LED lighting vendors and players in the retail channel in the Greater China market, due to high inventory levels, are expected to reduce prices to promote sale before the 2015 Lunar New Year in late February, according to Taiwan-based ...
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NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America improved for the second month in a row in November, rising to 60.4 from 58.3 last month and from 57.1 in September. The survey’s ...
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Recently, one college in Utah discovered that a ballast-compatible LED tube could only work with one of several ballasts used in its facilities. This is hardly a surprise given the following facts: • Ballast-compatible LED tubes are ...
As mainstream PV power generation is expected to shift from ground-mounted stations to rooftop systems in Europe, the US, Japan and China in 2015, and solar cells used in rooftop PV systems require high energy conversion rates, global ...
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YoungTek Electronics, which provides backend services for LED and IC testing and sorting, is expected to post an up to 10% sequential decrease in fourth-quarter revenues due to a seasonal slowdown in demand, according to market watchers. ...
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LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has obtained orders for 3014 packaged mid- and low-power LED chips for lighting from Philips, with shipments to begin in 2015, according to industry sources. Philips chose two ...
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With immediate effect, the polyCarbonate-based Alcom LDM (Light Diffusion Matt) from Albis Plastic will be used in the R. CarbonatE Alcom LED production line at Rober Kunststoffe. This specialist for extruded and transparent Plastics, ...
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Three to four Taiwan-based private financial holding companies have been evaluating existing PV power-generating stations or ones under construction in Taiwan as investment targets, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Leasing service ...
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Global in 2015 will double those in 2014, but the corresponding production value will increase only 30% due to estimated price drops of 30-35%, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Europe will account for 23% of the global LED ...
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Worldwide Grow Lights for Agriculture markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the food supply for the world starts to adopt automated process. Grow lights have become more sophisticated and less expensive to run as solar and ...
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SemiLEDs, a developer and manufacturer of LED chips and LED components, has announced its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2014, ended August 31, 2014. Revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 were ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has seen its overall capacity utilization drop from about 50% in October to below 50% in November and the utilization is expected to further slip in December, according to the company. However, ...
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Due to weak demand for LED backlighting and lighting, Taiwan-based LED packaging service providers are expected to see fourth-quarter 2014 consolidated revenues decrease 10% sequentially on average, but will see significant sequential ...
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Lux Magazine designated Visible Light Communication technology from Acuity Brands, Inc. as one of the most exciting lighting technologies of 2014. The magazine has distinguished the company with a Lux Award in the Controls Innovation of the ...
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Some Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, faced with price drops and decreased orders arising from the US imposition of preliminary anti-dumping tariffs at an average rate of 24.23%, have plans to relocate production lines ...
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