The French government is planning to give away one million LED bulbs to low income families in the country, reported French media The Connexion. Ecology Minister Ségolène Royal proposal will encourage low income families to ...
Tags: LED Bulbs, Energy, fluorescent bulbs
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, has succeeded in advancing the dimmable LED light bulb beyond just dimming, to become a mood enhancing light bulb that changes color. New Philips LED WarmGlow progresses from a warm yellow white ...
Tags: Philips, LED luminaire, LED light bulb
Can you consider light as a product, ready to pick up from the shelf and take home? You can't touch or hold it, but being able to use it whenever needed has been vital to the progress of humanity. Light sources have progressed from candles ...
Tags: Lighting market, LED demand, displays
The sales value of light emitting diode-based lamps for explosion-proof lighting applications will increase from $151.5 million in 2013 to $248.1 million in the year 2020 (equivalent to a 7.3% annual increase), according to the latest ...
Tags: LED Lamps, fluorescent tube, Safety Lighting
Analysts at the consultancy company IHS are predicting that the switch to solid-state lighting will cut global electricity demand for general illumination by a remarkable 24 per cent by 2020. According to the firm’s lighting ...
Today, the global average LED lamp retail price is $23.50 per unit, indicating a fall of 1.2 percent in March 2014 over February 2014 and a 9.4 percent drop from the same time last year. The figures come from the latest release of IHS ...
Tags: LED Lamp, retail price, Drops
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2014 edition of its Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap. The Roadmap, which complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan, intended for R&D programs, aims to guide ...
Tags: LED, OLED Lighting
Last week Samsung became the latest big-hitter to change its strategy in the LED lighting sector, with the Korean technology conglomerate making a significant retreat. Having identified the emerging application as a key growth area just ...
Tags: Samsung, LED Lighting, luminaire markets
If current proposals by the European Commission are adopted, consumers will no longer be able to purchase any domestic halogen eco lamps after 2018, warns industry association Lighting Europe. The pressure group has published a ...
Tags: halogen eco lamps, LED lamps, CFL
In 2014, in the APAC region alone, the consumption value of LED lamps used in general lighting is expected to reach $2.7 billion, increasing to $6.7 billion in 2019. These are the main conclusions of the latest market analysis by ...
Tags: LED Lamp, general lighting, decorative light
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched the Soleriq L 38, the first filament LED in the Soleriq product family. With a long and thin shape (a length of 30mm and a diameter of 1.8mm), the LEDs provide the basis ...
Tags: Osram, Filament LEDs, lighting
Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, announced today that two of its lighting industry experts will speak at the LED Professional Symposium (LpS 2015), from September 22 to 24 in Bregenz, ...
Tags: Dow Corning, Optical Silicones, LED Professional Symposium
Lunera® Lighting, a leader in lighting innovations accelerating the transformation to advanced LED technology, will be demonstrating the energy saving advantages of its plug-and-play LED lamp replacements for conventional compact ...
Tags: Lunera Lighting, LED Lighting Replacement, CFL Retrofit
The method helps discovering the most efficient lamps, which may save billions in lighting costs in the future. Researchers at Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have succeeded in developing a method which helps ...
Tags: LED, luminous efficacy
Hong Kong exporters may be interested in the new Joint Market Surveillance Action on Consumer Products being undertaken by PROSAFE, the Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe, which has been launched in July 2015. The Joint ...
Tags: LEDs, EU PROSAFE, joint market surveillance