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News-Spot | Lighting Applications | Mar 01, 2013
LED Hotel Lighting Sets-Off Stunning Swarovski Crystal and Saves $138,000 a Year
LED Hotel Lighting Sets-Off Stunning Swarovski Crystal and Saves $138,000 a Year Carved into a granite cliff in the North Okanagan in close proximity to Vernon, British Columbia, Sparkling Hill Resort is celebrated for its organic and modern flair—notably its creative use of $10 million in Swarovski Crystal elements that provide an atmosphere of calm and serenity. Setting its sights on newly engaging, more energy-efficient LED hotel lighting, the European-influenced resort and wellness center recently specified 2,500 GE LED replacement lamps for its award-winning facility. The switch means an annual 828,000 kilowatt hours (kWhs) energy reduction at Sparkling Hill and will equate to $1.3 million in total lighting cost savings over 10 years. Read more »
News-Spot | Lighting Applications | Mar 01, 2013
Contemporary Lighting Art by Zumtobel at the New Re-Opened Kunstkammer Wien
Contemporary Lighting Art by Zumtobel at the New Re-Opened Kunstkammer Wien After having been closed for more than 10 years, the Kunstkammer was presented to the public again on 1 March, with the explicit goal of making the history of the Habsburg collection and its most important figureheads known to an interested contemporary audience. The highest conservation requirements, content-related didactic criteria, but also emotional factors played an equally essential role for the new presentation of the Kunstkammer. Yet, the 2,200 exhibits included in the collection could not be more different in nature: among the highlights are outstanding works of the goldsmith’s art, such as the famous Saliera by Benvenuto Cellini, first-rate specimens of sculpture, such as the Krumau Madonna, masterly bronze statuettes, filigree ivory objects, but also precious clocks, games and scientific instruments. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 27, 2013
Analytik Announces UK and Ireland Release of GL Optic SPECTIS 1.0 Touch
Analytik Announces UK and Ireland Release of GL Optic SPECTIS 1.0 Touch Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation to the UK and Ireland, partner with German company, GL Optic, for the supply of handheld and laboratory based spectroradiometers and integrating spheres for use in both quality control and research applications for the growing lighting marketplace. Here, Analytik announces the first Android-based mobile smart spectrometer for measurement of colour co-ordinates, correlated colour temperature, colour rendering index, luminous flux and many other important lighting parameters. Read more »
News-Spot | Lighting Applications | Feb 27, 2013
Intelligent LED Illumination Concept for an Exclusive Room Atmosphere
Intelligent LED Illumination Concept for an Exclusive Room Atmosphere dilitronics GmbH makes the rooms of the recently opened SCALA Turm Hotel (a 4-star hotel) dazzlingly shine: The experts of the high-tech company of Jena developed a sophisticated illumination concept for the second tallest hotel in Germany based completely on LED technique and digital control components. Light stripes integrated into ceilings and walls can produce a broad color spectrum, allowing for room atmospheres according to one's individual wishes. By implementing the dilitronics company's complete package, which includes drivers for dimming and controlling the colors as well as the power supply units and luminaires, the SCALA Turm Hotel can count on a modern and, at the same time, energy-saving system of illumination. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 25, 2013
English Translation of the Reference Book "Conformal Coatings for Electronics Applications" Now Available
English Translation of the Reference Book "Conformal Coatings for Electronics Applications" Now Available Depending on the requirements, conformal coatings, thick film lacquers or casting compounds may be employed for the purpose of protecting electronic assemblies against climatic load. Their main task is the protection against malfunction or failure of the completed assemblies, even under difficult operating conditions. While the majority of assemblies are installed unprotected in the terminals, and work flawlessly throughout their whole life cycle, with certain applications a permanent operation can only be ensured when the printed circuit board assembly receives a protective coating. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 14, 2013
Bayer's Polycarbonate Facilitated PolyBrite to Develop Award-Winning Bulb
Bayer's Polycarbonate Facilitated PolyBrite to Develop Award-Winning Bulb If every American home replaced just one light bulb with a light bulb that's earned the Energy Star, it would save enough energy to light 3 million homes for a year, save about $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent 9 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions per year – equivalent to those from about 800,000 cars – according to Energy Star. Read more »
News-Spot | Lighting Applications | Feb 12, 2013
Grah Lighting Products to Illuminate Ski Track in Norway
Grah Lighting Products to Illuminate Ski Track in Norway Environmentally friendly LED technology is suitable for installation in nature, hence Grah Lighting’s products will illuminate cross-country ski track in Northern Europe. Cutting-edge technology will enable the usage of ski track in long winter evenings. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Feb 05, 2013
LightingEurope Announces Election of Executive Board
LightingEurope is pleased to announce the election of Mr. Dietmar Zembrot as President of the Executive Board, Mr. Jan Denneman as the Vice-President, and Mr. Diederik de Stoppelaar as Treasurer. Additional Board members include: Alfred Haas (Osram), Peter Hunt (The Lighting Industry Association), Thomas Walentowski (BLV), André ten Bloemendal (NLA), Peter Dillen (Havells-Sylvania), Jean Michel Trouis (Syndicat de l'Eclairage), Francois Séguineau (Toshiba), Johan Segers (AGORIA), Harald Sommerer (Zumtobel), Markku Norhio (AFLE), Alfredo Berges (ANFALUM), Alvaro Andorlini (ASSIL), and Klaus Breisch (Panasonic). Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 31, 2013
Lextar Announces Official Merger with Wellypower
Lextar Electronics Corp. announces that its official merger with Wellypower Optronics (Wellypower) is set to take place on February 1, 2013. Upon the merger of the two LED subsidiaries of AU Optronics (AUO), Lextar will have capital values at NT$5 billion (US$169 million) and will be able to achieve a more complete and vertically integrated business model as well as further expand its LED lighting and backlighting product lines and customer base. These developments will take place under the wing of Dr. David Su, who will proclaim status of Chairman and CEO while Mr. Allen Huang will act as President. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 28, 2013
Marl International and Bivar Create Global Opto Alliance with Manufacturing on Three Continents
California-based LED lighting manufacturer Bivar Inc and UK-based Marl International have formed an international opto-electronics partnership with manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia and a portfolio of approximately 24,000 high performance LED and light pipe products. The partnership will supply and support customers around the world through a global network of agents and distributors. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 23, 2013
Avantes BV and Tornado Spectral Systems Partner to Design High-Performance Spectroscopy Solutions
Avantes BV (“Avantes”) and Tornado Spectral Systems (“Tornado”) are pleased to announce a partnership for the design, manufacture and distribution of a new line of high performance spectrometers. Under the terms of this cooperation, Tornado will utilize its signature proprietary technology, the High Throughput Virtual Slit (“HTVS”), to design a series of high performance spectrometers which will be manufactured and distributed worldwide by Avantes and its partners/distributors. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 23, 2013
One More Type of SPARK Tube Light Successfully Passed the VDE Authentication
One More Type of SPARK Tube Light Successfully Passed the VDE Authentication Recently, one more tube light of SPARK passed the VDE ( Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker)authentication. Over the years, relying on its continuous innovation and unremitting efforts, Spark has grown up as benchmarking brand in LED industry. While constantly consolidating and strengthening its domestic leadership, SPARK is positively exploring an overseas high-end market. Spark, successfully passing a series of strict and authoritative international authentications, can participate the international competition on a higher platform. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 18, 2013
TDK-Lambda opens Advanced Technology Centre in Bristol
TDK Corporation announces the opening of TDK-Lambda’s new EMEA Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) in Bristol. Located at the Bristol and Bath Science Park, the Advanced Technology Centre has been set up to accelerate TDK-Lambda’s current and planned power supply technology developments. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 15, 2013
Yole Développement Announces: Packaging Cost Reduction Is Driving New Technology and Design Adoption
Yole Développement Announces: Packaging Cost Reduction Is Driving New Technology and Design Adoption Yole Développement announces today its new report “LED packaging”. Compared to the last edition, this update version provides you an update of all market metrics (packaged LED, equipment, materials…), an highlight of 2012 LED packaging trends (design, new technologies and materials per process step…) and lots of additional analysis (wafer bonding, thermal management at the LED module level…). Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 15, 2013
Research & Markets - OLED for Lighting 2012 Report: How to Drive OLED to a $1.7B Market Opportunity by 2020
OLED revenue has been driven mainly by display applications (smartphones.) but the industry is now targeting the lighting market based on the technology specificities in terms of design (form factor) and efficiency. On this new battleground, OLED will have to compete with LED technology which has already paved the way with a revolution in Solid State Lighting (SSL) that has drawn attention away from OLED over the last 10 years. Added to that, the high cost of OLED technology will not make mass market penetration easier and current low efficacy could slow adoption. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 14, 2013
Philips Lumileds appoints SILICA as a Pan-European Distribution Partner
Silica, an Avnet, Inc. company, and Philips Lumileds announced they have signed a distribution agreement which comes into effect immediately. Under the terms of the agreement, SILICA will support sales, marketing and support activities for Philips Lumileds full line of LED products in Europe. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 14, 2013
Cree's New XLamp XM-L 2 with 186 lpw Is Now Available
Cree's New XLamp XM-L 2 with 186 lpw Is Now Available The new XM-L 2 LED from Cree achieves a luminous efficacy of up to 186 lumens per watt at an operating current of 350 mA and is available for purchase from over MSC. This corresponds to a level of performance that has been achieved up to three years only under laboratory conditions. The new generation of LEDs based on the SC ³ Technology ™ platform, offering at the same price of the XM-L twice as many lumens and 20 percent more lumens per watt. Thus, LED lighting manufacturers provide less expensive and lighter systems. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 10, 2013
Analytik Ltd. Announces Distribution Agreement with GL Optics
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation to the UK and Ireland, partner with German company, GL Optic, for the supply of handheld and laboratory based spectroradiometers and integrating spheres for use in both quality control and research applications for the growing lighting marketplace. Here, Analytik reports on how Astro Lighting makes use of this product in their development of new LED lighting. Read more »
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