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News-Spot | Business News | Nov 25, 2015
Regulatory Compliance Updates for the Lighting Industry
TÜV SÜD Product Service and Luger Research e.U. signed an agreement to provide the lighting sector with the latest Regulatory Compliance Updates through the LED professional media channels on a bimonthly basis. Luger Research e.U. owns the exclusive publishing rights for the European lighting market. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 10, 2015
OLEDWorks Finalizes Acquisition of Key Parts of Philips’ OLED Light Source Components Business
ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Nov. 2, 2015: OLEDWorks LLC, the leading U.S. OLED light engine and panel manufacturing company, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of key OLED assets and relevant intellectual property from Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA), the global leader in lighting. Manufacturing will continue in the existing facility in Aachen, Germany with the establishment of OLEDWorks GmbH. OLEDWorks announced this acquisition in April, 2015. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 04, 2015
EPIC and ISA Cooperation - Carlos Lee Joins ISA's Council of Management
EPIC and ISA Cooperation - Carlos Lee Joins ISA's Council of Management “I am looking forward to Mr. Lee to make contribution to the ISA Council of Management as well as bring value to the ISA.” says Ms. Ling Wu, President of ISA and (International SSL Alliance) and Secretary General of CSA (China Solid State Lighting Alliance). Carlos Lee brings valuable experience from his personal semiconductor industry background, and feedback from the activities he organizes at EPIC for instance on lighting for automotive, lighting for horticulture, and many other application areas. Read more »
Featured | News-Spot | Products, Materials + Tools | Oct 28, 2015
Lumileds Accelerates Outdoor Fixture Design with Off-the-Shelf Addition to Matrix Platform, LUXEON XR-M
Lumileds Accelerates Outdoor Fixture Design with Off-the-Shelf Addition to Matrix Platform, LUXEON XR-M Designed specifically as a turnkey solution for outdoor LED fixtures, today Lumileds introduces the LUXEON XR-M line of Matrix Platform solutions. These versatile building blocks integrate 3, 4 or 5 LUXEON M LEDs on a metal core PCB, providing a platform that enables fixture manufacturers to accelerate their design of streetlights, high bay and low bay luminaires. For instance, the 4 LED square version, in combination with industry standard optics and driver, yields a complete IP66 solution. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Oct 19, 2015
LuxLive 2015: See the Very Latest in Lighting Innovation
The latest technology, the best projects and finest experts will be at LuxLive, Europe’s biggest annual lighting event, on 18-19 November at London’s ExCeL. Not only will this year’s exhibition be the biggest ever, with more than 300 exhibitors, it’ll also feature more than 80 hours of free-to-attend talks, debates and panel discussions. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Sep 17, 2015
Munich Re Insures LED Products that Have DEKRA LED Performance Approval
Munich Re’s Green Tech Solutions has developed specialized insurance solutions for the LED market, in which LED manufacturers as well as project developers can cover the financial risks resulting from guarantee conditions or technical problems. Munich Re and DEKRA expect that the willingness to invest in LED projects will increase as a result of this. Their collaboration goes further than just the insurance, with both companies exchanging knowledge about the quality of LED lighting and collaborating in developing new services for the LED market. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Sep 03, 2015
LpS 2015 Opens the Door to Future Lighting Innovations
LpS 2015 Opens the Door to Future Lighting Innovations Top authorities from the global lighting industry will present international lighting trends and technologies in 60 lectures and seven workshops at the 5th LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2015). Amongst the many well-known companies exhibiting at the LpS are also the top seven LED manufacturers in the world. The LpS 2015 has also been chosen by ten companies to launch their new products. The three-day lighting event will take place from September 22nd to 24th in Bregenz, Austria. The top-rate program can’t afford to be missed by anyone involved in the lighting industry or research. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Aug 27, 2015
Call for Papers: ITherm 2016
ITherm 2016, the fifteenth intersociety conference on thermal and thermomechanical phenomena in electronic systems, is the leading international conference for scientific and engineering exploration of thermal, thermo-mechanical and emerging technology issues associated with electronic devices, packages, and systems. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Aug 17, 2015
Luger Research and Messe Muenchen Announce Strategic Partnership
Luger Research and Messe Muenchen Announce Strategic Partnership Luger Research, publisher of LED professional and organizer of the LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS), entered into a long-term partnership with Messe Muenchen, organizer of electronica, productronica and other international trade shows in the field of New Technologies. The strategic partnership is a long-term event and knowledge cooperation in the fields of Solid-State-Lighting, electronics and smart controls. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Aug 05, 2015
11th International LED Systems, Technologies, Applications & LED Lighting Exhibition
Led & Led Lighting Exhibition to be held in Istanbul Expo Center on October 01st – 04th, 2015 is getting ready to meet with its exhibitors and visitors. Led & Led Lighting Exhibition drawing the attention with LED Competition and LED Conference organized simultaneously with the Fair maintains the quality of being the single LED Fair followed by the sector with interest. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Aug 05, 2015
Cree and Epistar Signed a Global LED Chip Patent Cross-License Agreement
Cree, Inc. and Epistar Corporation have signed a worldwide patent cross-license agreement for light emitting diode (LED) chips to further advance the growth of the LED lighting and LED bulb markets. Cree and Epistar both hold broad and substantial LED chip patent portfolios that are important for making blue LEDs, the foundation of white LEDs found in most lighting products manufactured worldwide. Under the terms of the agreement, each party receives a license to the other’s nitride LED chip patents and is granted certain rights to non-nitride LED chip patents. Over the term of the agreement, Cree will receive a licensing fee and royalty payments from Epistar. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Aug 04, 2015
HKTDC - New “World of Outdoor Lighting & Lighting Accessories” Boosts Sourcing Opportunities
HKTDC - New “World of Outdoor Lighting & Lighting Accessories” Boosts Sourcing Opportunities he 17th edition of HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) will be staged from 27-30 October 2015 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). This must-attend event for the industry serves as an international marketplace for high-quality lighting products, solutions and services. Last year, the fair attracted 2,492 exhibitors from 38 countries and regions and over 37,000 buyers from 135 countries and regions. In the first four months of 2015, the total value of Hong Kong’s exports of lighting products reached US$147 million. The most important export markets for Hong Kong are the United States (+9.8%), the Chinese mainland (+15.3%) and Japan (+0.4%), together accounting for more than 50 per cent of the total export value. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Aug 03, 2015
Out of Bounds Design Contest - Students Exploring Complete Freedom in Lighting Design
Out of Bounds Design Contest - Students Exploring Complete Freedom in Lighting Design Seventeen innovative prototypes are the outcome of a four-month long journey taken by students from the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany. In collaboration with Seoul Semiconductor they got to experiment with AC-LED modules as light sources and discover lighting design without the traditional barriers of LEDs. The prototypes will be exhibited at the LED professional Symposium +Expo 2015 in Bregenz, Austria. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jul 27, 2015
Investment Group Acquires Bridgelux and Bridgelux Spins Off Xenio for Smart Lighting
Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of solid state lighting (SSL) technologies, announced it has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by an investment group led by the China Electronics Corporation (CEC), and ChongQing Linkong Development Investment Company. Established in 1989, CEC controls 61 second-level subsidiaries, including 13 listed holding companies. With over 70,000 employees, CEC is one of the largest IT companies in China. In conjunction with the sale of Bridgelux to the investment group led by CEC, Bridgelux also announced that the Board of Directors has approved a plan to spin off its Smart Lighting LED platform business under the name of Xenio Corporation. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Jul 22, 2015
Codega Prize - International Prize for the Excellences in Lighting Design
Codega Prize - International Prize for the Excellences in Lighting Design Promoted by Assodel (Italian Association of Electronics Clusters) in partnership with IDEA (International Distribution of Electronics Associa-tion), the Codega Prize is the international recognition of the excellences in LED Lighting Design assigned to professionals for their creativity and know-how in transforming technologies in new ideas. The Prize aims at disseminating the importance of quality, control and versatility of LED lighting and of a an “intelligent” and integrated use of light in Contract/Commercial* applications. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jul 07, 2015
Monolithic Power Systems Signs Digi-Key to Expand Globally
Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) (Nasdaq: MPWR), a leading company in high-performance power solutions, announced today that MPS has signed a distribution agreement with Digi-Key Electronics, a leading, global, full-service provider of electronic components, for the promotion and sale of MPS products worldwide. MPS' mission is to reduce total energy consumption in its customers' systems with green, practical, compact solutions. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jul 06, 2015
Schukat's Offers "All-in-One" LED Lighting Bundles
Schukat's Offers "All-in-One" LED Lighting Bundles Customers who want "all-in-one" lighting bundles benefit from time savings and customised product kits, bringing together LEDs from Bridgelux, heat sinks from MechaTronix, MeanWell power supplies, accessories like heat transfer compounds and LED holders and the expertise needed for heat sink calculations. With these bundles, Schukat offers a new kind of supports to their clients. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Jun 03, 2015
Edison Demonstrates Innovative Products at Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition
Edison Demonstrates Innovative Products at Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition The Taiwanese LED packaging manufacturer, Edison Opto, has been focusing on new product and technology development. Recently, they have introduced several highly competitive products, including Flash Series, CSP 1616 and AC COB modules. Combined with application examples, Edison’s new products will be showcased in 2015 Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 12, 2015
MSC Technologies Now Offers New LMH2+ LED Modules from Cree
MSC Technologies Now Offers New LMH2+ LED Modules from Cree MSC Technologies, a business group of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, a business region of Avnet, is offering Innovative LMH2+ with unprecedented combination of 125 lumens-per-watt Efficacy and 90 CRI in a Small Form Factor. The LMH2+ is the only LED module that allows lighting manufacturers to achieve a system efficacy of 100 lumens-per-watt with high light quality. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 11, 2015
Plus Opto Announces Launch of LG Chem OLED Lighting Range
Plus Opto Announces Launch of LG Chem OLED Lighting Range Plus Opto Ltd, The Optoelectronics Specialist, has signed the first agreement to distribute the OLED Lighting product range from market leader LG Chem, in the UK. The range includes the world’s largest commercially-available panel at 320x320 mm and – an industry first – a flexible OLED panel on plastic substrate with a bend radius of 30 mm. Panels are available in 3000 K and 4000 K colour temperatures. A CRI of 90, efficacy of 90 lm/W and lifetime - previously a concern for potential OLED users - up to 40000 hours, makes LG Chem OLED panels the ideal solution for a wide range of applications. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 05, 2015
Epistar Promotes Co-Activation Service Model
Competition in the LED market has been heating up with China-based LED firms aggressively integrating the whole supply chain vertically from chips to packaging to modules. China-based firms are able to provide one-stop-shop services and use low-price strategies to expand their presence in the LED application market. This is negatively impacting Taiwan’s LED makers, especially small- and medium-size packaging and module firms, who are experiencing shrinking market share. Against this backdrop, Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar began promoting Co-activation Service Model three years ago hoping to turn the tide by teaming up with Taiwan-based packaging and module firms. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Apr 30, 2015
Everlight to Exhibit Complete LED Component Portfolio at Lightfair 2015
Everlight to Exhibit Complete LED Component Portfolio at Lightfair 2015 Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry, will be demonstrating its comprehensive portfolio of LED components for lighting and automotive applications at LIGHTFAIR International, May 5-7, at Booth #1329. Highlights at the Everlight Booth #1329 include the High Efficiency LED EAHE 5630 (0.2 W) and the Ultra Warm White LED EAHP 3030 (1.0 W) and color choice LED solutions for general lighting as well as existing popular packages available in all colors for horticulture lighting. Read more »
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