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News-Spot | Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 18, 2014
Aurora Circuits Receives UL Certification for Aismalibar IMS Materials
Aurora Circuits has received their UL listing for Aismalibar’s Cobritherm line of Insulated Metal Substrate materials. The certification allows Aurora to UL stamp their products using the entire line of Cobritherm materials which includes ALCUP-G 1.3w, ALCUP 1.8w, HTC 2.2w and HTC 3.2w. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 12, 2014
Microchip Technology Announces Acquisition of Supertex Inc.
Microchip Technology Incorporated, a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, and Supertex Incorporated today announced that Microchip has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Supertex for $33 per share in cash, which represents a total equity value of about $394 million, and a total enterprise value of about $246 million, after excluding Supertex’s cash and investments on its balance sheet of approximately $148 million. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to Microchip’s non GAAP earnings per share in the first full quarter after completion of the acquisition. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 03, 2014
Osram Is First Chip Manufacturer To Switch Red and Yellow LED Fabrication To 6-Inch Wafers
Osram Is First Chip Manufacturer To Switch Red and Yellow LED Fabrication To 6-Inch Wafers Osram Opto Semiconductors is keeping pace with the constant growth of the market and switching its fabrication of red, orange and yellow light emitting diodes to 6-inch wafers. The German high-tech company is extending the fabrication of all large-wafer LEDs to the indium-gallium-aluminum-phosphide (InGaAlP) material system and expanding its production capacity. The company began switching fabrication of blue LED chips in 2011. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 27, 2014
Pixelligent Technologies Got Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Granted
Pixelligent Technologies announced today that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant by the Department of Energy (DOE). The nine-month, $150,000 program will enable Pixelligent to accelerate the development of its nanoadditives for use in OLED lighting. As part of this program, Pixelligent will partner with OLEDWorks LLC, a leading OLED lighting company. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 24, 2014
Osram Warns That Ageing Street Lights Are Putting Lives in Danger
With more than three quarters of European city street lighting installations over 25 years old[1], Osram is urging local councils to put public safety first by upgrading to white lighting. Recent public surveys have shown that up to 80 per cent of us feel safer with longer lasting white solutions, like LED lighting over traditional installations[2]. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 10, 2014
Xicato Doubles Its Space to Accommodate New LED Light Module Manufacturing Line in Silicon Valley
Xicato, a leading developer of superior light quality from LED modules, announced today that it has relocated its San Jose headquarters to accommodate a new manufacturing line for the company's next generation of products. The new 24 thousand-square-foot space is more than double the size of Xicato's previous San Jose facility. The privately held company has invested millions of dollars in equipment and resources to meet the increasing global demand for its LED modules. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 09, 2014
IET Announces "Code of Practice for the Application of LED Lighting Systems" To Be Released in March
LED lighting is a fast-developing technology that is becoming more popular as people begin to realize the advantages it provides, such as energy efficiency, controllability and longevity. However, poor quality installation of LED lighting systems could negate these advantages and result in inadequate lighting, failure to meet lifetime performance expectations, potential public health and safety issues or even interference with other technology due to poor systems integration. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 17, 2013
IHS Report: Lighting and LEDs Trends for 2014
IHS Inc. has recently released its annual white paper on the lighting and LEDs trends for the year ahead. These predictions for 2014 and beyond, serve to provide insight into key trends and opportunities in the intelligent buildings industry. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 16, 2013
Smithers Apex Report: Are we at the Tipping Point for Widespread Adoption of LEDs?
The promise of affordable LEDs for customers is inching ever closer. LEDs offer a number of advantages compared to traditional lighting methods, and although these advantages have been long known, widespread adoption faces the long-standing obstacle of purchase price. Now that this price is rapidly lessening, the benefits of LEDs are becoming more widely recognised. From security to health, there a number of applications which the use of LEDs could greatly improve. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 13, 2013
New Transfer Project for Polyoptics GmbH
New Transfer Project for Polyoptics GmbH The German based company, a developer and manufacturer of polymer optics received a transfer project with a production volume in the mid six-figure range. The company is demonstrating once again that it has the knowledge and capability for large scale production realised to competitive market prices. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 11, 2013
Light Engine Quality Standards Set High At Norlux
Manufacturing the highest quality LED light engines is a top Norlux priority. The company demonstrates this with the quality assurance systems it has set in place. Norlux is an ISO 9000-2008 certified North American LED systems integrator. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 10, 2013
Koch Industries Completes Purchase of Molex
Koch Industries, Inc. has completed its $7.2 billion acquisition of Molex Incorporated (NASDAQ: MOLX, MOLXA), a global electronic components company. The acquisition was finalized through the merger of Koch Industries’ wholly owned subsidiary, Koch Connectors, Inc., with and into Molex. As a result of the merger, Molex is now an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., retaining its name and headquarters in Lisle, Illinois. The company will continue to be operated by its current management team. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 09, 2013
Philips Lumileds Signs Partnership with MechaTronix for LED Thermal Management Solutions
With the launch of the newest generation Philips Lumileds Luxeon Chip-On-Board (COB) LED modules there was an immediate need for a wide range of standard LED coolers. In the cooperation with MechaTronix Philips Lumileds found a practical and easy way to launch a wide range of standard LED coolers fitting mechanically with the various dimensions of the Luxeon COBs and matching the cooling capacities needed for the whole series. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 06, 2013
Pioneers of Semiconductor Technology: AIXTRON Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
30 years of future-oriented technology: What started as a spin-off at RWTH Aachen University is now a publicly listed provider of deposition systems that has played a key role in shaping microelectronic and optoelectronic production technologies. Some of the world’s largest manufacturers purchase the products offered by the German high-tech player AIXTRON for the production of LEDs, lasers, transistors and solar cells. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 03, 2013
opsira Extends Services with their Lightlab
opsira Extends Services with their Lightlab Measurements of optical components and optical systems are essential whenever a project starts, is in process or ends. opsira measures the necessary optical values in several light measurement laboratories and provides significant measurement data and test reports. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 29, 2013
Gamma Scientific Awarded IES LM-80 Accreditation for LED Life Testing
Gamma Scientific Awarded IES LM-80 Accreditation for LED Life Testing The Gamma Scientific Laboratory has been awarded accreditation by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program for IES LM-80: 2008. IES LM-80 is an approved method for measuring lumen depreciation and maintenance of Solid State Lighting (LED) light sources, arrays and modules. The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) developed the standard to provide an objective method to evaluate and compare LED components from different manufacturers. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 21, 2013
Weidmüller and Haeusermann Agree on an Expertise Partnership
Haeusermann GmbH and Weidmüller, two leading providers of innovative solutions in the field of power electronics and device connectivity, are entering into a technology partnership. Both companies have agreed to work closely together in the specification of connection solutions for power electronics. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 14, 2013
Extended Driver Warranties from Harvard Engineering When Xicato LED Modules are Used
Xicato, a leading developer of superior light quality from LED modules, announced today that Harvard Engineering will now offer extended 5 year warranties on its LED drivers used with Xicato based luminaries that are thermally validated by Xicato. Luminaire Thermal Validation is a complimentary program offered to Xicato's customers. Validated luminaires already receive the industry's only 5 year color consistency and lumen maintenance warranty from Xicato and backed by Munich Re. This system approach and validation program that features a driver warranty matched to the Xicato module increases confidence in quality and long term reliability of the entire solution. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 13, 2013
Saelig Announces Availability of Portable Lab-Grade Precision Spectrometer
Saelig Announces Availability of Portable Lab-Grade Precision Spectrometer Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced the GL Spectis 5.0 Touch - a state-of-the-art portable instrument for obtaining light measurement data ranging from NIR to UV with laboratory accuracy. Each GL Spectis 5.0 Touch Spectrometer is individually calibrated to deliver precise, accurate, and quick results, making it ideal for measurements of light sources such as LEDs, LED assemblies, halogen and fluorescent lamps, photobiological safety lamps, and LCD displays, using a range of available optical probes. Unique features of the GL Spectis 5.0 Touch include: laboratory accuracy, extended spectral range from 200 to 1050nm, very high resolution (0.5nm), an OSR system for stray light reduction, and compatibility with a wide range of available integrating spheres and probes for measuring almost any light source from 1 - 200,000lux (Illuminant A). Read more »
Art + Museum Lighting | News-Spot | Lighting Applications | Nov 04, 2013
Osram Illuminates the Sistine Chapel with a New LED Solution
Osram Illuminates the Sistine Chapel with a New LED Solution The light manufacturer Osram is equipping the Sistine Chapel in Rome with a new type of LED solution. After 500 years, the art-historically outstanding works can now be viewed to a level of precision unique until now, and the especially art-conserving installation enables significantly higher illuminance values. In addition, 60% less power is consumed compared to the existing lighting installation. "Art presents the most demanding requirements on light. Following the globally unique lighting solution in the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, the world-renowned frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are now being subjected to the same extremely high lighting specifications, once again underlining the authority of Osram as integrated lighting expert operating in accordance with maximum specifications," stated Peter Laier, Osram’s Chief Technology Officer and executive board member responsible for the company’s general lighting business. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Oct 31, 2013
Inventronics LUC-042SxxxDSW(SSW) LED Drivers Now Available from MSC
Inventronics LUC-042SxxxDSW(SSW) LED Drivers Now Available from MSC The new broad array of 42W adjustable, constant current, independent drivers for indoor LED lighting applications from Inventronics are now available over MSC. The LUC-042SxxxDSW(SSW) series includes 14 different models with output currents ranging from 350 to 2100mA. Regardless of the output current, each model offers a full load efficiency of 87-90%. These products all operate over a 90-305Vac input range and provide excellent power factor correction (0.96 at 120V and 0.95 at 220V). This new series is approved to CE (EN), UL, CUL, FCC, ENEC, CB, and CQC’s standards. All of these drivers are housed in plastic cases with IP20 rating. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Oct 28, 2013
TSMC SSL and Xiamen Topstar Enter a New Stage of Strategic Cooperation Regarding PoD Technology
TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd and Xiamen Topstar Co., Ltd. will announce their strategic cooperation at the 2013 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition). Inaugurating the cooperation, a series of lighting products were released together. The new product series applies TSMC Solid State Lighting’s industry-leading package-free PoD technology to Topstar’s newest generation of lamp products. Topstar’s renowned brand name and excellent manufacturing capability joining forces with TSMC Solid State Lighting’s advanced LED technology create a strong partnership able to provide world-class products for the China and global LED lighting markets. Read more »
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