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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 »
News-Spot | Lighting Applications | Feb 15, 2012
Chevron Petroleum Station Goes Green with Cree LED Lighting
Chevron Petroleum Station Goes Green with Cree LED Lighting Beaverton, Oregon’s Highland Chevron gas station and ExtraMile food market recently underwent extensive eco-renovations, including the installation of energy-efficient interior and exterior LED lighting by Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE). The addition of Cree LED fixtures supports Highland Chevron’s mission of becoming a zero-energy establishment. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 13, 2012
Aeon Lighting Technology Announces Grand Opening of New Branch Office in Japan
Aeon Lighting Technology announced the grand opening of a branch office in Japan. Brand new facility will provide extended sales and support to ALT continually growing Japanese customer base. The furnishings and layout of the venue shows enthusiasm and professional expectations. Along with the great products and services, ALT is confident that the business territory of Japan will create another wave of peak. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 10, 2012
GT Advanced Technologies to Provide Large Diameter Sapphire Cores to Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
GT Advanced Technologies to Provide Large Diameter Sapphire Cores to Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics Science & Technology Co., Ltd. GT Advanced Technologies Inc., today announced that its subsidiary, GT Crystal Systems, has entered into a purchase agreement with Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Silian) to supply 500,000 TIE (2-inch equivalent) of 6-inch diameter C-plane sapphire cores, which Silian will use to produce high quality sapphire substrates for the high brightness LED industry. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 09, 2012
Osram Opto Semiconductors Appoints Avnet Electronics Marketing as “Preferred Global Partner”
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of optoelectronic semiconductors announced today that Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc., has been selected as OSRAM’s preferred global partner. The appointment is effective immediately in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), Japan and Asia. Read more »
News-Spot | Products, Materials + Tools | Feb 08, 2012
Bayer MaterialScience Pushes LED Lighting Application Development Foreward with New Products
With Makrolon 6265X polycarbonate, a high-flow resin with easy release properties and high optical efficiency, Bayer MaterialScience provides a polycarbonate that allows solutions for very challanging flame-retardant requirements. Furthermore, Bayer MaterialScience announces Makrolon® TC8030 polycarbonate, which joins a selection of heat-resistant and thermally conductive Bayer plastics to compete with aluminum. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 08, 2012
Dow Electronic Materials to Showcase Full Range of Semiconductor, LED and Advanced Packaging Solutions at SEMICON Korea
Dow Electronic Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, announced today that its broad range of products for semiconductor manufacturing, light emitting diodes (LED) and advanced packaging applications will be on display at this year’s SEMICON Korea show. Taking place at the COEX center in Seoul, February 7-9, 2012, Dow will exhibit in Booth #5616, Hall D. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 07, 2012
LG Siltron Selects Veeco MOCVD for GaN-on-Silicon Wafer Production
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that LG Siltron, a South Korean epi wafer manufacturer, recently selected the TurboDisc® K465i™ gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System for production of gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers for power electronics and LED devices. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 03, 2012
Anderson & Associates, LLC and BRB, USA Merge
BRB International BV and Anderson & Associates LLC have combined their respective US based silicone and silane businesses and are pleased to announce their new joint venture, AB Specialty Silicones LLC. The company will be headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois and will operate as a stand alone entity focusing on silicon based products for the NAFTA region. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 26, 2012
Birmingham Science Park Aston Enters into a Partnership Agreement to Create a Europe-Leading Test Centre for Lighting Products
Birmingham Science Park Aston (BSPA) is entering into an agreement with Bridgend-based LUX-TSI to create LUX-OPC; a Europe-leading accredited test and measurement operation for energy efficient lighting and photonics products. The deal safeguards jobs in both locations and eight new jobs are expected to be created as a result. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 26, 2012
Deco Lighting Announces Game Changing New LED Product Line which will Deflate LED Luminaire Prices
With a multi million dollar R&D program nearing completion, Deco Lighting plans to launch a revolutionary portfolio of affordable high performance commercial LED luminaires. Municipalities and commercial customers seeking to replace their inefficient lighting to save energy will no longer be restricted to a limited selection of high priced LED fixtures. Read more »
News-Spot | Products, Materials + Tools | Jan 25, 2012
Asheville Boasts First Large-Scale LED Street Light Deployment in North Carolina
Taking steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce its overall carbon footprint, the City of Asheville has initiated North Carolina’s first large-scale deployment of LED street lights. There are 3,643 LEDway® street lights from Durham-based manufacturer Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) being installed, with projected savings of $260,000 annually. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 25, 2012
NVLAP Accreditation Granted to Labsphere, Inc.
Labsphere, Inc. has earned its accreditation as a NVLAP ISO 17205 calibration laboratory. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) governs the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP). Labsphere’s accreditation as NVLAP Lab 200951-0 was granted following successful completion of rigorous on-site assessments and technical evaluations of the company’s Calibration Lab for Optical Radiation Measurements. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 23, 2012
Research & Markets Releases "Global Chip on Board Light Emitting Diode Market (2011 – 2016)" Research
The COB LED market is observed to be growing rapidly as the technology improves and costs go down. The growing demand for energy efficient solutions is helping the industry to gain a consistent market share. The COB-LED module market is expected to exceed the growth of overall LED market in the forecasted period by grabbing the share from DIP-LED and SMD-LED due to having advantages over DIP and SMD, such as higher lumens density, better thermal management, more reliable and longer life, and the most important the small size and many more. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 20, 2012
LUX TSI Limited Achieves Accreditation from UKAS to ISO/IEC 17025 as a Competent Photometric Testing Laboratory
LUX-TSI, the first independent photometric lab in Europe for testing of LM79 and LM80 standards for LED lighting modules, lamps and luminaires, announced today that it has achieved accreditation from UKAS to test LED and other energy efficient lighting products for photometric, electrical energy performance and lumen maintenance. Please follow this link to view the UKAS Accreditation Schedule No 4701. Read more »
News-Spot | Products, Materials + Tools | Jan 19, 2012
WAC LIGHTING Introduces Tesla High Output Recessed Downlights
Using similar design innovation that propelled its miniature halogen technology to the industry forefront, WAC Lighting launches Tesla™ High Output Recessed Downlights for a variety of residential, hospitality, retail and commercial applications. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 17, 2012
Lumenpulse Enters Into Strategic Partnership With Lightitude for Middle East and North Africa LED Fixture Market
Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement with UAE-based Lightitude. The agreement will include Lightitude support for Lumenpulse's business in the Middle East and North Africa and the relationship will be managed out of Lumenpulse's recently opened London, UK office. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 16, 2012
Zumtobel Group Announces Changes in Management at Components Subsidiary Tridonic
Changes are taking place in the management team of the Zumtobel Group's components business (Tridonic brand): Tridonic CEO Walter Ziegler and COO Rüdiger Kofahl are to leave the company at the end of January. For an interim period, the Chairman of the Management Board of Zumtobel AG, Harald Sommerer, will be taking charge of the management of Tridonic in addition to his role as Group CEO, working closely with Tridonic CFO Werner Blum. Executive search measures are being initiated to fill the two vacancies. Read more »
News-Spot | Products, Materials + Tools | Jan 10, 2012
Marvell Launches Smart Energy Management Platforms for Appliances and LED Lighting Solutions
Marvell, a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced two smart energy management platforms for smart appliance and LED lighting applications, which give consumers the ability to conveniently manage their smart appliances and lighting solutions from anywhere in the world, minimizing wasteful energy consumption and furthering the seamlessly connected lifestyle. Read more »
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