NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index increased 1.9 percent from the second to the third quarters of 2014, climbing to its highest level to date in calendar year 2014. The index posted a gain of 4.1 percent on a year-over-year basis. ...
Tags: Lighting Systems, miniature lamps, Lights
The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released a special report on LED lamps available through the retail marketplace and targeted toward general consumers. While previous reports in the CALiPER retail lamps series have ...
Tags: LED lamps, LED lighting system, Lights
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a new GATEWAY report that summarizes the results of a survey regarding conversions to solid-state lighting in museums. The survey was sent to members of the museum community who had requested ...
Tags: correlated color temperature, LED installation, Lights
A new technical brochure (TI 1459) that details the use of regular- and low-color Carbon Black Pigments dedicated to tinting applications in paints and coatings is now available from Orion Engineered Carbons. The 12-page brochure explains ...
Tags: particle properties, coloristic properties, Construction
Privately held laser and photonics company Sheaumann Laser Inc of Marlborough, MA, USA has acquired Axcel Photonics Inc in a stock and cash transaction, effective from 1 January. Axcel is a multidisciplinary semiconductor laser ...
Tags: industrial, medical, military, Electrical
New Road Lighting Book In 1980 the book “Road Lighting”, written by Prof de Boer and Wout van Bommel was published in the series “Philips Lighting Library”. It was regarded as the ‘road lighting bible’ ...
Tags: road lighting, Lights
Engineered Printing Solutions continues to revolutionize the product decoration process by progressively expanding the advanced printing solutions they offer. They are now offering new and improved FlexiCure UV LED curable inks which they ...
Tags: UV LED curable inks, Health
Japanese artist's Sen Tian Xuezi love bread very much! So she created a series of bread as the lamps and lanterns, to satisfy her strange desire. It would be a mistake to think that the modelling of bread is a chimney. This material is ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging service provider Lextar Electronics has received LED lighting orders with shipments scheduled through June 2015 and aims to ship more than 40 million LED light bulbs in 2015, according to ...
The production and sales of khadi, a handwoven cloth, have grown during the last three years. In 2011-12, 887.32 lakh square metres of khadi cloth was produced, generating sales value of Rs 967.87 crore, with cumulative employment of ...
Tags: handwoven cloth, storage battery, Textile
One of the most contemporary and versatile materials we know, concrete is very much in the home decorating spotlight these days. You will be amazed at the wide variety of concrete applications. It can be used for exciting designs that run ...
Tags: Home, Garden, Construction
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has extended its line of PAR and AR111 lamps to offer a full range of halogen ...
Tags: Soraa, GaN-on-GaN, LED Lamps
The overall market for lamps will rise from $17.9bn now to peak at $21.2bn in 2018 before shrinking to $16bn by 2022, forecasts market research firm Strategies Unlimited in its latest annual report ‘The Worldwide Market for ...
Tags: LEDs Lighting, Lamp Market
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
Honda has started selling its Grace hybrid compact sedan in Japan which is designed to provide enhanced fuel economy. The car is powered by Honda's SPORT HYBRID i-DCD (intelligent Dual Clutch Driv) motor which combines a 1.5L Atkinson ...
Tags: Hybrid Vehicle, fuel economy, Auto