At the LightShow East in Washington DC,Oct.3-4,Aleddra's 1-ft LED T8 sample tube quickly became one of the hottest giveaways.This sample T8 with Double Safety Switch(DSS)surprised tradeshow attendees with its intuitive safety design that ...
The modern day LED was born 50 years ago this month.Jeanine Chrobak-Kando,Business Development Manager at Verbatim,describes how far the lighting technology has come in such a short time. Light-emitting diodes(LEDs)have become an ...
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IKEA,the largest home furnishing company and one of the largest lighting suppliers in the world,has pledged to convert its entire lighting range to LED by 2016,in a move that will have enormous implications for the LED market. The ...
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Bridgelux was named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100,produced by Cleantech Group,a global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and the environment. The Global Cleantech 100 list is unique in the ...
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Leading nightclub operator,The Luminar Group,has spent£750,000 refurbishing the former Liquid/Envy in Crawley town centre,which has now reopened as Moka. After being closed for nearly a year,the 1250-capacity venue has been ...
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Epistar recently was granted its 1000th patent. This number will continue to grow as there are about another 1,000 applications pending worldwide. Since its establishment in 1996, Epistar has firmly believed that technology innovation is ...
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Osram's Duris E 5 LEDs chosen for FuturoLighting Catherina2 fixtures LED lighting solutions specialist FuturoLighting of Piestany,Slovakia(a certified partner in Osram's'LED Light for you'network)has launched its Catherina2 ceiling ...
Light-emitting diodes are tiny electronic devices that emit far more light per unit of electricity than incandescent lamps or even compact fluorescents.But in the move to replace energy-gobbling incandescents,LEDs face a steeper climb in ...
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Walmart Canada announced a first-of-its-kind sales floor LED lighting retrofit, with all of the overhead sales floor lighting at its Brampton North (located at Highway 10 and Bovaird Road in Brampton, Ontario) supercentre from conventional ...
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Philips Lighting plant in Bath has held a meeting on Wednesday, and told workers of the impending closure. It wasn't immediately clear when layoffs will begin, but the company told employees that the plant will close by the end of 2013, ...
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In December 1923, America stood by as the National Christmas Tree in Washington D.C. was lit for the first time. Ninety years and several generations later, the event tonight promises to capture the magic of the first lighting with one ...
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The long-awaited merger of ELC and CELMA has created LightingEurope, a unified organization that aims to represent the interests of the European lighting industry as it deals with the transformation caused by LEDs. The two organizations ...
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Taiwan,China LED industries facing shuffle,says Epistar chairman Siu Han,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Monday 1 October 2012]The LED industry has been seeing rising sales but profitability has been decreasing in 2012.Biing-Jye Lee,chairman ...
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LED manufacturer Cree has introduced a new 10-year warranty on almost all of its new commercial lighting fixtures. With leading LED research and development,a strong financial balance sheet and some of the industryas longest-running field ...
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LEDnovation introduces 75W-and 100W-equivalent A-lamps,warm-on-dim BR30 28 Sep LEDnovation has developed a 100W-equivalent A-lamp that produces 1600 lm and uses 19W,while its new 75-equivalent A-lamp uses 14W to produces 1150 lm.The BR30 ...