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Business News | Oct 20, 2010
TTI, Inc. and TT electronics OPTEK Technology Announce Franchise Agreement
TTI, Inc. and TT electronics OPTEK Technology Announce Franchise Agreement Providing design engineers with a worldwide source for optoelectronic components, TT electronics OPTEK Technology has partnered with global distributor TTI, Inc. with a new franchise agreement. TTI now stocks and distributes OPTEK’s comprehensive range of optoelectronic components, including visible LEDs and assemblies, infrared sensors and switches, magnetic sensors, encoders and an extensive range of high reliability optoelectronic discretes and hybrid assemblies. Read more »
Business News | Oct 15, 2010
Moser Baer Technologies and CNSE’S Launch Global Partnership to Establish Pioneering Pilot Production Facility for OLED
Moser Baer Technologies, Inc. ("MBT"), the U.S. division of Moser Baer India, Ltd., Universal Display Corporation ("UDC"), and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's ("CNSE") Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center ("STC") today announced a partnership to establish the world's first pilot production facility for Organic Light Emitting Diode ("OLED") lighting panels at STC's Canandaigua location, which will create more than 50 high-tech jobs by 2012 while further building New York's world-class resources to support clean and environmentally friendly technologies. Read more »
Business News | Oct 14, 2010
Energy Efficient Solutions from ON Semiconductor to Take Centre Stage at Electronica
Energy Efficient Solutions from ON Semiconductor to Take Centre Stage at Electronica ON Semiconductor, a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, will demonstrate its latest product innovations – designed to empower customers’ next generation energy efficient solutions for automotive, portable, industrial and lighting applications – at this year’s Electronica exhibition in Munich, Germany, November 9-12. Read more »
Business News | Oct 04, 2010
First Pilot Production Line for Organic LEDs to be Installed in Germany
First Pilot Production Line for Organic LEDs to be Installed in Germany Osram and its LED-affiliate Osram Opto Semiconductors are driving the technology shift on the lighting market and currently building a pilot line for organic LEDs (OLEDs) in Regensburg, Germany. "We hold a leading position in the young and promising OLED market," said Martin Goetzeler, CEO at Osram. "We want to use the pilot production line to extend our lead and quickly forge ahead with development of the technology and prepare for mass production." In the next three years around 50 million euros will be invested in the new pilot production facility and in research on LED applications. Commissioning of the production line is scheduled for mid-2011. Read more »
Business News | Sep 24, 2010
DOE Continues Aggressive Energy Efficiency Enforcement Effort with Nearly 30 New Proposed Penalties
As part of an ongoing commitment to rigorously enforce appliance efficiency requirements, the Department of Energy today announced 27 new proposed penalties against companies selling products in the United States without certifying that they comply with energy efficiency or water conservation standards. The legally required certifications help ensure that products sold in the U.S. deliver significant energy and cost savings to the American public. The 27 companies include well known manufacturers, importers, and private labelers of appliance, plumbing, and lighting products. Read more »
Business News | Sep 24, 2010
Toyoda Gosei Concludes Joint Venture Agreement to Develop, Manufacture, and Market LEDs in Taiwan
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. and two Taiwanese companies formally agreed on September 20 to establish a joint venture in Taiwan to develop, manufacture, and market light emitting diodes (LEDs). The Taiwanese companies are Epistar Corporation, a leading manufacturer of LED chips, and Twin Hill Co., Ltd., a sales agent for Toyoda Gosei LEDs. This joint venture agreement combines Toyoda Gosei’s leading-edge LED technology with Epistar’s low-cost manufacturing capabilities to expand the partners’ LED sales in the growing market of illumination applications. Read more »
Business News | Sep 17, 2010
Energy Smart Industry Brings Outdoor LED Lighting
ESI or the Energy Smart Industry, which is known to come up with smart and energy efficient lighting solutions now launches special outdoor LED lighting. With the new lightings, people can look forward to get powerful lights for outdoors and can also get to save on their electricity bill. The outdoor lighting retrofitting program offered by the company comes along with a special 5 years all –inclusive protection plan. Read more »
Business News | Sep 15, 2010
SDK Ups Blue LED Chip Production Capacity to 340 Mil. Units/Month
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has increased its production capacity of blue LED chips at its Chiba site to 340 million units per month, from 200 million units per month. After completion of expansion work in July, SDK made a trial run to secure product quality and stable operations. Commercial operation has already started. Read more »
Business News | Sep 09, 2010
Energy Smart Industry Announces LED Retrofit Program for Industrial Lighting
Energy Smart Industry or ESI, which has proven to be one of the leading providers of LED retrofitting, announces LED Retrofit Program for Industrial Lighting. With this new lighting solution the industries can look forward to a noticeable reduction in electricity bills and can enjoy the advantages that are offered by LED lightings. The company claims that it would be providing the industries with customized lighting solution that suits their individual requirement. Read more »
Business News | Sep 06, 2010
China Expo Lighting 2010
China Expo uses advanced LED technology to light up the night and save up to 70% of the energy used by traditional lighting. A look at how it was done. Read more »
Business News | Sep 06, 2010
Epistar expects 35% in 3Q10 gross margin
Although Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar will adjust its shipment mix in the wake of a demand slowdown from the LED-backlit TV segment, the company's internal target for third-quarter 2010 gross margin remains at 35%, according to industry sources. Epistar pointed out that September revenues could be affected due to the adjustment but should at least reach the level of August and gain modestly from that of July. The company expects full utilization of blue LED capacity into September and about 75-85% for red LEDs. Epistar registered first-half revenues of NT$9.274 billion (US$290.767 million), gross margin of 37.75% and after-tax profit of 2.692 billion or NT$3.5 per share. The company pointed out that orders were in excess of capacity by 30-40% in the first half and expects demand and supply to be more balanced in in the fourth quarter. Read more »
Business News | Aug 25, 2010
2050 Pathways Analysis - UK
Climate change affects the entire planet, and is by definition a global issue. The UK is taking world-leading action at home to address the problem, but ultimately we need global solutions. Energy is a global issue too. The UK imports an increasing amount of its energy, and, the supplies are to remain secure and priced competitively. Read more »
Business News | Aug 04, 2010
Philips Lumileds Crosses 1 Billion LUXEON LED Benchmark
Philips Lumileds Crosses 1 Billion LUXEON LED Benchmark Philips Lumileds today announced that it shipped its billionth LUXEON power LED in the 2nd quarter of 2010. The company’s capacity and infrastructure investments over the last several years have enabled it to meet customer needs for high volumes of products, with the company delivering over 750 million LUXEON power LEDs in the past two years to automotive, illumination and consumer electronics customers. Read more »
Business News | Jul 30, 2010
Color Kinetics enables SC Johnson product
USA - Color Kinetics Incorporated an innovator of LED lighting systems and technologies, today announced the U.S. launch of SC Johnson's Glade PlugIns Scented Oil Light Show, enabled by a license to Color Kinetics' worldwide patent portfolio. Read more »
Business News | Jul 30, 2010
ColorBlast for Starlite
ColorBlast for Starlite Starlite Productions recently enhanced its lighting rental department by taking delivery of Color Kinetics’ ColorBlast 12 fixtures. ColorBlast 12 is a stylish, compact wall-washing light that generates rich, uniform colors and color changing effects. Read more »
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