2009-11-12

Renaissance Lighting Launches solía™, Its Newest ENERGY STAR®-Qualified Luminaire Product Line for General Illumination Applications

Renaissance Lighting, an innovator in the development of LED downlight fixtures, introduced its new solía™ brand high-efficiency all-white solid-state downlighting at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix, AZ.  
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2009-11-12

Orlando's New Amway Center to Feature Daktronics Integrated LED Display System

Daktronics Inc. in conjunction with the Orlando Magic and the City of Orlando, announced yesterday that it will provide an integrated scoring, video and advertising display system for the new Amway Center scheduled to open in Orlando in the fall of 2010. Installation of the first displays of the multi-million dollar system will begin in early 2010.
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2009-11-12

Neo-Neon to Open LED Chip Factory in Yangzhou

Neo-Neon Holdings Ltd. will spend around US$30 million to open an LED chip production facility in Yangzhou, China, according to an article on Taiwan Economic News.
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2009-11-12

Tokuyama Expands UV-LED Production Capacity with AIXTRON MOCVD System

AIXTRON AG announced that a further AIX 200/4 RF-S MOCVD system has been installed and successfully started operation at Tokuyama R&D center in Tsukuba, Japan. The reactor has already been shipped in the fourth quarter of 2008 and is being used by Tokuyama for the development of AlGaN-based ultra-violet light emitting diodes (UV-LEDs).
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2009-11-11

Nichia Files a Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Companies in China, Hong Kong and Canada

Nichia Corporation recently announced that it filed a lawsuit against Shenzhen Jiawei Industries Co. Ltd., a Chinese corporation, Jiawei Technology (HK) Ltd., a Hong Kong corporation, and Jiawei North America Inc., a Canadian corporation, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging the defendants infringe patents held by Nichia. In the lawsuit Nichia seeks an injunction and damages against the alleged infringement.
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2009-11-11

LEDnovation Introduces New White A19 LED Light Bulbs for Incandescent and CFL Replacement

LEDnovation, Inc. introduces a new LED lighting product, the white A19 LED bulb for the North American Market, and the company claims the bulb is with the world’s highest efficiency state-of-the-art design.
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2009-11-11

SemiLEDs to Open New LED Production Facility in Foshan, China

SemiLEDs Corporation, a Taiwan-based LED chip manufacturer, today announces the establishment of its new state of the art fabrication facility in Foshan, China. The brand new, state-of-the art facility will produce LED wafers and high power LED chips using SemiLEDs’ patented vertical LED on metal technology. The development for SemiLEDs new facility will be in three stages with the initial stage, seeing an investment of USD $96 million, set to be ready for full scale production by October, 2010.
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2009-11-11

Dialight Signs Second Agreement with US Telecom Tower Operator for LED White Strobe Technology

Applied LED lighting technology specialist Dialight Plc. today announced that an agreement has been signed with a second major US telecom tower operator, for its LED white strobe technology. The commitment from the operator is to use Dialight’s unique LED technology for all new towers, all light replacements and repairs. Initial shipments have already commenced and the agreement will continue through at least the end of 2010.
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2009-11-11

Cree to Double LED Production Capacity in 2010

Cree Inc., a leading provider of LED lighting, will double its chip production capacity next year to meet strong worldwide growth, the China Daily reports, citing a top executive of the company. The company Monday (Nov.9) signed an agreement with the local government of Huizhou in China, to build the world's largest manufacturing plant, with a floor area of 55,000 sqm, for LED chips. The company would further expand production capacity depending on market performance, said Chuck Swoboda, Cree chairman and CEO.
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2009-11-11

Sunovia Expands Lighting Market into Areas without Electricity

LED fixture manufacturer Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that it formed a partnership with Solar Electric Power Co., a maker of solar electric lighting, to provide outdoor lighting that uses no electricity. The companies expect to produce thousands of solar-powered LED lighting fixtures under the new agreement.
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2009-11-11

Brillia Introduces Thermadjust(TM), a Revolutionary Ambient Temperature-Sensing Technology for LED Modules

Brillia(TM), a provider of LED light engines, announces a new line of LED modules for luminaires utilizing Thermadjust(TM) technology. Thermadjust is a revolutionary new concept for LED modules that further enhances the usability of LED technology for general illumination.
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2009-11-10

Veeco Celebrates Opening of Its New Shanghai Office, Expects Substantial Market Share Growth in China

Veeco, a leading LED equipment provider, hosted a grand ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new Shanghai office on November 5th. Major upstream LED companies, including Taiwan’s Formosa Epitaxy Inc., HUGA Optotech Inc., Genesis Photonics Inc., GaN Epi, Inc., Crystal Applied Technology Inc., and mainland China-based SANAN Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Epilight Technology Co., Ltd., Huaguang Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Century Epitech LEDs Co., Ltd. and Dalian Luminglight Co., Ltd. all attended the ceremony.
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2009-11-10

ALT CEO James Liang: Where There Is Culture, There Is Demand for Lighting; High Power LED Lighting Products Will Be the Focus in 2010

Backlighting and general illumination are two major application fields of LEDs, with the former already adopted by the global leading providers of relevant products, while the latter holds significant business potential, though its development has not reached maturity. LEDinside recently interviewed James Liang, CEO of the lighting specialist, Aeon Lighting Tech (ALT), and invited him to analyze the possible development of the LED lighting market in 2010, based on his expertise in High Power LEDs.
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2009-11-10

PolyBrite International Announces Greener Results in Borealis LED Streetlight Testing

PolyBrite International announced today that the installation of Borealis LED streetlights has saved the City of Naperville up to 60% in energy usage for each of the four months of usage. The City of Naperville has been monitoring Borealis LED streetlights since June and they will continue to do so until January 2010. 
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2009-11-10

Albeo Breaks 89 Lumens Per Watt System Efficiency with Cree XLamp XP-G LEDs

Albeo Technologies Inc. announced a milestone in Solid-State Lighting; the award winning C-Series LED fixture with Cree's XLamp® XP-G R3 LEDs (Albeo part number LS-E143-011C0-RPG) surpassed 89 lumens per watt efficacy with an output of 3074 lumens tested to LM-79 standards by a CALiPER accredited independent testing facility. Efficacy can vary depending on configuration options. Test report number ITL63217 is available for download at www.albeotech.com.
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2009-11-10

Macroblock's LED Driver Adopted in LED Displays for China’s 60th National Day Ceremony

China 60th National Day has just come to a spectacular end. The Tiananmen Square in Beijing was beautified by a lot of LED displays with abundant color and uniform brightness expressing the congratulations to the National Birthday. Some of these LED displays were provided by Beijing Leyard Co. and GULX Tech Co. Macroblock also shines in the ceremony with constant current LED drivers adopted in these LED displays.
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2009-11-10

Seoul Semiconductor, NGL Supply Make 1000 Free Light Bulbs Available Through the World Usability Day Project Website

The World Usability Day (WUD) project will make 1,000 LED spot/bulbs available for free via their website www.worldusabilityday.org. "Assume the following math: 1,000 bulbs can replace all of the light bulbs in 20 medium-sized houses," said Brian Sullivan, the usability principal at the Sabre Human Factors Center in San Francisco, CA, and co-chair of World Usability Day. "The LED bulbs are easily three times more efficient than standard bulbs. So that is the equivalent of lighting 100 houses," said Brian Sullivan, co-chair of World Usability Day.
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2009-11-10

Scients Developed Inexpensive LED Lighting with Solar Cells

Scientists at the Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy in Denmark have developed an inexpensive way to integrate solar cells, LEDs, and ultrathin lithium batteries to create a lamp that can produce reading-quality light. The lamp's polymer solar cells and circuitry are printed onto large flexible plastic films, and the LEDs, flat batteries, and diodes are mounted using silver epoxy. After being encapsulated in a second sheet of film, the sheets are rolled up and snapped together at the corners with metal fasteners.
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2009-11-10

Cree Signs Agreement for Expansion in Huizhou, China

Cree, Inc.  announced yesterday (Nov. 9) an agreement to purchase a 592,000-square-foot facility in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China. The facility will be Cree’s first chip-production facility outside of North America and is targeted to also house future components manufacturing expansion.
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2009-11-10

Grote Introduces Lightform, The World’s First Flexible LED Lighting Film

Grote Industries recently introduced the first commercially available versions of its new LightForm flexible LED lighting film technology during a press conference at the 2009 SEMA Show.
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2009-11-09

TC Interconnect Signs an Preliminary Exclusive Distributorship Agreement to Distribute 3gLED Light Bulbs in Hong Kong

TC Interconnect Holdings Limited, one of the top 10 Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturers in Hong Kong and China, announced that the group's subsidiary, TC Orient Energy Management ContractCorp. TC Orient entered into a preliminary exclusive distributorship agreement with a major lighting system wholesaler and distributor, Nicenough (China) Limited to distribute its 3gLED light bulbs in Hong Kong.
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2009-11-09

Orca Green Marine Celebrates 7 Years in Business with New LED Light EcoPacs

Orca Green Marine Technology Corporation (OGM) celebrated its seven years in business by emphasizing its commitment to the environment and the marine industry through its "Orca Green LED Lite EcoPac" initiative.
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2009-11-09

Neo-Neon to Issue US$63m TDR

Neo-Neon Holdings Ltd, a China-based decorative light manufacturer founded with Taiwanese capital, plans to raise US$63 million by issuing Taiwan Depositary Receipts (TDR) before the end of 2009, said its underwriter Fubon Securities Co recently.
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2009-11-09

GE Lighting Launches 3rd Generation Immersion™ LED Refrigerated Display Lighting Across Europe

GE Lighting recently announced that its latest Immersion™ LED Refrigerated Display Lighting RV30 Series is now available across Europe for environmentally responsible retailing.
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2009-11-09

ALT to Launch New Product Series and Advanced Green Lighting Technology

Aeon Lighting Technology (ALT) recently announced the launch of a new LED lighting product series, including seven indoor lighting products of AC MR16, AC BR, MR16 25°, LED T8, and MR16 based globes. According to ALT, one of the highlights of the products is the company’s exclusive dimmable technology which has been integrated in to the new series of MR16’s and PAR 30 and 38’s.
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2009-11-06

SemiLEDs Introduces the New I-core™ LED Chip

SemiLEDs today announced the introduction of its new I-core™ (IC) LED, an innovative new chip that will be featured in SemiLEDs’ ultra high bright LED product portfolio. The IC™ is the first product released in the I-core™ series of LEDs from SemiLEDs which are designed to provide further improvements in brightness, reliability and overall efficiency.
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2009-11-06

LEDnovation Introduces A19 Neutral White LED Light Bulbs for Incandescent Replacement of 60W & 75W Bulbs

LEDnovation, Inc. today introduced two new LED bulbs for the North American Market. The company claims that the LED bulbs are the industry’s first and highest brightness 60W and 75W incandescent A19 equivalent replacement bulbs. 
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2009-11-06

NEMO Project: 11 Partners Conduct Research on New OLED Materials

Merck KGaA recently announced that it has launched a project called "New materials for OLEDs from solutions" (NEMO) together with renowned partners from industry and science. The objective of this project, which is being co-funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is to develop innovative, soluble materials for use in large-area organic light-emitting diode (OLED) components for devices such as televisions, electronic traffic signs or lighting systems.
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2009-11-06

Energy Star Program Enhancements to Be Released Soon

Before November 30, 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will release a more detailed proposal outlining anticipated Energy Star program enhancements for 2010, according to a letter from EPA to Energy Star stakeholders. These program enhancements will include a proposed method of integrating various elements of the Energy Star lighting program.
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2009-11-06

OSRAM Releases High-flux LED Prototype with a Feel-Good Effect

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Thursday announced that it has developed a high-flux LED prototype with a feel-good effect in its laboratory. OSRAM claims that the prototype offers three important properties essential for general illumination applications, namely a color temperature of 3000 K, a color rendering index of 82 and an efficiency of 104lm/W.
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