Taiwan based company which makes backlight modules for personal computers, has intended to enter into LED lighting sector this year, with commercial products to be primary products in the initial stage, according to its Chairman B.R. Wang. The company will start to build up competitive strength and footholds for its LED lighting operation over next three to five years. Wang said the company will make most of its advantage in light guide plate R&D to drum up built-to-order contracts among international lighting brands. And the company’s lighting operation can prov...

The Taiwan-based Fin-Core Corporation has developed a patented heat sink that delivers 30% more thermal dissipation efficiency than competing types in LED lamps with its 20% larger thermal area, ending up with doubling lifespan of an LED light bulb. Currently, the thermal technology can be available in light tubes, recessed lights, MR16, AR111, and T-BAR in addition to light bulbs, rated at 7W, 12W, 16W and 24W in power specification. Additionally, the company is also good at power supply solutions to LED lighting. The company is a subsidiary of the publicl...

Taiwan based maker of household appliances, Tatung Corp., is about to roll out over 20 models of LED lamps on April 26 in association with its subsidiaries, including sapphire-wafer maker San Chih Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and LED packager Forward Electronics Co., Ltd., as well as LED makers Formosa Epitaxy Inc. and Unity Opto Co., Ltd. According to the cooperation, Tatung will contract Unity to make the lamps and slap its brand names on them. San Chih is designated to supply sapphire as carrier substrate, on which Formosa will use to grow LED epitaxy l...

FZLED's smallest panel light fits into any space, PL30-00-22 smaller form factor adds adjustable illumination to 22-watt LED panel light FZLED, a provider of high-performance LED lighting products, added a third compact model to its range of panel lights . The all-new PL30-00-22 design measures 300 by 300 millimeters, a size that fits in any space. Using just 22 watts of power, the panel light delivers the brightness of a T8 tube light, reducing energy bills by 50 percent or more. Designed to illuminate large spaces, the FZLED lights are the perfect fit...

Benefit from the government's recent announcement that it will hike electricity rates, Taiwan several major LED lighting firms, such as Everlight, Edison and Unity Opto, have received large orders from corporate customers who want to cut operating costs through wider use of energy-efficient lighting. Therefore, the increase in orders in LED lighting have even boosted demand for LED chips and will lead to full capacity utilization at upstream suppliers in the LED chain in the second quarter. According to Mirae Asset Management analyst Arch Shih, “We e...

GlacialLight , a division of experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that its environmentally-friendly LED lighting products are being used in many applications around the world and providing users with energy-saving light of the highest quality. In the Dominican Republic, chronic energy shortages and very high electricity prices are not uncommon due to an inadequate energy grid. Realizing that keeping energy usage and costs down is important for maintaining reliable business operations, two Dominican establishments, a branch of the B...

Taiwan's National Central University’s scientists have utilized a new packaging technology that addresses the color variations of LED lighting for indoor use. According to Lee Cheng-chung, dean of the university's College of Science, in spite of its high performance, long life and low pollution, LED lighting is mostly used outdoors rather than indoors because its color variations may be visually uncomfortable. And Sun Ching-cherng, director of the university's Department of Optics and Photonics, pointed out that LED lighting can produce light o...

According to Nichia, the company has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Harvatek and the German distributors MSC Microcomputers Systems Components Vertriebs GmbH, "Gleichmann & Co." Electronics GmbH and Glyn Jones GmbH & Co. Vertrieb von elektronischen Bauelementen KG, at the District Court Düsseldorf in Germany on March 29, 2012. The court found with judgments of the same day that Harvatek and said distributors infringe Nichia's patent EP 936 682 (DE 697 02 929) (hereinafter called "YAG patent") concer...

Taiwan government has announced the island’s electricity rates for the manufacturing industry will be hiked by 35% starting from May 15, the rates for commercial sites will be raised by 30% and rates for households will increased by 11%. To counter the upcoming implementation of new electricity rates, Taiwan’s enterprises are increasing installations of LED lamps. As a result, the island’s LED industry will benefit a lot. The lighting manufacturers including Delta Electronics, Everlight, Edison Opto Corp., Lextar Electronics Corp. have landed cons...

Chinese major LCD-TV maker TCL Corp., will partner with Harvatek Corp. a Taiwanese LED maker 15% held by silicon foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), to build an LED package venture, in the mainland’s southern coastal province of Guangdong. Under their cooperation, it’s estimated to cost around RMB200 million in investment spending, will be equally shared by the two companies in cash. The venture is scheduled to operate production for the second half of this year, with initial output set at two billion packages a year. According to in...

Taiwan’s LED industry seems to recover as the government planning to hike electricity rates and capacity utilization rate at Taiwan’s LED companies approaching 100%. According to industry executives, chipmakers Epistar and Formosa Epitaxy Inc. have sold out their capacities for the second quarter while productions at packagers Evelight and Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. are approaching full capacity. Harvatek Corp. has won contracts to supply LED backlights used in iPads while Opto Tech Corp. has secured subcontracts from Sharp. According to Uni...

According to Taiwan-based Delta Electronics CEO Yancey Hai, the company has under its talks with several Japanese customers for contract orders for LED bulbs as well as solar power generation and storage systems, as they’re plagued by an estimated 20-30% shortage of power supply following the mandatory suspension of commercial nuclear plants in Japan. Hai pointed out that inquiries for the said products from Japanese customers are expected to keep increasing in the short term. And the company is optimistic about business outlooks in the second quarter of this year. ...

According to Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou , the island’s ongoing efforts to promote solar-powered LED lighting in Africa could bring new life to Taiwan’s troubled LED and solar power industries. Referring to the “A Light for Africa” project in Burkina Faso that Taipei is sponsoring, Ma said Taiwan’s ultimate goal is to allow all the students from 11,000 elementary schools in Burkina Faso to own one of the Taiwan-provided lights. During the visit to West African country, Ma said that “‘A Light for Africa’ c...

Lextar Electronics Corporation (“Lextar”) announces its new generation of LED tubes that focus on three main aspects- simplified structure, price improvement, and light enhancement. In addition, Lextar will promote dimmable downlights that feature 1000 lumens, and new generation of lighting- OLED technology, all of which will appear for the first time at the Light+Building 2012 exhibition held in Frankfurt Germany from April 15 to 20. Lextar’s new LED tube will be launched in various in 2, 4, and 5 inch sized models and will have a breakthrough desi...

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., extends an invitation to all business and media partners around the world to attend their display (Booth #C10B, Hall 10.1) at Light+Building 2012, to be held at Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany, April 15-20, 2012. Event: Light+Building 2012 Venue: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Exhibition Date: April 15-20, 2012 GlacialLight Booth #: C10B, Hall 10.1 GlacialLight will be featuring many of their latest LED lighting products; from their newly release...

Taiwan lamp maker China Electric Mfg. Corp., has intended to sell more than 200,000 LED lamps in Japan through its shareholder Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd., and distributors in 2012, nearly triple that sold in the world’s No.3 economy in 2011. The general manager, Z.W. Chang has pointed out that the LED lamps the company will promote in Japan include downlights as well as 9W and 12W light bulbs, estimating the sales will help drive up the company’s LED revenue by 200% from last year’s. According to Chang, LED lamps are becoming popular...

HPL(High Power Lighting) has recently launched a series of newly developed COB LED packages, the C40  (3~5W) , C70  (7~9W) and C90  (12~14W), which provide high output, efficacy and quality light that meet Energy Star Specification.   The C40, C70 and C90 were designed with HPL patented metal cooper substrate cost effective package technology, which offers not only higher light efficiency, higher thermal conductivity and excellent light quality, but also competitive price/performance. The outstanding characteristics of the COB ty...

The design of EOI’s new Modular LED street light delivers over 85 lm/w fixture efficacy and excellent uniformity to the roadway illumination with great comfort and safety to the drivers and pedestrians. Excellence Opto, Inc. (EOI), a pioneer of SSL energy saving technology since 1995, is a vertical integrated manufacturer from optical, mechanical, electrical and thermal design engineering to manufacturing. EOI is pleased to introduce the new Modular™ LED street light at the Intertraffic Amsterdam and the coming Lightfair in Las Vegas. This superio...

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology maker GlacialTech Inc., extends an invitation to all business and media partners around the world to attend their display (Booth #K235, Hall5.1) at MosBuild, to be held at Expocentre in Moscow, Russia from April 10-13, 2012. April 10-13, 2012 Venue: Expocentre, Moscow, Russia Booth #: K235, Hall 5.1 MosBuild is the largest building and interiors trade exhibition in Russia and the CIS. In 2011, over 104,000 visitors attended with 2472 exhibitors from over 49 countries showcasing their lighting solu...

Based on the bright perspective of LED market, Everlight will boost LED lighting sales to account for 15% of its annual revenue in 2012, up from 9% in 2011. The company considers that thanks to the rising demands for lighting and backlight, the LED industry will increasingly rally quarter by quarter this year. According to the company’s business general manager, B.Y. Liu, capacity utilization at the company’s factories has recovered to around 70%. The company has snatched over 50% of Taiwan’s market for 8W LED light bulbs since it rolled out the ...

Lextar Electronics Corporation (“Lextar”) announces its high CRI >95 and high R9(saturated red color) > 90 LED light module, while attaining high efficiency of 100 lm/ W at 2700K color temperature.  In addition, Lextar also unveils its high efficiency of 120 lm/W COB product for 60W incandescent bulb replacement solutions.   Lextar’s high CRI light module, using its in-house 5630 LEDs, can not only enhance color rendering quality to over 95 in a warm white color temperature of 2700K, but also have good saturated red color (R9) ...

Everlight predicts that rising demand for LED TVs worldwide and LED lighting would likely bring new life to the troubled LED industry in 2012 and lift the company’s factory utilization. According to company spokesman Liu Pang-yen stated during a teleconference, with the industrial recovery, Everlight’s factory utilization would rise gradually over the next few quarters from the current 60 percent to about 70 percent. In his opinion, LED TV and LED lighting would be the two major drivers for the whole LED industry this year. As Liu citing some m...

Lextar Electronics Corporation (“Lextar”) announces a new line of omni-directional dimmable LED A-bulbs for 40 watt to 75 watt incandescent replacement solution.  The wide angle of over 320 degrees is compatible with Energy Star light distribution, aiming at cliente in Japan, USA and Europe. Lextar also releases its new dimmable LED PAR lamps and candle lamp. The new product series will debut at Light + Building 2012 exhibition taking place from April 15 to 20 in Frankfurt, Germany. Lextar’s next-generation energy saving LED A-bulbs...

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...

China Electric Mfg. Corp. has intended to roll out 7.5W LED light bulbs retailed below NT$400 (US$13 at US$1:NT$30) sometime in April. The price range represents a huge markdown from NT$500 (US$16) for 7W bulbs it launched in 2011, as well as a 25% cut from the price of the first batch of 7.5W bulbs it introduced previously. At the heart of the company’s cut-price plan is LED chips sourced from Lextar Electronics. With the cut-rate strategy, the company estimated it would help to achieve the goal of selling 500,000-600,000 LED light bulbs for aro...

Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has estimated that the output of the island’s LED streetlight manufacturing sector is expected to reach as much as NT$34 billion (US$1.15 billion) by 2018. According to an assessment released by the MOEA's Bureau of Energy, since the start of 2012, the government has been pushing for the installation of LED street lights to help the LED sector build a supply chain and create clusters of manufacturers. Under the projects, the government is expected to spend about NT$2.8 billion to install more than 326,000 ...

Taiwan LED Company Speed Tech Corp. is considering the possibility of setting up a Paraguay based LED lighting manufacturing. Lucas Chiu, president of Speed Tech's unit Speed Tech Energy, is presently leading a delegation to survey the investment environment, in particular in the green energy sector in the Latin American country. And the delegation will promote products from Taiwan. During the visit, Chiu's delegation has also met with Republic of China Ambassador Jose Maria Liu. In Liu’s opinion, while the Paraguay government hopes more ...

According to Taiwan Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), Taiwan’s LED makers will likely benefit from Mainland China’s recent introduction of a subsidization program for LED lighting. According to the program publicized by Mainland China’s Ministry of Finance, LED lighting suppliers will subtract the subsidy amount from their retail prices when winning private or government contracts to supply the lamps. As a result, end users will be able to enjoy lower retail prices. Streetlight, tunnel lights and recessed ligh...

Advanced design illuminates back as well as in front of five-watt LED spotlight FZLED, a provider of high-performance LED lighting products, announced improvements to its MR16-05 LED spotlights. Deploying four Cree LEDs for maximum stability, an all-new design allows for illumination from both the front and back of the spotlight. The spotlight’s new body adds enhanced heat dissipation for a long lifetime of usage. Running on just five watts of power, the MR16-05 series casts more light over a larger area. It boasts improved brightness for a more efficie...

Everlight has won a big harvest with its 2011 after-tax net income of NT$1.3 billion (US$43.5 million at US$1:NT$30), or NT$3.14 per share. According to the company, in the fourth quarter of 2011, it received pretax earnings of NT$138 million (US$4.6 million), operating income of NT$208 million (US$6.9 million), and gross profitNT$760 million (US$25 million) on revenue of NT$3.96 billion (US$132 million). And the company has decided to pay shareholders cash dividend of NT2.5 per share from 2011 earnings. Based on the harvest, it is recognized as one of t...