Policy & Standard
LED Bankruptcy Wave: Chinese Companies "Trip", Taiwanese Companies ...
Jul 24,2013
Chinese banks' recent credit crunch has impacted the LED industry. More than 100 LED manufacturers have defaulted as a result in Eastern and Southern China this year. Taiwanese LED manufacturers have emerged as the beneficiaries of the industry ...
Final Draft of America "Energy Star" Lamps V1.0 Specification Comes out
Jul 16,2013
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued the final draft of "Energy Star" Lamps V1.0 specification, the specification is intended to replace the existing the Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs, V4.3) and Integral LED Lamp (V1.4) ...
Architects Team with Hud to Promote Rebuild by Design Regional Design ...
Jul 08,2013
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today announced a communications campaign urging its membership to enter the "Rebuild by Design" multi-stage regional design competition announced by Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary ...
55 LED Lighting Enterprises in Huli District to Enjoy Preferential Policy
Jun 27,2013
According to Xiamen Dongdu Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, 55 LED lighting enterprises in Huli district will enjoy the preferential policy on their exports. The Dongdu Inspection and Quarantine Bureau will provide these LED lighting enterprises with ...
Xiamen Government Helps LED Enterprises to Realize Breakthrough
Jun 25,2013
Last year, the exports of electric light source and lighting fixture in Xiamen reached US $ 800 million. The export of high-end products in Xiamen was the first and the industrial chain in Xiamen was the most complete in China. Reporters recently learned ...
Open Cell Business Model Is a Threat to Blu Makers, Says Radiant Chairman
Jun 20,2013
The growing adoption of the open cell business model in the LCD panel industry has generated different views on the future of the backlight unit (BLU) sector, said Wang Pen-Jan, chairman of Taiwan-based BLU maker Radiant Opto-Electronics. Panel makers ...
New Csun Solar Manufacturing Facility in Turkey Opens Door for Maker
Jun 19,2013
China-based solar firm China Sunergy (Csun) announced the opening of its new solar product manufacturing facility in Turkey at the end of May. This announcement came days before the announcement regarding anti-dumping tariffs of 11.8% on China-made solar ...
May 31,2013
The Colour Rendering Index or CRI is one of the key metrics lighting specifiers review during the specification process. It is the relative scale on which we compare how well light sources reflect colours back to the human eye. CRI has been a standard ...
SSL Expert Dr. Bernhard Stapp Named to Board of Pioneering LED Technology ...
May 24,2013
Former OSRAM General Manager and CTO Has Played Key Role In Industry's Evolution, Will Aid Aledia's Move Towards Industrialization Aledia, a pioneering developer of WireLED®, a new microwire-based 3D LED technology that dramatically cuts manufacturing ...
Aoto LED Display Celebrated Asean Foreign Ministers’Retreat in Brunei 2013
May 06,2013
AOTO has completed to install one High resolution LED display in Brunei international convention center in the early of April, 2013. It will serve for kinds of ASEAN meeting as the LED back wall for ministers. This is a new LED application record in high ...
Country and Urban Roads Emerge From The Dark
Apr 15,2013
The availability of solar panels and LEDs (light emitting diodes) have enabled the illumination of roads and streets in areas where it is difficult or costly to access power. This is not only for remote areas because even in densely populated city areas, ...
Global Solar Installations to Exceed 35GW in 2013, Says IHS
Apr 12,2013
Global solar installations are forecast to exceed 35GW in 2013, equivalent to growth of 12%, according to IHS. Global solar installations in 2012 grew 14% on year to reach 31.4GW. Contrary to many other more pessimistic predictions for the industry, ...
Fujian Issued LED Popularization Policies in 2013 Plan
Apr 11,2013
Fujian Information Technology has released its 2013 plan on information industry and informatization development on its website on 15th January, in which it said to accelerate LED generalization and the implementation of hundreds of billions industry ...
Leeds Consults Residents on 'lights out' Policy
Apr 03,2013
Leeds council could potentially save over 1m Leeds City Council is consulting residents on proposals to turn off street lights at certain times of the night to save 1.3 million over 10 years. The local authority has more than 92,000 street lights, ...
Mexico Department of Energy to issue a mandatory LED technology and ...
Mar 29,2013
Mexico's Ministry of Energy issued on 22 June, 2012 a mandatory technical regulation (NOM-030-ENER-2012) that establishes new minimum energy efficiency standards, test procedures, sampling, conformity assessment and labelling requirements for ...
Leeds Consults Residents on "Lights Out" Policy
Mar 25,2013
Leeds City Council is consulting residents on proposals to turn off street lights at certain times of the night to save £1.3 million over 10 years. The local authority has more than 92,000 street lights, consuming £4 million in electricity every year, ...
Birds of a Feather Die Together
Mar 21,2013
LED lighting is being used to stop geese flying into a wall In the seaside town of Scarborough, LED lighting is being used to stop geese dying after flying into the side of a block of flats. Or as the Daily Mail describes it, ‘an invisible wall of ...
U. S. Embassy Innovation Center Opens with Award-Winning Leds
Mar 11,2013
President of Finland Sauli Niinistö and Bruce Oreck, U.S. Ambassador to Finland, announced the opening of the U.S. Embassy Innovation Center in Helsinki, Finland, noting it is the first building in the world to use virtually all DOE Next Generation ...
LED Firms in Greater China Need to Accelerate Standardization, Says Expert
Mar 11,2013
LED lighting needs to have a unified standard, said Horng-Ching Hsiao, professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and a member of The Illuminating Engineering Society of Taiwan. Hsiao noted that in recent years, the LED lighting ...
Manufacturing, Food Industries First in Line for Industry Innovation ...
Mar 01,2013
The Federal Government is embarking on a new round of consultation on Industry Innovation Precincts, one of the initiatives announced in the $1 billion Plan for Australian Jobs. The Minister for Industry and Innovation Greg Combet said stakeholder ...
