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News-Spot | Business News | Oct 02, 2013
Xicato Chooses UL for Faster, Lower-Cost LM-79 LED Luminaire Testing Program
Xicato announced an exclusive LM-79 testing program that lowers testing costs by 50% per luminaire, and reduces testing turn-around time to just 5 business days, in comparison to industry norms of approximately four weeks. This unique program, in cooperation with UL is open now to all manufacturers whose luminaires have passed Xicato’s thermal validation, a complimentary program offered by Xicato to all its customers. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 29, 2013
Gamma Scientific Awarded IES LM-80 Accreditation for LED Life Testing
Gamma Scientific Awarded IES LM-80 Accreditation for LED Life Testing The Gamma Scientific Laboratory has been awarded accreditation by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program for IES LM-80: 2008. IES LM-80 is an approved method for measuring lumen depreciation and maintenance of Solid State Lighting (LED) light sources, arrays and modules. The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) developed the standard to provide an objective method to evaluate and compare LED components from different manufacturers. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 03, 2013
opsira Extends Services with their Lightlab
opsira Extends Services with their Lightlab Measurements of optical components and optical systems are essential whenever a project starts, is in process or ends. opsira measures the necessary optical values in several light measurement laboratories and provides significant measurement data and test reports. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 06, 2013
Pioneers of Semiconductor Technology: AIXTRON Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
30 years of future-oriented technology: What started as a spin-off at RWTH Aachen University is now a publicly listed provider of deposition systems that has played a key role in shaping microelectronic and optoelectronic production technologies. Some of the world’s largest manufacturers purchase the products offered by the German high-tech player AIXTRON for the production of LEDs, lasers, transistors and solar cells. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 11, 2013
Light Engine Quality Standards Set High At Norlux
Manufacturing the highest quality LED light engines is a top Norlux priority. The company demonstrates this with the quality assurance systems it has set in place. Norlux is an ISO 9000-2008 certified North American LED systems integrator. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 13, 2013
New Transfer Project for Polyoptics GmbH
New Transfer Project for Polyoptics GmbH The German based company, a developer and manufacturer of polymer optics received a transfer project with a production volume in the mid six-figure range. The company is demonstrating once again that it has the knowledge and capability for large scale production realised to competitive market prices. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 10, 2014
Xicato Doubles Its Space to Accommodate New LED Light Module Manufacturing Line in Silicon Valley
Xicato, a leading developer of superior light quality from LED modules, announced today that it has relocated its San Jose headquarters to accommodate a new manufacturing line for the company's next generation of products. The new 24 thousand-square-foot space is more than double the size of Xicato's previous San Jose facility. The privately held company has invested millions of dollars in equipment and resources to meet the increasing global demand for its LED modules. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 27, 2014
Pixelligent Technologies Got Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Granted
Pixelligent Technologies announced today that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant by the Department of Energy (DOE). The nine-month, $150,000 program will enable Pixelligent to accelerate the development of its nanoadditives for use in OLED lighting. As part of this program, Pixelligent will partner with OLEDWorks LLC, a leading OLED lighting company. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 03, 2014
Osram Is First Chip Manufacturer To Switch Red and Yellow LED Fabrication To 6-Inch Wafers
Osram Is First Chip Manufacturer To Switch Red and Yellow LED Fabrication To 6-Inch Wafers Osram Opto Semiconductors is keeping pace with the constant growth of the market and switching its fabrication of red, orange and yellow light emitting diodes to 6-inch wafers. The German high-tech company is extending the fabrication of all large-wafer LEDs to the indium-gallium-aluminum-phosphide (InGaAlP) material system and expanding its production capacity. The company began switching fabrication of blue LED chips in 2011. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 25, 2014
LED Engin Named Best New Component in the Architectural SSL Product Innovation Awards 2014
LED Engin Named Best New Component in the Architectural SSL Product Innovation Awards 2014 LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high flux density LED products, announces that its tunable white light engine LuxiTune™ has been crowned Best New Component at Source Level, a special citation in the 4th annual Architectural SSL Product Innovation Awards (PIAs). LuxiTune is also a winner in the Modules and Light Sources category. This success follows the product being recognized as Solid-State Lighting Product of the Year at the Elektra Awards, Europe's flagship electronics industry awards competition. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Mar 06, 2014
Toshiba International Corporation Announces Lighting Business Reorganization
Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) of Houston, Texas has announced a reorganization affecting its LED Lighting Systems Division. Toshiba Lighting and Technology Corporation (TLT), headquartered in Yokosuka, Japan, is responsible for Toshiba’s global lighting businesses and is implementing a reorganization of international operations. As a result, the LED Lighting Systems Division within TIC will discontinue most operations by March 31, 2014. The headquarters’ responsibility for Toshiba Lighting in the Americas will be transferred to Greenstar Lighting Products Inc. located in San Antonio, Texas. Greenstar is a wholly owned subsidiary of TLT. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Mar 19, 2014
LUXeXceL Extends 3D Printing Capacity with New Factory for LED Optics
LUXeXceL Extends 3D Printing Capacity with New Factory for LED Optics LUXeXceL Group, the inventor of the revolutionary Printoptical® Technology, and global leader in the Additive Manufacturing of optical components, announces to invest in a new 3D printing factory dedicated to manufacturing volumes of LED lighting optics. This month the first housing and installation activities have started to ensure that the first digital production line will be operational by the second half of 2014. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Apr 08, 2014
"LLFY Selector"-App Offers Mobile Support by LED Light for You Network
"LLFY Selector"-App Offers Mobile Support by LED Light for You Network Customers are now being given product search support through the Osram “LED Light for you” partner network (LLFY) in the form of an app, making product searches easier and quicker than ever before. As the name “LLFY Selector” suggests, this app has been designed specifically to find products. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Apr 17, 2014
Cambridge Nanotherm® Opens World’s First Fully Automated Production Line for Aluminium Nano-Ceramic Substrates
Cambridge Nanotherm® Opens World’s First Fully Automated Production Line for Aluminium Nano-Ceramic Substrates Cambridge Nanotherm®, the manufacturer of advanced Aluminium Nano-Ceramic substrate technology for the thermal management of electronic applications, installs the first of many fully automated lines. Nanotherm® production line extends the applications of this award winning patented technology also beyond LED lighting to wider electronic substrate applications that require higher thermal management, lower cost of ownership and smaller footprints Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 20, 2014
Samsung’s LED Component Test Lab Recognized by VDE Institute
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced component solutions, today announced that its test lab for LED component products for use in LED lighting applications was recognized by VDE Institute, the testing and certification branch of VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies, one of the largest technical and scientific associations in Europe. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 21, 2014
Osram Opens New LED Assembly Plant in China
Osram Opens New LED Assembly Plant in China In a further move to strengthen its leading position in the market for light-emitting diodes (LED), Osram today officially opened its LED assembly plant in Wuxi, China. The factory has a floor area of about 100,000 square meters and will employ as many as 2,100 people by 2017. Osram is investing a low three-digit-million euro amount to set up the plant. “With this step, we’re not only expanding our fully loaded backend LED capacities but also boosting our presence in the world’s largest single lighting market,” said Wolfgang Dehen, Chief Executive Officer of Osram Licht AG. “Asia, and particularly China, are key growth drivers for the global lighting and therefore the LED industry.” Read more »
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