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HC Semitek Cooperates with AIXTRON on Micro LED Display Technology

Micro LED technology is on the verge of revolutionizing the display industry. The market demand for self-emissive Micro LEDs in the primary colors (RGB: red, green and blue) begins to rise strongly. HC Semitek, a leading enterprise of the semiconductor technology, will use AIXTRONs Planetary Systems to meet the emerging market demand for Micro LED displays. Read more »

Lumitronix Becomes Official Distributor of Optics Manufacturer Gaggione

The Swabian LED company Lumitronix and the French optics manufacturer Gaggione have agreed on a joint path. The optics company, which was founded back in 1948 with headquarters in Montréal-la-Cluse, has selected LED specialist Lumitronix from Hechingen to distribute its high-quality optical solutions for LEDs and other lighting applications. The official distribution by Lumitronix covers Europe, with a focus on the DACH region. Read more »

ams OSRAM | Business | Feb 14, 2022

ams OSRAM Delivers Healthy Full Year

ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical solutions, reports full year and fourth quarter 2021 group financial results. “Our business delivered healthy full year results and a very solid performance in the fourth quarter with adjusted profitability for the quarter at the midpoint of our guidance range. We are pleased to report a positive first fiscal year as a combined company with revenues of USD 5,780 million / EUR 5,038 million driven by a strong performance of our automotive business and despite negative effects in our consumer business, as previously stated. In the ending quarter, our automotive business performed well against the backdrop of ongoing supply chain imbalances and OEM production reductions while our consumer, industrial and medical businesses contributed attractively in line with expectations”, commented Alexander Everke, CEO of ams OSRAM. Read more »

Business | Signify | Annual Report | Feb 09, 2022

Signify's Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results 2021

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, announced the company’s fourth quarter and full-year 2021 results. Read more »

DALI Alliance | Awards | Events | Feb 02, 2022

DALI Lighting Awards 2021 Winners Revealed

The DALI Alliance (DiiA), the global industry organization for DALI lighting control, has revealed the winners of its prestigious DALI Lighting Awards 2021. Recognizing the best use of DALI lighting control applications and solutions across the world, the standard of entries within each of the eight categories was exceptionally high. However, the international judging panel of lighting designers, lighting magazine editors, and representatives from global lighting organizations, eventually came to their decisions. Read more »

Signify | Siklu | Wireless | Business | Jan 31, 2022

Siklu and Signify Announce Agreement to Integrate Gigabit-Speed Wireless Connectivity into Lighting Infrastructure

Siklu, a global leader in millimeter wave (mmWave) solutions for Digital City, Gigabit Wireless Access (GWA), and Mobile x-Haul, and Signify, the world leader in lighting, announced a strategic partnership agreement to add Siklu's MultiHaul™ TG multi-gigabit wireless connectivity technology to Signify's BrightSites portfolio. This combination will result in an addition to the BrightSites portfolio, which will be known as Broadband luminaires. Read more »

Business | AcuityBrands | Microsoft | Jan 17, 2022

Acuity Brands Partners with Microsoft to Enable Sustainable Building Solutions

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI), a market-leading industrial technology company, today announced it is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to bring new capabilities to Acuity Brands smart lighting, lighting controls, and building automation solutions. Read more »

Business | Jan 03, 2022

LpS Digital Award 2021 Winners Announced

In December, the LpS Digital 2021 Award winners were announced and honored during the annual live-stream event on December 2nd. The four areas recognized were: Best Lectures, Sustainability, Scientific Study and Best Products. The most outstanding contributions and solutions from the past year were honored. Read more »

Business | LEDucation | Event News | Jan 03, 2022

LEDucation 2022 Announces Lineup of Speakers

The 2022 LEDucation Trade Show & Conference, at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City, will host a lively exchange of knowledge, inspiration, and aspiration. Presentations by eminent technical experts and thought leaders in the lighting industry will engage the LEDucation audience of lighting designers, architects, and lighting specifiers at all levels. The educational program begins with virtual sessions on Monday, March 14, 2022, followed by the in-person Trade Show and Conference on Tuesday and Wednesday March 15–16. LEDucation 2022 will celebrate the lighting industry with an expanded trade show floor and fresh opportunities to connect with colleagues and expand networks. Read more »

Business | LightingEurope | Stoane Lighting | Jan 03, 2022

Stoane Lighting joins LightingEurope

Stoane Lighting, an employee-owned specialist manufacturer of architectural lighting equipment, joins LightingEurope, the trade association representing Europe’s lighting industry. Stoane Lighting design, manufacture and assemble all their products in the UK. Products are built to last, to be maintained and even to be upgraded if and when advances allow. Stoane Lighting carefully considers each product's impact on the environment and design each to be easily disassembled, upgraded, and eventually recycled. Read more »

Signify to Acquire Fluence to Strengthen Agriculture Lighting Growth Platform

Signify announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS) to acquire Austin, Texasbased Fluence for USD 272 million (EUR 242 million) on a cash and debt-free basis. This acquisition will strengthen our global Agriculture lighting growth platform and extend our position in the attractive North American horticultural lighting market. Read more »

Events | QEPrize | 2021 | Dec 20, 2021

LED Lighting Development Wins 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize)

The 2021 QEPrize is awarded for the creation and development of LED lighting, which forms the basis of all solid state lighting technology. Isamu Akasaki, Shuji Nakamura, Nick Holonyak Jr, M. George Craford and Russell Dupuis are recognised not only for the global impact of LED and solid state lighting but also for the tremendous contribution the technology has made, and will continue to make, to reducing energy consumption and addressing climate change. Read more »

Schneider Electric | GreeNext | Business | Dec 15, 2021

GREENext Provides Sustainable and Resilient Energy-as-a-Service

Schneider Electric recognized as the World’s most sustainable corporation in 2021 by Corporate Knights, and Temasek announced the launch of GREENext, a joint venture that will provide sustainable and resilient energy solutions to commercial and industrial customers through solar and battery hybrid microgrid technology. Read more »

Automotive | Faraday Future | Business | Dec 07, 2021

Faraday Future Announces HSL as Exterior Lighting Supplier

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc., a California-based global shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, today announced HSL as the lead exterior lighting supplier for its flagship, ultimate intelligent techluxury FF 91 EV. Read more »

Volvo | Business | Dec 01, 2021

Volvo Cars Tech Fund Invests in Optical and Imaging Technology Start-up Spectralics

Volvo Cars has invested in the optical and imaging technology start-up Spectralics through the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the company’s venture capital investment arm. The investment gives Volvo Cars access to promising technology at an early stage of development that could contribute to making cars safer and revolutionise in-car user experience. Read more »

Business | SchahlLED | LED Technics | Acquisition | Nov 24, 2021

SchahlLED Lighting Acquires LED Technics Germany

SchahlLED Lighting GmbH acquires LED Technics Germany GmbH (LTG). SchahlLED is a leading provider of intelligent digital lighting solutions for industry and logistics based in Unterschleißheim. LED Technics Germany manufactures highly efficient, user-friendly LED lighting for medium-sized businesses. The LTG brand will continue to exist alongside SchahlLED, optimally augmenting SchahlLED’s product portfolio. Going forward, customers will have access to controlled and uncontrolled solutions from both brands, and can choose to optimize LTG Systems with SchahlLED controlling solutions. Read more »

LightingEurope | Non-compliant | Business | Nov 11, 2021

Non-compliant Lighting Products are Just One Click Away

LightingEurope has published the results of mystery shopping exercises that checked whether lighting products that online platforms propose to consumers comply with laws on mandatory information requirements. Read more »

GLA | Guidelines | Business | Emerging Economies | Oct 27, 2021

Global Lighting Association Releases Regulatory Guidelines for an Effective Transition to Energy Efficient Lighting in Emerging Economies

The Global Lighting Association (GLA) has published a document containing a recommended set of regulatory guidelines for general service and linear LED lamps. Based on international standards, the guidelines are intended for use by regulatory authorities in developing and emerging economies considering national legislation and associated regulations to accelerate the transition to energy efficient lighting. Read more »

Luminii Acquires Precision Lighting and Remote Controlled Lighting

Precision Lighting and Remote Controlled Lighting, two British lighting manufacturers, are pleased to announce that Luminii, a Chicago-based manufacturer of industry leading specification-grade architectural LED lighting systems, has acquired the companies. Read more »

Digital Lumens | Acquisition | Business | Oct 12, 2021

Skyview Capital Acquires Digital Lumens and Encelium Lighting Solutions Business

Skyview Capital, a global private investment firm, announced that it has acquired the Digital Lumens and Encelium businesses from Osram Licht AG. Terms were not disclosed. Digital Lumens and Encelium’s advanced Lighting Controls solutions provide leading-edge software and hardware to improve and automate the lighting of commercial and industrial facilities. Skyview Capital has formalized the new company, Digital Lumens, Inc., and will invest in this entity to accelerate the growth, innovation, adoption, and support of these solutions. Read more »

Acquisition | Business | Sep 03, 2021

EGLO Took Over the Majority of Bartenbach

On August 24, 2021 the company EGLO acquired the majority of the Bartenbach Holding. EGLO is a family owned business with more than 50 years of history and is credited as being the largest residential lighting supplier in Europe. Read more »

Acquisition | wtec | Trilux | Business | Jul 21, 2021

TRILUX is Investing 25.1% in the IT Expert wtec

Future-proof properties have a powerful building management system that brings together, monitors and controls all trades. In order to simplify the integration of lighting into the hardware and software infrastructure of digitalised buildings, TRILUX is investing in the IT expert wtec. The company specialises in building automation and IT infrastructure. One innovative solution in the portfolio is smartengine technology, with which the complete lighting network can be implemented via the data cabling and seamlessly integrated into the building management system. This makes complex building infrastructures obsolete and lays the foundation for individual Human Centric Smart Lighting that combines maximum efficiency with user orientation. Read more »

Business | LightingEurope | Renovation Call | Jul 15, 2021

Renovate Lighting for More Energy Savings

LightingEurope welcomes the publication of the EU ‘Fit for 55’ package today, which transforms the EU’s ambition to deliver 36-39% of energy efficiency savings for final and primary energy consumption by 2030 into binding legislation. Read more »

Business | Signify | Telensa | Jul 07, 2021

Signify Expands Offering for Smart Cities by Acquiring Telensa

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, announces today that it acquired Telensa Holdings Ltd, a UK-based expert in wireless monitoring and control systems for smart cities. With Telensa, Signify adds a narrow-band and TALQ-compliant solution to its feature-rich, open and secured systems. This will enable Signify to service a broader group of customers, by making smart city infrastructure affordable to cities utilizing the unlicensed radio space. Telensa will continue to sell its systems under its own brand name. Read more »

Business | LightingEurope | Jun 23, 2021

LightingEurope Advocates for All Building Renovations to Include an Upgrade of Lighting Installations

With its Renovation Wave Initiative (RWI), the European Union (EU) intends to at least double the rate of building renovations in Europe over the next 10 years. In doing so, the European Commission hopes to reignite Europe’s economy for a post-pandemic world and ensure that the EU meets its Green Deal climate objectives of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 % by 2030 and becoming climate neutral by 2050. Read more »

AcuityBrands | Acquisition | Osram | Business | Jun 09, 2021

Acuity Brands Acquires the ams OSRAM Digital Systems Business in North America

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) (“Acuity”) a leading industrial technology company announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase ams OSRAM’s North American Digital Systems (DS) business. Acuity’s ownership of ams OSRAM’s North American DS business will bring a strategic fit and perspective to customers and associates, and a growth strategy for the business. Acuity expects the transaction to close during the summer of 2021. Read more »

L-Prize | DOE | Business | Jun 01, 2021

DOE Announces New L-Prize for Next Generation LED Lighting

The Lighting Prize (L-Prize) is designed to advance the U.S. clean energy economy for next-generation LED lighting, encouraging innovators and researchers to engage in advanced lighting system development that leads to transformative designs, products, and impact. The L-Prize will reward innovations that move rapidly to improve lighting performance, resulting in energy, carbon, and cost savings for American businesses and consumers. Read more »

Lumileds | Sustainability | Business | May 20, 2021

Lumileds 2020 Sustainability Report

Lumileds, a global leader in innovative lighting solutions, has released its 2020 Sustainability Report that details the company’s progress in supporting the transition to a low-carbon and sustainable economy. In the report, Lumileds highlights how its lighting solutions contribute to positive changes in energy usage, safety, and health and well-being, supporting the company’s commitment to making the world safer, more sustainable, and beautiful with light. Read more »

Business | Acquisition | Dialog Semiconductor | Renesas | May 17, 2021

Renesas and Dialog Semiconductor to Join Forces to Advance Global Leadership in Embedded Solutions

Renesas Electronics Corporation (“Renesas”, TSE: 6723), a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Dialog Semiconductor Plc (“Dialog”, XETRA:DLG), a provider of power management, charging, AC/DC power conversion, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) technology, announced they have reached an agreement on the terms of a recommended all-cash acquisition by Renesas of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Dialog (the “Acquisition”) for EUR 67.50 per share, representing a total equity value of approximately EUR 4.9 billion (approximately 615.7 billion yen). Read more »

Luminell | Business | Apr 21, 2021

Glamox Acquires Luminell

Glamox AS has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in the Norwegian company Luminell Group AS. Read more »