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ESPR | LightingEurope | Business | Ecodesign
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Jul 01, 2024
LightingEurope Welcomes ESPR Publication, Marking a Milestone in EU’s Circular Economy Agenda
June 28th marked the beginning of a new era in ecodesign as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) was published in the Official Journal of the EU.
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Featured | Cree LED | XP-L Color LEDs | SSL
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Jul 01, 2024
New XLamp® XP-L Color LEDs Allow Smaller Color-mixing Lights
XLamp® XP-L Color LEDs are multi-color RGBW LEDs that deliver the combination of high lumen output and great color mixing in a small 3.45 x 3.45 mm package. The XLamp XP-L Color LEDs feature the smallest possible distance between LED die, creating a small optical source for excellent optical control and efficient color mixing.
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CIE | Midterm Meeting 2025 | Business
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Jun 30, 2024
CIE Midterm Meeting 2025: Call for Contributions and First Conference Announcement
The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) is pleased to announce the CIE Midterm Meeting 2025, set to take place in Vienna, Austria. This significant event will gather experts and researchers from around the globe to discuss the latest advancements in the fields of light and lighting, colour and vision, photobiology, and image technology.
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EPBD | LightingEurope | Business
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Jun 30, 2024
No EPBD implementation without Lighting
Applications | serien.lighting
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Jun 20, 2024
serien.lighting Illuminates the New Building of the Dessau Synagogue
The newly built synagogue in Dessau is characterised by the long-standing collaboration between the German lighting manufacturer serien.lighting and the well-known architect Alfred Jacoby. This project underlines serien.lighting's expertise in the development of customised special luminaires that can be harmoniously combined with the manufacturer's existing products.
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Featured | UL Solutions
Revolutionizing Lighting for Health
This interview is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of lighting and its potential to enhance human health. Follow the link below to explore the full article and see how these advancements can benefit your projects and improve the well-being of building occupants.
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Events | Lux Futurum
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Jun 13, 2024
Lux Futurum – Crafting a Legacy for a Future, Where the East meets West
The Virtual Lighting Design (VLD) Community has yet again stepped into unchartered territories, this time by teaming with Zhu Rong Awards for curating a unique global recognition program called Lux Futurum (LuFu).
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Appointments | Ennostar | Lextar
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Jun 13, 2024
Ennostar Announces High-Level Appointments
Ennostar Inc. announced its high-level personnel changes. Following Ennostar’s Board of Directors resolution, Mr. Patrick Fan, President of its subsidiary EPISTAR Corporation, and Dr. Terry Tang, President of Lextar Electronics Corporation will be swapping roles, effective July 1, 2024. Additionally, Mr. BY Chang will step down as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Spokesperson of Ennostar effective immediately, with Mr. Jerry Liu taking over the position.
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Cooper Lighting Solutions | HCL | Applications
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Jun 13, 2024
Cooper Lighting Solutions Released of BioUp, a Cutting-edge Line of Melanopic Lighting Technology
Light has a profound impact on wellbeing, offering a myriad of visual, biological, and emotional benefits as a key regulator of circadian rhythm. Recognizing the significance of the integration between light and wellbeing, Cooper Lighting Solutions has included BioUp across multiple CLS brands and product families, to provide these enhanced benefits in professional spaces.
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Röhm | PLEXIGLAS | HCL
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Jun 12, 2024
LiteScout® Supports the Developmental Skills of Visually Impaired Children
With their luminous colors and rounded edges, the circles, triangles and squares made of PLEXIGLAS® molding compound are true eye catchers and invite little hands to touch and play with them. And this is precisely the intention, as they are designed to encourage the early development of children with visual impairments and multiple disabilities. They form part of the LiteScout® system, which consists of a light-up magnetic board, transparent tokens and a variety of learning games. Glare-free light, colors and contrasts promote children’s residual visual function and improve their visual perception, hand-eye coordination and mental development.
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Horticulture | Sollum Technologies | Leaficient
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Jun 12, 2024
Sollum Technologies Partners with Leaficient to Optimize Agricultural Lighting Through Advanced Data Integration
Sollum Technologies, the pioneer behind the only 100% full programmable dynamic lighting solution, proudly announces a strategic partnership with Leaficient, a leader in precision plant measurement and lighting control technologies. The collaboration aims to advance lighting strategies and recipes by integrating precise plant growth data in Sollum’s advanced algorithms in order to learn, adapt, and optimize cultivation in real time.
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White Paper | Instrument Systems | VCSEL Measurement | Featured
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Jun 10, 2024
VCSEL Array Polarization and LIV+λ Measurement
VCSEL array characterization – Learn all about one-shot and single-emitter-resolved polarization and LIV+λ measurements! We extend LIV+λ measurements to individual emitters within a VCSEL array, thereby incorporating polarization measurements. To assess the characteristics of the VCSEL array in diverse environmental conditions, measurements were conducted at multiple temperatures.
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Instrument Systems | Photodiodes | Featured | Trends
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Jun 05, 2024
PD 100 Photodiodes for Radiant Power Measurements in VIS-IR
Instrument Systems’ new PD 100 photodiodes enables absolute LIV measurements of pulsed light sources.
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Edison Opto | Street Lighting | Solar | Awards | Applications
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Jun 05, 2024
EDISON OPTO Solar Streetlight Earns Prestigious Red Dot Design Award
Edison Opto, a leading manufacturer of LED lighting solutions, is proud to announce that its solar streetlight Renewal Arc 1 has been recognized with the prestigious Red Dot Design Award for its innovative product design.
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Cree LED | Portable Lighting | SSL | Featured
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May 31, 2024
XLamp® XFL LEDs: Breakthrough Performance for Portable Lighting
New XLamp XFL LEDs are fully specified and optimized for flashlights and other portable lighting applications.
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Lumileds | Power LED | SSL | Featured
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May 31, 2024
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.
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Lumileds | Automotive
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May 29, 2024
Lumileds NightScape Technology™ and LUXEON 3D LED Automotive Lighting Honored
Lumileds announced that its NightScape Technology which dramatically reduces blue light emissions from outdoor lighting at night, and its LUXEON 3D LED solution, which creates new automotive styling possibilities, have both been recognized for their innovation and recognized with a BrightStar Award from LEDs Magazine.
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Porotech | Micro-LEDs | Trends
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May 29, 2024
Porotech Wins 2024 SID Best MicroLED-Based Technology
Porotech, a pioneer in micro-LED and GaN-based semiconductor material technology, garnered significant acclaim from professionals at the annual optical-display industry event, SID Display Week 2024. With its world-first microLED projector, Porotech was honoured with the “Best MicroLED-Based Technology” award.
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Zumtobel | Awards
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May 23, 2024
Zumtobel Group Awarded the Third Consecutive ECOVadis Gold
For the third time in a row, the Zumtobel Group has been awarded a gold medal by the independent sustainability rating platform EcoVadis. In an industry comparison, the lighting group is ranked among the top 1% of all companies assessed by the platform. The successive recognition with the gold medal underlines the consistent and continuous development of the Zumtobel Group and its sustainability activities.
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BrightStar Awards | Awards
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May 23, 2024
LEDs Magazine Recognized More than 50 Products with BrightStar Awards
LEDs Magazine to announced the recipients of its third annual BrightStar Awards. Re-launched from the past Sapphire Awards program, the BrightStar Awards acknowledge innovation in solid-state lighting components, controls, and finished luminaire systems for general lighting and specialty applications.
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Nichia | Automotive
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May 15, 2024
Nichia Automotive Innovation Center in Germany
In a significant move to spearhead the future of automotive lighting design and functions, the world’s leading LED manufacturer Nichia announces the launch of the Nichia Automotive Innovation Center located in Aachen, Germany. The newly inaugurated facility marks a pivotal step in the company’s ongoing commitment to innovate and deliver enhanced support to customers that have rapidly evolving requirements.
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DLC | Horticulture
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May 15, 2024
New Working Group to Collaborate and Advise on Horticultural Lighting Controls
Lighting and controls manufacturers, engineering and design consultants, non-profits, researchers, and indoor cultivators are among stakeholders recently appointed help the DLC accelerate the horticultural lighting industry’s adoption of networked lighting solutions that advance both crop production and energy efficiency.
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Luminaires | Zumtobel | Trends | Applications
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May 10, 2024
Reliable Lighting for Challenging Industrial Environments – Zumtobel Introduces the EXTONA Explosion-proof Luminaire
Zumtobel’s new moisture-proof luminaire EXTONA is ideal for use in hazardous areas and harsh industrial conditions. Certified for use in ATEX 2/22 zones, this explosion-proof luminaire is particularly resilient thanks to its robust design and is also protected against the most challenging conditions, such as significant dust formation or powerful jets of water. It also features impact-resistant housing and an emergency light function.
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ABB | Energy-efficient Factory | Trends
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May 10, 2024
ABB Opens New €20 Million Energy-efficient Factory in Belgium
ABB has opened a new €20 million injection molding manufacturing site at Evergem, near Ghent in Belgium, to meet the growing demand for safe, smart and sustainable electrification solutions in Europe. The modern plant has been developed to meet the latest energy-efficiency demands through the installation of new injection molding machines, digital technologies, and automation solutions. It replaces an existing facility that joined ABB as part of its acquisition of GE Industrial Solutions in 2018. The site will produce power distribution enclosures which serve as protective housings for electrical distribution components such as circuit breakers, fuses, switches, and meters, ensuring the safe distribution, metering and control of electricity throughout residential, commercial and industrial buildings.
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BrightView | Displays | Trends
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May 10, 2024
BrightView’s New Display Film Boosts Brightness up to 30%
BrightView Technologies, a leading global supplier of Visual Intelligence™ solutions, has announced the launch of its new Polycarbonate Brightness Enhancing Films (BEFs), engineered to increase brightness up to 30% for high-performance display designs. An ideal solution for desktop monitors, laptops, tablets and other custom displays, the unique film stack helps engineering teams achieve advanced optics while ensuring efficiency.
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ams OSRAM | Business
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May 10, 2024
ams OSRAM Sells Passive Optical Components Assets to Focuslight Technologies
ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS) sells relevant Passive Optical Components assets to Focuslight Technologies Inc. for EUR 45 million in cash.
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Toyoda Gosei | UV-C | UV
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May 02, 2024
Toyoda Gosei Develops UV-C LED with World-Class Light Output
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has developed deep ultraviolet (UV-C) LEDs with light output that is among the highest in the world. UV-C is used in disinfection as it destroys viral and bacterial DNA structures and inhibits their replication. As an alternative light source for mercury lamps used for disinfection, improved performance of UV-C LEDs has been expected. Sample sales of Toyoda Gosei’s high performance LEDs started internationally in April 2024, to promote their wider use for disinfecting water, air and surface.
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Lumileds | Power LED | SSL | Featured
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May 01, 2024
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.
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Cree LED | Xlamp | Horizon LEDs | SSL | Featured
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May 01, 2024
New XLamp® Horizon LEDs Enable More Uniform Lighting than Standard LEDs
Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Since these systems are designed to maximize yields for plants and animals, they require different metrics than lighting products designed around the human visual system.
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White Paper | NIR | Featured
WHITE PAPER: A Glimpse into the Invisible World of Near-Infrared (NIR) – Exploring its Applications and Potential
To understand further the principles and practical implementation of IR LEDs and photodetectors in these applications, this paper aims to explore the recent technological advancements and to provide an in-depth analysis on their functionalities, advantages.
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