Expressway Toyota Helps Customers “Come in From the Cold” While Reducing its Dealership Lighting Energy Costs by Over 80%   Qnuru™, the Noribach Group’s smart energy digital lighting division, today announced that Expressway Toyota of Dorchester, MA, a close-in Boston suburb, has retrofitted its iconic dealership with Qnuru’s Vector line of high wattage LED retrofit bulbs. Founded, owned and operated by brothers Richard and Robert Boch, Expressway Toyota sells new and used Toyota and Scion automobiles from its 45,000 s...

Acuity Brands has released its new Holophane® Petrolux® LED luminaires to satisfy the requirements of a range of lighting applications in harsh and environmentally challenging facilities, including waste water treatment, power generation, petro-chemical, pulp and paper, textile, and ethanol and biodiesel production plants. The energy-efficient Petrolux® LED luminaires feature multiple lumen package options and several optical choices to meet various needs....

Last year, Instrument Systems GmbH further reinforced its leading position in LED Test & Measurement by gaining a major order worth several million euros. The order for a large number of array spectrometers from the CAS 140CT series placed by Korean company LG Innotek has strengthened the market leadership of the manufacturer of light measurement systems based in Munich.

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., today launches all-new Lyra Series of LED products with the GL-A19 LED bulb. Designed as a direct replacement for traditional A19 incandescent bulbs, GlacialLight's A19 LED fits into standard E26/E27/B22/GU10 sockets. With GlacialLight's two-year warranty and a rated life-span of at least 30,000 hours, the GL-A19 LED bulb is designed to provide exceptional and long-lasting decorative, window, spot, cabinet, accent, and hallway lighting, in both commercial an...

Luxury Lighting Manufacturer Honored with Industry’s Most Prestigious Award Corbett Lighting, luxury lighting manufacturer for more than 40 years, won the “Lighting Manufacturer of the Year” Award at the 22nd Annual ARTS gala, held on January 22 during the Dallas International Lighting Market and the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market.  In partnership with the Dallas Market Center, the Accessories Resource Team (ART) has hosted the prestigious Annual ARTS Awards program for the past 20 years, and to be nominated is one o...

Fujitec is showing cylindrical (tubular) OLED lighting panels and OLED lighting processing equipment. The OLED panels are either blue, red or green, 70mm diameter and 80mm in length. The luminance is 100cd/m2 for red or blue and 1000cd/m2 for green - which also features 24lm/W efficacy level. The lifetime is just 100 hours currently.   According to the company by middle 2011 they will be able to produce white-color panels (45mm diameter, 70mm in length) featuring 20lm/W at 1000 hours lifetime. The aim of their current project is to reach a white OLED at 30mm di...

Made in U.S.A. to Meet Buy American Act Featuring Dialight’s Exclusive Driver Technology for Optimum Performance and Long-Life Reliability Dialight (LSE: DIA.L), the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today unveiled its latest innovation in LED roadway and area lighting with the new Dialight StreetSense™ Series LED Street Light featuring Dialight’s exclusive optics technology for precision light placement along with maximum energy efficiency and reliability for ultra-low total cost of ownership over the lifetime...

New Partner Program Encourages Industry-Wide Collaboration; Launches with First Several ControlScope Connected Partners   Daintree Networks, Inc., a leading provider of innovative wireless control solutions for energy-smart buildings, today announced the launch of its ControlScope Connected Partner Program, designed to encourage vendor collaboration and development. Through the program, launched today with its first five members, Daintree Networks works with industry-leading lighting vendors to create interoperability between third-party products, as well as w...

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, announced the production of 12-inch polished wafers, the largest high-quality, sapphire wafer ready for production of LEDs (light emitting diodes). Rubicon now offers a complete range of high quality sapphire substrates including two-, three- and four- inch core, and six-, eight- and 12-inch wafers.  

Power Integrations has added seven new members　(LNK413-LNK419) to　its popular LinkSwitch-PH family of LED driver ICs. The new devices can achieve up to 88% efficiency, feature a PWM-dimmable single-stage controller with both power factor correction and accurate constant current power conversion functionality. In addition, LinkSwitch-PH devices incorporate the PFC/CC controller, a 725 V MOSFET and MOSFET driver into a single package. The new ICs enable the ultimate in high reliability at low cost by eliminating up to 25 additional compone...

According to Samsung Electro-Mechanics, driven by increased demand for memory-chip components and LED parts, its earnings almost doubled in 2010. Learning from the company said in a regulatory filing, its net profit surged 95 percent last year from a year earlier to reach 555 billion won (US$497 million).Sales grew 26 percent on-year to 6.97 trillion won, and operating income also rose 61 percent to 778 billion won....

Taiwan’s display panel makers Wintek Corp., Jeng Shiang Precision Ind. Co., Ltd and ArmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd. have paved the way for tapping Taiwan’s market for LED lighting. It’s said that Wintek specializes in touch screen, Jeng Shiang in light guide plate for the panel and ArmTRAN in LCD monitor. They have recently branched out into LED lighting from the LCD sector. Wintek has found an LED-lighting business division with a team of 20-30 specialists. The division began shipping the lamps in the second half of 2010, hav...

Maxim’s unique LED driver solution enables the design of LED-based MR16 lamps that are compatible with most electronic transformers and cut-angle dimmers. Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX16840, an LED driver that employs a proprietary architecture to ensure flicker-free, dimmable operation with electronic transformers and cut-angle dimmers. Maxim’s patent-pending approach enables the design of retrofit LED lamps that can replace halogen MR16s without any changes to the existing electrical infrastructure. This remove...

After Cree released LMR2 LED module, Arrow Electronics announced that it would play a distributor for this new product. According to Gary Zullo, director of Arrow’s lighting segment, “at Arrow, we share Cree’s passion for and commitment to advancing the widespread adoption of LED lighting. The new LMR2 module is a solid addition to our offering of Cree LED modules and components, and will help our customers simplify and accelerate the design and development cycle.”...

LMR2 LED Module Can Enable Lighting Manufacturers to Expand Their LED Portfolio Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, is extending its LED module family with the Cree LMR2 LED Module, a compact, high-efficiency module that provides a simple solution for lighting designers and manufacturers looking to offer best-in-class LED lighting. The previously-released Cree LMR4 LED Module is also now available in four color points, 2700 K, 3000 K, 3500 K and 4000 K, each based on Cree TrueWhite® Technology. The v...

After introduce 10~100W plant grow light in January. Apple Lighting likes to introduce 120W LED High Bay with 9000lm. It has two types of reflector, One is aluminum material for warehouse and factory application, another one is polycarbonate for shopping mall and outlet application. It could replace the traditional 400W of mercury-vapor lamp to achieve the long-life span and energy saving purpose. It also has many advantages, such reduce the CO2 emission, mercury free, violet light free and maintenance saving. The shape of LED high bay lighting made by App...

Vermont's largest municipal electric utility is going green with 35 LED streetlights retrofits in a residential area for the first time, and saving 74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights. It’s said the Burlington Electric Department already had been using LED streetlights in downtown commercial areas, but now will do so on Shore Road along Lake Champlain and neighboring streets. This LED retrofit was estimated to save74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights and officials hoped to expand the installment in the future....

Reportedly, Taiwan LED maker Epistar has acquired Apple’s order for LED backlights for use in iPad. Benefiting from increasing LED applications in TV, notebook PCs and lightings, Epistar confirmed that its production lines have been fully booked by contract orders till this June. This secures the firm strong growth momentum in sales and shipments in the first half of 2011.  ...

Japanese designers Motoi Ishibashi and Daito Manabe have created “LED smiles.” The pair was inspired by "LED throwies," or bundles of LED lights attached to a magnet. It’s said that the light-up mouths were originally featured in a fashion advertisement in a winter sale at a Japanese clothing store, and now they're starting to take off as an accessory. The LED smiles can easily be affixed to your teeth and glow different colors while you smile. Besides, the colors can be changed wirelessly through a computer interface....

D3 LED, LLC (D3), the world’s leader in specialized LED digital display applications, announced the debut of the largest continuous surface digital LED screen to date in New York’s Times Square. The custom display, located at 1568 Broadway above the entrance to the Doubletree Hotel at West 47th Street, was designed and engineered by D3 for its client, TSQ Digital, and measures 100 feet wide by 50 feet high. It was designed to serve multiple advertisers, and is capable of exchanging data transmitted via cell phones and broadcasting HD video feeds,...

Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), has released the 2011 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting and design community. The SOURCE, the industries’ leading lighting education facility, is located at Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia, and offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and its applications. The SOURCE has been servicing the lighting industry for over nineteen years and to date, over 100,000 lighting and interior designers, a...

It’s reported that Daktronics Inc. will supply a LED video display to Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies. The LED video display has high-definition clarity and be much larger than the former video display at Citizens Bank Park. It will measure 76 feet high and 97 feet wide, totaling 7,372 square feet of digital space. The LED display will show video with up to 1512 lines of resolution, using Daktronics HD-15 technology. In addition, the display will provide wide-angle viewing for better visibility for more fans, increased contrast and ...

KLA-Tencor introduces broad portfolio of process control solutions designed to improve productivity of LED device fabs • New KLARITY LED offers automated defect analysis for LED yield enhancement and rapid time to results • New ICOS WI-2220 provides low cost of ownership to support LED industry cost per lumen goals KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced KLARITY® LED—an a...

Tool Designed to Enable Improved Substrate and MOCVD Process Control Yield KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC), the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced its new Candela  8620 substrate and epitaxy (epi) wafer inspection system. Designed for high brightness light emitting diode (HBLED) manufacturers, the Candela 8620 provides automated defect inspection for LED materials such as gallium nitride, sapphire, and silicon carbide—enabling enhan...

Reportedly, South Korea-based OCI Co. Ltd. has injected $33 million to order sapphire crystallization furnaces from GT Solar, marking OCI's entrance into the LED industry and GT Solar's first commercial sale of its sapphire crystallization furnaces in Korea. According to Tom Guiterrez, GT Solar's president and CEO, it’s the third order for their sapphire crystallization furnaces in the last two months from leading PV manufacturers that are entering the LED market. They worked closely with OCI several years ago when they launched the...

Colorado’s Oldest Volkswagen Dealership Achieves 18 Month Return on Investment from Energy Savings and Xcel Conservation Rebates with Qnuru’s LED Lighting Retrofit   Qnuru™, the Noribach Group’s smart energy digital lighting division, and SoGoGreen, a Colorado-based distributor of LED lighting products and services, today announced that Emich Volkswagen of Denver has installed Qnuru’s LED bulbs throughout its new and used car dealership. Emich VW, the oldest Volkswagen dealership in Colorado, is owned and operated ...

Rohm developed a new (2nd-generation) OLED lighting panel that uses a red phosphorescent material. The new material results in a more efficient device - about 25-30lm/W, up from about 11lm/W in their first-generation all-fluorescent device.   Lumiotec (which is partly owned by Rohm) will start producing these new panels in "volume" within a few days (Lumiotec reported earlier that it will make around 60,000 panels a year). The new panel's size is 145x145mm (the same size of Lumiotec's older panels) and will cost ¥30,000 (about $365) - which is cheape...

It’s reported that China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics has set up an approximately 215,000 square feet facility in Huizhou, China. The company has invested approximately US$1.0 million in five new production lines for the new space, including a production line for LED street lamp components. And it expects the installation of these five lines to be completed in January 2011. It’s estimated that the five new production lines, at full capacity, will be capable of increasing the company's total capacity on an annual basis by approximately 20%. And i...

Based on its recent analysis of the automotive light-emitting diodes (LED) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Philips Lumileds with the 2010 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation of the Year for being a major factor driving the advance of improved lighting technologies for the global auto industry.

Carmanah has introduced the EG300-series solar LED outdoor streetlight which is designed to satisfy the specific roadway performance features required for customers in global sun-belt regions where core infrastructure development is underway, including regions such as Latin American and the Caribbean. The EG300 can deliver the light output equivalent to a 200-watt metal halide light and includes two product sizes which power up to two LED fixtures. These fixtures are available in standard IES distribution types, are dark-sky friendly.   The new light features a ...