v2 Lighting Group, Inc., the high-end modern lighting company known for innovative designs and meticulous quality, today announced it will introduce its new LED lighting fixture, CORE, at LightShow/West in Los Angeles on October 26th and 27t

Sources imform that Europes households have set off widely banning inefficient 60 watt light bulbs from 1 September 2011. The inefficient 60 watt light bulbs are being taken place of compact fluorescent light bulbs ( CFLs ) and light emittin

LEDinside: Are LEDs Really a Suitable Replacement for 40W Incandescent Bulbs? A Look at Cost-Performance Ratio In consideration of whether or not LED light bulbs are truly a proper replacement for 40W incandescent bulbs, as major manufacture

IKEA Israel has discontinued its sale of incandescent bulbs, the first retailer in the Jewish State to do so. The company stopped selling the bulbs effective last Thursday, September 1. Instead, IKEA is restricting its lighting sales to item

Based on Gekkos award-winning technology, kedo-sk is a single-colour Fresnel-focused hard source luminaire optimised for the requirements of image capture for both film and broadcast. Available in either daylight (5600 kelvin) or tungsten (3

LEDforum Taipei: A Grasp on LED End Market Trends in 2012; LEDinside Analyst Team Provides Industry Outlook Due to low demand in the large-size backlight market in 1H11, LEDinside expects many manufacturers to turn their main focus to lighti

Aixtron SE has a new order for four CRIUS II MOCVD systems in a 55x2-inch configuration from Chinas Jiangsu Canyang Optoelectronics, a joint venture with Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi). The company is seeking a smooth pr

Germanys annual power consumption is approximately 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) or 500 trillion watt-hours, with lighting accounting for almost 12 percent of that figure. Today, as much as 11.5 TWh or 20 percent of the electricity needed for lig

Power Integrations introduced a new reference design (DER-281) detailing an 85%-efficient, 15 W PAR38 downlight driver that delivers flicker-free dimming without the use of unreliable high-voltage electrolytic bulk capacitors. Typical TRIAC

GT Advanced Technologies Inc., (NASDAQ: GTAT), today announced that Cheryl Diuguid, vice president and general manager of Sapphire Equipment and Materials will present at the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium on September 8, 2011 at

Illumitex, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a joint research and business development relationship with Syngenta. Through the alliance, Syngenta will utilize Illumitexs patented LED technology to develop next generation growing pr

Nualight has signed a multi-million dollar deal to install LED lighting in the refrigerators and freezers of 800 co-operative food stores in the UK.

Cree has acquired Ruud Lighting, including its specialist LED brand BetaLED, for $525 million and plans to operate the acquisition as a subsidiary of Cree Lighting.

The acquisition of a strong LED lighting company is intended to help Cree drive the market adoption of LEDs. LEDs Magazine discussed the deal with Cree’s CEO, Chuck Swoboda.

Rubicon Technology has the capability to produce 8-inch sapphire wafers at all its facilities; Fourteen Relume outdoor products were recognized by IDA; Aurora Lighting purchased an integrated sphere from Pro-Lite and startup DLP raised over

The LED-centric patent fight between Osram and Korea-based LG and Samsung escalates with new complaints and counter moves.