200,000-Square-Foot Building Reaffirms Company’s Commitment to Local Community and to Manufacturing in the USA   The Littman Group, lighting manufacturer of custom lighting designs and high quality lighting solutions, will officially open the doors of their new, 200,000-square-foot building in City of Industry, California, at their grand opening ceremony on Tuesday, March 22 at 11a.m. The expansive building made up of corporate offices, a manufacturing facility, product showroom and stocking facility is located at 14508 Nelson Ave., on the corner of North...

City of Tucson has selected Cooper Lighting's Streetworks™ OVH LED Cobrahead luminaires to replace approximately 600 low pressure sodium fixtures to reduce costs as part of an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)-funded project. Due to the existing inefficient lighting fixtures was costing the city in both maintenance and energy costs, officials applied for and received approximately $425,000 for a total upgrade to LED lighting. As soon as LED retrofit, the city began to see the savings.It has saved approximately $3,000 monthly in electri...

According to Rubicon Technology ’s chief executive, the company is targeting to increased demand from Japanese customers due to supply disruptions after the massive earthquake. Chief Executive Raja Parvez said in a recent interview that ,"We are seeing some additional requests for additional materials" from major Japanese LED chip manufacturers. "I believe there are some challenges with the one of the Japanese suppliers to provide them with the required quantity," Parvez added. Top Japanese manufacturers of LEDs include Toyoda Gosei&nbs...

Compared to the Traditional Tungsten Halogen Lighting, LED’s Provide Museums with Energy and Maintenance Savings. Additional LED Advantages Over Tungsten Include a Lack of  Ultraviolet and Infrared Emissions Which Can Cause Deterioration of Priceless Artworks. Museum lighting is a constant struggle between providing visitors with the light they need to properly view displays and protecting priceless art from the damage and fading that lighting can cause … and doing it all in the most cost efficient manner. Museums nationwide including the...

It’s said that Envision LED head from the manufacturer of sophisticated lighting products, Tech Lighting, was recognized at the third annual Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) competition which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the International Association of Lighting Designers. The competition highlights commercial lighting products that excel in design, quality, suitability and energy-efficiency. The 2010 Next Generation Luminaires winners were announced at the close of February...

Diodes Incorporated has released a dual function charge pump, the AL3157, which is capable of handling the competing requirements of LED driving in LCD backlighting and flashlight or camera flash circuits.   Operating from a regular 2.7V to 5.5V supply, this high efficiency charge pump drives 3 channels at up to 30mA for small LCD screen backlighting and a separate channel at up to 210mA for LED flashlight or LED camera flash....

Reportedly, the Nova Scotia of Canada is reviewing the possibility of replacing 120,000 street lights across the province with LED lighting.   According to ministerial briefing notes prepared in January for newly installed Energy Minister Charlie Parker, the estimated cost of installing LED provincewide would be $90 million. The documents obtained through a freedom of information request say the opportunity exists to cut street lighting electricity costs by more than 50 per cent and there would also be annual maintenance cost savings based on the 20-year life expec...

High-Quality LED Product Answers Demand From Convenience and Grocery Stores Eco-story, a leader in LED lighting solutions, today announced that it has added LED refrigerated case lighting fixtures to its portfolio of products.  Eco-story decided to add the product because of high demand for sustainable, uniform LED lighting in refrigerated displays for convenience stores, grocery stores and markets that require case lighting. The standard case light operates at less than 19W per door, compared to the industry average of 26W, and has a single solid-state po...

Waverly Light and Power is replacing high-pressure sodium lights with LED bulbs as part of a citywide project, targeting to benefit the environment and economy. The effort is supported by an energy efficiency and conservation block grant from the Iowa Office of Energy Independence worth more than $270,000. With $540,000, officials will be able to replace nearly 950 of 1,500 city street and security lights. Based on energy efficiency and reduced maintenance costs, officials estimate about $521,000 will be saved over the life of the lights. It is said that about half of the str...

A comprehensive, highly-detailed 800-page Product Selection Guide has been released by Nora Lighting for use by industry professionals, including electrical distributors; showrooms and sales representatives; contractors; lighting specifiers; architects and interior designers. Enhanced with dramatic site photography, the Guide is available  by calling Nora Lighting: 800.686.6672 or via email: sales@noralighting.com. “The new Nora Guide represents a compilation of in-depth product and company information and is the result of an extraordinary effort by the Nora sa...

~ Teams compete March 10-12, 2011 ~ Nordson ASYMTEK, a leader in dispensing, coating, and jetting technologies, is once again supporting teams in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition in San Diego.  This is the fifth year that Nordson Corporation Foundation has helped sponsor the competition nationally.  Nordson ASYMTEK mentors six San Diego teams. The FIRST Robotics Competition provides an educational and engineering environment for students to learn technical and business skil...

It’s reported that a major tomato producer from Quebec hothouse will cooperate with McGill University and GE on trials of LED lighting aimed at boosting crop yield and cutting energy use. Les Serres du St-Laurent, which grows Savoura-brand tomatoes under artificial light year-round at a number of greenhouses in the province, will install the LED lighting in its facilities, expecting to keep costs at an acceptable level and through more efficient use of energy. GE's Canadian commercial LED lighting wing, GE Lighting Solutions Canada Co., will get ...

U.S. DOE Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Workshop 2011 will be April 12 – 13, 2011, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Event U.S. DOE SSL MANUFACTURING R&D WORKSHOP 2010 Venue Hyatt Harborside, Boston, MA Dates April 12 – 13, 2011 Workshop Hours Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM ...

Reportedly, Nova Scotia based company LED Roadway Lighting , has won a $500,000 contract from the Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program to test GPS-equipped LED street lights switches. Executive vice-president Darren Zwicker in an interview introduced that “It could replace existing automatic light switching by photocell." According to Zwicker , the lights can be shipped around the world and their imbedded GPS chips will recognize exactly where they are and accurately determine local sunrise and sunset times used to switch the lights off an...

LED Light Engines manufacturer Permlight Products, Inc., recently released its new catalog of Brillia® LED light engines for luminaire manufacturers to meet the new requirements set by EPA for ENERGY STAR luminaires. It’s said that on February 16, 2011, EPA released the new ENERGY STAR Luminaires Specification which will become effective October 1, 2011.According to the new specification, luminaires that are not specifically defined as directional luminaires do not require full photometric testing and can qualify using LED Light E...

Bridgelux  has made a breakthrough on the 135 Lumens per Watt GaN-on-Silicon based LED Technology, which marks the industry's first commercial grade performance for a Silicon-based LED. The 135 Lumen per Watt performance was achieved at a CCT of 4730K using a single 1.5mm power LED operated at 350mA. These LEDs operate just 2.90V at 350mA and < 3.25V at 1 Amp. Optimization of the epitaxy process on 8-inch Si wafers will make LED manufacturing compatible with existing automated semiconductor lines. It’s said that the company will ...

Elemental LED has developed White Balance LED Strip Lighting system to enable users to choose the exact shade of white and brightness of their lighting. The new white balance system lets users choose their white LED lighting color temperature from anywhere between a cool white 8000k and a warm white 2700k. The unique design of the White Balance LED Strip Light incorporates white bulbs in three shades: cool, neutral and warm. The White Balance Wall Controller is similar to an LED dimmer switch. A toggle switch lets the user smoothly and easily fade bet...

According to Acuity Brands, it has supported its Holophane® brand of luminaires for a sustainability project of Hercules, CA. It’s said that portions of busy Sycamore Avenue and Refugio Valley Road in Hercules, CA were once illuminated with 161 cobra head luminaires with 100-watt high pressure sodium lamps. This time, Hercules retrofit the units with contemporary styled LEDgend® Roadway LED luminaires from Holophane, cutting energy usage nearly 40 percent and increasing visibility and safety with uniformly lit streets and roadways. The Ameri...

Seamless integration now possible with small form factor, high irradiance lamp Phoseon Technology extended its leadership position today by introducing a smaller, more powerful LED curing solution. The air‐cooled RX FireFly 2W targets the small format printing and adhesive segments where the simple and fast curing of heat‐sensitive substrates is vitally important. Utilizing Phoseon’s patented SLM™ technology, the latest FireFly solution provides customers with: • Seamless machine integration due to the small size, just 185 cubic cm which is appro...

Lately, the NASA technology has utilized LED technology (turned medical device) in the Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Unit at a hospital at the University of Alabama. This technology is being used to ease the pain of mouth and throat sores, common side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. According to NASA, a far red/near infrared Light Emitting Diode treatment called High Emissivity Aluminiferous Luminescent Substrate has been given to ease the pain of cancer patients. With a system called Warp 75, the LEDs release energy in the for...

Recently, Taiwan-based LED wafer and chip manufacturer Tekcore Co Ltd has installed two VaporStation Central Delivery Systems from Dow Electronic Materials of Philadelphia, PA, USA (a business unit of Dow Advanced Materials) in its LED manufacturing area. Presently, Tekcore is running the first tool in production to deliver trimethylgallium (TMG) to multiple epitaxial growth reactors. In addition, the second delivery system, Dow’s new patent-pending, third generation of the VaporStation Central Delivery System, has also been installed at T...

GE Home & Business Solutions has appointed Maryrose Sylvester as president and CEO of GE Lighting.   GE Home & Business Solutions, an $8.6B business, includes the Appliances & Lighting and Intelligent Platforms operating units. Sylvester, a veteran of 14 years at GE lighting, will report to GE Appliances & Lighting President & CEO James P. Campbell, succeeds Michael Petras who has led GE Lighting since 2008....

It’s said that Austin Scientific business of Oxford Instruments has secured an order with a major HBLED manufacturer in the US in mid-February. The order, worth $770k to the Texas based business, is for a number of cryopump systems that the customer will use to support its continuing expansion.  ...

Recently, GT Solar has received its fourth order valued at $41.6 Million dollars for its advanced sapphire crystallization furnaces from new Asia-based customer. The furnaces ordered by the new manufacturer will initially produce 85 kilogram boules. During its recent Q3 FY11 quarterly earnings call, GT Solar announced an enhancement to the advanced sapphire furnace that will increase the output capacity to 100 kilograms per cycle....

It’s reported that based on two-year cooperation begun from 2008, Cree has continued to sign a two-year extension of the strategic agreement with Zumtobel Lighting GmbH  to bring LED lighting innovation into Europe markets.

1700mW (365nm) and 6000mW (400nm) respectively in single 9x9mm package expands line of UV Emitters for High Speed curing of Inks and Adhesives, Analytical Instruments, Sterilization, Forensic Science and Currency Verification LedEngin, Inc., a leader in high flux density LED products announces immediate availability of its 365nm and 400nm UVA wavelengths in LZC-series 12-die platform. The latest emitters in the UVA family provide record flux densities up to1700mW and 3.2W/cm2 at 365nm and 6000mW and 10W/cm2 at 400nm. These record high flux densities e...

UL was announced to acquire Lighting Sciences, Inc. (LSI), in support of the growing Solid State Lighting market. LSI will become part of UL’s Verification Services business, which provides performance testing, inspection and auditing for product manufacturers and retailers worldwide. UL is proactively developing its capabilities in photometric testing to be prepared for and drive the transformational shift to SSL (LED) technologies. LSI will help bolster UL’s already strong position as the leader in this growing market by increasing UL&rsqu...

City of Ann Arbor recently teamed up with DTE Energy to install 58 new LED fixtures in the neighborhood bounded by Hill Street, Packard Street, South Forest Avenue and Wells Street.   According to city officials, the new fixtures are expected to cut energy usage by nearly 50 percent and reduce the city’s annual carbon dioxide emissions by 25,000 pounds. Besides, the lower street light bill from DTE will save the city about $5,600 annually, repaying the city’s investment in four years....

Innovative XLamp® XM-L LEDs Can Enable Record Efficacy for LED Lighting Fixtures Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of XLamp® XM-L LEDs in neutral- and warm-white color temperatures (2600-K to 5000-K CCT). Cree once again leads the industry by extending the XM-L LED family’s unprecedented light output and efficacy to a wide range of mainstream indoor and outdoor lighting applications. The XM-L LEDs deliver unmatched performance across a wide range of drive...

Closed-loop control of the dispense weight eliminates constant adjustments   Nordson ASYMTEK, a leader in dispensing, coating, and jetting technologies, introduces jet dispensing for manufacturing side-view LEDs. The system jets 0.1 to 0.2 mm dots through windows as small as 0.4 mm into the LED cavities. Side-view LEDs illuminate the displays in devices such as tablet computers, smart phones, and e-readers. Nordson ASYMTEK's Spectrum™ S-920N jetting system automatically maintains a consistent shot weight with software-managed dispense paramete...