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News-Spot | Business News | May 31, 2013
DuPont Has Boosted by > 7x Its Ability to Produce and Supply CooLam® Thermal Substrates for LED Lighting
DuPont Circuit & Packaging Materials, part of DuPont Electronics & Communications, announced today that it has increased its ability to produce and supply DuPont™ CooLam® thermal substrate products by more than seven times its previous level, to better serve its customers in the fast-growing global Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting market. DuPont™ CooLam® thermal substrates are designed to dissipate heat in LED lighting applications which help enable LED manufacturers to offer longer life, greater reliability and better light quality from LED bulbs. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jun 06, 2013
Xicato Aims to Inspire Better LED Lighting with New Website
Xicato Aims to Inspire Better LED Lighting with New Website Xicato, a leading provider of LED modules for retail, hospitality and specialty lighting environments, today announced the launch of its new website. Utilizing the site’s significantly enhanced, content-rich user interface, the lighting design community can explore applications from around the world, search and select from hundreds of different luminaires, and access lighting information that supports the lighting design practice. Read more »
Business News | Jun 14, 2013
New Service Launch - Keeping Up-to-Date with LED Standards and Regulations
New Service Launch - Keeping Up-to-Date with LED Standards and Regulations Product Approvals announces the launch of its free-of-charge new LED standards and regulations update service that covers EU country regulations. Published monthly, and split into sections covering typically used EU CE marking directives, non CE marking directives (such as the Artificial Optical Radiation Directive 2006/25/EC), the publication is available as an email subscription and complements our other LED lighting compliance services. It also lists current versions of key EU harmonised standards covering LED product safety (electrical and photobiological), electro-magnetic and environmental standards. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jun 24, 2013
Edison Opto’s EdiLex Zhaga LED Modules Perform Extraordinarily Well with MechaTronix's ModuLED Passive Cooler
Edison Opto’s EdiLex Zhaga LED Modules Perform Extraordinarily Well with MechaTronix's ModuLED Passive Cooler In order to enable the interchangeability of LED light sources made by different manufacturers, Zhaga, which is an industry-wide cooperation between companies, has defined interfaces for a variety of application-specific light engines. Although the LED engines which comply with the Zhaga standards all have the same shape and can be mounted in the same way, that doesn’t mean they all perform in the same way. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jun 27, 2013
Martin Hockemeyer to Become Chief Executive Officer of Telefunken Licht AG
Martin Hockemeyer to Become Chief Executive Officer of Telefunken Licht AG Martin Hockemeyer (43), Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Telefunken Licht AG, is to take over as the company´s Chief Executive Officer as of 1 July 2013. He will be following on from Klaus-Peter Voigt, who as of this date, will be moving to a new management position with the Media-Saturn Group. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jul 03, 2013
Xicato’s Luminaire Thermal Validation Program Ensures Light That Looks Great, Stays Cool
Xicato’s Luminaire Thermal Validation Program Ensures Light That Looks Great, Stays Cool Xicato, a leading provider of LED modules for retail, hospitality and specialty lighting environments, today announced that for the first time, lighting designers and specifiers can, with a single click on Xicato’s website, identify a broad range of thermally validated luminaires. Fixtures submitted to Xicato’s Luminaire Thermal Validation Program are physically tested in “worst case” scenarios. “Our goal is to make sure the lighting community has access to a wide range of luminaires that they can confidently specify. Testing is the key,” said John Yriberri, Director of Worldwide Applications Engineering at Xicato. A white paper, LED Modules: Turning Up the Light, Taking Off the Heat, provides a straightforward explanation of thermal measurement and performance. Read more »
Business News | Jul 10, 2013
Gaggione Expands Capabilities by Introducing Liquid Silicone Injection Services for Innovative Optic Solutions
Gaggione Expands Capabilities by Introducing Liquid Silicone Injection Services for Innovative Optic Solutions Several critical factors drive the net result performance of an optic: design, material, tooling and the science and art of the injection process. With 50 years experience transforming polymers, Gaggione goes a step forward by adding new materials and process to its know-how and capabilities, in order to achieve new design freedom and possibilities. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jul 18, 2013
Tridonic Extends Its Commitment to OLED Technology with Acquisition of All Joint Venture Interests
Tridonic Extends Its Commitment to OLED Technology with Acquisition of All Joint Venture Interests Alongside its ongoing activities in the area of LED, the Zumtobel Group is investing in the technology of the future, OLED. To this end, the lighting group yesterday signed an agreement to acquire all the shares from its partners in the joint venture LEDON OLED Lighting GmbH & Co KG. The Zumtobel Group set up this company jointly with the Fraunhofer research organisation and a number of Fraunhofer employees in 2009. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jul 23, 2013
UL Expands Zhaga Testing Capabilities for LED Light Source Interchangeability
UL (Underwriters Laboratories), a global safety science leader, announced today it has been named an authorized testing laboratory for three new Zhaga Books; Zhaga Interface Specification Book 4: High-intensity LED light engines, Zhaga Interface Specification Book 7: Indoor light engines with separate electronic control gear and Zhaga Interface Specification Book 8: Socketable LED light engine with integrated control gear (85 mm base). Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Aug 01, 2013
Dialight Accepted by Carbon Trust Accredited Supplier Scheme
Dialight, the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today announced that it has become an ‘Accredited Supplier’ in the Carbon Trust’s recently launched Green Business Directory. The directory features suppliers which have been independently assessed and accredited via the Carbon Trust Accredited Supplier scheme in order to aid organisations looking to install energy efficient and low carbon technologies. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Aug 01, 2013
Xicato France Benelux Distribution Becomes Luxendi and Positions for Continued Growth
Xicato announced today that its original value added distributor, Xicato France Benelux Distribution, has changed its name to Luxendi. “The transition from conventional lighting business models to solid-state lighting has provided an enormous growth opportunity for us in the role of a value added distributor,” said Rob Verbeelen, MD of Luxendi. “We are Xicato’s supplier for Benelux and France and support customers throughout western Europe.” Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Aug 02, 2013
Dialight Announces New Intertek-Certified Photometric & Electrical Lab at NJ HQ
Dialight, the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today announced the opening of its new on-site Intertek Lab at the company’s North American headquarters in Farmingdale, N.J. The Dialight Photometric & Electrical Lab is one of only a few Level IV facilities in the industry, qualified through the Intertek SATELLITE™ Data Acceptance Program to independently conduct IES-LM-79-08 Approved Method: Electrical and Photometric Measurements of Solid-State Lighting Products and In-situ Temperature Measurement Tests (ISTMT). Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Aug 14, 2013
Tridonic Site in Dornbirn Achieves ISO 50001 Certification for Efficient Operations
Tridonic’s Dornbirn site obtained ISO 50001 certification in July. The international standard for energy management systems (EMS) has been audited in the site for the first time. This factory is therefore the first in the Zumtobel Group to be certified under this standard. ISO 50001 is firmly anchored in the sustainability objectives of all the brands in the Zumtobel Group. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Aug 26, 2013
Ulrich Schumacher - New Zumtobel CEO
Ulrich Schumacher - New Zumtobel CEO After disputes about a new corporate strategy, the lighing producer sees a change of personnel in the board of managers. Ulrich Schuhmacher is becoming new CEO. Read more »
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