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Lumileds | SSL | LUXEON XR-HL2X | XR-5050 HE | Featured | Nov 10, 2022
LUXEON XR-HL2X and XR-5050 HE Standard Modules Provide a Faster Path to Lighting Solutions
LUXEON XR-HL2X and XR-5050 HE Standard Modules Provide a Faster Path to Lighting Solutions Utilizing two of Lumileds most popular and powerful LEDs, the company has released two new standard integrated modules, LUXEON XR-HL2X and LUXEON XR-5050 HE. Both offer lighting engineers a faster, simpler way to realize powerful, highly efficient lighting solutions. Standard optics are available for all the new boards, and both offer typical efficacy of 184 lumens per Watt. Read more »
Appointments | Lumileds | Steve Barlow | Nov 02, 2022
Lumileds Successfully Completes Comprehensive Financial Restructuring and Announces Leadership Transition
Lumileds Successfully Completes Comprehensive Financial Restructuring and Announces Leadership Transition Lumileds Holding B.V. (“Lumileds” or the “Company”), a global leader in innovative lighting solutions, has successfully completed its financial restructuring and emerged from Chapter 11, having reduced its funded debt by approximately $1.4 billion. With the restructuring transaction completed, Lumileds will be owned by a new group of long-term institutional investors, including Anchorage Capital Group, L.L.C., Nut Tree Capital Management, L.P., and Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. Read more »
Edison Opto | Stonehenge Series | Featured | SSL | Nov 01, 2022
Introducing Our New Light Engine The Stonehenge Series
Introducing Our New Light Engine The Stonehenge Series Stonehenge Light Engine Module series is a surface mount, high-efficiency optical integrator matrix assembly. The modules are fully compatible with various high-lumen density LEDs such as white, RGBW, dual color, and more colors in one. Read more »
LEDs | 36V | Lumileds | SSL | Featured | Nov 01, 2022
36 Volt LEDs Create New Luminaire Engineering Opportunities
36 Volt LEDs Create New Luminaire Engineering Opportunities Lumileds has released 36V options, now available through its distribution network, for the LUXEON 2835 Color Line mid-power LEDs, which are widely used in applications from architectural lighting to smart bulbs, and for its LUXEON 7070 high-power LEDs that serve applications from spot lighting to outdoor and industrial lighting. Read more »
Philips | Signify | Ultra Efficient | Luminaires | Trends | Oct 31, 2022
Philips Ultra Efficient Range Expands into Luminaires
Philips Ultra Efficient Range Expands into Luminaires Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, will help customers manage their energy expenditure with a new range of Ultra Efficient lights and, for the first time, Ultra Efficient integrated luminaires. The new, more diverse product range offers customers even more opportunities to integrate the most efficient energy-saving LED lighting into their homes. Read more »
Events | Lightfair | Oct 31, 2022
Lightfair to Move to Biennial Event Schedule
Lightfair to Move to Biennial Event Schedule LightFair, North America’s largest architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, today announced it is transitioning to a biennial event schedule beginning with the 2023 event, scheduled for May 21-25 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. As the major player in this vibrant space, LightFair’s updated schedule will better serve the industry’s manufacturing cycle, product marketplace and the overall needs of lighting professionals. Read more »
UV-C | Silanna | Oct 31, 2022
Far UV-C and Deep UV-C LEDs with New Tech
Far UV-C and Deep UV-C LEDs with New Tech Silanna UV has announced new far UV-C and deep UV-C LEDs that take advantage of the company’s patented short period superlattice (SPSL) technology for industry-leading performance in the difficult-to-obtain 230 – 265 nm UV range – including the highest output power in any mass-produced UV LED at 235 nm. Read more »
Automotive | Hella | Micro-Optics | Oct 31, 2022
FlatLight Micro-Optics Technology
FlatLight Micro-Optics Technology Smaller, more efficient, better: The miniaturisation trend is also unstoppable in the automotive industry because it reduces installation space and weight and thus ultimately saves energy. "In addition, a car must have character and emotional appeal above all," says Dr. Frank Huber, who as HELLA Managing Director is responsible for the lighting division. "Manufacturers are therefore looking for new design options more than ever. This is why the lighting and electronics specialist is launching HELLA FlatLight technologies, a new lighting innovation for rear combination lamps that combines functionality and design. Read more »
OSRAM Digital Systems | Office Lighting | Featured | Oct 10, 2022
Why Offices Need New Lighting Solutions Now
Why Offices Need New Lighting Solutions Now Good work needs good light. On the other hand, offices in particular often consume unnecessarily large amounts of electricity – and money – for lighting. Read more »
Events | Delighted Talks
deLIGHTed Talks: Good Light – Balancing Health and Energy (Nov 3, 2022)
deLIGHTed Talks: Good Light – Balancing Health and Energy (Nov 3, 2022) The Good Light Group, together with the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR), the Daylight Academy (DLA), the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), and Luger Research (LR), are organizing and presenting the “Good Light – Balancing Health and Energy” lectures. The webinar explains the need for a day with Good Light and how we are able to balance health and energy issues in lighting designs. Read more »
Upciti | Signify | Street Lighting | Business | Sep 30, 2022
Signify and Upciti Announce Intent to Partner
Signify and Upciti Announce Intent to Partner Street lighting provides a strong foundation to make cities smart, livable and sustainable. Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, and Upciti, an expert in artificial intelligence and edge computing, today announced their intent to partner. The companies aim to help cities and utilities across the United States and Canada get added value, well beyond illumination, from their lighting infrastructure. Read more »
Silanna | Nano-Structures | UV | Sep 30, 2022
Silanna UV Makes Ultraviolet LED Manufacturing Breakthrough With Nanostructures
Silanna UV Makes Ultraviolet LED Manufacturing Breakthrough With Nanostructures A major breakthrough in UV-C LED technology from Silanna UV offers huge advantages for applications as diverse as disinfection, water quality monitoring, gas sensing, liquid chromatography, and chemical and biological analysis. The new manufacturing approach promises to make deep ultraviolet and far ultraviolet LEDs easier to make, more efficient at shorter wavelengths, and more reliable. With the renewed focus on air, water and surface disinfection following the Covid-19 pandemic, these next-generation UV LEDs are already attracting interest. Read more »
Fluence | Wageningen | Trends | Sep 30, 2022
Fluence Selected as Supplemental Lighting Solution for Wageningen University & Research Facility
Fluence Selected as Supplemental Lighting Solution for Wageningen University & Research Facility Fluence, a leading global provider of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions for commercial cannabis and food production, has been selected by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) as the LED technology partner for its new Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC). In NPEC’s state-of-the-art phenotyping greenhouse, VYPR DUO 3x2 fixtures are used to support research on genotype-phenotype associations. Read more »
ams OSRAM | TactoTek | Automotive | Sep 30, 2022
TactoTek and ams OSRAM Cooperate to Optimize RGB LED to Drive Innovations in Car Illumination
TactoTek and ams OSRAM Cooperate to Optimize RGB LED to Drive Innovations in Car Illumination Finnish IMSE pioneer TactoTek and ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical solutions, today announced that they are co-operating to help revolutionize the car interior market by delivering thin, seamlessly integrated, three-dimensional illuminated structures. The companies have developed a demonstrator with the new RGB side-looker LED OSIRE E5515 from ams OSRAM, which thanks to TactoTek's in-mold structural electronics (IMSE) technology can be integrated into automotive interior in a space-saving design. Read more »
Nichia | Dynasolis | SSL | Sep 23, 2022
Fraunhofer IBP Study Confirms the Performance of Human Centric Lighting Solutions
Fraunhofer IBP Study Confirms the Performance of Human Centric Lighting Solutions Nichia, the world’s largest LED manufacturer and inventor of high-brightness blue and white LEDs, has commissioned the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP, to analyze its Dynasolis solution. The solution consists of a combination of Nichia's cyan-colored Azure LED and the multiple award-winning H6 LED family, which can adjust both color temperature and melanopic illuminance. Dynasolis can be adjusted within a color temperature range of between 2700K (with little to no cyan) and 10000K (with a larger share of cyan). Read more »
MetroSpecs | SSL | Sep 20, 2022
Shape Enabling LED Technology
Shape Enabling LED Technology MetroSpec Technology®, the leading American manufacturer of custom FlexRad® LED light sources, announces its new FacetCore™ geometry set for architectural LED light fixtures requiring uniform lighting. With FacetCore, fuller light fills can be achieved while providing even greater uniformity. Geometries optimized for 90 degrees to 360 degree projection are realized using 1, 2, 3, or 4 sided wrapable facets. FacetCore geometries radically simplify various fixture types, eliminating mechanical parts and electrical wires and interconnect. They are a powerful solution - supporting lengths up to 16 feet without the need of a splice, utilizing available space minimally with ease. Read more »
Signify | SpaceSense | WiZ | Smart Lighting | Sep 20, 2022
Groundbreaking Motion Detection Turns Your Lights On and Off Without the Need for Sensors
Groundbreaking Motion Detection Turns Your Lights On and Off Without the Need for Sensors Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, introduces a new app, features and products for its WiZ smart lighting system to enhance users’ daily convenience. The new offerings include SpaceSense™, a motion detection technology for your lighting system that doesn’t require any sensor to be installed. The new WiZ app V2 and the SpaceSense™ feature are available from end of September 2022. Read more »
DALI Alliance | Awards | Smart Lighting | Sep 13, 2022
DALI Lighting Awards 2022 Open for Entries
DALI Lighting Awards 2022 Open for Entries The DALI Alliance, the global industry organization for DALI lighting control, announces the call for entries for the DALI Lighting Awards 2022. With a closing date of December 2, 2022, the DALI Lighting Awards 2022 will highlight and recognize the best use of DALI control applications and solutions in lighting projects across the world. Read more »
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