Seesmart Technologies, Inc.’s two LED lighting products have met the rigorous performance and efficiency requirements set by DesignLights Consortium (DLC) and Lighting Design Lab (LDL) and are now listed as qualified solid-state lighting products. The listings now make each of these products eligible for significant rebates offered by numerous municipalities and utilities throughout the United States. In addition, these rebates allow for even faster return on investment (ROI), enhancing the already attractive ROI realized from the energy savings of high-e...

Bridgelux has appointed Timothy Lester as chief financial officer (CFO). 'Tim has been an integral part of our team since he joined Bridgelux in 2010. He has more than demonstrated his ability to lead our company's financial operations, and has become a valuable operational asset to our business,' said Bill Watkins, Bridgelux's chief executive officer. 'Tim's strong background in finance, and experience in large, global lighting corporations as well as small start-up companies, will continue to strengthen our management team.' Tim Lester has m...

Five design projects that received Architectural Lighting magazine’s Ninth Annual Light & Architecture Design Awards incorporated lighting solutions from Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI). These awards recognize lighting design excellence in residential, interior, exterior, whole building and exhibit lighting applications. Projects featuring Acuity Brands® lighting solutions received recognition for outstanding and commendable achievement in the whole building and exterior lighting categories. An independent panel of judges awarded prizes to the winning...

Linear Technology announces the LT3763, a synchronous buck LED driver controller that delivers over 300W of LED power. Its 6V to 60V input voltage range makes it ideal for a wide variety of applications, including automotive, industrial and architectural lighting. Similarly, its output voltage can be set from 0V to 55V, enabling it to drive a wide range of LEDs in a single string. The LT3763 offers both input and output current monitors and limiting, which accurately control both input and output current. Similarly, the LT3763 also offers accurate output voltage reg...

New Turnkey A19 Bulb Joint Reference Design Being Showcased at Hong Kong LIGHTFAIR Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) announced the availability of a new turnkey reference design developed with Cree, Inc. for 60-watt equivalent dimmable A19 LED bulbs, continuing the two companies’ ongoing collaboration to drive the LED lighting revolution. The new ENERGY STAR® compliant design – integrating Marvell’s latest deep dimming driver IC, the 88EM8183, and Cree’s leading edge XLamp® XB-D LED – further enables the...

New Southern California Facility to Propel Company’s Vision for High Velocity Supply Chain    and Custom Retail Offering Lunera Lighting, Inc., the lighting solutions leader in the transformation to advanced LED technology, today announced its expansion to a new manufacturing and design facility in Anaheim, California. The facility, in addition to Lunera’s headquarters in Redwood City, will play a central role in the company’s ambition to continuously innovate on its technology and designs, ushering in a LED transformation in t...

Q&A session underway at first US UV LED curing symposium, Chicago IL. The first ever co-hosted ITL and IST conference on UV LED curing held in the US scored high levels of satisfaction from delegates and participants – further events on the subject in both Europe and the US West Coast in 2013. A sample survey of attendees at the UV LED Curing Symposium in Chicago last month (September 2012) by organizers Integration Technology Ltd (ITL) and IST America scored value, content and networking benefit ‘very good’ while...

The low-profile Quadcast™ LED luminaire provides adjustable optical control, long life and energy savings. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, is pleased to introduce theLumarkQuadcast™ LED Parking Garage/Canopy Luminaire, an economical, high-performing LED solution for parking garage, canopy, stairwell and low-bay installations in which high security illumination and energy savings are needed. With a low-profile design, adjustable rotating optical...

Fifty years ago this month, GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED). In the five decades since, businesses and municipalities the world over have embraced LED systems for both their cost and maintenance savings, including:    The City of Las Vegas Las Vegas is best known for the bright lights of 'The Strip,' but thanks to new LED fixtures, the city's surrounding streets are starting to take on a shine of their own. Far from a gamble, an investment in GE LED streetl...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces new CXA LED Arrays, boasting high lumen output and high efficacy in a family of single, easy-to-use components. Optimized to simplify designs and lower system cost, Cree’s newest CXA LEDs can deliver system-level performance ranging from 500 to 5000 lumens and up to 146 LED lumens per watt, enabling applications ranging from LED replacement lamps to commercial downlights.   CXA LED Arrays are available in EasyWhite® color temperatures, providing the LED industry’s best color consistency for des...

Seesmart Technologies, Inc. has finished a $140,000 project with Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State to help the organization’s new West Farms Center achieve LEED design certification. Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State is a multi-service organization providing support and services for more than 100,000 individuals with cerebral palsy and developmental disabilities and their families. Its Metropolitan Division, which serves all five boroughs of New York City, recently opened the new West Farms Center in the Bronx at 1880 Bryant A...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012. Veeco reports its results on a U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) basis, and also provides results excluding certain items.   Third Quarter 2012 Results John R. Peeler, Veeco’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Veeco’s third quarter revenue was $127 million, and adjusted EBITA and non-GAAP earnings per share were $17 million and $0.34, in line with our guidanc...

The W Series luminaires feature integrated controls to maximize energy savings in low-traffic or low-occupancy areas such as corridors, stairwells and restrooms.   Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) announced the introduction of the Lithonia Lighting® W Series luminaires that feature integral occupancy sensors to manage lighting usage in low-traffic or low-occupancy areas such as corridors, stairwells and restrooms. The luminaires automatically turn on or off as occupants ascend and descend stairs, walk corridors or enter a seldom used space, significantly reducing...

CAO Group, Inc. (CAO), a leading design and manufacturer of LED signage and lighting products, announces the newly enhanced and patented Dynasty® LED BA10 Candelabra Series TM. The key feature of the new Dynasty® LED Candelabra is that it has the same look and form factor as incandescent BA10 candelabra. It features the following key characteristics: 1) 360 omni-directional butterfly light beam pattern;  2). 2700K color temperature, higher than 80 CRI, 3). higher than 50 lumen per watt overall efficiency; 4). BA10 base for 110AVC input f...

Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, presented GE Lighting with the Graybar Supplier Excellence Award on Oct. 11. The award was presented at Graybar’s national training conference in San Antonio, Texas. The Graybar Supplier Excellence Award is presented semi-annually to recognize a product supplier that has collaborated with Graybar in an exceptional manner to successfully grow profitable business together. “We’re delighted to...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that HC SemiTek Corporation (300323: CH), one of China’s leading LED manufacturers, has purchased additional TurboDisc® MaxBright® GaN MOCVD Systems for high volume production of LEDs for display and general lighting applications. The order, placed in the third quarter of 2012, was for Veeco’s new High Performance (MHP) version of the system. Dr. Rong Liu, President of HC SemiTek, stated, “Veeco’s MOCVD products offer stable process and have already helped...

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) recently completed the installation of nearly 1,600 LED luminaires that light walkways and grassy areas in Central Park. The new luminaires from Spring City Electrical feature Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp® XP-G LEDs in each fixture and were produced using an advanced light engine from Heatron. DOT officials estimate the new LED lighting will reduce energy usage by 62 percent and deliver annual maintenance savings of nearly $30,000 compared to metal halide lighting. The NYC DOT initia...

NEUTEX LED Lighting, a division from NEUTEX Advanced Energy Group Inc, has signed an electricity supply and LED Lighting reseller agreement with Dallas based Texzon Utilities. Under the agreement, the NEUTEX sales team and their distributors  will have the opportunity to offer competitive commercial energy rates directly to their customers. The Texzon Utilities corporate office and their franchise holders will be able to sell energy efficient LED lighting to complement their competitive energy offerings. "Competitive pricing and custom...

The U.S. General Services Administration , Largest Tenant in US, has turned its attention to LEDs. According to the GSA, energy efficiency is becoming a way of life, not only to cut costs at more than 9,600 assets that it owns or rents, but also to meet the 2007 federal mandate that government buildings slash energy consumption 30 percent by 2015. To meet those goals, and to push the whole market forward, it launched the Green Proving Ground program to evaluate sustainable building technologies. Based on performance, the GSA can then recommend technologies to i...

Wavien, Inc. has released the Turbo Recycling Reflector (TRR™) for variable color spot light applications in the entertainment industry. This unique optical component allows increase in brightness for each of the LEDs with different colors housed in the same package, e.g. Luminus CBM-380, Luminus SBM-160, Ostar LE ATB S2W, and Ostar LE RTDUW S2W. The combination of the these multi-color LED arrays together with the proprietary TRR technology from Wavien, provides low-cost, high-output solutions for spot lights, moving heads, and other...

Nexxus Lighting Inc. has announced to sign a distributor agreement with PolyBrite International, a Goeken Group Corp. subsidiary, which develops LED lighting systems using a proprietary technology. Under the agreement, Nexxus will begin offering PolyBrite’s Borealis LED products to its customers. Terms were not disclosed. “By partnering with PolyBrite, we quickly and efficiently added a full assortment of complementary bulbs and new luminaires with new technology that is clearly differentiated,” says Mike Bauer, president and chief executive ...

Quarterly Revenue increased 17% year-over-year to a record $316 million; Quarterly Net Income increased 26% year-over-year to $16.1 million Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, today announced revenue of $315.8 million for its first quarter of fiscal 2013, ended September 23, 2012. This represents a 17% increase compared to revenue of $269.0 million reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 and a 3% increase compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012. GAAP net income for the first quarter was $16.1 million, or $0.14 per diluted share, a...

The building products company USG Corporation, has announced a strategic collaboration with GE Lighting to offer an integrated new monolithic and sustainable ceiling system ideal for use in commercial applications such as office, healthcare, retail and hospitality environments. The collaboration brings together teams from both companies to offer a complementary ceiling and lighting design and technical application specification support and service. The innovative ceiling system combines USG’s Logix™ Ceiling System with GE Lumination™ LED Linear ...

The first of its kind, the Ametrix Asyx series combines precision LED optics with a minimal profile while providing ultra low energy consumption. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, has introduced the Ametrix Asyx, a series of LED asymmetric luminaires featuring Cooper Lighting’s LightBAR™ technology and patented AccuLED Optics™ system offering precise optical control in a low profile aesthetic design. Available in pendant and wall config...

Intelligent LED Lighting One of Many Sustainability-Focused Technologies Implemented in New Construction   Digital Lumens  announced that Ben E. Keith Foods, the eighth largest institutional foodservice distributor in the nation, has deployed the Digital Lumens Intelligent LED Lighting System in the cold storage areas of its new 475,000-square-foot distribution center in Missouri City, Texas. The new lighting system is expected to save more than 90% of the lighting used by the fluorescent lighting considered, and 75% over plain LED alternatives. ...

Tempo Industries, LLC, has launched its new Series 5000 line of mid-range linear LED lighting solutions. Offering 90 or 140 lumens per-foot, the modular linear series consists of linkable 6-inch modules in 1- to 6-foot standard joinable lengths. With integral 120V power supplies that support run lengths up to 120 feet, the new Series 5000 incorporates a host of key innovations, including environmentally friendly materials and cove-edge mounting solutions that simplify design and installation. The die-cast modules are damp location listed, easily serviceable and available in ...

GE Lighting is reported to utilize its Zalaegerszeg based factory in Hungary to manufacture LED lamps by the end of 2012. It’s said that GE Lighting has greatly reduced its lamps business in Hungary since EU gradually phases out less efficient traditional light bulb.

LED Tech Development LLC has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The patent infringement lawsuit concerns four granted patents that they claim Apple's iPad 3 and MacBook Pro infringe upon. Charles Lemaire, one of the original inventors noted on all four patents in this lawsuit has also been credited with patents for Lockheed Martin, Nuance Communications and other major companies.      LED Tech, whose place of business is Tyler Texas, has filed a formal complaint with the court in Delaware against Apple for patent infri...

Intematix Ruby Series, backed by latest Intematix patent, is ideal for high-quality LED lighting Intematix has released the Ruby series of red nitride phosphors that enable exceptional efficacy, color rendering and reliability for high-power LEDs.These unique phosphors, backed by Intematix U.S. patent No. 8,274,215, are ideal for applications like general lighting and backlighting for LCD TVs. According to Yi-Qun Li, Chief Technology Officer for Intematix, “Building on a decade of innovative work in phosphor, our substantial investments in material...

Tunable white, violet and multi-color LED solutions on show at LDI 2012 LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, will be demonstrating on Booth 2211 at LDI 2012 how its tunable white, violet and multi-color LED emitters deliver twice the lighting “punch” of rival products, at the same time reducing system size by 50%. This is achieved through compact emitters in which individual die are driven at up to 1.5A in multi-channel power packages. Individually addressable die provide maximum flexibility and control of effects, offering lig...