The LED industry has seen bulb prices nose-dive in recent years. When Walmart sold its 60W LED bulb two years ago for under $9, it was considered at the time an “aggressive pricing strategy.” But the same GE 60W LED bulb prices ...
Tags: LED bulbs, smart lighting, lower pricing
In response to the shift in the lighting market toward semiconductor-based technologies creating new growth opportunities, lighting company Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany says that it is to invest about €3bn in new technologies and ...
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The Cruise’s popularity as a vacation option is ever-increasing. The trend has led to bigger and better ships, regularly reaching mammoth proportions to ferry eager tourists to paradise and back. Bigger ships mean bigger ports, ...
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Osram continued to show a good profit performance in the third quarter of fiscal 2015. EBITA1 excluding special items rose 24% from a year earlier to EUR 129 million (US$ 142.51 million) , translating into a margin of 9.5%. The development ...
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Faced with the chaotic price wars in LED market, Edison Opto has been striving to introduce more high efficiency products in order to strengthen its market position. One of its new advantaged products is PLCC 2835 HE Series. It features ...
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The DesignLights Consortium™ program and trademarks are assets to the DLC, its members and stakeholders. The July 2015 issue of the DLC Industry Update states the following: "It has come to our attention that 49 manufacturers have ...
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MaxLite introduces LED Cooler and Freezer Lamps as an energy efficient lighting solution designed to enhance product displays and reduce operating costs for food and beverage retailers. MaxLite Cooler and Freezer Lamps consume less ...
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India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is implementing energy efficient labels similar to U.S. ENERGY STAR labels, according to a report from The New Indian Express. Under the BEE scheme launched earlier this month, Indian LED ...
Light Polymers is introducing the world's first liquid-crystal-based remote phosphor flexible film. In LED lighting, a remote phosphor film moves the blue-to-white-light converting phosphor material from the LED itself to the substrate that ...
Opple Lighting, which is in the process of applying IPOs in China, has seen its revenues reach RMB 3.9 billion (US $630 million) in 2014, according to a report by Chinese-language media The Time Weekly. The lighting industry is entering a ...
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The new ready2mains technology from Tridonic enables data to be transmitted in digital form via the existing mains. Dimming commands can therefore be easily transmitted and executed without the need for expensive rewiring. Electricians will ...
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Power management company Eaton announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Alliance’s Lighting Energy Efficient in Parking (LEEP) Campaign recognized the Denver International Airport (DIA) and Detroit ...
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Older adults in long-term care facilities often spend their days and nights in dimly-lit rooms with minimal time spent outdoors. The constant, unvarying dim light found in many long-term care facilities means that older adults are not ...
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Auckland Transport has begun New Zealand’s most ambitious LED replacement program. It is replacing 44,000 high pressure sodium (golden yellow light) street lights with energy efficient LED luminaires. Auckland Transport owns more ...
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An India startup company headed by Rohan Desle has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund optical illusion LED bulbs. The warm white LED bulbs have a lifetime of 50,000 hours and there are seven models that backers can choose from ...