Company News

News-Spot | Business News | Apr 20, 2012
Schneider Electric and Tridonic Announce Strategic Partnership
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, and Tridonic, a leading manufacturer of lighting components today announce a strategic partnership. The corporate partnership represents collaboration around projects business, and will see the companies work together to promote energy efficient lighting control solutions to customers. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Apr 26, 2012
LUXeXceL Group Appointed as Research Associate by 3DS SolidWorks
LUXeXceL Group B.V., innovator of Printoptical Technology, is appointed as Research Associate by 3DS SolidWorks. LUXeXceL develops and manufactures optical products, structures and special graphic effects by means of a novel digital 3D printing process and is mainly focused today on the global LED lighting industry. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 02, 2012
Thomas Research Products Signs Distribution Agreement With Digi-Key Corporation
Thomas Research Products, a leading manufacturer of SSL power solutions, has announced a global distribution agreement with electronic components distributor Digi-Key. As the leading internet-based integrated distributor of electronic components, Digi-Key Corporation provides information and inventory of millions of products, accessible to customers around the globe. All products ship from their central North American location. The company’s integrated business model provides product and support online to help put engineers and procurement professionals in control as they solve tough product development challenges. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 02, 2012
SDK to Form JV with Toyoda Gosei for GaN LED Business
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to split its business in gallium-nitride (GaN)-based blue LED chips, and transfer 70% of shares in the new company to Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (Toyoda Gosei), by the end of this year. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | May 11, 2012
Optogan Enters the Italian Lighting Market with LEDisOne as Distribution Partner
Optogan opens lamps and luminaires sales office in Varese, Italy, by signing a distribution agreement with the company LEDisOne srl. At the Grand Opening event in Varese, close to Milan, LEDisOne hosted more than 100 official guests, politicians, architects, representatives of industry and universities. The newly certified distributor LEDisOne is specialised in LED lighting and shows a broad background in the semiconductor industry. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jun 15, 2012
Dialight Acquires Airinet Lighting Controls
Dialight plc (“Dialight”) announces that its US subsidiary, Dialight Corporation, has completed the acquisition of the assets of Airinet Inc (“Airinet”), a lighting controls company, for upfront consideration of $2.6m with additional sums payable based on future revenue through to 2020 of up $7.4m. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jun 29, 2012
Novaled and Samsung Mobile Display Sign a Strategic Cooperation Agreement
Novaled, a leader in the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) field, has entered into a licensing and purchase agreement with Samsung Mobile Display (SMD), a global leader in the display industry. As part of the agreement, SMD has committed to purchase dopant materials used in the transport layers of its AMOLED display modules from Novaled for several years. In addition, Novaled will provide its proprietary PIN OLED® technology to SMD for use in the production of SMD’s AMOLED display modules. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jul 10, 2012
Soitec and Silian Enter Joint Development Agreement of GaN Wafers with Novel Epitaxy Approach to Increase Productivity of LED Manufacturing
Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Chongqing Silian Optoelectronics Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Silian), an established supplier of materials, devices and systems for the lighting industry, have partnered to jointly develop gallium nitride (GaN) template wafers using hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). The resulting GaN template wafers present breakthrough cost savings in manufacturing LEDs. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jul 11, 2012
InfiniLED Announces Access Agreement with Tyndall National Institute
InfiniLED Announces Access Agreement with Tyndall National Institute InfiniLED, a portfolio company of ScienceWorks Ventures plc and a Tyndall National Institute (UCC) spin-out, is delighted to announce an access agreement with Tyndall National Institute, Cork. This access agreement allows InfiniLED’s engineers to work within the institute’s ISO 9001 Certified Compound Semiconductor cleanrooms to fabricate our µLED™ (MicroLED) technology. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Aug 30, 2012
Plextronics Partners with Holst Centre to Drive OLED Lighting
Plextronics Partners with Holst Centre to Drive OLED Lighting Plextronics, a U.S.-based global technology company specializing in printed electronics, and Netherlands-based Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by imec (B) and TNO (NL), today announced their partnership on shared research towards flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) lighting and signage. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Sep 14, 2012
Lextar Electronics to Merge Wellypower Optronics
Lextar Electronics Corp. and Wellypower Optronics Co. Ltd. today announced that they have entered into an amalgamation agreement. The merger agreement was approved today by the Boards of Directors of both Lextar and Wellypower. The consolidation date of the merger is targeted for February 1st, 2013, at which time Wellypower will be absorbed into Lextar. The merged entity will operate as Lexstar. The swap ratio for Wellypower and Lextar is planned to be 2:1, based on the stock’s market value, net worth, industry status and prospects, production capacity and profits, and subject to be approved by the shareholders meeting of both companies. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Sep 17, 2012
Fairchild Semiconductor Signs a Reseller Agreement with RS Components
Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, announced an expansion of its distribution agreement with RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), a leading high-service distributor of electronics and maintenance products. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Sep 18, 2012
Sumitomo Chemical Joins Holst Centre OLED Research Program
Sumitomo Chemical Joins Holst Centre OLED Research Program Sumitomo Chemical has joined Holst Centre's shared research program on Printed Organic Lighting and Signage. The move will speed efforts to develop manufacturing processes for low-cost, flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). As a leading supplier of materials for polymer OLEDs, Sumitomo Chemical's involvement in the Holst Centre eco-system will extend the program's investigation of multi-layer solution processes for high-efficiency OLEDs. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Oct 29, 2012
ALANOD Holding GmbH acquires interest in WhiteOptics LLC
Alanod announced that on 20 August 2012 ALANOD Holding GmbH acquired shares in WhiteOptics LLC. in rigorous pursuit of its strategy to consolidate and advance its leading role in the market for high‐quality technical surface design. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 19, 2012
Audio Giant HARMAN International Industries, Inc. Acquires Martin Professional A/S
We are pleased to inform you that Schouw & Co., parent company of Martin Professional, has entered into an agreement with the global infotainment and audio company HARMAN International Industries to sell Martin to HARMAN. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in Q1 2013. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 04, 2013
VTT and Lumichip Announce joint LED Company Investment
Simpler and more cost-eective methods are needed in LED lamp manufacture. VTT Ventures Ltd and Lumichip Ltd are pleased to announce a joint investment in Finnish LED technology company LightTherm Ltd that uses its innovative materials and heat management solutions to introduce novel design and manufacturing capabilities for LEDs. LightTherm’s electro-thermo-mechanical technologies provide higher light output, leaner sizing and lighter weight in its products for the LED replacement lamp and luminaire industry. Read more »
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