Chinese LED chip manufacturer San’an announced on October 8th, 2013, their purchase in FOREPI stock shares by wholly owned subsidiary Xiamen San’an was finalized on October 2nd. Xiamen San’an currently holds stocks for ...
Tags: Formosa Epitaxy, Lighting
Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. today announced it has acquired a portfolio of general illumination LED lighting products, including several product lines from CMG Energy Solutions (“CMG”). “In acquiring this ...
Tags: LED lighting, Energy Solutions
Taiwan LED packaging manufacturer Unity Opto Technology consolidated revenue in September was seven percent lower than August to NT$512 million. The company’s 3Q revenue was NT$1.679 million, a 16.45 percent dip from 2Q revenue of ...
Dubai municipality and Philips sign MoU to transform Municipality buildings from conventional to intelligent LED lighting LED lighting can help save 50% of energy consumption and 6,200 tons of CO2 emissions per year in the ...
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Cree announced a 7% gain in efficacy for its XP-G2 LED family while the company's lighting side achieved Energy Star compliance with retrofit lamps and won a Home Depot supplier award. Cree has now announced that its XLamp XP-G2 LEDs, ...
Tags: XP-G2 LED, Energy Star Lamp
The Zhaga Consortium has formally added requirements that LED light engines with integrated control gear support the NEMA SSL 7A-2013 dimming specification and also noted that socketable modules must meet new UL safety standards. The ...
Tags: LED Drivers, Safety Requirements
Opsira presented its Robogonio at the LED professional Symposium + Expo 2013 in Bregenz, Austria, demonstrating how the robot-goniometer can simplify luminous intensity distribution measurements. Luminous intensity distribution describes ...
Tags: LED Systems, Lighting
An automated in-situ test method applied alongside Mentor's T3Ster platform can enable SSL product developers to design an optimal thermal management system that can ensure long life and maintained lumen output for LED-based products. To ...
Tags: LEDs, Austria Symposium
Walmart has announced house-branded LED lamps with 60W-equivalent bulbs priced below $10 and GE Lighting has new low-priced SSL retrofits it will offer through Walmart and other sources while Toshiba significantly broadens its offering. ...
Tags: LED Lamp, GE Lighting, Toshiba
The Acrich2 combination of AC-LED driver IC and mid-power LEDs that have been sold on modules are now to be offered to companies that want to build their own unique light engines. Seoul Semiconductor has announced what it calls "LED ...
Tags: IC Form, AC-LED Technology
The US Environmental Protection Agency has temporarily shut down the Energy Star program, impacting LED lighting, other lighting, and many other products and cancelled the annual Partners Meeting. The ongoing skirmish between the ...
Tags: EPA, Energy Star Program
The U.S. government shutdown has taken a toll on Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program. Facing a funding lapse due to the shutdown, EPA decided to temporarily shutter the electronic energy certification program, ...
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Oree Illumination Solutions Inc., developer of LED-based planar lighting technology, today announced the expansion of its LightCell™ Plus range to include drivers, connection cables and an installation guide – a complete system ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Plug-and-Play Design
LED industries are entering traditional off season in 4Q. HSBC states in their most recent LED report that LED industry 3Q13 revenue was weak due to TV backlight demands being lower than expected. With the upcoming release of the Chinese ...
Tags: LED industry, LED report
Everlight Electronics Co., a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry with three decades of experience, has introduced the latest member of its ITR series of photo interrupters for use in optical switches, digital ...
Tags: Everlight, Photo Interrupter