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Jul 30, 2010
Lighting Science Group and Office for Visual Interaction - New York City Lights Prototyping Contract
Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTCBB: LSCG) (“LSG”), a developer and integrator of intelligent LED lighting solutions, and the Office for Visual Interaction, Inc. (“OVI”), a global architectural lighting design innovator, announced today that the companies have been selected by The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) to engineer, produce and test the winning design of the City Lights Design Competition.
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Jul 30, 2010
Cree Opens Engineering Center in Shenzhen, China, to Aid High-Quality LED Luminaire Design
Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the opening of the Cree Shenzhen Engineering Center in Shenzhen, China. This technical education center is dedicated to training lighting product designers and manufacturers in best practices for LED lighting product design and construction.
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Jul 30, 2010
Texim Europe Receives austriamicrosystems’ "2007 Distributor of the Year Award"
“To decide between distributors we went through a full analysis on 21 different points to classify the performance of our distributor partners”, says Heribert Hochrinner, WW Distribution Manager.
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Jul 30, 2010
WieDaMark, LLC Launches WDM Lighting Brand for Energy-Efficient LED Lighting Solutions
WDM Lighting, a company of WieDaMark, LLC, launches this quarter. WDM Lighting will showcase the WDM product line and national distributor program. WDM Lighting specializes in LED and energy-efficient lighting solutions for residential, commercial, and entertainment industries.
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Jul 30, 2010
Cree Selects Premier Farnell and Digi-Key to Expand Its Global LED Distribution Network
Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announce the signing of a global distribution agreement to distribute performance-leading Cree LEDs with Premier Farnell plc and Digi-Key Corporation.
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Jul 30, 2010
Future Lighting Solutions Enhances Lighting Resource Centers for LED Lighting Designers
Future Lighting Solutions has enhanced its Lighting Resource Centers (LRCs) for LED lighting designers by investing in state-of-the-art equipment, expanding the workspace, and adding dedicated thermal, optical and electronics engineers.
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Jul 30, 2010
Premier Farnell’s $100,000 Live EDGE Competition Now Open for Registration
Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor and its companies (Farnell, Newark, Premier Electronics, Farnell-Newark CPC, and MCM), today announced that design entries are now being accepted at www.Live-EDGE.com for the international design competition, Live EDGE – Electronic Design for the Global Environment. The competition invites electronic design engineers, students and hobbyists to design products utilizing electronic components, which will positively impact the environment.
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Jul 30, 2010
Osram Drops OLED Displays for OLED Based Lighting Solutions
Osram GmbH will cease production of OLED-based displays and close the related fab in Penang, Malaysia. In the future, the company will focus on lighting solutions, also based on OLED technology.
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Jul 30, 2010
Cree and Zumtobel Announce Strategic Agreement for LED Downlights in Europe
Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces a long-term strategic agreement with the Austrian Zumtobel Group, a global market leader in the professional lighting industry and listed on the Vienna stock exchange, to supply LED downlights to the European market. The minimum first-year sales target is 50,000 LR6-230V luminaires. This accelerates the business relationship, which is anticipated to expand into other high-volume lighting categories in 2009.
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Jul 30, 2010
ON Semiconductor Corporation Completes Acquisition of Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc.
ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ONNN) announced today that it has, effective today, completed its acquisition of Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. (Nasdaq: CATS) in a stock-for-stock merger. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Catalyst stockholders have generally received 0.706 shares of ON Semiconductor common stock for each share of Catalyst common stock they own.
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Jul 30, 2010
Aluwave AB Pushes Activities in LED Lighting Technology
Aluwave AB signed a development and supply contract for a light engine based on its LED-bearer material Alunat™ and OLP has now signed a development agreement with Aluwave to develop a LED-based light engine for their range of products.
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Jul 30, 2010
EU Ban on Incandescent Lamps Will Help Consumers and the Climate
The replacement of 3.5 billion incandescent lamps installed throughout Europe will lead to a reduction in the power consumed by lighting systems by more than 30 percent. “The decision by the EU will help protect the climate and will help consumers reduce their electricity costs”, said Martin Goetzeler, CEO of OSRAM.
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Jul 30, 2010
The World Economic Forum Has Recognized SemiLEDs Corporation as a 2009 Technology Pioneer
SemiLEDs is the world first company that mass produces High Power Light Emitting Diode (HPLED) on flexible Copper alloy base in large volumes at high brightness efficiency (>100lumens/watt), reliability and low cost, which makes the solid-state lighting (SSL) becoming possible for the mass: bringing low cost SSL to the unlighted areas of the Globe.
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Jul 29, 2010
Osram Enters Joint Venture with Traxon Technologies
Osram is strengthening its portfolio in the field of professional LED lighting systems and solutions by setting up a joint venture with Traxon Technologies Ltd., Hong Kong. The new company, in which Osram has the majority shareholding, is one of the leading providers in the fast-growing market for LED technology in the field of architectural, hospitality and shop lighting.
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Jul 29, 2010
Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition To Add a Second LED Exhibit Hall in 2009
The 14th annual Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition to be held June 9-12, 2009 at the China Import and Export Fair, Pazhou Complex, in Guangzhou, China, is adding a second LED exhibit hall this year. The LED booths were very popular last year, perhaps due in part to complement the growing interest in the China LED market in China.
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Jul 29, 2010
Philips Updates Markets on Value Adjustment to Lumileds
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced that, as initially indicated during the investor and analyst day on December 4, 2008, Philips will impair the book value of its Lumileds business by EUR 232 million.
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Jul 29, 2010
IST Appoints Three LED Distributors to Accelerate its Global Expansion
IST Ltd has appointed three new distributors to its rapidly expanding number of strategic partners to distribute its downlighters, LED drivers and other LED lighting products in Sweden, Finland, Poland and Ireland.
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Jul 29, 2010
Change In Managing Board and Supervisory Board of the OEC AG
Dr. Andreas Timinger, founding member of the OEC AG, laid down his mandate on the managing board for private reasons. However, he remains in the extended management team.
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Jul 29, 2010
Philips Acquires Ilti Luce, One of Europe's Leading LED Design Companies
Royal Philips (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Italy-based Ilti Luce Srl, one of the leading LED design companies in Europe for architectural indoor lighting.
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Jul 29, 2010
PerkinElmer Expands LED Portfolio with Acquisition of Opto Technology, Inc.
PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, announced the acquisition of Opto Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of light-emitting diode (LED) based lighting components and subsystems.
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Jul 29, 2010
Rapid Growth of IST Lighting’s Strategic Partner Network
IST Lighting has announced the latest additions to its rapidly expanding strategic partner network to distribute its industry-leading LED downlighters, iDrive™ LED drivers and other lighting products in target territories across Europe and beyond.
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Jul 29, 2010
Traxon's Mesh RGB Receives the "Red Dot Award 2009"
Since receiving the first red dot award in 2003, followed by numerous other prestigious awards, Traxon has once again been rewarded for its outstanding product: Traxon's Mesh RGB, a modular system of LED modules, has received the red dot distinction for high design quality in the product design category.
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Jul 29, 2010
Philips Lumileds joins California Lighting Technology Center Affiliate Program
Philips Lumileds today announced that it has joined the California Lighting Technology Center as an affiliate member. As a member of the CLTC, Philips Lumileds is working with luminaire manufacturers to develop market ready LUXEON LED based applications that meet the energy efficiency and lighting quality levels required to meet EnergyStar(r) and similar regional and national guidelines.
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Jul 29, 2010
Future Lighting Solutions to Distribute LED Optics from Khatod Optoelectronic
Future Lighting Solutions and Khatod Optoelectronic today announced a worldwide distribution agreement that will bring Khatod’s broad portfolio of secondary optics for power LEDs to all major markets around the globe.
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Jul 29, 2010
Philips Acquires Lighting Controls Company Dynalite in Australia
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced today that it has acquired Dynalite, a leading maker of lighting controls headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Dynalite has become part of the Lighting Electronics business within the Philips Lighting sector. Financial details of this agreement were not disclosed.
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Jul 29, 2010
Fraen Appoints Arrow Electronics for UK and Northern Europe Distribution
Arrow Electronics has extended its LED lighting range in an agreement with optic specialist Fraen. The contract will enable Arrow to increase its range of lighting solutions in the UK and Northern Europe.
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Jul 29, 2010
Future Lighting Solutions Adds LED Drivers from ROAL Electronics
Future Lighting Solutions announced today that it has become the first worldwide distributor of advanced LED drivers from Italy’s ROAL Electronics. The agreement will make ROAL’s compact, high-efficiency, flicker-free, dimmable drivers readily available to designers and engineers building solid-state lighting applications around the globe.
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Jul 29, 2010
Radiant Imaging Appoints Atlantek Vision Pty. Ltd. as Distributor for Australia and New Zealand
Radiant Imaging, the worldwide leader in CCD based imaging systems for color and light measurement, announces the appointment of Atlantek Vision Pty. Ltd. as distributor for their ProMetric imaging colorimeter based measurement solutions for Australia and New Zealand.
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Jul 29, 2010
Radiant Imaging Adds Laser 2000 AB as a Distributor in Europe
Laser 2000 AB will be representing Radiant Imaging light and color measurement systems and services in Scandinavia.
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Jul 29, 2010
Toshiba to Launch New Lighting Systems Business in Europe and USA
Exhibition at Milan Salone introduces Toshiba products and approach to delivering energy-efficient lighting for the 21st century in Europe and the USA.
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