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Oct 14, 2010
Global Lighting Industry Announces Major Leadership Role in LED Lighting
In order to accelerate the uptake of LED lighting the world’s lighting industry announced today an initiative to co-ordinate and promote the technology at a global level. At its 4th Meeting in Shenzhen, China, the Global Lighting Forum (GLF) held the inaugural meeting of its LED Working Group.
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Oct 20, 2010
EMerge Alliance Advances DC Power Distribution Platform
The EMerge Alliance – an open industry association leading the rapid adoption of safe direct-current (DC) power distribution standards for commercial buildings – today announced it has formed a new technical standard committee for data and telecommunications centers and added 11 new members as part of the group’s planned expansion to address building-wide opportunities for reduced power consumption.
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Oct 22, 2010
Consumerizing Solid State Lighting
LED (Light-emitting diodes) lamps are a fast emerging technology which is considered as the true alternative to the Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL). Many commercial products are now available for professional application; however there is rarely any LED retrofit product which meets all the expectations of consumers in terms of price, light output and other functionalities at the same time.
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Nov 16, 2010
EMerge Alliance Introduces First Registered Products for DC Power Distribution in Commercial Buildings
The EMerge Alliance – an open industry association leading the rapid adoption of safe direct-current (DC) power distribution standards for commercial buildings – today announced the first set of 26 EMerge Alliance Registered products at the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual International Conference and Expo.
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Nov 25, 2010
LED and Laser Diode Patent Holder Gertrude Neumark Rothschild Died
Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, Howe Professor Emerita of Materials Science and Engineering, passed away on November 11, 2010, after a long illness. She was 83. The cause was heart failure.
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Feb 15, 2011
GE Mocks Consumers: GE Sends Energy-Efficient Valentine to U.S. Consumers
U.S. consumers shopping for light bulbs this Valentine’s Day and in the coming months may notice changes on retail store shelves: fewer incandescent bulbs and a wider selection of energy-efficient incandescent halogen bulbs. GE Lighting offers a light bulb that looks like the century-old and beloved incandescent bulb, produces nearly the same light output but operates up to 22 percent more efficiently.
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Apr 05, 2011
IMS Research Says "TI to Dominate Power ICs and LED Driver ICs Market"
Texas Instruments’ acquisition of National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion will create a giant that dominates the power IC field according to the latest data* from IMS Research.The combination of these two titans will represent about 17% of the power management and driver IC market, or $2.2 billion in revenue, whilst their share of the LED IC market will stand at over 25%.
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May 11, 2011
Number of EMerge Alliance Certified LED Products Grows - EMerge Alliance at LIGHTFAIR 2011
The EMerge Alliance – an open industry association leading the rapid adoption of safe direct-current (DC) power distribution standards for commercial buildings – today announced that 22 additional products have been Registered as compliant with the EMerge Alliance initial standard covering the Occupied Space in commercial buildings and 16 new members have joined the organization.
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May 24, 2011
New NanoMarkets Report Forcasts OLED Lighting Market to Reach USD 1.5 Billion by 2016
Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has released its latest report titled, “OLED Lighting Markets Europe-2011,” that says the market opportunities in Europe for OLED lighting will generate $1.5 billion (USD) in OLED lighting panel sales by 2016. The report is the latest in NanoMarkets’ continuing coverage of the global OLED lighting marketplace.
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May 31, 2011
Asia Pacific Goes Green – Best Pre-Condition for future growth potential of LED Lighting Products
Kelvin Inn, Consulting Manager at Global Intelligence Alliance in Hong Kong investigated the regulations, market situation, and future perspectives for the Asia-Pacific region. He came to the conclusion that this region offers the best pre-condition for a huge growth in LED lighting and that Asian lighting brands could dominate the global market in a few years.
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Jul 18, 2011
Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition Reports a Record Breaking Attendance
The 16th edition of the four-day show, which is also the world’s leading and most comprehensive lighting event, continues to go from strength to strength. Visitor numbers to the two shows totalled 100,465, an increase of 40 per cent compared to 2010.
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Jul 21, 2011
Lighting Facts® Partners Recognized at DOE SSL Workshop
Nine Lighting Facts partners were recognized last week at the sixth annual U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Market Introduction Workshop, in Seattle, Washington. The three-day event brought together more than 275 utilities, energy efficiency program representatives, manufacturers, and other industry insiders and observers interested in keeping up to date on the latest SSL commercialization developments.
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Aug 16, 2011
IMS Research Downgrades 2011 and Upgrades 2012 Quarterly GaN LED MOCVD Forecast
IMS Research has released the MOCVD chapters of its 300-page Quarterly LED Supply and Demand Report which reveals significant shifts in MOCVD adoption for LED manufacturing.
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Sep 16, 2011
Analysis of the Cost of Goods Sold for Leading LED Lighting Products, Forecasted from 2010-2015
Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, releases its latest report on a costs analysis of goods sold for leading LED lighting products. This special report examines the major components and modules in LED lights, packaging and material trends, LED comparison costs over time, and the manufacturing supply chain and assembly trends.
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LpS 2011 | LED Business |
Oct 12, 2011
Cost Considerations of Luminaries
At the LpS 2011 in Bregenz, Klaus Vamberszky, CTO from the Zumtobel Group, presented a cost analysis of downlight luminaries and predicted the cost relations of the main cost parts in a luminary over the next 10 years.
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Oct 18, 2011
IMS Research Monthly LED Lamp Retail Price Tracker – Global Average Retail Price for 60W Incandescent LED Lamps at $36 in October
IMS Research has launched a Global Monthly LED Lamp Retail Price Tracker to monitor and provide insight into the rapidly growing and changing LED lamp market. With the phasing out of incandescent lamps and the dislike that consumers have with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), LED replacement lamps have an enormous opportunity as prices fall further.
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Nov 15, 2011
IMS Research Issues New Forecast in Its Updated Quarterly LED Supply and Demand Report
IMS Research has released the MOCVD chapters of its 300-page Quarterly LED Supply and Demand Report on November 1st which revealed significant changes in MOCVD market share and the MOCVD market outlook.
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Nov 24, 2011
The Inventor of the White LED Celebrates his 80th Birthday
His invention illuminates the world: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schneider, former head of department at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and inventor of the white LED, celebrates his 80th birthday at 25.11.2011.
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Dec 16, 2011
EU Released the Green Paper Proposal on Environmentally Friendly Lighting
Today, the European Union released a Green Paper named "Lighting the Future: Accelerating the Deployment of Innovative Lighting Technologies" to accelerating the wide deployment of innovative, environmentally friendly, high-quality lighting solutions, which are based on light emitting diode (LED) and organic LED technologies. Contributions to the new policy are welcome from all interest stakeholders.
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Jan 04, 2012
Reed Exhibitions and China Solid State Lighting Association Hold Taiwan Press Conference to Promote Communication and Development in LED Industry
End of December, Reed Exhibitions held a joint press conference with the China Solid State Lighting Association (CSA) in Jinghua, Taiwan. The two parties, co-organizers of Green Lighting Shanghai 2012 and CHINASSL 2012, were keen to unearth opportunities for bilateral cooperation and boost development. About 100 people, including representatives from the leading lighting companies and electronics manufacturers in Taiwan, as well as several members of the local trade and mass media, attended the press conference.
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