spe...

The worldwide traffic movement presents a considerable burden for the environment – even public transport carriers in the aviation industry. Therefore, Innsbruck Airport has declared preventive environmental protection measures to be an integral part of its corporate strategy and focuses on sustainable solutions for the expansion of airport infrastructures: The apron lighting systems developed by ewo focuses completely – in a hitherto globally unique method – on energy-saving LED technology. The 14 high mast systems with varying mounting heights (ranging from 13...

LEELEDS, a member of Leedarson Lighting made a splendid appearance with its smart lighting solution at the 2011 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair. The solution enabled consumers to completely control their lighting with the ability to remotely turn lights on and off, and dim them in a wireless way. It turned the smart lighting system into a smart energy management solution for residential or commercial lighting thus drew wide attention from the industry and media. LEDinside therefore made an exclusive interview with Mr. Xu Hong, Deputy General Manager of LEEL...

Lighting Science Group has signed an agreement on reselling the company’s A19 LED bulbs with FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit public charity founded by inventor Dean Kamen, strives to cultivate young people’s interest and participation in science, technology, engineering and math. The agreement encourages FIRST middle school and high-school students to sell LED bulbs, produced by Lighting Science Group, in their home communities. A modern-day twist on traditional fundraising methods, the...

SemiLEDs has released its not so bright financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, ended August 31, 2011. According to the company ,revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $5.3 million, a 54% decrease from $11.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. GAAP net loss attributable to SemiLEDs stockholders for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $13.6 million, or a loss of $0.50 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income attributable to SemiLEDs stockholders of $5.3 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of fi...

A recent meeting held Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has made a conclusion that the ministry must revise current strategies on Taiwan’s LED industry development, and the MOEA pledged to work out revised strategies within a month. Economic Minster Y.S. Shih met with top brasses of Taiwan’s leading LED industry in a bid to brainstorm ideas concerning how to help the manufacturers go through hard competition compounded by the economic downturn. Everlight Chairman Y.F. Yeh, Lextar Chairman David Su, EpistarPresident M.J. Jou, and...