China saw plunging new loans in February, largely due to the Lunar New Year holiday and a record credit surge in January. New yuan-denominated lending in February dropped to 726.6 billion yuan ($111.96 billion), 297 billion yuan less than ...
Tags: China's New Yuan, new loans
Michelin Americas Truck Tires has introduced MICHELIN Auto Inflate. It is an easy, wheel-mounted tire-management solution that allows fleets to automatically maintain optimal tire pressure. Leaky valve stems, extreme temperature changes ...
Town council members from Berlin located in Connecticut, U.S. has approved a US $ 1.48 million contract to swap 2,538 streetlights with LEDs , reported Hartford Courant. The payback period of the lighting project is expected to take less ...
Tags: Streetlights
Cree upgrades the campus of Thermo Fisher Scientific with LEDs and cuts up to 40% of the energy consumption per year. (Cree/LEDinside) After years of searching for the right partner to help implement LED lighting across its Asheville, ...
Tags: Cree, LED lighting, LED luminaires
The gold industry is not doing enough to combat debt and rising losses and not investing enough in exploration, Randgold CEO Mark Bristow said Tuesday. "A number of major companies in the industry today are simply not viable," Bristow ...
Tags: gold industry, Mines
The main obstacle that currently blocks mass-market acceptance of LED lighting, both domestically and commercially, is widespread lack of understanding and knowledge to make qualified purchasing decisions. That is all set to change, ...
Millions of outdated outdoor area lighting products can easily be converted to the latest in energy-efficient LED technology – with an installation time as short as replacing a lamp -- thanks to two new products from Acuity Brands, ...
Tags: outdoor lighting, LED technology, KADRD-LED
Over the years, the role of Asia in the global economy has been continuously increasing in its importance, corresponding to the as in the saying that “Asia is the breadbasket of the world.” The value of exports and imports by ...
Tags: LED lighting, Solar energy
Revolution Lighting Technologies, a leader in advanced LED lighting technology, announced today that it has been selected to retrofit the headquarters of one of the largest U.S. financial institutions. This program, scheduled for completion ...
Tags: LED retrofit, LED Lighting
“The (Chinese) LED industry is in deep waters, and only a few manufacturers will survive in the next few years,” said several industry insiders during recent interviews with LEDinside’s editorial team in China. With the ...
Tags: LED industry, Chinese LED market
Cree introduces new KR8™ and LR6™ LED downlights, designed to deliver better lighting performance and better value for new and existing commercial spaces. The new KR8 downlight expands the KR Series by adding Cree’s first ...
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Bowling Green State University (BGSU), a higher education leader in sustainability efforts, selected LED lighting by Cree to replace the outdated metal halide light fixtures over its indoor turf field in the Perry Field House. The ...
Tags: Cree, LED lighting, Lighting Project, Green State University
The U.S. Department of Energy has released a new report on the comprehensive street lighting restoration currently being undertaken by the City of Detroit, which includes transitioning the existing high-pressure sodium (HPS) sources to LED. ...
Tags: DOELED, Streetlight, Detroit
LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched new KR8 and LR6 LED downlights, designed to deliver better lighting performance and better value for new and existing commercial spaces. The new KR8 downlight ...
LED prices have declined far enough that this type of lighting is now the economical choice for almost every setting and use, and heavy attention is being paid to the ongoing energy savings the technology offers. With payback periods now ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Lamps