The lighting industry has been steadily developing over the last two decades, with China becoming one of the largest manufacturing base and consumer market. According to data compiled by Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) lighting ...
Tags: LED Lighting, lighting market
Heateflex Corporation, a global leader in high-purity industrial heating systems, introduced a new product, Gambrinus, designed to reduce Total Package Oxygen (TPO) in beer-bottling lines. The initial Gambrinus unit has been installed and ...
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A local UK council has validated the application for a proposed IGas project to drill two exploratory wells in order to evaluate geology and assess potential shale gas recovery, IGas announced in a statement Friday. Nottinghamshire County ...
Hard disk drive (HDD) makers Western Digital and Seagate have announced their financial results for the third quarter and both makers are seeing their PC business revenue contributions weaken. PC HDDs only contributed about 34% of Western ...
Tags: HDD, PC, Seagate, storage, Western Digital
Yingli Green Energy has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Green Energy Europe has partnered with Motif Proje ve Insaat Ltd. Sti (Motif Proje), one of Turkey's first renewable energy consulting partners, to develop a 20MW PV ...
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An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
As part of the 11th International Laser Marketplace – the bi-annual industry conference staged at LASER World of Photonics in Munich – Dr Kunihiko Washio, CEO of Paradigm Laser Research (Tokyo, Japan) gave a presentation on the ...
The integration of LEDs into biophotonics and medical science devices is set to increase in value by a multiple of five over the coming six years, according to a new forecast by ElectroniCast, Upper Lake, CA, USA. Earlier this week, the ...
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The sales value of light emitting diode-based lamps for explosion-proof lighting applications will increase from $151.5 million in 2013 to $248.1 million in the year 2020 (equivalent to a 7.3% annual increase), according to the latest ...
Tags: LED Lamps, fluorescent tube, Safety Lighting
he annual value of US market sales of LED-based production lighting will double over the period 2013-2020 forecast period, according to market analyst ElectroniCast Consultants. The market forecast considers the use of LED-based lamps in ...
Tags: LED Lighting, camera, videography
The European machine vision (MV) industry is in “an excellent condition”, according to the German VDMA’s latest market survey. published earlier in July. It states that the MV sector’s turnover grew more strongly ...
Tags: Machine Vision, strong growth, software
A combination of existing commercial applications and new consumer applications will drive the market for uncooled infra-red imaging technologies, according to Yole Développement, the French market consultancy. The company’s ...
Global sales of photonic sensors and detectors will increase from $6.3 billion in 2013, an estimated $7.3 billion in 2014 and will reach $15.2 billion in 2019, according to a new market study by analyst BCC Research. This growth equates to ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2014 edition of its Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap. The Roadmap, which complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan, intended for R&D programs, aims to guide ...
Tags: LED, OLED Lighting
Last week Samsung became the latest big-hitter to change its strategy in the LED lighting sector, with the Korean technology conglomerate making a significant retreat. Having identified the emerging application as a key growth area just ...
Tags: Samsung, LED Lighting, luminaire markets