China-based LED packaging house MLS has set up a Taiwan subsidiary in a bid to launch LED light tubes and bulbs in the Taiwan market at retail prices 30% lower than market levels in 2015, according to the company. MLS plans to expand its ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Packaging
Volvo has revealed its plug-in hybrid variant of XC90 named XC90 T8 which is designed to provide a performance of a luxury SUV while keeping emission level of a small hybrid car. The 7-seater SUV is powered by 2-litre, 4-cylinder ...
Tags: Plug-in Hybrid, XC90 T8, Auto
David Atkinson’s lighting scheme for the Sky Gallery at The O2 blends LEDs with traditional technologies to stunning effect. Jill Entwistle asks the 2011 Lighting Designer of the Year how he realised the project There ...
China-based LED makers' production capacity expansion in the first half of 2014 has since resulted in oversupply, forcing them to reduce quotes to compete for orders in the fourth quarter. Taiwan-based competitors will follow suit in ...
The City of Fernandina Beach, Florida, has completed modifications and upgrades to the lights at its Main Beach Park using LED turtle-friendly high power lighting that will protect sea turtle nesting without compromising the public's safety ...
Tags: LED tube, LED, Lights, Lighting, LED Lighting
Volvo Car is set to introduce the next generation of its SUV XC90, which is claimed to be the cleanest and the most powerful SUV in the world. The SUV will offer 400 horsepower with CO2 emission of around 60 g/km. Volvo is using Twin ...
The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released Report 21.1, which is part of a series of investigations on linear LED lamps. Report 21.1 focuses on the performance of 31 types of linear LED lamps operated in a typical 2x4 ...
Tags: LED, LED Lamp, Lights, Lighting, LED Lighting
An office in Guildford has been awarded the first Low Carbon Workplace Standard. Investec Wealth and Investment Management achieved the Standard by making a 33 per cent reduction in carbon emissions per person at its office. The scheme ...
Tags: Commercial Building, Low Carbon
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced a series of LED T8 replacement tubes for commercial lighting users as a replacement for linear fluorescent tubes. Cree claims that the LED T8 Series is ...
Tags: Cree, LED lighting, T8
The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released an Application Summary Report that focuses on the bare-lamp performance of 31 linear LED lamps intended as an alternative to T8 fluorescent lamps. Entitled Application Summary ...
Aleddra, known for the safest LED T8 tube on the market, announces today it will start selling the Classic LED Highbay to the US market. The HaloMax LED highbay that was introduced at LEDucation 8 last month received rave reviews and has ...
T5 and T12 lamp shipments improved by 9.9 percent and 9.4 percent, respectively, on a quarterly basis (q/q) during 2013Q4. Shipments of T8 lamps contracted 2.1 percent q/q. Nevertheless, calendar year (CY) 2013 showed the index advancing ...
Luminus Devices Inc of Billerica, MA, USA, which makes PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LEDs for solid-state lighting (SSL) applications, announced the release to mass production of its new XNOVA line of mid-power LEDs developed for the ...
Tags: Luminus LEDs, LED, Lights, Lighting
The retail sector has not yet taken up LED lighting in any significant amount, according to the latest research from BRE. BRE undertook a survey of retail lighting in the Watford area in 2011. It looked at shopping centres and retail ...
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The ballast compatible LED T8 has received some traction lately for it offers a direct, rewiring-free replacement to the fluorescent T8 lamp. Many buyers have been attracted to the tube and its promise of zero retrofitting labor. However, ...