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The 2012 LEDTEC trade show included an Int’l LED/OLED Technology Conference, conducted entirely in English and jointly organized by EXPORIUM and CEMS. LEDinside’s Roger Chu presented his views on the global LED industry outlook, and experts from top-tier manufacturers Philips, Osram, Cree, Citizen, etc. also shared their perspectives on LED technology. As LED experts in attendance at the 2012 Singapore Int’l LED/OLED Technology Show (LEDTEC Asia) hailed from many different locations in Southeast Asia, S...

A lot of major manufacturers from Europe, the United States and Japan also exhibit at Singapore Int’l LED/OLED Technology Show 2012 (LEDTEC ASIA 2012). Here is LEDinside’s observation on their products.   Philips Lighting Philips Lighting’s booth Philips Lighting has been in the Singaporean market for quite some time, supplying the market with high bay light products for industrial, commercial and residential uses. The panel light caters to dinning rooms, offices and other commercial spaces Philips’...

Although participating companies from China and Taiwan are fewer than the ones from South Korea and Singapore at Singapore Int’l LED/OLED Technology Show 2012 (LEDTEC ASIA 2012), they also bring intriguing new prospects to the table. Here is LEDinside’s observation on Taiwanese companies: South Korean companies have been striving to make their way into Southeast Asia, Middle East and India, and LEDTEC ASIA 2012 provides an access to clients from these regions. Taiwanese companies are trying to follow the same path. Only five co...

Singapore has been actively increasing energy-saving awareness and adopting LED lighting in public area. Given the prosperous development of the Asian LED market over the recent years, LED companies have been seeking cooperation with LED product distributors and construction and real estate companies in Southeast Asia region. Singapore Int’l LED/OLED Technology Show 2012 (LEDTEC ASIA 2012), organized by CEMS and South Korean company EXPORUM is a great platform for LED companies to showcase their products and seek joint efforts with players in the industry.<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 0 2 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } ...-->

LEDucation 6 CONTINUES TO CLAIM ITS’ TITLE AS the premier event on LED TechnologY WITH ANOTHER RECORD BREAKING ATTENDANCE OF OVER 2,000 Attendees. The Designers Lighting Forum of New York is proud to announce that LEDucation 6 accomplished its most successful event to date with a record breaking crowd of over 2,000 attendees.  Attendees from across North American and Europe gathered at New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March 21st to learn and experience the latest deve...

LIGHTING JAPAN, which is world's leading exhibition gathering everything about LED/OLED lighting related technologies and products, was grandly held from Jan 18th to 20th 2012 in the west halls of Tokyo Big Sight. A recorded number of 338 exhibitors and 24,255 visitors from LED/OLED manufacturers, fixture and related industries participated in the exhibition and its concurrent technical conferences, which is the largest scale ever. LIGHTING JAPAN is recognized as one of the best venues for technical consultations and business network expansion...

Outside the exhibition center of Lighting Japan 2012   Lighting Japan 2012 4th LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo, organized by the renowned Reed Exhibitions Japan, commences on January 18th, 2012. The exposition comprises not only companies from Europe, United States, Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan showcasing the latest LED and OLED lighting technologies, but also attendees from all over the world in seek of the lighting market’s booming prospects.   Lobby of the exhibition center The exhibitor search corner at...

Following the speech of Shuji Nakamura, Ph.D. (the inventor of GaN LED) on the first day of LEDforum, the second day kicked off with the speech of Philips Lumileds’ SSL Fellow and the inventor of yellow LED, Dr. George Craford. He addressed the LED innovations in the next generation lighting. Dr. Craford is an IEEE fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research focus on several compound semiconductor materials and LEDs with visible light. In the early 1970’s, Craford garnered recognition from his achievement in...

The LED industry outlook is fast-changing, currently facing oversupply after its growth surge over the recent years. LEDforum 2011 Taipei, organized by TrendForce’s research division, LEDinside, on November 1 and 2, 2011 at the NTUH International Convention Center. This year the inventors of GaN LED and yellow LED, LEDinside analysts as well as international and Taiwanese LED key industry leaders are invited to analyze the global LED industry. Several international industry leaders shared their perspectives on the manufacturing technologies an...

The estimation of global market value of high-brightness LED in 2011 has been downgrade to total USD 9 billion from the 10.6 billion previously expected, with a mere annual increase of 8%. Contributing factors include: backlight market’s weak demand, drastic plummeting LED’s average selling price, which resulted in a oversupply in the LED market.

Aside from regular LED lighting applications, the spotlight of Photonics Festival in Taiwan 2011 mostly shone on LED plant growth light. After the establishment of Philips’s plant factory, Osram has also invested in the LED plant growth light market. In addition, the establishment of plant factory is one of the focuses of China’s 12th five-year plan; the Japanese government established 100 plant factories after the strike of earthquake. Manufacturers of Taiwan, the second largest LED manufacturing country in the world, are surely taking initiatives in gain...

The Spotlight of Photonics Festival in Taiwan 2011 Shines at Special LED Lighting Applications According to LEDinside's survey , as the efficiency of white light LED improves, major manufacturers have been trying to make their ways into the promising LED lighting market, where the competition is intense: Everlight has begun developing lighting products for cosmetic surgery; Energyled Corporation has great success in the low-temperature lighting sector; ALT, Simon-Tech and Fong Kai have been making their into the grow light market. With the existing edg...

  LEDforum Shanghai 2011 commenced at Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai on July 6 and 7, 2011 with a full house. Higher executives of the world’s leading companies presented in-depth analysis of the LED market and cutting-edge report on the future development of LED Industry. In addition, the analyst of LEDinside released the latest research of the trend of global LED market and industry report, which were one of the highlights at this year’s forum. The first day of LEDforum Shanghai 2011 began with the opening spe...

The second day of LEDforum Shanghai began with a welcome speech addressed by C.L. Liu, Ph.D., the Chairman of TrendForce. Afterward, Jocelyn Chen, the Vice President of Marketing of TrendForce, gave a comprehensive presentation with assorted data and charts, in which she used the advanced development and the high penetration rate of LED in Japan as an example to elaborate the importance of LED and relevant technologies.                        &nb...

Today, LEDforum Shanghai 2011 commenced at Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai with a full house. Executives of the world’s leading companies not only presented the latest and highly relevant information regarding product designs, technologies, end-market applications, market trend of the LED industry, but also provided an in-depth analysis and a cutting-edge report on the global LED industry. Today was the first day of LEDforum Shanghai 2011, which consisted of the opening ceremony including major manufacturers around the world, the keynote speech, and a complete an...

The 2011 Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition successfully embodies the theme of “LED Asia,” which will continue being the theme of the exhibition in the following years that gathers not only major manufacturers from Asia, Europe and America but also buyers around the world. This year’s exhibition includes over 2,600 manufacturers and attracts a considerable amount of visitors from China as well as from all around the world. However, according to LEDinside’s observation, despite the large scale of LED industry and the great amount of...

This year’s Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition broke the record of the largest-scale LED exhibition in the history, which was supported by 2,600 manufacturers, including ESTO Lighting (Austria), General Electric Company (America), Osram (Germany), Phillips (Netherlands), QSSI (America) and Reggiani (Italy), and attracted visitors from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, UK and America. The exhibition mainly focused on professional lighting, decorating lighting and lighting components with an exhibition space of 200 thousand square meters...

LEDforum 2011 is a two-day event organized by Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, presented by Shanghai Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Solid-State Lighting and LEDinside. LEDforum Shanghai 2011 will be held on July 6th and 7th at Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai.

The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, Asia’s largest and most comprehensive lighting event celebrated its 15th edition at the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou.  Visitor numbers to the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition  and the concurrent Electrical Building Technology Guangzhou totalled 71,801, an increase of 36 per cent from last year. There were more than 2,000 exhibitors for the two shows and the exhibition space covered 13 halls which represented 135,000 sqm. First time exhibitors to the show came from C...

Strong support continues from worldwide industry associations Seminars and forums cater to all levels of lighting professionals The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, Asia’s largest and most comprehensive lighting event to be held 9 –12 June 2011 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex, Guangzhou, China, will include LED Asia, a new and comprehensive theme zone for LED/OLED lighting. Organised by Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co Ltd, the show is one of the lighting industry’s most influential with its status as A...

LIGHTFAIR International (LFI), the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, set new records in the newly expanded Pennsylvania Convention Center—its 2011 show location. On Tuesday, opening day, thousands of attendees spread throughout the exhibit hall ready to discover the most innovative products on LFI’s largest trade show floor. LFI once again broke its record, welcoming the 2011 attendees to an impressive show floor with more than 200,000 net  square feet of space—the largest in i...

Sponsored by Delta Electronics and co-organized by EnergyTrend and LEDinside, the thematic session A, featuring green building applications, came to an end with remarkable exchange of industry insights and tremendous success on May 11 at Green Lighting Shanghai 2011.

The annually International Lighting Equipment Exhibition which is the biggest lighting fair in Poland and as well as one of the most influential professional lighting exhibition in the eastern Europe, hold from 23th to 25th March 2011 in Warsaw expo. Refond Opto-electronics co., Ltd attended this fair with his stunning products. Refond exhibited multitudinous products during this exhibition. Such as the LED Tubes which were made from six kinds of LEDs of IA30,MA30,RA30,HA30,MT08 and MR14, LED bulbs made with three kind of LEDs of  3W MA57,5W...

90% of the booths at this year’s Taiwan International Lighting Show are LED-related, including LED chip makers, LED package makers, package material manufacturers and lighting vendors. Besides, LED packaging system manufacturers attend the exhibition as well. Furthermore, HGD lights and promise lights are also exhibited. 

Energyled Due to its main focus on the low-temperature lighting sector, Energyled has held certain market share and prestige in the market. Therefore, Energyled expands its production line into the general lighting field, including light bars and tubes for the commercial lighting, and shifts its focus from the European market to the Asian one.   Among a series of light bars, dimmable LED T8 with DMX512 / DALI system can be adopted in the commercial area, conference room, hotel, and display area. In addition, Energyled offers the light bulb product series.

Taiwan International Lighting Show 2011- I: Chip Makers 90% of the booths at this year’s Taiwan International Lighting Show are LED-related, including LED chip makers, LED package makers, package material manufacturers and lighting vendors. Besides, LED packaging system manufacturers attend the exhibition as well. Furthermore, HGD lights and promise lights are also exhibited.  Taiwan International Lighting Show 2011- I: Chip Makers   Epistar’s HV LED solution for 800 / 1100 lm bulb replacement.

Among all the booths of South Korean manufacturers, Seoul Semiconductor and Maltani’s booths were the biggest.

The scale of Taiwanese manufacturers’ exhibitions was small in this year’s Lighting Fair, which were mostly LED components, LED light bulbs and LED PAR lights; some manufacturers also exhibited new LED tubes.

After the announcement of American Energy Star’s LED light bulb criteria, more and more LED light bulbs manufacturers shift their focus from luminous efficacy to luminous quality, with increasing emphasis placed on beam angle of LED light bulbs.