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Messe Frankfurt | Building Technologies | Events | Aug 30, 2024
Building Technologies Trade Fairs with a New Forward-looking Focus
Building Technologies Trade Fairs with a New Forward-looking Focus The building sector is facing many major challenges: rising construction costs and a shortage of skilled workers are colliding with an urgent need for new housing. Simultaneously, the energy and heating transition, not to mention the rapid pace of digitalisation, are creating new opportunities for a sustainable future. Messe Frankfurt has responded to the dynamic challenges in the market with a newly formed management team for its Building Technologies division. Read more »
Cree LED | Innovation | SSL | Featured | Aug 30, 2024
Cree LED. Innovating the Future of Lighting
Cree LED. Innovating the Future of Lighting At Cree LED, we’ve proven our resilience through the toughest industry challenges – from global pandemics to supply chain disruptions. Our commitment to innovation and reliability ensures you receive the highest performance, no matter your application. Read more »
Lumileds | LEDs | SSL | Featured | Aug 28, 2024
Lighting is a Team Sport
Lighting is a Team Sport We’d be stating the obvious if we said that there are few, if any, one-size fits all solutions in this world. But there you have it. Starbucks proves this in a claim on their website that there are more than 170,000 ways for patrons to customize their beverages. While we’ve not counted all the ways to use an LED with a 3535 footprint, we suspect the number is high. Read more »
Applications | Acuity Brands | IES Report | Aug 19, 2024
Seven Innovative Lighting and Components Solutions from Acuity Brands Selected for the 2024 IES Progress Report
Seven Innovative Lighting and Components Solutions from Acuity Brands Selected for the 2024 IES Progress Report Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) announced today that seven Acuity Brands lighting and components solutions were selected for the 2024 Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Progress Report, which showcases the year's most significant advancements in the art and science of lighting. Selections were made by an impartial committee that evaluated submissions based on uniqueness, innovation, and significance to the lighting industry. Read more »
DALI Alliance | Smart Lighting | Aug 08, 2024
DALI Alliance to Host Inaugural DALI North America Summit in New York City
DALI Alliance to Host Inaugural DALI North America Summit in New York City The DALI Alliance, the global industry organization for DALI, the internationally-standardized protocol for digital communication between lighting control devices, is elated to announce the first-ever North American DALI Summit, set to take place on October 30, 2024, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. Read more »
Lumileds | Acquisition | Business | Aug 05, 2024
Lumileds Completes Sale of Lamps and Accessories Business to First Brands Group
Lumileds Completes Sale of Lamps and Accessories Business to First Brands Group Lumileds, LLC, one of the world’s leading LED manufacturers and solution providers for the global automotive, illumination, display, and flash markets announces that last month, it completed the sale of its Lamps and Accessories business to First Brands Group, LLC (“First Brands”), a global automotive parts manufacturer. Read more »
AcuityBrands | Appointments | Aug 01, 2024
Acuity Brands Appoints Sach Sankpal to Lead Lighting Business
Acuity Brands Appoints Sach Sankpal to Lead Lighting Business Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) (“Acuity”), a market-leading industrial technology company, announced that Sach Sankpal, SVP and Chief Growth and Transformation Officer, has been appointed as President of Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (“ABL”). Read more »
Cree LED | XLamp | XE-G | Featured | SSL | Aug 01, 2024
Major Performance Improvements for XLamp® XE-G LEDs
Major Performance Improvements for XLamp® XE-G LEDs New improvements to XLamp® XE-G LEDs boost RGBW color-mixing systems with a 20% efficiency increase and 10%+ for most of the 18 colors. These breakthrough LEDs outperform competing LEDs for high-output color-mixing applications. XLamp® XE-G LEDs combine industry-leading features in its size class, making the best even better! Read more »
Mackwell | Inventronics | Smart Lighting | Jul 30, 2024
Inventronics & Mackwell Form a Strategic Partnership to Provide Innovative Emergency Lighting Components
Inventronics & Mackwell Form a Strategic Partnership to Provide Innovative Emergency Lighting Components Inventronics and Mackwell (UK) announce a strategic partnership to revolutionize emergency lighting. Combining Mackwell's extensive global emergency lighting expertise and technology with Inventronics' market presence, the new portfolio offers advanced, efficient, and customized emergency lighting components to a broader customer base. Read more »
Gewiss | Performance iN Lighting | LightingEurope | Business | Jul 25, 2024
Gewiss Becomes a Member of LightingEurope
Gewiss Becomes a Member of LightingEurope Gewiss, a leading company manufacturing solutions for home & building automation, energy protection and distribution systems, smart lighting and e-mobility has joined LightingEurope together with its brand focused on Lighting: Performance iN Lighting | powered by Gewiss. Read more »
Alanod | Trends | Featured | Jul 16, 2024
Lighting Solutions from Alanod for Every Requirement
Lighting Solutions from Alanod for Every Requirement Innovative Reflectors for Performance Enhancement and Energy Savings Light is an essential factor for human well-being, whether at work, at home, or on the go. Alanod has made a name for itself as a leading manufacturer of semi-finished products for reflectors in the lighting industry and has evolved into a specialist in light control, glare reduction, and homogeneous light distribution. Read more »
Lumileds | LUXEON HL4Z | SSL | Jul 16, 2024
New LUXEON HL4Z Delivers High Intensity, Very-High Light Output, and High Efficacy
New LUXEON HL4Z Delivers High Intensity, Very-High Light Output, and High Efficacy Lumileds announces the release of the LUXEON HL4Z un-domed power LED intended for applications that require very high intensity and superior efficacy. Optical designers and engineers must typically make a tradeoff between optimizing optical design and achieving high efficacy. Lumileds addresses this dilemma with its innovative LUXEON HL4Z. At maximum current, the undomed LED delivers tremendous intensity – over 1400lm – from its 2.16mm2 light emitting surface at 85C. And at 70CRI, 4000K, 85C, and 700mA, typical efficacy of the new LUXEON HL4Z is an impressive 189lm/W. Read more »
Business | Unilumin | Jul 15, 2024
Unilumin Opened New Showroom in India
Unilumin Opened New Showroom in India Unilumin, the LED Application Pioneer, providing professional LED application services, proudly announced the grand opening of its first state-of-the-art Experience Center in India on 1st July, located in Noida. This landmark event represents a significant milestone in Unilumin’s development strategy, showcasing its unwavering commitment to the Indian market with ambitious plans to establish additional centers across the country. Read more »
Melexis | LED Driver | Automotive | Jul 15, 2024
Melexis Miniaturizes LED Drivers for Automotive Lighting
Melexis Miniaturizes LED Drivers for Automotive Lighting Melexis, an influential player in automotive LED drivers for ambient lighting, announces the extension of its LIN RGB family with the MLX81123. Built on the success of its predecessor, it delivers cost-effective performance and reliability in a small package. By leveraging a new supply chain, Melexis boosts competitiveness and ensures business continuity for its customers. Read more »
Alloy LED | Applications | Jul 15, 2024
Alloy LED Launches Flexible, Low-Profile Aluminum SurfaFlex 1 Tape Light Channel
Alloy LED Launches Flexible, Low-Profile Aluminum SurfaFlex 1 Tape Light Channel Alloy LED, a leading designer and manufacturer of premium quality LED tape lights, continues to expand its extensive portfolio of tape light channels with the launch of the SurfaFlex 1 , a flexible, low-profile, surface-mount aluminum channel providing uniform, hotspot-free illumination when paired with the company’s compatible tape lights. At only 0.61 of an inch wide and 0.15 of an inch in height, the channel is ideal for curved surfaces – with a minimum bend radius of 5.5 inches – and those commercial and residential spaces when the smallest footprint is needed. Read more »
Applications | Glamox | Luminaire | Jul 15, 2024
Glamox Unveils New Vandal-resistant and Dark Sky-certified Wall Lights
Glamox Unveils New Vandal-resistant and Dark Sky-certified Wall Lights Glamox, a world leader in lighting, has launched a family of outdoor wall-mounted luminaires with a difference. The new luminaires, aimed at commercial and public buildings, are vandal-resistant and have a special dark sky-certified version. The latter allows people to navigate safely while helping to limit light pollution that impacts the night-time environment - good news for nocturnal species and astronomers. Read more »
Automotive | ARRK Engineering | LED Module | LED Reflector | Jul 04, 2024
Compact LED Reflector Module Simplifies Development and Reduces Time-to-Market
Compact LED Reflector Module Simplifies Development and Reduces Time-to-Market To see and be seen is still the most important aspect of road safety. Tis is ensured by reflector or projection headlights, among other things. Although the latter generally have more functionalities, they are not suitable for all mobility concepts. They require more installation space and a more complex control system, which has a noticeable impact on development time and cost. LED-based reflector technologies focusing on lighting performance are therefore still a popular alternative. Read more »
Lumileds | Power LED | SSL | Featured | Jul 04, 2024
LUXEON HL4X for High Output Applications & Improved Efficiency
LUXEON HL4X for High Output Applications & Improved Efficiency Lumileds announced the release of its LUXEON HL4X power LED that delivers the lighting industry’s highest output and efficacy; it furthers the ability for lighting manufacturers to standardize their designs around a common footprint and proves that meaningful LED efficacy gains are still possible. Read more »
Organic Lighting | FortaCast | Applications | Jul 03, 2024
Organic Lighting Launches FortaCast in Europe: Pioneering Modular Drive-Over Lighting
Organic Lighting Launches FortaCast in Europe: Pioneering Modular Drive-Over Lighting Organic Lighting announces the international launch of FortaCast, a patented modular drive-over lighting system that simplifies the complexities of inground drive-over lighting with an innovative, proven, and futureproof design. FortaCast introduces a new era of creative design possibilities in lighting, featuring environmentally friendly Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) sections that allow for continuous straight lines, circles, squares, intersections, and curves with a minimal radius of 30cm. Read more »
SphereOptics | Imatest | Flicker | Testing | Trends | Jul 03, 2024
New Ultra-High Illumination Flickering Lightbox
New Ultra-High Illumination Flickering Lightbox The LED Lightbox ILB-B-150K from SphereOptics partner Imatest produces uniform light with excellent spectral characteristics that can be adjusted over a wide range of brightness for illuminating transparency test charts for image quality testing. Furthermore, it can also be used without any test charts to serve as a source of uniform irradiance that can be utilized for several radiometric test and calibration purposes. Read more »
ams OSRAM | DURIS E | SSL | Jul 02, 2024
Introducing the DURIS® E 2835 0.2 W SOFTLINEAR LED by ams OSRAM
Introducing the DURIS® E 2835 0.2 W SOFTLINEAR LED by ams OSRAM The new DURIS® E 2835 LEDs from ams OSRAM introduce engineering innovations all the way from the package to the emitter. These innovative LEDs boast a specially designed lead frame and improved reliability in the field—and their reduced resistance to bending facilitates their integration into flexible strips. Read more »
DLC | Smart Lighting | Jul 02, 2024
DLC: Final Version of Networked Lighting Controls Technical Requirements Version NLC5.1
DLC: Final Version of Networked Lighting Controls Technical Requirements Version NLC5.1 The DLC is pleased to release the final version of Networked Lighting Controls Technical Requirements Version NLC5.1 ahead of the annual NLC listing update in August 2024. NLC5.1 is a minor revision that contains updates to the policy’s cybersecurity requirements and is effective on August 1, 2024. No NLC systems will be delisted from the QPL due to this update. Read more »
Insta | Matter | Button | Smart Lighting | Jul 01, 2024
Insta GmbH Launches CSA-Certified Matter Module
Insta GmbH Launches CSA-Certified Matter Module Insta GmbH, a leading electronics specialist based in Lüdenscheid, proudly announces the launch of its first CSA-certified Matter product. The Push Button Module, a battery-powered device featuring four buttons, is now available as an OEM or white-label product for B2B customers. Utilizing the Matter 1.1 communication protocol, this module allows customers to integrate standardized smart functions into their switch programs, thereby enhancing their product portfolios. Read more »
Zhaga | Ecodesign | Circular Economy | Smart Lighting | Jul 01, 2024
Serviceable Indoor Luminaires for a Circular Future
Serviceable Indoor Luminaires for a Circular Future Zhaga enables luminaire manufacturers to design serviceable indoor luminaires with replaceable components that prolong their useful life, contributing to a circular economy. By Jan de Graaf (Signify), Francesco Martini (Inventronics) and Carsten Moellers (Green Gems). Read more »
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