USA - Free registration is now open for the PLASA Focus: Orlando 2013 Professional Development Programme, a two-day programme of free educational seminars and workshops, running alongside PLASA Focus: Orlando, at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, ...
Tags: freelance designer, LED, PLASA Focus
UK - Three of the lighting industry's brightest sparks have joined the Knight of Illumination panel as judges in the Concert Tour and Events category, previously the Rock Category. Ryan Hopkins of UK lighting Rental Company HSL will be ...
Europe - Martin Professional is offering budding lighting designers and technicians the chance of a lifetime via a Young Lighting Designer Contest for Prolight + Sound. The contest kicks off now! Young lighting professionals can register ...
The international Zhaga Consortium has published Book 2 of interface specifications for cylindrical, socketable LED light engines as part of its mission to enable a vendor-interoperable modular approach to SSL fixture design. The Zhaga ...
Tags: LED downlighting, LED, LED light
Ikon Semiconductor and Texas Instruments introduced new SSL driver ICs designed specifically for retrofit lamp applications at the Strategies in Light conference. Although socket saturation will come in LED-based retrofit lamps as we ...
Tags: LED Lamp Driver, LED Lamp, LED
A $15-million, EU-funded research project will investigate novel ways to build white LEDs that do not require phosphors. A recently launched European research project, codenamed NEWLED, is aiming to develop high-efficiency and ...
Tags: LED Structures, LED, NEWLED project
UK - The Guildhall is Portsmouth's premier entertainment venue, playing host to everything from orchestral concerts, comedy, rock concerts, dance and exhibitions. In addition it houses the city's Council chamber, as well as being home to ...
Tags: lighting system, lighting, LED
UK - West London UK based rental company Entec is enjoying a busy start to 2013, with recent projects including the supply of lighting equipment and crew to LD Tony 'Beamer' Austin for the recent UK leg Paloma Faith's Fall From Grace tour. ...
Tags: lighting equipment, lighting, LED
Romania - Combining a mixture of bowling, billiards and darts within a full nightclub ambience in Bucharest's Sun Plaza Mall, the popular Oxygen Club has recently invested in eight of PR Lighting's XR 200 Beams. With the new Philips ...
Tags: PR Lighting, Lighting, light
China -The first phase of China's 20 billion yuan ($3.16 billion) Changbai Mountain International Tourism Resort opened in 2012, featuring five-star hotels and Asia's largest ski resort. A centrepiece of the development is a performing arts ...
Tags: Apex audio processors, DiGiCo mixing consoles, audio distributors
Sharjah - Melody House, distributors of HK Audio speaker systems have recently supplied Sharjah based rental firm Evolution Rentals with 20 sets of CTA208, 6 sets of CT A118 Sub, 16 x Linear 112XA and 8 sets of Linear Sub 2000A. Evolution ...
Tags: HK Audio inventory, Audio speaker systems, Audio speaker
China - Hong Kong-based Max Production Ltd, one of the first adopters of Martin Audio's MLA and MLA Compact systems in the Far East, recently underwent full technical training. Following the recent purchase of an MLA Compact 24, both ...
Tags: Audio regional, Martin Audio, MLA
The European Commission recently verified that imported solar modules from China will need to be registered. Some solar firms expect the registration process to begin in March and suspect that the registration means there may be a ...
Most Taiwan-based LED driver IC vendors have seen improvements in order visibility in the first quarter of 2013 and are expected to see their revenues grow 20-30% sequentially in the second quarter, buoyed by increasing shipments to the LED ...
Tags: LED driver, IC vendors, LED lighting segment
AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which makes gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium substrate and raw materials, has announced a program authorizing the repurchase of up to $6m of the firm's common stock through 27 February 2014. ...
Tags: AXT, GaAs substrate, InP Germanium