Ratos has signed an agreement to acquire approximately 67% of the shares in the Finnish LED optics company Ledil Oy from the company's founders. The purchase price (enterprise value) for 100% of the company amounts to EUR 97m, of which ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED optics company, Lights
The ongoing transition from fluorescent to LED lighting technologies amounts to a significant disruption for the lighting industry, potentially changing the methods by which lighting is provided and sold to customers. While conventional ...
Tags: LED Luminaires, Lights
With a few months to go, preparations for the International Furniture Fair Singapore 2015/32nd ASEAN Furniture Show (IFFS/AFS 2015), The Décor Show, and Hospitality 360° are well underway. Pre-registration for the show is open ...
Tags: Singapore EXPO, Furniture
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has upgraded the performance of its MR16 GU10 base 120V LED lamp line with the ...
Tags: Soraa, GaN-on-GaN, LED Lamps
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has introduced a compatible version of its MR16 LED lamp. Featuring ...
Global lamp revenues are expected to increase from US$29.1 billion in 2013 to US$34.6 billion in 2019, equivalent to a six-year CAGR of 2.4%. During the same time period, worldwide LED revenues are set to climb at a CAGR of 16%. In ...
DOE's Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) has released the results of a voluntary web-based inventory survey of public street and area lighting across the U.S., conducted during the latter half of 2013 and intended to ...
Tags: Street Lighting, Area Lighting
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 has been awarded to three scientists for their invention of blue LEDs. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura will share prize money of eight million kronor (0.7 million). In the early ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has launched a complete line of MR16 LED lamps powered by its third-generation ...
Tags: Soraa GaN-on-GaN, MR16 Lamps
Xi’an Jiaotong University and Shaanxi Supernova Lighting Technology Co., Ltd., of China have used silver nanorods to engineer gallium vacancy defects in gallium nitride (GaN) to create color tunable light emitting diodes [Yaping Huang ...
Tags: GaN, LEDs, LED heterostructure
At the American Lighting Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Nashville, LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA received the 2014 Lighting for Tomorrow Award for Solid State Lighting design in the ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has announced new psychophysical research proving that whiteness and color ...
Tags: Whiteness, Color Rendering, Electronics
An Italian professor has created an artificial skylight that simulates a sunny blue sky. Lighting is the first UK magazine to speak to him about his astonishing invention If you have the opportunity in the next few weeks, make an ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Sky Light
The global chip-on-board LED market is expected to reach $9179.7m by 2020, according to the report ‘Chip on Board (COB) Light Emitting Diode (LED) Market Analysis By Application (Automotive, Backlighting, Illumination) And Segment ...
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The lighting concept for BVB FanWorld in the Signal Iduna Park was developed by Zumtobel The Zumtobel Group and Borussia Dortmund Football Club have signed a partnership agreement. The deal was announced by Zumtobel Group CEO Ulrich ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, LED floodlight, LED