Luminus Devices, Inc., the maker of the Big Chip LEDs(TM), has announced it has tripled the brightness of its green LEDs over the last five years, and expects to at least double it again. Green light is reportedly considered by the industry ...
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A near 9% fall in the global sawlog price index was recorded in the first quarter, according to the latest report from Wood Resource Quarterly. The biggest fall was experienced in Europe, with reduced global demand the primary reason. ...
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Makita, one of the world’s largest power tool manufacturers, are celebrating 40 years since the opening of their first UK based operation. Established in 1915 in Nargoya, Japan, Makita have come a long way since their beginnings and ...
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Stanley Black & Decker Inc. has put up its hardware and home-improvement unit for sale in an auction that could fetch around $1.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said. The unit, part of Black & Decker before its 2010 merger with ...
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The government is expected to call on major electronics retailers and home appliance makers to voluntarily halt production and sales of energy-consuming incandescent lightbulbs to save power this summer, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The ...
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The world’s No.5 power supply vendor, FSP Group has supported a considerable percentage of LED lighting power supplies for leading hotels, department stores and hypermarkets across Japan. According to the company’s executives, ...
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Recently, according to The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), it has released more than $7 million for three innovative lighting projects at companies in California, Michigan and North Carolina that aim to lower the cost of manufacturing ...
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LED chipmaker Epileds said it has been running at full capacity in second-quarter 2012. However, market conditions for the third quarter are unclear and despite an oversupply of LED chips in the market, the firm is striving for flat ...
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Following a strong first quarter, over recent weeks incoming orders in the German kitchen furniture industry also remained slightly above the level of the previous year in the majority of cases. Nevertheless since April kitchen ...
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The longstanding upswing in titanium dioxide prices ground to a temporary standstill in the second quarter. Generally speaking, mark-ups announced by virtually all major manufacturers in the second half of February and in March for ...
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A number of German interior door suppliers claim to have now largely instituted mark-ups averaging 3% that they announced for the second quarter of this year. However, a few prices have not yet risen. Suppliers that charged more from 1 ...
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Some analysts have predicted that LED will dominate lighting market by 2015. However, the US manufacturer Honeywell thinks predicted date of 2015 for market domination by LEDs is too late, and calls for an immediate global switch to LED ...
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Students working under artificial LED lighting designed to simulate daylight showed improved concentration and classroom performance. The so-called “biologically-optimized” lighting used in the study was produced by combining ...
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Several football stadiums in Poland and Ukraine have made use of LED lighting for color-changing facades and other applications. Several stadiums built or overhauled for the 2012 European Championship football (soccer) tournament feature ...
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Part of the nation’s largest nuclear power plant has been upgraded with 130 LED fixtures from Albeo, ensuring reliable, continuous lighting that should pay for itself within two years. Sections of the Arizona Palo Verde nuclear ...
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