LEDVANCE Continues Its Transformation

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LEDVANCE made an statement that it would continue its transformation after confirming the job cut at the headquarters in America last week. The noted lighting provider intends to also reduce its headcount at the factories and headquarters in Germany so as to fully focus on developing profitable high-growth business segments. The company and the employee […]

Honglitronic, Epistar Team Up to Innovate Automotive Lighting Applications

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Chinese LED packager Honglitronic has been devoted to the development of products for automotive lighting. It lately collaborated with Taiwan-based LED chip giant Epistar to form a strategic alliance, aiming to harness resources from both sides to develop automotive lighting products. Automotive lighting will be one of the highlights of both companies in the short […]

How LED Technology Has Impacted the Factory Lighting Industry

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Manufacturing spaces have drastically evolved from the dark conditions associated with the industrialism of past decades. Although these times were important to the development of western culture and wealth, they also hugely influenced the global warming crisis that we find ourselves in today. Businesses are now going the extra mile to be recognized as energy […]

Dutch grower uses supplemental LED lighting to boost lily yield

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Alstroemeria grower Together2Grow has trialed an SSL system as a supplement to high-pressure sodium lighting in greenhouses and realized a 20% yield increase. Plessey has announced the results of a horticultural LED lighting trial at Alstroemeria grower Together2Grow located in Poeldijk, South Holland, the Netherlands. The grower worked with Plessey to test LED lighting as […]

Osram delivers prototype of 1024-pixel LED headlamp hybrid assembly

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After a completed R&D project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration, Infineon, Hella, and Daimler, Osram is demonstrating a prototype of an LED headlamp hybrid module with more than 1000 pixels and integrated driver electronics. Osram Opto Semiconductors along with Osram Specialty Lighting has announced the demonstration of the Eviyos automotive LED headlamp […]

Lumileds brings Stylist white LED technology to mid-power packages

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LEDs with spectral power distribution tuned to optimally illuminate specific goods in retail markets from fashion to food are intended to boost sales to the end customer who sees the displayed items accurately. Lumileds has announced an extension of its Luxeon Stylist LED technology to a range of components that will be supplied in mid-power […]

DOE publishes Gateway report on OLED office lighting

The US Department of Energy has studied new open-plan office lighting at a New York accounting firm, and found the SSL installation pleasant for the employees yet trailing LED luminaires in efficiency. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published another in its series of Gateway reports that evaluate the performance of real-world solid-state lighting […]

Acuity welcomes competitors into its broad Atrius IoT program

In an interview with LEDs Magazine, Acuity VP Greg Carter discusses the wide-ranging uses for Internet-connected lighting, and the myriad technologies that will enable lights to track assets, provide navigation, and such. It’s a wide playing field. It sure sounded good when LED lighting vendor Acuity introduced a smart lighting brand called Atrius in May. […]

Spanish soccer team turns to LED lighting for better broadcast quality

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Philips’ ArenaVision LED lighting will support ultrahigh-definition TV for Sevilla FC when the team opens the 2017–18 season. Another major sports team is making the switch to LED stadium lighting, as Spanish soccer team Sevilla FC (Seville Football Club) will open its season under new field illumination from Philips. Both Philips and Sevilla heralded the […]

LED products export to countries along The Belt & Road in First quarter reached 637 million USD

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“The Belt & Road” International Cooperation Summit Forum held in Beijing from May 14, 2017 to 15th, the forum is the highest standard of forum activities since the “B&R” was put forward more than 3 years ago. It is this year’s important home diplomatic activities of our country, to promote international and regional cooperation is […]

Electrons used to Control Ultrashort Laser Pulses

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We may soon get better insight into the microcosm and the world of electrons. Researchers at Lund University and Louisiana State University have developed a tool that makes it possible to control extreme UV light – light with much shorter wavelengths than visible light. The new method uses strong laser pulses to direct the short […]

Ho Chi Minh City will replace 196,000pcs public LED lighting products

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According to the Vietnamese Saigon economic times reported on February 19, in order to save energy, Ho Chi Minh City Office of Commerce, recently proposed to the city authority a letter in 2016-2020 in the city all of the State public lighting with LED lamps. At present, Ho Chi Minh state lighting products, about 196,000 […]