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News-Spot | Business News | May 08, 2012
Now Available from MSC: New XLamp® ML-C Facilitates the Design of New Lighting Solutions
Now Available from MSC: New XLamp® ML-C Facilitates the Design of New Lighting Solutions The new, Xlamp ML-C (Distribution: MSC) convinces with a very even light distribution and is available in different price-performance variants. The new XLamp® allows the use of more efficient and more compact driver, for example to offer LED replacement lamps more cheaply. The single footprint of the ML-housing is retained in the new LED. This gives customers the opportunity to expand their product portfolio quickly and easily. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 07, 2012
Carsem Announces Manufacturing Capability Into Led Solutions
Carsem, a leading provider of turnkey packaging and test services to the semiconductor industry, announced that they are now entering a partnership with a key customer to assemble and further develop LED packaging technologies.Carsem has successfully assembled and qualified High Brightness Silicon Substrate LED Arrays and will begin offering high-volume, full turn-key manufacturing services, including electrical testing, laser mark and tape-and-reel, in early 2012. The manufacturing process fully utilizes the advantage of standard mass production process of assembly and test including matrix substrate design; auto die attach, wire bond and high reflection coating dispense; compression molding through automold system; mapping of units on substrate and bin sort per test mapping. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 04, 2012
All American Partners with LED Engin, Inc. to offer Emitters, Lenses and Modules
All American Semiconductor expands its LED product offering by partnering with LED Engin, Inc. to offer a full range of high brightness, compact emitters, lenses and modules. LED Engin develops, manufactures, and sells advanced LED emitters, optics components and light source modules in a unique, high-lumen density, compact, multi-die package that enable solid-state lighting solutions for a wide range of applications. LED Engin emitters are used in applications ranging from Architectural, Stage and Studio, High and Low Bay Lighting, Downlighting and General Lighting as well as many industrial applications. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 04, 2012
From Frankfurt to Las Vegas: Zhaga Continues Success Tour
From Frankfurt to Las Vegas: Zhaga Continues Success Tour “Our specifications substantially change the LED lighting market by reducing the risks of developing LED lighting products”, Menno Treffers, Secretary General at Zhaga, gets to the heart of the matter – the future belongs to the interchangeability of LED light sources from different manufacturers. This was recently experienced by the 200,000 visitors who attended Light+Building. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 03, 2012
IST Appoints Lightfactor as iDrive® Distributor for iDrive® LED Drivers
IST Ltd, the UK designer and manufacturer of iDrive® LED driver and Serenity Lighting systems, has announced the formation of a strategic distribution agreement with the Cooper Controls Group company Lightfactor to distribute the iDrive® range of LED drivers, which includes DMX/RDM, 1-10V, DALI and trailing edge dimmable options. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 02, 2012
SDK to Form JV with Toyoda Gosei for GaN LED Business
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to split its business in gallium-nitride (GaN)-based blue LED chips, and transfer 70% of shares in the new company to Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (Toyoda Gosei), by the end of this year. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 02, 2012
Thomas Research Products Signs Distribution Agreement With Digi-Key Corporation
Thomas Research Products, a leading manufacturer of SSL power solutions, has announced a global distribution agreement with electronic components distributor Digi-Key. As the leading internet-based integrated distributor of electronic components, Digi-Key Corporation provides information and inventory of millions of products, accessible to customers around the globe. All products ship from their central North American location. The company’s integrated business model provides product and support online to help put engineers and procurement professionals in control as they solve tough product development challenges. Read more »
Business News | Apr 27, 2012
ERG Lighting Now Offers the SLD, XLD and XLA Series of LED Drivers from GRE Alpha® Electronics
ERG Lighting Now Offers the SLD, XLD and XLA Series of LED Drivers from GRE Alpha® Electronics The ERG Lighting division of Endicott Research Group, Inc. is now offering the SLD, XLD and XLA Series of LED drivers from GRE Alpha® Electronics, Ltd., Gainesville, GA, a specialist in the design and manufacture of solid state lighting power supplies for architectural, signage, retail, office, street and LED strip lighting. These driver series are available with power from 18-200W and include a 3-year warranty. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Apr 26, 2012
LUXeXceL Group Appointed as Research Associate by 3DS SolidWorks
LUXeXceL Group B.V., innovator of Printoptical Technology, is appointed as Research Associate by 3DS SolidWorks. LUXeXceL develops and manufactures optical products, structures and special graphic effects by means of a novel digital 3D printing process and is mainly focused today on the global LED lighting industry. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Apr 20, 2012
Schneider Electric and Tridonic Announce Strategic Partnership
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, and Tridonic, a leading manufacturer of lighting components today announce a strategic partnership. The corporate partnership represents collaboration around projects business, and will see the companies work together to promote energy efficient lighting control solutions to customers. Read more »
Business News | Apr 16, 2012
16 LED Light for You Network Partners Present Solution for Every Lighting Idea at Light+Building
16 LED Light for You Network Partners Present Solution for Every Lighting Idea at Light+Building The "LED Light for you" (LLFY) network will be on show along with 16 international partners at the Light + Building 2012 – the world's biggest trade fair in the light and building sector – in Frankfurt am Main. True to the motto "You have the idea – we have the solution" the Osram partner network will be demonstrating how architects, lighting consultants and luminaire designers can benefit from the certified expertise of LLFY members. Since its establishment in 2006, "LED Light for you" (LLFY) has been providing professional support on LED lighting issues. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Apr 16, 2012
Osram Displays Cutting-Edge Technology for First-Class Solutions at Light+Building
Osram Displays Cutting-Edge Technology for First-Class Solutions at Light+Building Within the last years, Osram has developed from a component manufacturer to a supplier of complex lighting solutions, and can now offer first-class answers to satisfy the needs of different customers, ranging from luminaire manufacturers right up to end consumers. In so doing the further development of certain specific technologies has played an important role. Since the company can provide convincing complete offers for its customers only on the foundation of excellent individual technologies. At light+building 2012, Osram presents new developments in nine different technology categories. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Mar 20, 2012
Novaled Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering
Novaled AG annouced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its American Depositary Shares (ADSs). Novaled is a leader in the research, development and commercialization of technologies and materials that enhance the performance of organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, and other organic electronics. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Mar 15, 2012
ALT Internship Training Program – 7ᵗʰ Term
ALT invites college and graduate students in Taiwan to participate in the 2012 ALT Internship Program, 7ᵗʰ term. We encourage everyone who is environmentally conscious and interested in accumulating international experience to apply. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Mar 14, 2012
Zhaga's Debut at Light+Building 2012 - Zhaga Members Show the first Zhaga-Compliant, Interchangeable LED Modules
The international lighting industry has so far lacked clear guidelines to ensure the interchangeability of LED modules made by different manufacturers. With Zhaga that is now changing. Since its foundation in February 2010, the consortium has developed specifications for LED module interfaces. These interfaces enable easy LED module integration into luminaire designs and reduce overall system design cost. At Light+Building 2012, from 15 to 20 April in Frankfurt am Main, Zhaga will present to the lighting community what has been achieved so far and the goals for the near future. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Mar 13, 2012
Farnell element14 Stocks the Velve Development Kit for OLED Designs
Farnell element14 Stocks the Velve Development Kit for OLED Designs Farnell element14 is the first distributor to stock Verbatim's Velve Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) development kit, adding to its already comprehensive range of solid state lighting products, technologies and know-how that includes high power LEDs, LED modules, power supplies and drivers plus thermal management, optical and interconnect solutions. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Mar 13, 2012
Meanwell LPF-D Series with Three-in-One Dimming Function Now Available from Pewatron
Meanwell LPF-D Series with Three-in-One Dimming Function Now Available from Pewatron Pewatron now provides the Meanwell LPF-D Series for the Central European market. The key features of these high-performance 16-90 W, plastic-encased LED power supplies with PFC and optional "three- in-one" dimming function are the high power conversion efficiency, high reliability, and energy-saving design. The "three-in-one dimming function" offers system designers great flexibility in the design of lighting systems, using either a 1-10 VDC analogue signal, PWM signal or a variable resistor. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Mar 13, 2012
iWatt Opens IC Design Centers in Beijing & Tianjin
Silicon Valley-based iWatt, Inc., a developer of energy-efficient digital power supply control integrated circuits (ICs) used in leading-edge power supplies, announced today that it has opened two IC design centers in China, one in Beijing and another in Tianjin. This expands iWatt’s presence in China, where the company opened an engineering center in Shenzhen in June 2010 to support the growing number of Asian manufacturers designing solid-state lighting (SSL), and cell phone and tablet PC power adapters. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Mar 13, 2012
LumaStream Is First to Sign Ecosystem Program Agreement with Bridgelux
Eric Higgs, President and CEO of LumaStream, Inc. www.lumastream.com announced today that LumaStream has signed a cooperation agreement with Bridgelux www.bridgelux.com under the Bridgelux Ecosystem Program. Mr. Higgs views this agreement as a foundation for further market and technical developments with Bridgelux. “We are extremely impressed with efficiency and performance of the Bridgelux arrays. The quality of these arrays was a driving factor in our development efforts.” Mr. Higgs added that “The Ecosystem Program is a vehicle for reaching a broader market for LumaStream’s Power Vector intelligent power conversion and control interface technology.” Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 28, 2012
From LED Components to Complete LED Systems & Concepts for Intelligent Light
Driving Intelligent Lighting is the Tridonic slogan for Light+Building 2012. The spotlight will therefore be on components and systems for intelligent operating and control solutions. The company will also be demonstrating the many possibilities of digital light management. In addition, Tridonic will be showcasing LED modules together with a range of other components and comprehensive LED system solutions, including converters and lighting controllers. The focus will be on LED products and systems for general illumination applications. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 24, 2012
SSC Presents New Innovative Products and LED Applications of Customers at Light+Building
SSC Presents New Innovative Products and LED Applications of Customers at Light+Building Light + Building 2012 (15 - 20.04.2012) is the world's largest stage for the lighting market. More than 1,500 manufacturers present the entire spectrum of lighting technology, including lighting fixtures in a variety of styles, technical lighting and lamps of all kinds and for all applications and a wide range of lighting components and accessories at the Frankfurt exhibition grounds. Also a wide range of outdoor lights, from bollards, uplights and spotlights for illumination of buildings using projector-mirror systems to street lights will be on display. The world's leading trade fair presents trends like light shows in the public sector or shop lighting as a sales promotion element. Central theme of Light + Building 2012 is energy efficiency, precisely energy consumption reduction combined with new opportunities for greater comfort, creative design and safety in apartments, offices, stores and public spaces. This is where LED technology plays a decisive role. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 22, 2012
Power Integrations Launches Convenient Online Selection Tool for LED Driver Reference Designs
Power Integrations, maker of the world's most efficient, longest-lasting off-line LED driver ICs, today launched an online selection tool that enables users to rapidly identify the best power supply reference design for their LED lighting application. The LED Design Selector allows engineers to enter simple selection criteria and provides the best choice from Power Integrations' library of reference design options for LED lighting. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 22, 2012
Philips Joins EMerge Alliance Board
The EMerge Alliance – an open industry association leading the rapid adoption of safe, direct-current (DC) power distribution standards for commercial buildings – today announced Philips is upgrading its membership from Participating Member to Governing Member, and is now a member of the Board of Directors. This is the first expansion of the Board since the Alliance was founded in 2008. Read more »
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