Posted in Medical Device Business by Chris Newmarker on April 3, 2015 Robert Cascella was previously CEO of Hologic. He joins Philips as the Dutch multinational increasingly focuses on what it calls HealthTech. Robert Cascella, who ...
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Royal Philips NV of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (the world's largest lighting producer) has agreed to sell an 80.1% stake in its combined LED components and Automotive lighting business to GO Scale Capital, a new growth-stage investment fund ...
Tags: Lumileds, Royal Philips, Electronics
In acquiring an 80.1% stake in Philips' combined LED components and Automotive lighting business (with Netherlands-based Philips retaining the remaining 19.9%), new owners GO Scale Capital (an investment fund sponsored by GSR Ventures and ...
Tags: Lumileds, LED components, Electronics
Royal Philips has announced that it has signed an agreement with a consortium led by GO Scale Capital through which it will acquire an 80.1% interest in Philips' combined LED components and automotive lighting business, with Philips ...
Tags: automotive lighting, Philips, LED
Dutch multinational announces sale of its LED components and automotive lighting business as it turns toward new HealthTech focus. Chris Newmarker Royal Philips has set the wheels in motion when it comes to a split-up of the company ...
Over the past year, the LED industry had pondered about the company that would eventually take over Philips lighting component (Philips Lumileds) and automotive business. Previous market rumors pointing towards CVC and KKR consortium as ...
Tags: Philips, LED Patent Issues, Lights
Due to their compactness and low cost of ownership, UV LEDs continue to penetrate the booming UV curing business, through replacement of incumbent technologies such as mercury lamps, according to 'UV LED - Technology, Manufacturing and ...
The LED lighting market in Japan will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.73% over the period 2014-2019, forecasts Technavio’s report ‘LED Lighting Market in Japan 2015-2019’, which divides the market into ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Lights
In late 2013, LEDinside team forecasted major company restructure market trends will continue throughout the year. The trend has been consistent in 2014, as more lighting manufacturers take necessary restructure measures to remain ...
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Profitability for LED products is shrinking due to continual price drops along with increasing competition, and more than 100 relatively small China-based LED packaging service providers will be forced out of the market in 2014 and the ...
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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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China-based LED packaging houses, including Leedarson Lighting and Yankong Lighting, have fully automated packaging lines for 0.2-0.5W 2835 (specification code) low-power LED chips for use in light bulbs and tubes, with prices lower than ...
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The market for gallium nitride (GaN) packaged LEDs in automotive applications will reach $1bn this year for the first time, rising by 11% from $943m in 2013 to $1.05bn in 2014, forecasts the LED Intelligence Service of IHS Technology in a ...
Tags: Automotive LED lighting, GaN LEDs
The market for GaN packaged LEDs in automotive applications is forecast to reach the US$1 billion mark in 2014 for the first time, according to IHS. Industry revenues are projected to grow 11% from US$943 million in 2013 to US$1.05 ...
In an expansion of its LUXEON CoB line, Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has introduced the LUXEON CoB 1202s array, with a more compact size than the existing CoB 1202 that makes it a suitable for designers of PAR lamps and other ...
Tags: Directional Lamps, Spotlights