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Agreement covers Rambus' patented innovations for edge-lit lighting solutions
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, and Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies, today announced they have signed a licensing agreement for the use of Rambus' patented lighting innovations.
Daybrite, Capri Omega, Morlite, Guth Chloride, Lam: Effective Date: 2 JUL 2012; Average Increase: 5%
Read the price increase letter from Bob Carswell III
Crescent Stonco: Effective Date: 2 JUL 2012; Average Increase: 5%
Read the price increase letter from Jim Lewis.
Lighting Industry Veteran K.R. (Kaj) den Daas to Join Company’s Board
Satellite Beach, Florida, May 7, 2012 – Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG), North America’s largest LED bulb manufacturer, announced today that K.R (Kaj) den Daas, a leading figure in the worldwide lighting industry, will be joining Company's board of directors.
More than ten members will be exhibiting Zhaga-compliant LED products at Lightfair International; Will make LED luminaires more future-proof
PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 3, 2012/PRNewswire/ -- "Our specifications substantially change the LED lighting market by reducing the risks of developing LED lighting products," Menno Treffers, Zhaga's General Secretary, gets to the heart of the matter - the future belongs to the interchangeability of LED light sources from different manufacturers.
Michael Siminovitch, director of the California Lighting Technology Center, has been named the first Arthur H. Rosenfeld Chair in Energy Efficiency at the University of California, Davis. The designation honors both Siminovitch, a professor of design whose work is revolutionizing lighting throughout California, and Rosenfeld, considered the “father of energy efficiency.”
Read more at UCDavis.edu.
Analysts suggest many potential valuations for Osram -- from as high as $11.4 billion when the IPO market is hot to as low as $5.6 billion when the market is not. But here's the thing: Even at its most expensive, Osram looks much cheaper than Cree.
Read more at Daily Finance.
“I am proud of my idea,” said Wheeler. “Bruton and I did a lot of great things together. I think we helped to change NASCAR in some way. A lot of the things we did at Charlotte were mutual ideas. The lights were not one of them.”
Read more at CBS Sports.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Competition Bureau announced that Maxzone Auto Parts (Canada) Corp. (Maxzone Canada) pleaded guilty yesterday for its role in an international cartel involving the sale of aftermarket replacement automotive lights and was fined $1.5 million.
Read more at MarketWatch.
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 3, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (GE - News) -- GE's award-winning Energy Smart(R) Bright from the StartTM bulb is the nation's first hybrid CFL light bulb to receive ENERGY STAR(R) qualification. This innovative hybrid bulb combines the best features of an incandescent, CFL and halogen bulb in one. The result is an instant-on technology that uses 75 percent less energy than an incandescent bulb and lasts eight times longer.
Read more.
Central Hudson Gas & Electric is implementing a commercial lighting program, under a four-year contract with Lime Energy Co., that aims to complete 5,000 energy efficiency projects. The program will serve small and medium-sized commercial customers that have peak energy demands under 350 kilowatts, and will help offset energy efficiency improvement costs by up to 70 percent, according to Lime Energy
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SAN JOSE, Calif.---SWITCH Lighting™, the first company to launch a complete family of 40W to 100W equivalent LED light bulbs with real incandescent quality light, has announced that its SWITCH75 bulb was selected as a silver winner in the Smart Systems category at The Edison Awards. At the sold-out April 26th event in New York City, Tracy Bilbrough joined hundreds of senior executives from some of the world’s most recognized companies to acknowledge the innovations and achievements of all of the 2012 Edison Award winners. Read more at EON.
Litecontrol, which is now represented by Storm Lighting Solutionsin the UK, benchmarks its products against the certification programme that was conceived by architect William McDonough and chemist Dr Michael Braungart who formed McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC). MBDC administers the Cradle-to-Cradle programme, evaluating products and awardingC2C Certification. Read more
The largest battle pits Siemens AG (SIE)’s Osram unit against Korean electronics makers LG Electronics Inc. (066570) and Samsung Electronics Co. Each is trying to block the other from bringing their LEDs into the U.S. through four trials in Washington that began April 26. Lawsuits also are pending in Germany, Korea, Japan and China. Read more.
Milford, CT (PRWEB) April 27, 2012
Q-Tran Inc. introduces remote LED power supplies that are listed to be directly buried into the ground, providing a great distribution point to power all your LED lighting.
The Q-SETeLED & Q-SETMLED Power Supplies remotely power LED lighting. These products mount directly into the Q-VAULT-5, an IP68 listed enclosure, capable of being buried into the ground or in concrete. Read more.
- Q1 adj EPS $1.06 vs est $1.00
- Q1 rev up 9 pct
- Sees FY EPS $4.25-$4.40
- Sees FY total rev growth of 6-8 percent
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NEXS) today announced that it is exploring strategic alternatives available to the company, including a possible sale. The Board of Directors intends to consider the full range of available options. The company also announced that it has engaged Canaccord Genuity to assist in the evaluation of these options.
Lighting manufacturer Soraa is on the verge of shipping the first of its potentially revolutionary line of LED MR16 lamps. Based on a technology that grows an LED's photon-producing gallium nitride crystal on gallium nitride itself, allowing the LED to run on more current and generate 10 times more light, the lamps will be the first to offer quality performance equivalent to that of a 50W halogen MR16, according to the company. And without $100 million in venture capital funding, it's unlikely that the company, or its ability to pursue this line of research, ever would have existed.
Read more at Architectural Lighting
April 30, 2012 - Cathode Lighting Systems Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD) is pleased to announce that in a nullity suit proceeding, initiated by Cathode Lighting Systems Inc., against German patent DE 10 2004 003 871 "Fluorescent Lamp" (by Feelux Co., Ltd. Korea), the German Federal Court of Patents in Munich decided on December 28, 2011 to revoke the Feelux patent in the scope of its main claim 1 and its subclaims 2, 3 and 6.
Taipei, April 30, 2012 (CENS)--Delta Electronics Inc. is vigorously boosting its LED lighting production capacity by 150% in 2013 to keep up with brisk demand.
Taiwan’s spectacular hikes of electricity rates, which will be enforced on May 15, have fueled demand for energy-saving products, including LED lamps. Delta’s weekly shipments of LED lamps in April have risen three times from March and its production lines will be inundated with orders at least through July, according to the company.
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McClear: “TEMPO 24 includes a fully accredited LM-79 test, but goes well beyond this or any currently existing standards. Cree has identified through our years of SSL experience nearly a dozen other potential problem sources of LED luminaire design. Our goal is the same as our customers – and their customers as well – quality SSL products that save energy. TEMPO 24 helps ensure this and gives customers the information they need to design and specify an SSL product with confidence." Read more.
Sometimes microcap stocksfall just because no one is paying attention. The directors of Orion Energy Systems (AMEX:OESX) clearly think their company is one such. Read more at Forbes.
FRANKFURT – German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG (SI) intends to retain a stake of over 25% in its lighting unit Osram AG, which could be listed publicly in the autumn of 2012, Chief Executive Peter Loescher tells weekly newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag in an interview Sunday.
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Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/27/2012 -- Demand for lighting fixtures in the US is projected to increase 7.4 percent annually to $25.1 billion in 2016. This represents a recovery from the declines posted between 2006 and 2011, as both motor vehicle production and construction activity recover from low 2011 levels.
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3Q: sales to the Commercial / Industrial lighting market decreasing 14%.Lighting is well-positioned with the right products and sales programs to move forward. Read more.
Everlight Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Nichia in US Court Seeking To Enjoin Manufacture and Importation of Infringing Products and Monetary Damages; Asks US Court to Declare Two Nichia Patents Invalid. Read more at 4-Traders.com.
EdisonReport can confirm that Peachtree Lighting has halted their operations 'due to the current situation.' A recording at their office indicates they anticipate that this is a temporary move and they will be in touch with all involved parties shortly.
Read about the 18% growth in sales at Yahoo! Finance. Read about the drop in profits at BusinessWeek.
Leading LED chip manufacturers Nichia and Everlight, headquartered in Japan and Taiwan respectively, have re-ignited a long-running feud with two new lawsuits claiming patent infringement.
Nichia, regarded as the world’s largest maker of white LEDs by sales, kicked off the new round of litigation after a recent court victory in Germany. On March 29, a Düsseldorf court ruled that Harvatek, another Taiwanese LED maker, had infringed the European counterpart of Nichia’s US patent 5,998,925 (the ‘925 patent). Read more at Optics.org.
There was a $9 million decrease in lighting sales as it lost short-term momentum due to the agent transition. Read more at Forbes.
OMAHA, Neb., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Valmont Industries, Inc. (NYSE: VMI) has increased the Company's quarterly cash dividend effective this July. The second quarter cash dividend will be 22.5 cents per share payable on July 16, 2012 to shareholders of record on June 29, 2012.
GVT Fund leads Series E financing propelling LED Engin to expand its growth in the global LED market
San Jose, CA, USA: April 23, 2012: LED Engin, Inc., a California-based solid-state lighting company specializing in high lumen density LED lighting components and optics, today announced the successful completion of its Series E financing. GVT Fund, a leading technology fund led the round and was joined by co-investor MSIVC, existing investors WK Technology Fund, Partech International, NGP Energy Technology Partners, and independent investor and Chairman, Dr. Keh-Shew Lu.
In Lighting after a declining trend over the past several quarters, we have delivered a sequential improvement in performance, as changes to the organizational structure and operational improvements start making an impact. The steep decline in profitability over the past several quarters in lighting has led some people to jump to the conclusion that the deterioration in performance is due to the transformation to LED. I would like to clarify our view on the Lighting business.
(Reuters) - Philips Electronics (PHG.AS) reported better-than-expected quarterly results, buoyed by one-off gains and a stronger performance at its consumer and healthcare businesses, in the first signs of a long-awaited turnaround under new management.
While noting the turnaround in the first quarter, van Houten flagged the need for further restructuring, and said Philips must do more to shake up its corporate culture - considered to be overly consensus-driven and cautious - in order to get its new products onto the market quicker.
Operating profit for the lighting division, which has been hit by a slowdown in the construction market, picked up from the fourth quarter but was still sharply down from a year ago. Read more.
- Net Income doubled on a 26% sales increase.
- First quarter Utility Support Structures Segment sales rose 52%, operating income increased 86%.
- First quarter Irrigation Segment sales improved 30%, operating income increased 61%.
- Coatings Segment sales rose 13%, operating income increased 60%.
- Operating income improved in the Engineered Infrastructure Products Segment on a 17% increase in sales.
Sales at the electrical segment -- which contributes about 70 percent to total revenue -- rose to $505.1 million from $466.1 million.
Read more.
Your humble editor sat down with Zia Eftekhar, President, Lighting North America, at Light and Building tradeshow in Frankfurt.
Randy: What is the overall focus for Philips at this show?
Your humble editor met with Roger Sexton, VP of Specifier Service at Xicato. Xicacto has a large tent on the pavilion between the major buildings of the show.
DURHAM, N.C., Apr 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cree, Inc. CREE -6.05% , a market leader in LED lighting, today announced revenue of $284.8 million for its third quarter of fiscal 2012, ended March 25, 2012. This represents a 30% increase compared to revenue of $219.2 million reported for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 and a 6% decrease compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2012. GAAP net income for the third quarter was $9.5 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, a decrease of 50% year-over-year compared to GAAP net income of $18.9 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2011. Read more at MarketWatch.
The world’s largest tradeshow for lighting and building service technology officially opened this morning—and it’s 9% larger than two years ago. Not surprising, the first person we saw at the show was Bill Brown—who is about 9% smaller than two years ago.
DURHAM, N.C., Apr 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- LED lighting leader Cree, Inc. CREE +3.33% , delivers another industry first with a barrier-breaking 254 lumen-per-watt white R&D power LED. This significant milestone exceeds Cree’s previous R&D industry record of 231 lumens per watt and demonstrates Cree’s continued commitment to accelerate the adoption of LED lighting.
80,000 rated hours for LED vs 12,000 hours for non-LED. I think these numbers would make Jim Brodrick blush.
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NEWARK, N.J., April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Public Service Electric & Gas Company (PSE&G) has begun installing LED lights that increase reliability and security, are environmentally friendly, and decrease light pollution.
EXCLUSIVE--MUST CREDIT EDISONREPORT
EdisonReport can confirm that after 44 years, Zia Eftekhar, CEO of Philips Professional Luminaires North America, has decided to retire at the end of 2012. He will be replaced by Bruno Biasiotta, presently with Johnson Controls.
Zia began his career in 1968 with Lightolier, which was later purchased by Genlyte, which was later purchased by Philips.
He has agreed to grant EdisonReport and exclusive in-depth interview at Light + Building next week. Stay tuned....
HAMPTON BEACH, N.H. -- Thousands of street lights statewide will soon go dark indefinitely because the state Transportation Department's utility budget has been cut in half.
Watch the video at WMUR
Philips Lumileds has fully launched LUXEON M which is now in volume production. The new emitter has already been approved for street lighting in major US cities with designs to be shown at Light + Building. LUXEON M’s high lumen output—more than 1100 lumens— and typical voltage of 11.2V drives down system cost and improves system performance through the use of low cost, highly efficient drivers. Read the press release.
Lumerica Corporation, the provider of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions, today announced that it has acquired LumaSmart Technology International’s LED lighting business.
Working with a $40 million, 10-year grant from the National Science Foundation, RPI is leading a consortium that includes Boston University and the University of New Mexico in developing and commercializing new technologies with the mission of fully exploiting the adaptive and controlling qualities of light.
Read more at The TimesUnion.com
"In my nearly two decades in senior management roles at major lighting companies, I have never seen any emerging technology with as much potential as Illumitex’s precision LED optics for the growing LED lighting market,”
Read the Press Release at MarketWatch.
Each morning when you pour your cereal, a quick glance at the nutrition label tells you how many calories you’re absorbing, what ingredients you’re digesting and a myriad of other facts. Now, that same idea is being applied to light bulbs.
Read more at Bloomberg.
The new Cree outdoor street-light unit will sell for under $200 when bought in volume, according to Ty Mitchell, a lighting executive at the North Carolina-based company. At that price, the new bulbs will be comparable in cost to traditional high-pressure sodium vacuum technology when maintenance and energy costs are included.
Read the article at The WSJ Online.
- Lamps: Average Increase 5%
- Magnetic Ballasts: 12%
- Electronic Ballasts: 3.5%
- LED: 0%
Read the letter from Timothy Lesch.
Benedict, who has made protection of the environment a theme of his papacy, made a reference to urban pollution in his homily. "Today we can illuminate our cities so brightly that the stars in the sky are no longer visible," he said. "Is this not an image of the problems caused by our version of enlightenment?"
Read the story from the Associated Press
Web journalists (present company included) are well aware that mentioning Apple Inc. in a headline draws the attention of search engines and readers alike. Apparently, Wall Street analysts aren’t above using the same tactic.
Read the story at Triangle Business Journal.
LIVERMORE, CA, Apr 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced the introduction of the Bridgelux(R) Cetero(TM) Spot Light Module (SLM) a compact high flux density light source delivering clean and consistent white light without pixilation and engineered to comply with the upcoming Zhaga spot light module specification. Read the Press Release.
A $54 million proposal to replace the more than 25,000 fixtures in the Big Dig tunnels is being touted by MassDOT officials as a “permanent solution” to fix the corroded lights inside the problem-plagued underground highway and ramp system.
The project, slated to begin this time next year pending the MassDOT board’s approval of a bid, would replace the corroding fluorescent fixtures that crashed into the spotlight in February 2011 after a 110-pound fixture fell.
Read the article at The Boston Herald.
"What a gift you have given to us. My kids are in 4 different schools, and I have started to recommend the glasses to various administrators and teachers because it is a shame for other kids to suffer."
Read the claims at LowBlueLights.com
(Reuters) - Lighting fixtures maker Acuity Brands Inc (AYI.N) posted a lower-than-expected second-quarter profit, hurt by higher material costs and expenses related to acquired businesses.
Read the details at Reuters.
Sharp combines up to 170 dies in one array in its LED modules. The highest-performing modules nearly reach 7,000 lm — a brightness which can otherwise only be achieved with multiple SMD LEDs. And the dies of the Sharp arrays are so tightly packed together that they result in a homogeneous, very compact light-emitting surface (LES)
Read the details at EE Times.
The key was getting diamonds to stick to semiconductor material, said Ephesus Technologies President Joe Casper. He said his company, in partnership with Group4 Labs, a company in the San Francisco Bay area, has developed a way to get the semiconductor material to adhere to a diamond substrate.
Read their claims at Syracuse.com
DURHAM, N.C., Apr 03, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- LED lighting leader Cree, Inc. CREE -2.12% , extends the high-performance LMH2 module family with new 2000 and 3000 lumen output options, delivering better performance, longer lifetime and lower system cost than comparable compact fluorescents in commercial lighting. The LMH2 module family now enables a wider range of lighting applications within a compact, cost-effective design.
A 400W HPS lighting system is being used in one Deluxe hydroponic grow box and the 126X-PRO Penetrator LED light is in the other. Both grow lighting systems are set up in the Deluxe grow boxes with the same airflow, hydroponic nutrients, SuperPonics-16 hydroponic systems and the same type of Black Krim tomato plants. Let the best light win!
Read the article at SFGate.com
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & ALTON, England, Apr 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Rambus Inc. RMBS -0.93% , one of the world(eqnx:)s premier technology licensing companies, today announced it has signed a license agreement with Fern Howard, a market-leading manufacturer of energy efficient lighting.
Siemens AG (SIE), which is seeking to sell shares in its lighting subsidiary Osram this year, is drafting plans for its first production plant for light-emitting diodes in China, two people familiar with the project said.
Osram has given the go-ahead for the project and is negotiating which parts of LEDs and related components it will produce in the country, said one of the people, who declined to be named as the plans haven’t yet been finalized.
Read the story at Bloomberg.
LAS VEGAS, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Las Vegas will once again show support for the World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour by shutting off non-essential exterior lighting and marquees from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 31.
SOLON, Ohio, March 29, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Energy Focus, Inc. (OTCBB:EFOI.OB - News) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011.
Financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011 include the following:
- Net sales of $6.1 million compared to $8.8 million for the fourth quarter 2010.
Read the details at Yahoo! Finance.
SARASOTA, Fla., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunovia Energy Technologies (OTC Bulletin Board: SUNV), a LED lighting company, announced today that Mel Interiano has been named Chief Executive Officer and a member of the company's board of directors.
FREMONT, Calif., March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Soraa, the world's leading developer of GaN on GaN(TM) - gallium nitride on gallium nitride - solid-state lighting technology, today announced the launch of its OUTDOOR LED MR16 lamp. Matching the performance of a 40W halogen MR16, Soraa's OUTDOOR LED MR16 is the first LED lamp in its class appropriate for use in outdoor and enclosed fixtures.
DURHAM, N.C., Mar 29, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- One year after introducing the revolutionary CR Series LED Troffer, Cree, Inc. CREE -1.10% is expanding the CR Troffer family to address more applications and to eliminate the use of antiquated fluorescent technology in new or retrofit commercial and industrial settings. Cree is also announcing new pricing to drive even faster payback for building contractors, designers and owners. Read the story at MarketWatch.
Chip designer Cirrus Logic (CRUS) is getting into the LED lighting market.
The Austin, Texas-based chipmaker said Wednesday that it is entering the market with a digital LED controller that it says solves dimmer compatibility issues that have been a major barrier to adoption of LED, or light-emitting-diode, retrofit bulbs. Read the story at Investors Business Daily.
Read the Patent Filing at Prior smArt.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: NEXS) today reported its full year 2011 results. Highlights include:
-- Full year revenue increased 66% to $9.0 million in 2011 versus $5.4
million in 2010
-- Sales of Array® LED replacement light bulbs increased 173% to $4.9
million in 2011 versus $1.8 million in 2010
(Montgomeryville, PA -- March 27th, 2012) Following its recent appointment of Bill Rymer to the position of CFO, LumenOptix, a leading U.S. designer and manufacturer of innovative retrofit lighting solutions, proudly announces its appointment of Yoram Weiss to the position of Director, Product Development and Technology.
The streetlights are supposed to be more efficient with an innovative energy-saving design, but residents have reported numerous outages....“There are people who have called and there have probably been a lot more [outages] than that,”
Read the local blog.
GE Lighting's Nela Park unearthed a 100-year-old time capsule along with five century-old light bulbs as they kick-off Nela Park's year long celebration of their 100th anniversary in East Cleveland. After pulling everything out of the time capsule, they tried to light one of the 100-year-old bulbs.
Read the story and watch the video at Cleveland.com.
GE Lighting Solutions has brought to market a recessed LED troffer that is dimmable and provides up to 26 percent savings in electricity cost relative to fluorescent alternatives.
Read the story in LEDs Magazine.
Billerica, Massachusetts USA-- Luminus Devices, Inc., manufacturer of Big Chip LEDs™, announced today that its Boston-area R&D and Testing Laboratory has been accredited to conduct testing on LEDs to the LM-80 standard, the approved method for measuring LED light sources.
Read the article at LIGHTimes Online.
"China is one of the most profitable markets (for Philips), so it has a big influence on the company."
Read more at ChinaDaily.com.cn
A source tells the new issue of Us Weekly that during a March 5 visit to NYC, "Jen picked out $20,000 worth of lights" at B4 It Was Cool, a high-end vintage lighting store. Read the story at US Weekly.
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Dutch consumer electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics (PHG: News,PHGFF.PK: News ) announced the appointment of Eric Rondolat as Chief Executive Officer of Lighting and member of its Executive Committee, effective April 1, 2012. Read the story at RTT News.
Rondolat made a movie at Schneider focused on Energy. Watch it here.
Mr Preece added that the new lights had created "an eerie, cold, cheerless and somewhat sinister effect". Read the story at This is Gloucestershire
GLEN ALLEN, Va., March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced the release of its latest report, "OLED Lighting Market Forecast Q2 2012." In the report NanoMarkets presents its outlook on the OLED lighting sector with some notable changes since its last release in 2011.
MOBILE, Alabama -- Thanks to the city's budget troubles, parks will shut off their lights after 6 p.m. starting April 1, according to an email circulating among volunteers and parents of children who participate in recreational sports leagues.
Read the story at AL.com
LIVERMORE, CA, Mar 19, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, announced today that their awarding-winning RS LED arrays have been selected by world-renown HELLA Lighting for the company's first down light designed specifically for the commercial and retail lighting markets.
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio, Mar 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GE Lighting President & CEO Maryrose Sylvester accepted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ENERGY STAR(R) Sustained Excellence Award last night at an awards ceremony in Washington D.C. It was the seventh consecutive year that GE's appliances and lighting businesses were recognized with the honor.
CINCINNATI, March 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LSI Industries Inc. (Nasdaq:LYTS - News) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Virticus Corporation, located in Beaverton, Oregon. Consideration for the purchase of all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Virticus consisted of $3.15 million in cash and a contingent payment opportunity (earn-out) of $5.0 million.
The global lighting industry has launched the Global Lighting Association, which is designed to be “the voice of the lighting industry on a global basis.”
Read the details at LEDs Magazine.
-----Original Message-----
From: DesignLights Consortium [mailto:designlights@NEEP.org]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:10 PM
To: info@designlights.org
Subject: DLC revises Product Family Grouping Fee
Importance: High
Dear LED Commercial Luminaire Manufacturer,
As of today, March 12, 2012, the DesignLights(tm) Consortium revises its fee for Product Family Member luminaires to $25 each from $20.
CINCINNATI, March 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LSI Industries Inc. (Nasdaq:LYTS - News) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Asbury Automotive Group Inc., the 6th largest automotive retailer in the country, to supply its LED site lighting in both new and existing facilities.
Read the details at Yahoo!
BALTIMORE, Md., Mar 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SWITCH Lighting(TM) today announced the launch of the SWITCH100, an A series 100 watt-equivalent LED replacement lamp for select commercial channels. The SWITCH100 is the first true 100 watt-equivalent A lamp with 1600 lumen output and a radial flux as good as an incandescent available to the market.
Just when you thought all was quiet on the light bulb front, along comes another spoon of outrage to stir the pot. The latest trouble bubbled up last week with an article in the Washington Postunder the rather overheated headline “Government-subsidized green light bulb carries costly price tag.” Read the article at Triple Pundit.
Utilities want to know whether L.E.D. streetlights, tens of thousands of which have already been installed in parts of many cities, including Seattle and Los Angeles, are a promising long-term technology that could shape large government contracts. Municipalities want to be sure that the significant savings in energy and costs L.E.D.’s can provide are sustainable enough to compensate for startup costs, but also that they do not threaten public safety or urban ambience.
Read the story at The New York Times.
On 8 March, The Washington Post published an article, "Government-Subsidized Green Light Bulb Carries Costly Price Tag." Read the article here.
Although your humble editor is no fan of subsidies or the Department of Energy (DOLED), the article is not fair. The first issue is in the title itself and the word 'subsidized', which implies that Uncle Sam is paying a portion of each lamp built. Not true. There was a contest which Philips won, but there is no ongoing transfer of payments between the US Government and Philips for each lamp produced.
The Atlanta-based company will take a pre-tax charge of about $15 million this year, with about $5 million expected to be recognized by the second quarter. Production from the facility, which accounts for less than 10 percent of the company's total sales, will be transferred to existing facilities in North America. Story, Video at 13WMAZ. Additional story at WSJ. More insight at The Macon Telegraph.
Robert S. Fremont, who founded both Halo Lighting, Inc, and Juno Lighting, Inc, died Feb. 25 at Eisenhower Memorial Hospital, surrounded by his loving family
Read the obituary at the Chicago Tribune
New optional features including 2.5 McAdams ellipses and L80 performance for up to 50,000 hours are also available for the VTLED and RTLED product lines.
ATLANTA – Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting, control and daylighting solutions, has expanded the Lithonia Lighting VTLED indoor ambient lighting series with new 100+ lumens per watt (LPW) luminaire. The 100+ LPW luminaire is a new standard offering for VTLED 2’ x 4’ and 1’ x 4’ configurations.
"Madonna had a definite and very strong idea of what she wanted, and the design was driven very largely by that," says LD Al Gurdon, in terms of the ultimate lighting design. "We ended with an amalgamation of our original concepts to deliver her vision, and I knew I would do something different, depending on which songs were sung, and that was decided rather late in the scheme of things."
Read the details at LIVE DESIGN.
Hampshire County Council has admitted that where the new, white street lighting has replaced the orange lighting, residents have reported the new lights are too bright.
Read the story at ThisisHampshire.Net
Warrendale, PA – March 7, 2012 – WE-EF LIGHTING USA, a leading manufacturer of Performance Exterior Lighting, has relocated its North American operations into a new state-of-the-art facility located at 410-D Keystone Drive, Warrendale, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
CHICAGO, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) convened a credentialing task force to assess prospective domains of practice and qualifications for an international architectural lighting design certification. This assessment will be conducted via online survey, and is a key component of the task force's efforts.
Silver Spring, MD—The comprehensive Residential Lighting Design Guide is now available free from the National Lighting Bureau. Developed by the UC Davis California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), the Guide is a resource of best practices and lighting designs applicable nationwide. It provides a technology overview of high-efficacy luminaires, switching controls, sensors, and dimmers and also includes diagrams of several spaces found in typical U.S. homes.
Lots of good stuff this month. Highlights are:
- Bill Parcells on turning a team around...
- Energy saving lighting specs for commercial buildings
- DOE reports on lighting energy consumption
- Made in USA......and selling abroad.
- The end of the T12
Siemens AG (SIE) and Royal Philips Electronics NV (PHIA), the world’s two-largest lighting makers, declined in German and Dutch trading after rival Zumtobel AG (ZAG) reported a surprise loss.
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A Hicksville-based commercial lighting company has informed the New York State Department of Labor that it intends to lay off almost a quarter of its workforce. Read the story at Long Island Business News.
Editor's Note: I am not making this up, but apparantly the pink light is unflattering to teenagers acne and this is a deterent. Read the story at BBC.
he Holst Centre and Solvay report advances in flexible OLED lighting panels. They present a bendable 69 cm2 OLED panel that features 30 lm/W efficiency at 1000 cd/m2: Read the details at OLED-Info
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored Municipal Solid-State Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) released an economic planning tool for cities considering or planning the installation of LED streetlights. The Excel-based analysis tool was developed by the MSSLC in collaboration with the Clinton Climate Initiative.
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(New York, NY – March 1st, 2012) Lighting Internet Technology Enterprises (LITE) proudly announces the official launch of its innovative “LED Fixture Locator,” a sister database to its popular “LED Lamp Locator.” Located at www.LEDFixtureLocator.com, the powerful new LED Fixture Locator complements the existing LED Lamp Locator by providing lighting professionals with unprecedented access to updated information on thousands of LED fixture products from hundreds of leading LED fixture manufacturers worldwide.
Cooper has filed suit against Elite Lighting in the Central District of California. Read the court filing. Read the docket
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SOLON, Ohio, March 5, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Energy Focus, Inc. (OTCBB:EFOI.OB - News) today announced that it has received a $4.9 million equity investment from a group ofinvestors. The investors agreed to purchase 19.6 million units for $0.25 per unit based on a formula involving the stock's 30 day average closing price prior to February 24, 2012. Read the details.
The LED-lighting startup Bridgeluxthis morning unveiled a deal with aChevron unit to finance the installation of LED lighting by city governments. Read the story at Forbes.
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG), the world's premier LED lighting manufacturer, introduced today a 4" version of its revolutionary Glimpse(TM) LED downlight.
The loss was driven by a $66-million noncash write-down of Visteon's lighting unit, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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DAVIS, CA – Professor Michael Siminovitch has been appointed the first Arthur H. Rosenfeld Chair in Energy Efficiency at the University of California, Davis. Siminovitch was selected for his innovative work in the field of energy-efficient lighting.
NEUTEX will be making that is to be assembled entirely by United States Armed Forces Veterans.
Norcross, GA. February 27, 2012 – Halco is pleased to announce that Kim Cook will assume the position as President of Halco Lighting Technologies. She will also retain her current title as Chief Operating Officer, which she has held since 2005.
Low-voltage halogen lamps are to begin to be banned from next year under draft legislation drawn up by the European Commission, Lux magazine can reveal.
12V MR16 lamps are the workhorses of retail, commercial and, increasingly, residential lighting and millions are sold every year in the EU. But under Ecodesign legislation, ‘poor performing’ versions are to be phased out from next year.
Read the article in LUX Magazine.
DAVIS, Calif., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- California cities could save more than $675 million over the next 15 years through economic streetlight upgrades, based on research conducted by the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) at UC Davis.
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- UL (Underwriters Laboratories), a world leader in advancing safety, today announced it has been named a Zhaga authorized testing center. This credential, coupled with UL's LTL, Europe, and Nansha positions UL as one of the most comprehensive LED testing organizations in the world.
Philips released a new roadmap for their OLED lighting products. The company decided to split its OLED offering into two families - one for decorative lighting and one for performance lighting. The decorative panels are normally reflective in the off state, and Philips will offer transparent ones as soon as next year.
Read the story at OLED-Info.com
Certain levels or combinations of light trigger enzymes in the brain. Those enzymes cause emotional responses within the body – states we recognize as stress or calmness or happiness.
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GE Lighting (NYSE:GE) is taking its energy-saving, cost-reducing lighting solutions on the road again with the 2012 GE Lighting Revolution Tour. This tradeshow on wheels is designed to give designers, distributors, architects, contractors, facility maintenance and utility executives a first-hand experience of GE's latest innovations in lighting technology.
Editor's Note: The timing of Rick Earlywine's announcement is curious as the IES Progress Report was held in Noverber of 2011.
ATLANTA – Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting solutions, announced today a total of 10 lighting products, including new LED lamps, luminaires and lighting control software, have been selected by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) to be included in its annual Progress Report.
The Company has engaged its current independent registered public accounting firm to re-audit and restate its fiscal 2011 year-end financial statements rather than its prior independent registered public accounting firm which previously audited such statements.
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The company said the disappointing quarter reflected “weak demand from the LED market due to excess inventory in the LED supply chain.”
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Mexico’s Ministry of Energy is seeking comments by 20 March on a proposal to establish new mandatory minimum energy efficiency standards, test procedures, sampling, conformity assessment and labelling requirements for light-emitting diode lamps for general lighting purposes.
LONDON, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Growth in the European energy efficient lighting market is being driven primarily by European Union legislation to phase out incandescent lamps and other inefficient lighting technologies. Market prospects are, however, being dimmed by concerns over the quality of energy efficient products, as well as their relatively high initial cost.
Other theories suggest a process called carrier leakage, in which at high currents the carriers start to spill away from areas of high performance, or another process, called carrier delocalization, where electrons simply fail to find a paired hole at high electric currents because they are pulled away from the active region where electrons and holes are supposed to recombine and emit light.
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MOVES to switch street lights off after midnight have raised fears for the safety of people out at night and for motorists using darkened urban streets. A bid to save £500,000 a year on electricity bills will see lights turned off from midnight until 5.30am throughout Warwickshire.
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With 8:10 left in the second quarter of a ho-hum 33-32 Pacers lead, the lights slowly faded to black like somebody trying to set the mood. It really looked like somebody slowly faded out the lights like it was a movie theater.
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"With LEDs, the metal benders in the lighting business are starting to discover Moore’s Law."
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- Only company committed to being in the lighting business
- Philips Hired 3000 people in the US last year; still have 1000 openings
- Looking for Sales,Marketing and Electrical Engineering positions
Watch the WSJ interview.
Editor's Note: The title of this story was supplied by LSCG. They did not choose, "Lighting Science Group Lights Up Wisconsin Community" or "Lighting Science Group Lights Up Pleasant Prarie, Wisconsin." Pleasant Prarie and Racine are 22 miles apart. Kenosha is much closer. Why not just say, "Lighting Science Group Lights Up Community in Ruud's Back Yard?" This is what is implied.
Toshiba International Corporation– Toshiba International Corporation (Toshiba) announced today that it is launching energy-efficient, long-lasting LED luminaires for roadway, area, and high- and low-bay lighting applications.
Conventional High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting, such as high-pressure sodium or metal halide, requires frequent maintenance and high wattage usage. In contrast, Toshiba’s LED luminaires have a rated life of 60,000 hours or 12 to 14 years, six times as long as metal-halide and twice as long as high-pressure sodium products. As a result, LED luminaires provide one of the lowest life cycle costs of any lighting technology.
January 18, 2012--Robertson advances the state of the art in lighting again by being awarded a US patent, specifically designed to help business save energy after-hours. The Dark Knight™ Integrated Auto Shut-Off technology provides energy savings through an integrated shut-down timer built into the ballast circuit.
UNION CITY, Calif., Feb 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Finelite Inc., a leader in high performance commercial building lighting systems, today unveiled a new, industry-leading 10-year warranty for its High Performance Recessed LED (HPR-LED) luminaire collection.
The changeover from the Sendio facility to Huayi Lighting will save Vu1 Corporation over $4 million in fixed costs annually while further increasing the Company's cash flows. Read the story at Business Wire.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Nexxus Lighting, Inc. NEXS +28.26% today announced that its new Array® LED BR30 replacement light bulb, which will be available commercially in March 2012, incorporates a new enhanced dimming circuit and patented 2nd generation Selective Heat Sink Technology(TM), allowing for significant reductions in material cost and weight.
- Shenzhen Kaistar Electronic Co., Ltd. is located in Shenzhen and is specialized in manufacturing DVD Players, MIDI Karaoke Players and Professional Karaoke Player
- Bridgelux is the only vertically integrated LED manufacturer and developer of solid-state light sources that designs its solutions specifically for the lighting industry.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co plans to hire 5,000 U.S. military veterans over the next five years and to invest $580 million to expand its aviation footprint in the United States this year. Read the story at Reuters.
Firm deadline of 2 MAR 2012. Get your products submitted now. We know from experience that this is a FIRM deadline.
On February 8, 2012, the Company received a notice from The NASDAQ Stock Market acknowledging that the Company no longer complies with the audit committee requirements as set forth in Listing Rule 5605 and confirming the Company's opportunity to regain compliance within the cure period provided in Listing Rule 5605(c)(4).
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We just got word from LG Chem, a divsion of LG Group, that the company finished development of their first OLED lighting panel, and have started mass production. The "type 1" panel, or the LG-OLED-041 is a 100x100 mm square panel that features 4,000K, CRI>80, 45 lm/W and 10,000 hours lifetime (LT70) at 3,000 nits. Read the details at OLED-info.com.
FREMONT, Calif., Feb 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Intematix, a leading innovator of patented phosphors and phosphor components for high-quality LED lighting, was named the number one phosphor supplier in China in 2011. Read the story at Business Wire.
Simon Cowell has reportedly had special lights fitted under his desk to make him glow. Read the story at M&C.
Nakamura accomplished something in the early '90s many considered impossible at the time: a white light LED. The invention transformed Nichia from a small Japanese manufacturer to a global industrialist. Nakamura also later became a folk hero among salarymen in Japan after suing Nichia for a fair share of the financial rewards.
Read the article in Greentech Media
The new projects include retrofits to upgrade the lighting of a Fortune 500 manufacturing facility in the United States, a University in the Midwest as well as a number of school systems in the Southeastern United States.
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The electronic products company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $70.5 million, or $1.17 a share, on Jan. 26. This performance topped year-ago fourth-quarter earnings of $50.2 million, or 81 cents a share. Read the article at The Street.com
On the heels of the recently introduced Cree XB-D LED, Cree today announced the XLamp XT-E White, which delivers twice the lumens-per-dollar of other LEDs and features the highest performance and efficacy in the industry. Based on a new silicon carbide technology platform, the XT-E LED and the XB-D LED represent a dramatic transformation in LED price-performance. Cree’s revolutionary new platform addresses the largest obstacle to mass LED lighting adoption, initial cost, and enables the next step in the LED lighting revolution.
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- The XT-E LED more than doubles the lumens per watt of the XLamp XP-E LED family – providing up to 148 LPW at 85°C (or up to 162 LPW at 25°C) at 350mA – which enables lower system costs.
- Delivering exceptional performance, the XT-E LED can be used for almost all lighting applications.
- By leveraging the popular XP footprint, customers can easily incorporate the XT-E LED in existing XP LED designs to shorten the LED fixture design cycle and improve customer time-to-market.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), a global provider of electrical solutions, today announced the acquisition of Fifth Light Technology, Ltd. ("Fifth Light"). Fifth Light is a privately owned company based in Oakville, Canada that specializes in the design, sale and implementation of digitally addressable lighting interface (DALI) solutions and a suite of centralized building management software applications.
FREMONT, Calif., Feb 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Redwood Systems, the leading provider of building-performance lighting solutions, today announced it has extended its product line to support all lighting fixture types. Previously available only for LEDs, the Redwood platform can now deliver energy and cost savings, as well as the benefits of fine-grained sensing, to any lighting environment.
Read the story at MarketWatch.
In its agreement with Toshiba, “I'll ship product wherever Toshiba tells me to,” Gray said. “We're bucking up, getting ready for the storm surge of business we think will come our way.”
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Toshiba Corporation recently completed the first stage of a project to replace the external lighting at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, with LED lighting. The first stage involved the lighting inside the iconic central Pyramid, as well as the three surrounding pyramidions (small pyramids) and a section of the facade of the Colbert pavilion, part of the main museum building.
Read the story at LEDs Magazline.
EdisonReport had this story last week, but the family requested that we hold the story until they could collect their thoughts and write the following obituary.
(AP) AMSTERDAM — Royal Philips Electronics NV, the largest maker of lights by sales, posted a fourth-quarter loss on Monday due to a worse performance by its lighting and health care arms, as well a new charge on its long-suffering television business.
Philips' lighting arm had sales growth of 7 percent and the company said that energy-saving LED lights now account for 18 percent of the total.
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OXFORD, Mich. – Relume Technologies, a leading manufacturer of light-emitting diode (LED) products and smart grid control systems for outdoor lighting applications, has closed its $7.0 million Series D financing round. Farmington Hills-based Beringea, which led the round, invested $3.2 million. San Jose, Calif.-based Western Technology Investment and other existing investors comprised the remainder of the round.
HONG KONG — To combat Hong Kong’s overly bright lights, the government has taken the first step of establishing guidelines for businesses to follow voluntarily. But it is still to be seen whether tough legislation will ever come into effect.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Philips swung to a net loss in the fourth quarter of last year as cuts in government budgets ate into its healthcare equipment business and a slowdown in construction activity hit its lighting operations
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ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss engineering group ABB (VTX:ABBN.VX - News) has agreed to buy U.S. electrical components maker Thomas & Betts (NYSE:TNB - News) for $3.9 billion to ramp up its presence in the world's largest market for low-voltage products.
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- More than 900 lumens at 700 mA and 85°C junction temperature
- Efficacy greater than 120 lm/W at 350 mA and 85°C junction temperature
- 12 Volt / 8 Watt package on AIN substrate
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SANTA-CRUZ--Using grants and special financing from PG&E, the city hopes within a few months to have replaced about two-thirds of streetlights with higher-efficiency, brighter LED bulbs to increase safety and reduce energy use.
Read the details at the Santa Cruz Sentinel
LIGHTFAIR International (LFI), the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, will feature three dynamic keynote presentations on topics relating to technology, entertainment and energy efficiency.
Net sales in the fourth quarter of 2011 were $740.0 million, an increase of 16% compared to the $639.3 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2010. Operating income was $109.8 million, or 14.8% of net sales, compared to $91.0 million, or 14.2% of net sales, for the comparable period of 2010.
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- reported second quarter net sales of $68,774,000, a decrease of 8% as compared to $74,805,000 in the same period of the prior fiscal year;
- reported second quarter net income of $772,000 or $0.03 per share, as compared to net income of $2,948,000 or $0.12 per share for the same period of the prior fiscal year;
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SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading the LED lighting revolution, Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTCBB: LSCG), the world's premier LED lighting manufacturer, announced today that it produced 4.5 million light bulbs in 2011--an increase of 450% when compared to 2010 numbers. The bulbs produced have a potential average annual electricity savings of approximately $43.6 million over comparable incandescent bulbs. Last year's exponential growth catapults Lighting Science Group to the position of North America's largest LED light bulb manufacturer.
- All-Time Quarterly Record Earnings from Continuing Operations of $1.00 Per Share
- Record Full Year Earnings From Continuing Operations of $3.87 Per Share
- 11th Consecutive Year Free Cash Flow Greater than Net Income From Continuing Operations
- Electrical Products Group segment revenues for the fourth quarter of 2011 increased 8.1%
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Industrial equipment maker Siemens AG said Tuesday that net profit fell 17 percent to euro1.46 billion ($1.89 billion) in the final quarter of 2011 due to delays in major wind-power and rail projects, and as the uncertain global economic outlook hurt orders.
Read the details at AP.
Osram AG, the lighting unit of Siemens AG (SIE), faces more job cuts than announced this week as the industry shifts toward light-emitting diodes technology from traditional light bulbs, a union executive said.
Osram will have to cut more jobs after announcing a reduction of about 10 percent of the company’s German workers on Jan. 17, Berthold Huber, who heads the IG Metall labor union and is also deputy chairman of the supervisory board at Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, said today in an interview.
Read the complete story at Bloomberg.
BASF and Philips have successfully developed the approach of incorporating Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology in car roofs. These OLEDs generate light inside the vehicle when turned on. When it is turned off, it becomes transparent and provides a clear view outside the vehicle.
Read the story at AZ Optics.
EdisonReport can confirm that Marco Ludwig from Austria will take over.
NEW YORK (AP) -- General Electric Co. said Friday its fourth-quarter earnings fell 18 percent as revenue declined after it sold its stake in the NBC network.
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MANHATTAN, Kan.—Using light-emitting diode (LED) lights in refrigeration units saves energy for retailers and extends the shelf life of some beef products, according to new research conducted at Kansas State University that will be presented at the Capitol Graduate Research Summit in Topeka in February.
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Stuart Irby was part of the family that had created the Stuart C. Irby Co., a large electrical distributor bought in 2005 by French firm Sonepar.
Read the story in the Hattisburg American.
As covered on the EdisonReport, Cree reported their 2nd quarter earnings yesterday. The income number was not pretty and the stock was quickly downgraded by Ticonderoga from a "Buy" to a "Hold." Yet, at the writing of this article, the stock is up 5%.
Revenue: $304M vs $257M Income: $12.1M vs $$49.8M
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE -News), a market leader in LED lighting, today announced revenue of $304.1 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2012, ended December 25, 2011.
Help Retailers Reduce Energy Consumption, Gain Incentives and Upgrade Lighting
Fairfield, New Jersey--- Developed as a turnkey program that helps retail customers dramatically reduce energy consumption and costs while updating their lighting programs, Amerlux has established an Energy Services Group. Amerlux, a leader of task-specific, energy-efficient lighting solutions for the retail, supermarket, commercial and hospitality markets, has appointed Paul Ravenelle Regional Director of Sales, to head-up the group.
Tom Hunter:
- Former executive at Acuity Brands
- Divisional head of Sales and Marketing for Hubbell, Genlyte, and Acuity
- Responsible for all aspects of the largest product group in the lighing fixture industry
FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Osram AG, the lighting unit of Siemens AG (SIE.XE), said Tuesday it plans to cut jobs in Germany to account for the industry's move toward LED technology.
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The PROTEON LED luminaire offers one-for-one replacement of HID and fluorescent fixtures.
ATLANTA - Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, has expanded its LED indoor ambient lighting portfolio with the launch of the PROTEON™ LED high bay from Lithonia Lighting®.
Longmont, Colorado – TerraLUX, Inc. today announced that Ray Hurt will join the TerraLUX team as Vice President of Sales for their Illumination Division, effective February 1, 2012. Hurt brings over 25 years of lighting and electronics experience, including a long tenure with Philips Lighting Electronics, where he held various executive level sales and marketing positions, and most recently served as Vice President of Sales.
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The machine, called the Revend, has the option of giving out -or “reverse vending” – discount vouchers or other rewards to customers depositing bulbs. Read the details.
International lighting industry giant OSRAM has just announced a research breakthrough that will make the cost of high-efficiency LED light bulbs sink like a stone.
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CRS Electronics Inc. ("CRS" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:LED)(OTCQX:LEDCF), a developer and manufacturer of LED lighting, is pleased to announce that Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("Canadian Tire") will be the first major retailer in North America to launch the Energizer(R) branded line of LED lighting products manufactured exclusively by CRS.
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ATLANTA - January 13, 2012 - Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; "Company"), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, has expanded its LED indoor ambient lighting portfolio with the launch of the Z Series LED striplight by Lithonia Lighting®.
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EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS and LAS VEGAS, NV, Jan 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. NXPI -0.06% today announced that it has developed an innovative, sustainable and highly efficient solar-powered street lighting solution, together with Philips Lighting.
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DOE Releases Consortium Report on Ornamental Post-Top LED Street Lights
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the final report from a demonstration of LED technology in ornamental post-top street lights, conducted in Sacramento, CA. This report provides an overview of the evaluation of four different LED replacement products using computer simulations, field measurements, and laboratory testing.
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Lighting Science Group CorporationLSCG +0.63% , one of the world's leading LED lighting manufacturers, announced today that it has hired Andrew "Andy" Beck to serve as chief communications officer. A former director of public affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, Beck will oversee all aspects of the Company's communications--both internal and external--and advise the senior executive team on government affairs, investor relations and issues management.
Chinese street lighting market demand continues to accelerate, driven mostly by government projects....In May 2011, the Chinese government announced the 2nd batch of “10 cities, 10,000 lights” LED street lighting demo projects. This time, it has been extended to 16 additional cities including Beijing, which totals to 37 cities promoting LED street lighting projects in China.
Read the report.
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GE +0.42% -- Faced with shrinking budgets, cities and states across the nation are being challenged to curb costs. A new GE Lighting system is helping meet this charge with a dimming system that reduces electricity costs for outdoor lighting.
The company said that its line of liquid-cooled LED bulbs offers all the lighting qualities of incandescent bulbs while delivering longer life and better performance than compact flourescent light (CFL) bulbs.
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 DURHAM, N.C., January 11, 2012 — Driving the next generation of mainstream LED lighting adoption, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces the breakthrough XLamp® XB-D LED. The first LED based on an innovative new Cree technology platform, the XLamp XB-D LED ushers in a new era of price-performance for lighting-class LEDs. This LED can further simplify designs, ultimately removing a key barrier to widespread LED implementation—up-front system cost.
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) is presenting a symposium on the role and effects of lighting on older adults to be held in Washington, DC, March 6-7, 2012. Read more at IES.
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Royal Philips Electronics NV has warned that its fourth quarter profits were worse than expected due to a weak European market that made it difficult to charge customers as much as it wanted to for light bulbs. Read the story on the AP.
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Jan 11 (Reuters) - SemiLEDs Corp, a maker of LED chips and components, posted a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss, but said it expects a weak second quarter as oversupply continues to pressure margins. Read the report at Reuters.
UBS' checks in China remain mixed for LED lighting demand and that LED factory utilization rates are still in the 50%-70% range.
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DUBLIN , Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE - News) announced the appointment of Grant Gawronski to Group President, responsible for the Cooper Crouse-Hinds, Cooper Safety and Cooper B-Line divisions.
Nagel: "Contributing to our year-over-year top-line growth was a 150 percent increase in sales of LED products, which now represent more than 5 percent of total net sales." Read the report.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Philips Lumileds today announced the appointment of Pierre Yves Lesaicherre as CEO of Philips Lumileds, effective immediately. Mr. Lesaicherre succeeds Michael C. Holt and will report directly to Philips Lighting’s acting Chief Executive Officer Frans van Houten.
Acuity Brands' profit has risen year over year by an average of 53.2% over the past five quarters. Revenue has now gone up for three straight quarters. Read the coverage at Motley Fool.
LEDs improve everyday. I think people make the mistake of wanting there to be a silver bullet: the LED arrives one day on the planet—and everything changes. Instead it’s a continuum of change.
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Seeks variance requests: To increase parking lot lighting from 70,000 lumens per acre to 135,000 lumens per acre.
Read the details at The Madison County Journal.
Light bulbs, LED fixtures, sensors, timers, remotes and switches built using ZigBee Light Link will not require special devices to coordinate in a home's network. Consumers will be able to easily install and add extra devices to their home lighting network. Like all devices in the ZigBee portfolio, ZigBee Light Link devices can be controlled over the Internet through connected computers, tablets and smart phones.
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Peter W. Shackle, who was the Chief Technologist of Energy Savings and later held the same position at Lightech, which was recently sold to GE, is now forming a new LED drive company, “Photalume” which will bring into being the next generation of controllable LED drives. Angel investors for seed financing this venture are presently being solicited to participate. If you or someone you know might be interested in investing, contact Editor@Edisonreport.net.
Enables automakers to conceal ambient lighting elements with a metallic-looking finish. This innovative technology, among the first introduced to the industry, provides interior ambient lighting surfaces with a metallic appearance when the light source is "off" and a lighted appearance when it is "on."
EdisonReport can confirm that on 3 JAN 2012, Eastco acquired the assets of Triboro Wiring Devices. The acquisition will allow Triboro to continue providing uninterupted service.
 EdisonReport has named Alan J. Ruud the 2011 Person of the Year. Over the last month we had discussions with several leaders in the industry as well as our regular sources. We asked who has had the greatest impact on our industry in the last twelve months? The general consensus was that Al Ruud selling his company to Cree has revolutionized our industry.
Fred Maxik, founder and chief technology officer at Lighting Science Group, talks about the outlook for light-emitting diodes or LED lighting. He speaks with Matt Miller on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg) (Bloomberg)
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The mayor-elect, DeAndre Windom, is advising people to keep their porch lights at night, leading residents to suspect the city is seeking to have them pick up costs it can no longer cover.
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For the record, Thomas Edison was a patriot, he was a futurist, and he was green. Edison's concern after the turn of the last century was with pollution and nonrenewable resources, not with freezing technological change at the level of 1879. Read the complete story at CNN.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The old 100-watt light bulb is about to go dark -- regardless of what Congress did in recent weeks. Read the details at the Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Georgia Association of Convenience Stores (GACS) lighting retrofit fund has retrofitted more than 30 convenience store locations across the state. The group is one of four programs receiving financing from the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority(GEFA) division of Energy Resources, the DOE Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy offce said.
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An Editorial by The Designers Lighting Forum
The most recent congressional action regarding lighting efficiency sets a new low for bad judgment, cynicism, and immorality – hard as that might be to accomplish.
The action, of course, is the rider shackled to interim funding legislation and force-fed to an unwilling administration. The rider postpones funding for DOE enforcement of the lighting efficiency standards that take effect in 2012.
ATLANTA – Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI; “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting solutions, is pleased to announce that Cheryl English, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President of Government and Industry Relations, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences.
GE is concentrating on system designs for its commercial customers rather than making the LED equivalent of an incandescent bulb.
Read the article in Bloomberg Businessweek.
EW YORK , Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- When the glittering Times Square New Year's Eve Ball descends to mark the beginning of 2012, it will also usher in one of the most important eras in lighting since Thomas Edison unveiled his incandescent electric light.
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Toshiba International Corporation, Dec. 19, 2011 – Toshiba International Corporation announced today that its innovative new A19 LED lamp is now available on Best Buy’s website and in special sections of select Best Buy stores.
A blown transformer initially caused the outage at the five-decade-old stadium about 25 minutes prior to the scheduled kickoff at 8:40 p.m. ET.
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The upcoming transition to better bulbs has generated a lot of news. For the most part, the coverage has focused on the consumer impact – the new lighting choices, the benefit to their pocketbooks, etc.
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- Howard Brandston
- Dr. David DiLaura
- Ed Crawford
- Daniel Blitzer
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From IES: This Sunday, Dec. 18, the CBS Sunday Morning Program, hosted by Charles Osgood, will present a segment on light bulbs/lighting. Both David DiLaura and Howard Brandston (those that we know of) were interviewed for the segment. Please consult your local station for viewing times.
There was a provision in the Omnibus bill last night to prevent DOE from implementing the light bulb standards until September 30th. Developing....
Politoco Aritcle: GOP Wins Light Bulb Fight
Washington Times: Congress Overturns Incandescent light bulb ban
Washington Post: Congressional Negotiators Agree on $IT Spending Measure
Symphony orchestra programs often note the “performing forces,” which are instruments that dominate the piece being played. Over the past 25 years, the performing forces—or change drivers—in the lighting industry have been the instruments of energy efficiency, technological advances, and speed of information. Industry leaders who have championed change (everything from product development to acquisitions) look back with us and reflect on how the lighting specifier has changed, how products have changed, and how the customer has changed.
Read Doug Baillie's Article at Architectural Lighting.
Introduces New Thermal Simulation Service and Advanced Photometric Testing
DURHAM, N.C., December 14, 2011 — Extending the support services offered to LED lighting manufacturers that were launched this fall, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces the addition of two new Cree TEMPO offerings to its revolutionary design and evaluation services.
U.S. Customs officials said Monday that they caught someone trying to import counterfeit and unsafe lighting fixtures depicting Santa Claus and Frosty the Snowman. Read the story at The LA Times.
Horizon Air installed new external lighting systems on the aircraft, but did not conduct required tests for radio frequency and electromagnetic interference, the FAA said. Read the story at Seattle PI
Acccording to Frost & Sullivan the LED market in India was $73M in 2010 and is expected to grow 45% until 2015.
Read details from Frost and Sullivan
Abernathy: Hubbell Outdoor, Kim Lighting, Architechtural Area Lighting, Spaulding Lighting, Devine Lighting, Sterner Lighting and Security Lighting.
Newbold: new role of Vice President Brand Management Industrial, Life Safety and Sportsliter Solutions reporting directly to Scott Muse.
Hogan: Chris Hogan has been has been promoted to Vice President Brand Management Prescolite reporting to Jim Decker.
Foley: pursuing other opportunities outside of Hubbell Lighting
Read the announcement.
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- General Electric Co. raised its quarterly dividend by 2 cents to 17 cents per share, the industrial and electrical giant's fourth increase in two years.
Read the details.
North Korea warned South Korea on Sunday of "unexpected consequences" ifSeoul displays Christmas lights near the tense border, and vowed to retaliate for what it called propaganda attempts.
Read the details.
SA will be able to electrify 4 million homes with the electricity saved from phasing out old light bulbs. Read the story at The Daily News.
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE -News), a market leader in silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, continues to advance the revolution in high-efficiency power electronics with the release of the industry’s first fully qualified SiC MOSFET power devices in “bare die” or chip form for use in power electronics modules. Read the article.
The StressCrete Group is pleased to announce that we have purchased the equipment and other assets of Sky Cast Inc. This acquisition is consistent with our Group’s growth objectives and will benefit each of our spun concrete pole manufacturing locations in Alabama, Kansas, and Ontario.
Will turn lights off between midnight and 5am. Read the details at the BBC.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Valmont Industries, Inc. (NYSE: VMI) has declared a quarterly dividend of 18 cents per share payable on January 13, 2012 to shareholders of record on December 30, 2011. The dividend indicates an annual rate of 72.0 cents per share.
Valmont is the global leader in designing and manufacturing poles, towers and structures for lighting and traffic, wireless communication and utility markets, industrial access systems, highway safety barriers and a provider of protective coating services. Valmont also leads the world in mechanized irrigation equipment for agriculture, enhancing food production while conserving and protecting natural water resources.
Montreal, Canada, November, 2011 — Commercial lighting industry executives and entrepreneurs Guy St. Pierre and Serge Lambert, founders and principals of The Luminaires Group, a North American-based corporation encompassing manufacturers Cyclone Lighting, Distri-Lite, Eureka Lighting and, since 2010, AmerillumBrands of Oceanside, California, has announced three promotions to its senior-management team
Read the press release.
Moreover, NDRC would develop measures that encourage the promotion of LED illumination based on the Green Lighting Policy of the Ministry of Finance. The 12th Five-year development plan for LED lamps being drafted estimates that the output value of the industry would quadruple within the next 5 years. Read the story at China Economic Net.
Dynamus dimming technology allows for 3-level dimming using standard A/B switch or occupancy sensor.
Santa Fe Springs, CA December 5, 2011 – Espen Technology announces the release of a new line of fluorescent dimming ballasts. The Dynamus dimming T8 and T5HO ballast is a high performance fluorescent platform that delivers 3-levels of incremental dimming.
Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Friday, shares of LSI Industries Inc. (NASD: LYTS) were yielding above the 4% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.24), with the stock changing hands as low as $5.99 on the day.
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Eindhoven / Maastricht – The Maastricht University Medical Center+ (Maastricht UMC+) has carried out research in partnership with Philips to investigate the effect of light on the sleep-wake rhythm of cardiac patients.
- No cost to taxpayers
- Based on ESCO model: The federal agencies will use energy savings performance contracts, under which private-sector companies commit to installing energy-saving equipment at no upfront cost to the government and are then paid back from the reductions in utility bills.
Read the detail at the Financial Times.
Montreal, Canada, November, 2011 — Commercial lighting industry executives and entrepreneurs Guy St. Pierre and Serge Lambert, founders and principals of The Luminaires Group, a North American-based corporation encompassing manufacturers Cyclone Lighting, Distri-Lite, Eureka Lighting and, since 2010, AmerillumBrands of Oceanside, California, has announced three promotions to its senior-management team
Read the press release.
First of its kind service for LED replacement lamps goes live on December 14th.
"After hearing our customers complain about the existing supply chain and seeing the added cost layers and sales inefficiencies, we decided to start with a blank sheet of paper to sell products in a new way with a higher level of service at very competitive pricing." Read the press release.
(Niles, IL) – Bill Brown Sales (BBS), the foremost national sales agency in the lighting components industry, announces that it will represent Espen Technology, a Santa Fe Springs, CA?based designer and manufacturer of technologically advanced ballasts and other components. Read the press release.
 SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. , Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG.OB - News), one of the world's leading LED lighting manufacturers, announced today that its new low cost World Bulb™ – an omnidirectional 60-watt equivalent A19 LED bulb – has been selected as a 2012 International CES Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Award Honoree.
Acuity's cash return (free cash flow less interest expense divided by enterprise value) according to Morningstar is 6.9%, slightly less than Hubbell's at 7.1%, but much higher than Cooper at 3.9%. Read the analysis.
Quarterly Net Income: - $13,633,000 Read the numbers.
Players in the LED industry may be disappointed as the China government's subsidy for their lighting products may be much smaller than anticipated. Read the story at DigiTimes.
How does the new Lumiblades compare? It depends, as usual. If you want the most impressive panel, I still think Lumiotec's panels is the winner - if only because it's larger (it's more than double the size of the larger Lumiblade. Watch the video.
The increase authorizes the Company to repurchase in the aggregate up to $2,500,000 of its outstanding common stock. Read the details.
Axis Lighting announces the appointment of Howard Yaphe as Chief Executive Officer, effective November 22, 2011. Howard joins Axis Lighting owners Morris and Joseph Feldman, to form the company's new leadership team.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Cooper Industries plc rose Monday, while the overall market fell, after Standard & Poor's Indices said it would add the Irish electric products company to its S&P 500 index. Read the details.
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, November 21, 2011 - LED Roadway Lighting Ltd. (LRL) announced today that it has acquired the intellectual property and certain other assets of Streetlight Intelligence Inc. (SLQ) of Victoria, British Columbia.
Dear [Time] Editor:
While the Switch LED lamp featured as one of the 50 inventions of the year [TIME, November 28, 2011] is certainly a laudable (but far-from-unique) development, the writer’s comments about incandescent lighting and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are appallingly inaccurate.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. November 17, 2011 – WattStopper announced today the resignation of its current president, Jerry Mix, and the immediate appointment of Dean Pournaras in that position. Mix will be joining Finelite as Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2012.
Union City, CA (November 18, 2011) Finelite Inc., a leading manufacturer of high performance lighting systems, announced today the appointment of Jerry Mix as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2012. Terry Clark, founder of Finelite, will assume the role of Executive Chairman, as well as, Chief Technology Officer. Read the Press Release.
Goldman Sachs analyst Brian Lee this morning launched coverage of the LED and OLED companies, stirring up what has been a troubled and controversial corner of the stock market. Read the recommenation at Forbes.
The first people to use these lights were in the Philippines and they discovered that when sunlight hits the top of a plastic bottle filled with water the light diffuses in a way as to act like a light bulb that generates somewhere around 55 watts of light. This is free light with out heat or the use of electric power. Read the article in Honduras Weekly.
NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – Copper thieves shut down street lights across North Highlands in recent weeks, and residents who have been living in darkened neighborhoods for nearly two months are losing patience with city officials Watch the video at CBS Sacramento.
RACINE COUNTY — One of Ruud Lighting’s founders, Don Wandler, died at home of natural causes Tuesday, the same day the company announced an expansion that will create an estimated 469 jobs. He was 76. Read the details.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Nov 17, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The exclusive marketing agreement between Carmanah Technologies Corporation and Ruud Lighting, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cree, Inc., will discontinue as of the expiration of the current agreement on November 6th, 2011. Read the details at MarketWire.
Back in June, Lumiotec announced a couple of new OLED lamps: the Vanity desk lamp and the world's cheapest OLED lamp, the $450 Hanger. Both use a single square OLED panel (we reviewed a previous generation panel back in September 2010).
Read the details.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Daintree Networks, Inc., the leading provider of wireless lighting control solutions for intelligent buildings, today announced that six new companies have joined its ControlScope Connected Program, the only program of its kind in the lighting industry. Read the Press Release at MarketWatch.
Toshiba International Corporation, November 16, 2011 – Toshiba International Corporation announced today that it is introducing an innovative 40-watt equivalent A19 LED lamp with all the best lighting features.
GREENVILLE, S.C., Nov. 14, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Lighting introduces epoc® LED, its first LED luminaire with solid-state electronics from Universal Lighting Technologies. epoc® LED bridges the gap between energy savings and light quality by achieving high-efficacy illumination with environmentally conscious construction.
These new three-dimensional patented remote phosphor ChromaLit products provide designers with wide angle lighting distribution, improved light quality and greater freedom in the design of brighter, more energy efficient lighting.
Hosted by Energy Star, the purpose of the meeting was for partners and industry to gather to discuss new program initiatives, product specifications and policy updatesRead the story at MarketWatch.
Today Cree’s Ruud Lighting subsidiary, based in Racine, Wisc., held a groundbreaking ceremony today to highlight a 208,000-square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Department of Transportation is trying to figure out why a Honolulu Police Department officer was severely shocked by road lighting. Read the story.
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Newcomers who put up street lights in Cold Creek in the 1970s got a quick lesson in lighting etiquette, according to local legend. The bulbs were immediately shot out by old-timers - a message that a dark sky was preferred over a lit one in this rural Los Angeles County community.
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PHILADELPHIA — LumenOptix, the industry leader in the retrofit-luminaire market space, announced Govi Rao has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Mr Rao presently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Noveda Technologies, the leader in web-based real-time energy monitoring systems.
The CEO of Siemens, the German industrial giant, says he does not believe the European and US economies are heading into recession. Read the details.
EdisonReport can confirm that Ammendent 12 was passed, which delays Canada's incandescent ban.
The ban will now begin in 2014.
Nexxus misses estimate. Mike Bauer: "...overall sales of Array products to the consumer have been below what we had anticipated." Read the article at Seeking Alpha.
MUNICH, Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- OSRAM AG acquired the remaining shares in Traxon Technologies, Ltd. (Traxon) from its joint venture partner as of Nov. 9, 2011. With this acquisition, OSRAM further strengthens its business in the strongly growing market for professional LED lighting solutions.
If you were an investor in Cree (Nasdaq:CREE ) , Veeco (Nasdaq: VECO ) , orAixtron (Nasdaq: AIXG ) last week, chances are you were smiling Friday. Read the details at the Motley Fool.
- Rep discussions: Acuity Brands Lighting Clarifies their position to EdisonReport
- Behind the PHL vs NYC LIGHTFAIR 2013 decision
- Society Awards
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Updated, 7 NOV 8:03 pm.
EXCLUSIVE: EdisonReport can now confirm that LIGHTFAIR 2013 will be held in Philadelphia. Look for the announcement from LIGHTFAIR on 8 NOV.
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On Friday we received a call from Grand Poobah of LIGHTFAIR in New York who explained that the decision had been made regarding the location of LIGHTFAIR 2013 and EdisonReport would be notified of the decision once it was publicly announced on Monday.
“You can reset circadian rhythms and evoke behavioral responses,” said Dr. George Brainard, a professor of neurology at the Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, who added that health could be one of the common packaging and branding qualities, like output and watts, in a decade or two. Read the article at Forbes.
Atlanta, GA – The Home Depot®, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, today announced its Fourth Annual Eco Options Christmas Light Trade-In event. New this year, the Company has increased the savings, launching a tiered coupon program ranging from $3.00 to $5.00 off select energy efficient lighting.
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(New York, NY – November 3rd, 2011) As part of the ongoing expansion of the new LED Lamp Locator -- a bold new web-based tool designed to enhance the ease with which professional lighting users can search, evaluate, compare, and specify the market’s broad range of LED replacement lamps -- Lighting Internet Technology Enterprises (LITE) proudly announces that the LED lamp Locator has recently been enhanced to include the identification of LED replacement lamps for linear fluorescent technology. The newly-added “Linear” category now joins the tool’s three other main categories – Decorative, Directional, and Omnidirectional – in comprehending the broad array of LED lamps offered by the market’s range of global manufacturers and in helping to simplify the identification and selection of LED lamps in today’s fast-paced and rapidly-expanding marketplace.
In addition to providing exposure to those manufacturer registrants who offer LED replacements for the range of linear fluorescent products, the addition of linear LED completes the "LED Lamp" section of the portal and provides specifiers, distributors, and other lighting professionals with a more diverse and comprehensive database of current LED lamp products for their industry use. Future, value-added enhancements to the LED Lamp Locator tool in the coming weeks will include the incorporation of other LED product types such as modules and fixtures.
Since LEDLampLocator.com was launched in late September 2011, visitors to the portal have already conducted more than 21,000 product searches and have viewed LED products from participating manufacturers over 40,000 times. With LEDLampLocator.com now out of its soft launch phase, LED lamp manufacturers are encouraged to complete their official registration on the site to best position themselves for sales and marketing success in 2012.
“With the manufacturing community’s constant introduction of new LED lamp products, the industry needs one place to rely on for up-to-the minute specification information,” says lighting/electrical distributor, energy services provider, and LED Lamp Locator user Leon Mowadia, Jr., National Accounts Manager for the New Jersey arm of Texas-based Facility Solutions Group (FSG). “The web-based LED Lamp Locator is a user-friendly tool which delivers real-time information about the broad range of LED lamp products on the market. By helping distributors, specifiers, and designers to quickly and easily compare LED lamp products side by side across one standardized format,” Mowadia concludes, “the LED Lamp Locator will greatly assist industry professionals in evaluating their options and keeping up-to-date with the newest lamp characteristics in the ever-changing LED lamp arena.”
Lauded by industry channel members as a “tremendous new tool” for navigating the often-confusing landscape of LED lamp products, www.LEDLampLocator.com represents a powerful new portal that is quickly becoming the lighting industry’s go-to resource for LED lamp product information and related material.
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To enjoy the benefits of the LED Lamp Locator tool as a user, please visit www.ledlamplocator.com. For more information on the LED Lamp Locator or to register on the site as a manufacturer, contact sales@LEDLampLocator.com.
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WHAT: Satellite Beach, Florida resident Jim Haworth will be honored at the White House on Thursday, November 3rd as a Champion of Change.
At a conference a few years ago sponsored by the DOLED, an attorney from the Department Of LED Justice (DOLEDJ) spoke to the attendees and warned manufactuers about truth in advertising with regard to their LED products.
Metrolight, the leading provider of intelligent high-power energy-efficient lighting solutions and a Virgin Green Fund portfolio company, announced today that it will be presenting at the LuxLive event as well as showcasing its latest solutions on November 9th& 10th in London. Read the Press Release.
Dear LightShow/West exhibitor:
We are thrilled that LightShow/West was a resounding success last week! Soon to be published numbers will show that attendance reached an all-time record, as did the number of exhibitors that participated.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vu1 Corporation (OTCBB: VUOC), a developer and manufacturer of mercury-free, energy-efficient general illumination lighting technology, today announced that it will bring the company's innovative R30 Electron Stimulated Luminescence(TM) (ESL) light bulbs to the U.S. consumer market.
Sales and profits at LSI Industries slumped in the first quarter as a major contract in the prior-year period made for a difficult comparison. Read the details.
OSRAM unveiled a beautiful new OLED installation at the Qubique Berlin Tempelhof 2011 exhibition, which uses over 1,400 OSRAM round Orbeos panels Read the story.
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading the LED lighting revolution, Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG), the world's premier LED lighting manufacturer, announced today that it has received more than $100 million of LED lighting product orders this year—an increase of more than 100% as compared to the same time last year.
New street lights that include “Homeland Security” applications including speaker systems, motion sensors and video surveillance are now being rolled out with the aid of government funding. Read the story at InfoWars.com.
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided Halo 4-inch and 6-inch LED recessed downlights to Florida International University's (FIU) Solar Decathlon team.
The use of fluorescent lighting instead of incandescent ones as a strategy to beat climate change could be increasing eye disease, say scientists at The Australian National University. Read the details.
DURHAM, N.C., October 25, 2011 — Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of high-voltage XLamp® XT-E and XM-L LEDs.
PLAINVIEW, N.Y. (AP) -- Veeco Instruments Inc., a maker of precision manufacturing equipment for the light-emitting diode and data storage markets, said Monday that its third-quarter net income fell by more than half as revenue slipped due to weak LED industry demand and decreased business activity in China.
Read the details at Yahoo!
Livermore, Calif., October 24, 2011 – Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced that it has closed an additional $15 million in financing raised specifically to further accelerate research, development, and scaling of the company’s leading position in GaN-on-Silicon LED chip technologies, targeted for commercialization in 2013.
he big LED lighting pie has been attracting many firms to enter the market, heating up competition between traditional and new firms. Fierce competition can lead to patent wars as the top five LED firms in the world have been expanding the range of patents. These patents will become obstacles to small- and medium-size firms' survival in the long-run. Read the story at DigiTimes.
DUBLIN, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) today reported record earnings per share of $.98 on net income of $160.2 million for the third quarter of 2011 compared to earnings per share of $.85 on net income of $141.7 million for the same period last year.
Vu1 Corporation Strengthens Intellectual Property (IP) Portfolio; Announces Allowance of Two U.S. Patents for Its Electron Stimulated Luminescence(TM) (ESL) Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs
...represents a 0.2% increase compared to revenue of $268.4 million reported for the first fiscal quarter last year and a 11% increase compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011.
Read Cree's Press Release.
The company, whose product catalog includes bearings, power transmission components and fluid power components and systems, said Schrimsher joins from Cooper Industries , where he was the executive vice president.
Proving that energy-saving products don’t easily make a good business, Royal Philips Electronics today reported that third quarter profits in its LED-reliant lighting division tumbled by nearly 50 percent. Read the story at SmartPlanet.com
Shares of both LED lighting company Cree and LED equipment maker Veeco Instruments are trading lower on growing concerns about pricing and over-capacity in the LED lighting sector. Both companies were the subject of bearish commentary from the Street this morning. Higher OPEX from Ruud Lighting also a concern. Read the article at Forbes.
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) - Philips Electronics NV, PHG -3.99% NL:PHIA +0.95% the Amsterdam health-care and consumer-products company, reported on Monday that third-quarter net income fell 85% on 1.2% lower sales. Read the report at MarketWatch.
Studies show that total market size of the global lighting market (includes both LED and traditional lightings) in 2010 was US$79.3 billion.
Restructuring and higher raw material costs, particularly in the lighting division, as well as losses at the TV unit were expected to weigh on the results. Read the details at Reuters.
BUDAPEST (Dow Jones)--The Hungarian arm of U.S.-based GE Lighting is committed to its production base in the country and will continue to invest here, GE Lighting EMEA President and Chief Executive Phil Marshall told Dow Jones Newswires on Thursday.
Read the WSJ.com article.
'Dangers of Electric Lighting' at the Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ.
It is the mid 1880s and the world is emerging from darkness; the advent of the electric light is about to illuminate the globe. The power to spread this new wonder sits cradled in the hands of one man, Thomas Alva Edison. But when a young Serbian immigrant named Nikola Tesla arrives looking for work, Edison must struggle to keep the future of electricity within his control.
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FREMONT, Calif. – Oct. 13, 2011 – Intematix Corporation, a leading innovator of patented phosphor materials and components for high-quality LED lighting, today announced that it has demonstrated a phosphor blend that provides a near perfect color rendering index (CRI) of 98 and R9 value of 99 when applied to a reference LED package.
SHENZHEN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Helping to further drive the LED lighting revolution, China recently completed its largest highway lighting upgrade with more than 10,000 street lights featuring more than a million Cree (Nasdaq:CREE - News) XLamp® XP-G and XP-E High Efficiency White (HEW) LEDs. The Shenzhen highway project includes nearly 75 miles of roadways, with LED fixtures installed along one tunnel and four highways.
Hazard: The glue that attaches the glass outer envelope or globe to the body of the lamp can fail allowing the glass outer envelope to fall and strike persons and objects below, posing a laceration hazard to consumers. Read the details at the CSPC.
Longmont, Colorado – TerraLUX, Inc. today announced the expansion of its Board of Directors to include former Philips Lighting Electronics CEO Brian R. Dundon. Mr. Dundon, who will assume the Board Chairman role, also served as Chair of the Lighting CEO Board for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) from 2006 to 2009.
DURHAM, N.C., Oct 12, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- LED lighting leader, Cree, Inc. CREE +3.52% , continues to extend the advantage of its innovative, industry-leading XLamp(R) LED family with the announcement of new levels of performance for its highly efficient XLamp XP-G LEDs, now delivering up to 140 lumens per watt. Read the Press Release at MarketWatch.
The payments would help offset Ruud's $24.5 million investment, the total of both the addition to the existing building and the equipment needed to expand manufacturing operations.
Read the story.
Weather and environmental conditions along the lakeshore may have contributed to the bad circuits and frayed underground wiring, Steele said. Similar problems did not occur to any significant degree when about 3,000 of the same ceramic metal-halide light fixtures were installed on Western Avenue. Read the details at the Chicago Tribune.
Bridgelux Decor Ultra-High Color Rendering LED Arrays Further Extends Industry Leadership in Retail and Hospitality Lighting. Read the press release at MarketWatch.
Look for prices in the $13 to $26 range at your DIY store. Read the story at OLED-Info
Highland Park— Most of the city's street lights have been repossessed because officials failed to pay a multimillion-dollar utility bill, giving rise to concerns about safety and crime in darkened neighborhoods.
After peaking in 2014, the market is forecast to fall to $15.3B in 2015. The dip in revenues will be temporary, as lighting will take over as the engine for growth after 2015. Read the details.
Vu1 Expects to Significantly Decrease Operating Expenses & Improve Margins; Lower Cost/Bulb, Capital Expenditures will be Dramatically Reduced; Focused Marketing Plan will make Consumers Aware of Electron Stimulated Luminescence™ (ESL) Light Bulbs. Read the press relase.
With everyone else getting into our industry, why not the Energizer Bunny? Read the details at Market Watch.
"Philips has long been at the forefront of innovation to boost sustainability, and today we continue to be pioneers in light," said Zia Eftekhar, CEO, Philips Lighting North America.
TULSA, Okla., Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it has acquired the assets of The LED Show (www.theledshow.com), a conference and exhibition serving the lighting design and technology segment of the LED industry.
While the LED products contributed profit dollars similar to or above the traditional portfolio mix, the gross profit percentage from the products was lower due to both their higher sales price and component costs
DANVERS, Mass., Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- OSRAM has signed an agreement with Townsend Ventures, LLC to increase its stake in Encelium Technologies from 15 percent to 100 percent.
ATLANTA - October 4, 2011 - Acuity Brands (NYSE: AYI; "Company"), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting, control and daylighting solutions, today announced that it has acquired for cash Pathway Connectivity, Inc., ("Pathway").
Acuity Brands Inc.'s AYI +8.21% board has authorized the company to buy back 2 million of its shares, or nearly 5% of the company's total shares outstanding. Read the story at MarketWatch.
The reason EdisonReport promotes conference is that it is actually a 3-hour workshop that allows participants a hands-on, one-on-one opportunity to wire the components of the control systems. Contrast this to the typical conference where we sit and look at powerpoint slides.
MELVILLE, New York, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Leviton Manufacturing Company, the leader in electrical wiring devices, lighting energy management systems and commercial data networking solutions, today announces the acquisition of Obvius, a recognized leader of cost-effective hardware solutions to collect energy information. Obvius products offer data acquisition, wireless communications, energy dashboard software and plug-and-play hardware solutions.
36% of Cree's revenue is from China. Read the details at the News Observer
At the IES Street and Area Lighting Conference, Zach Gibler was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was received by his wife Mary. Below is the transcript:
That's right boys and girls, for only $159.95 you can relieve that pain. Originally designed to heal astronaut's injuries (who knew that astronauts had so many injuries that a new technology had to be developed.)
A perfect holiday gift....Read the details and order one for that special astronaut.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solid-state lighting (SSL) funding opportunity on September 23, 2011. Under this funding opportunity, DOE seeks applications for projects to advance research, development, and market adoption of SSL technology.
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) announces a new document,Projecting Long Term Lumen Maintenance of LED Light Sources (TM-21-11).
LG says lighting products in BMW, Audi infringe seven LED patents. The sales injunction request filed on Wednesday by LG and its component affiliate LG Innotek said the automakers are using Osram's lighting products that infringe its patents. LG joined Samsung LED to countersue Osram, after the German firm said in June that it filed lawsuits against the two business groups. Read more at Reuters.
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE -News), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of TEMPO™ Services, a comprehensive set of quantitative and qualitative tests and analyses for LED-based lighting fixtures and lamps.
The disruptive Bridgelux has laid off 53 of its 250 workers at its East Bay headquarters and switching to silicon from sapphire. Read the details at the San Jose Mercury News.
“We are going to change the way the world does something that is so fundamental to what the world is in ways that we can’t imagine yet,” Read the article; watch the video
Occasionally EdisonReport allows guest editorials. Today's editorial is written by Howard Weinberg, Managing Member, Emergence Technology Consultants, LLC.
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 26, 2011) - Xicato announced today that the new McCafé McDonald's® franchise in Dundalk, Maryland is using Xicato Spot Modules.
Seattle City Light has increased incentives for businesses to conserve energy in their lighting and equipment. Read the details at Puget Business Journal.
Silicon Valley is known for computer chips, software companies and social networks -- but not light bulbs.
There were 85 homicides so far this year, up 25 percent from the comparable period last year. And Mr. Carey and his supporters have decided to fight for an exemption to the standards in the flatlands of East and West Oakland, where they claim the star-friendly policy has contributed to the city’s crime problem. Read the story.
A program that has generated billions of dollars in funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy research over the past 14 years is set to expire at the end of the year after lawmakers refused to renew it, and now state leaders are trying to find a way to replace it. Read the details at the San Francisco Chronical.
Prices are falling on the black market for rare earth minerals used in fluorescent lamps. We did not know there was a black market for rare earth minerals. Read the details at Mining.com
Two products from Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, were selected from 325 products as winners in the 22nd annual Best of NeoCon® Awards, sponsored by Contract Magazine, Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc., The International Interior Design Association (IIDA), The International Facility Management Association (IFMA), and McMorrowReport.com.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 391.01 points, or 3.51 percent, to finish at 10,733.83, led by Cree who dropped almost 9% on Wednesday, 21 SEP.
Anixter, a leading global supplier of communications and security products, electrical and electronic wire and cable, fasteners and other small components, to distribute Redwood Systems' building-performance lighting products. Read the press release.
Rancho Cucamonga, California – Sept. 20, 2011 -- To address marketplace uncertainty caused by a proliferation of LED T8 products which do not meet customer expectations, Kumho Electric is offering a 30-Day Free Trial of its Earthcare Direct Replacement LED T8 lamps.
New “Burnes Brighter Ideas, LLC” to Launch Commercial and Residential Lighting Company.
China says it has largely shut down its rare earth industry for three months to address pollution problems. By invoking environmental concerns, China could potentially try to circumvent international trade rules that are supposed to prohibit export restrictions of vital materials. Read the fiction here.
Toshiba International Corporation, Sept. 12, 2011 – Toshiba International Corporation (TIC), a leader in application solutions and innovative technology, announced today that it has assembled a world-class team of lighting veterans to lead its LED Lighting Systems Division. The strategic hires position TIC to deliver unmatched product quality and unparalleled customer service as the North American marketplace transitions from incandescent lighting to energy efficient and aesthetically superior LED lighting.
- Cuts 2011 EPS from cont ops view to $3.75-$3.82 from $3.80-$3.90
- Shares down 6.5 pct in extended trade (Follows alerts)
Read the details at Reuters.
Shares of LED equipment maker Aixtron are trading sharply lower after the company reduced its full year revenue guidance, citing increasing short-term market uncertainty. Read the article at Forbes.
JOHNSTON — National Grid has sued the town in an attempt to collect at least $555,000 for electricity that has powered streetlights on local state roads because Mayor Joseph M. Polisena won’t pay.
Siemens AG says it is delaying a planned initial public offering of shares in light bulb maker Osram because of market volatility. Read the story at MoneyWatch.
ER ARCHIVES: Read EdisonReport's article about the IPO written immediately following LIGHTFAIR 2011.
There is $4 million left on the company's current $200 million repurchase program, which began in 2007. Read the details at Bloomberg.
On June 17, 2011, a jury found that Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc. (the only remaining defendant at the time of trial) had infringed Claims 1, 2 and 5 of the ‘529 Patent and that the Patent was valid.
EdisonReport can confirm that the GE acquisition of Lightech closed today. EdisonReport first broke the story on 20 JULY 2011.
Lightech develops components for managing the energy supply to lighting units. The company designs drivers and transformers for use in LED and halogen lighting which it manufacturers in China.
It raised its cost-cutting target to 800 million euros from the 500 million euros announced in July, and said it was confident of meeting its 2013 financial targets despite the global economic uncertainty. Philips said the cuts would be made mainly in IT, human resources, real estate and management. Read the details at Reuters.
- LED...suppresses the body’s production of melatonin five times more than exposure to orange light.
Read the downgrade at TheStreet.com.
EYE Lighting International, a leading manufacturer of lamps, luminaires and related lighting products, has been selected to light the American Flag on the site of the new 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Read the Press Release.
Panasonic Electric Works announced that they developed a new highly efficient OLED device - featuring 128 lm/W efficiency. This was achieved using a semi-spherical highly-refractive lens to enhance light extraction. Read the details.
Silver Spring, MD - The National Lighting Bureau is encouraging building owners and managers; architects; interior designers; electrical engineers and contractors; property, facility, and asset managers; and others responsible for building design, construction, and energy consumption and conservation to attend a free webcast on Thursday, September 15, 2011, 1:00PM-2:00PM EDT, focusing on the newest lighting-control technologies,
- ...Cree will support our agents in their efforts to resist anti-competitive behavior
- We do not fear increased competition; rather we embrace it.
- Leaders do not spend their time trying to limit choice or restrict competition.
Read the internal email from Craig Lofton.
Cooper Industries Plc (CBE) rose the most in more than two years after Vertical Research Partners analyst Jeffrey Sprague suggested the electrical-distribution equipment maker may be a good takeover target for Eaton Corp. (ETN). Read the story at Bloomberg
US Treasury to Global Environment Facility to UN to China. Read the details
The results are in and not surprisingly, the industry is unhappy with the Cree acquisition of Ruud Lighting and BetaLED. Over the past few weeks, we spoke to several key players and one thing is clear, most will not share reps with this new competitor.
Morgan Stanley on Tuesday downgraded Siemens AG and SKF AB to equal-weight from overweight as well as cutting Philips Electronics NV and Sandvik AB to underweight from equal-weight. Read the story at MarketWatch
In a keynote address delivered yesterday at the National Clean Energy Summit 4.0: The Future of Energy held in Las Vegas, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid [D-NV] singled out LUXIM’s Light Emitting Plasma [LEP] technology, calling it the “light of the future”. Article/Video
CINCINNATI, Sept. 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LSI Industries Inc. (Nasdaq:LYTS - News) today:
LSI recently launched three new LED lighting products designed for the petroleum market. These products utilize cutting-edge LED technology and offer superior canopy, area and interior lighting solutions combined with cost savings. The Crossover(R) Gold LED Canopy light series provides a retrofit to the highly successful Scottsdale(R) canopy lighting family.
On 19 AUG 2011, Cooper released a statement that Neil Schrimsher had left to explore other opportunities. EdisonReport first learned of his departure over the July 4th weekend when we were told Schrimsher cleaned out his office.
 Lighting Science Group has announced a high-performance, sub-$15 omnidirectional 60-watt equivalent A19 LED bulb that will be available in India by the end of the year and will be sold worldwide by Lighting Science Group early next year.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced two solid-state lighting (SSL) funding opportunities seeking applications for projects to advance research, development, and market adoption of SSL technology. Read the details at Semiconductor Today
Initial predictions are that over the next three years Ruud will add 469 employees to its workforce. Those jobs will be full time with benefits and include advanced assembly, engineering and more. Read the story
FREMONT, CA – August 24, 2011 – Intematix Corporation, a leading innovator of patented phosphor materials and components for high-quality LED lighting, has been awarded a sixth remote phosphor patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
HOUSTON, Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper Industries plc (NYSE:CBE - News), a global provider of electrical products and solutions, was ranked as the number one innovator in The Patent Board's Industrial Components & Fixtures Patent Scorecard™. Read the story at Yahoo
Dale Bryk Director of the National Defense Resource Council Air & Energy Program has some interesting comments about the DOLED.
 
Your humble editor sat down with Alan Ruud, founder Ruud lighting along with its BetaLED brand and new Cree board member, and Chuck Swoboda, Chairman and CEO, Cree, Inc. to discuss Cree's acquisition of Ruud Lighting. Read the exclusive interview.
LG Innotek said Monday in an e-mail that it "would take action after checking out Osram's petition contents." Samsung LED had no immediate comment. Read the story at Yahoo Finance
Richard J. Crossland, a veteran executive of the lighting industry, has joined the leadership team of Supply Chain Edge, a consulting and advisory services firm with operations in Cleveland and Raleigh, NC.
Tuesday, 16 AUG, we were working on a story about Cree steamrolling the OEMs and selling direct. Our source was a Tier 1 OEM who complained that at the July SSL conference in Seattle, Cree presented a giant steamroller on the first slide. The implied message, we were told, was that Cree was going to steamroll the OEMs and sell direct. Read the details at Seeking Alpha
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: NEXS) today reported its second quarter 2011 results.
With growth slowing, margins shrinking, the oversupply worsening and credit in China tighter than expected, LED manufacturers have pushed out a significant number of installations in 2011 resulting in a surprisingly large MOCVD shipment downgrade. Read the story at Forbes.
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI -News), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, today announced that it has acquired for cashHorizon Control Inc. (“Horizon Control”), a lighting control research and development company specializing in PC-based lighting control systems.
Competed against 140 firms. Watch the video
City will remove 2400 streetlights to lower $2.7M electric bill. Read the story
Molycorp, a Colorado company with America's only rare-earth mine, told the Tribune-Review it would sell its products to CFL manufacturers — even if they relocated operations to China, as General Electric did.
Ft. Lauderdale budgeted for $200K; bids came it at $1.0M. Read the details.
- "It's about carefully identifying the locations where, under the revised guidelines, we would no longer install lighting."
Philips CFL--Read the Philips Recall
- Voluntary recall due to glue failure; defect can allow the outer glass to fall
- A field of three shrinks to one
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Cree Inc., which makes lights that use light-emitting diodes, said Tuesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings sank 63 percent as demand for its products declined and expenses climbed. Read the story on AP
The market bounced back and lighting roared back. The DJIA gained 3.98% and most lighting stocks beat that number.
It got worse!
On Monday, the DJIA fell 634 points or 5.55%. Lighting fell even more.
The LED lighting market has been performing relatively well compared to the LED TV backlight market. According to Delta, the sweet spot for LED lighting prices will be reached around the second half of 2011 to 2012. Read the story at Digitimes
the price difference between LED lamps and CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) is still significant enough to dampen widespread adoption. Read the story
Orion Energy Systems Inc. said Thursday its loss narrowed in the fiscal first quarter to $200,000 or 1 cent per share from $500,000 or 2 cents, a year ago. Read the story at Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Online
Stocks plunged sharply Thursday, with the Dow down more than 500 points, or 4.3%, in its worst one-day decline since December 2008.
"We show the fixtures and introduce the technology to potential clients, and they love it," said Bob Eminian, Lunera's marketing director. "But then the question is: When can they afford to install it?" Read Dana Hull's article in the San Jose Mercury News
Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Siemens AG faces a decline in the valuations placed on its Osram lighting unit by as much as one- half, testing the will of the German engineering company to pursue an initial public offering, analysts including SRH Alsterresearch’s Oliver Drebing said. Read the story at Bloomberg.
Helmut Ernst, the chief highway engineer in charge of the Big Dig tunnel system, was terminated effective immediately on Tuesday, making him the second top transportation official to lose his job in the wake of a light fixture collapse in one of the tunnels earlier this year. Read the story
EdisonReport Commentary on L Prize as well as Zia Eftekhar's exclusive comments to EdisonReport.
Philips Product Delivers on Department’s Challenge to Replace Common Light Bulb with Energy-Saving Lighting Alternative.
 The bulb, which Cree is calling the 21st Century Lamp, gives off more than 1,300 lumens, or more than a 75-watt incandescent light, and consumes 8.7 watts.
- 40 jobs being eliminated
- Demand has dropped sharply for those type of lights, which cast a yellowish light. White lights such as LED and ceramic metal halide are now in demand
Read the story at the SteubenCourier.com
NASA might not be looking ahead to launching anything new into space these days, but some innovative hydrogen fuel cell technology lit up operations on the ground at the 135th and final mission for the NASA Space Shuttle Program. Read the details
$60M is a nice round. It is interesting that the San Jose Mercury News has several quotes from company spokesman Brian Fisher, but none from CEO Bill Watkins.
NEW YORK, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vu1 Corporation (OTCBB: VUOC), a developer and manufacturer of mercury-free, energy-efficient, general illumination lighting technology, today announced that Bill Hamlin, who became a Director of Vu1 in 2010, has been named interim President and Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately and for a minimum of twelve months.
PLAINVIEW, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011.
LG Innotek on Thursday said it has filed a lawsuit against Osram’s Chinese corporation and another company called Hella for infringing patent rights for light-emitting diode technology. Read the details.
Could it be that there is a lower profile Jim Brodrick?
“Developers are still looking for the ‘killer application’ for OLED lighting that will allow them to make initial sales and bootstrap their way to larger scale” said Jonathan Melnick, a Lux Research Analyst. Read the report from LUX Research.
EdisonReport is not a fan of DLC. You fill out a report, you pay $500 with your credit card, you may or may not hear back from them. Emails go unanswered. Phone calls usually go directly to voice mail.
BURLINGTON, Mass., July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents of Boston will be seeing the city in a whole new, brighter light thanks to new light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting from Philips.
The Illuminating Engineering Society-New York City Section (IESNYC) has announced the date for its second annual program on state-of-the-art lighting control systems.
If you are not well versed in controls, you run the risk of being left behind.
Last week EdisonReport broke the story that GE acquired Lightech.
NVC is one of the largest lighting companies in China--and they are branching out.
Read the details.
- average selling price of an LED versus an equivalent incandescent can be 3, 4, 5 to 1.
As of Thursday's close, GE shares had risen about 26 percent over the past 12 months, ahead of the 23 percent rise of the Dow Jones industrial average. Read the story
Operating Margin up 30 basis points. View the Powerpoint presentation.
Strong demand from emerging marketscontinuing to offset weak U.S. demand and its slimmed-down finance arm. Read the details at Reuters.
Cooper Industries Reports Core Revenue Up 13%, EPS From Continuing Operations Up 20%
Lightech is still embroiled in legal proceedings with Canada's Carmanah Technologies.
The current Holy Grail of lighting today is arguably LEDs (light emitting diode). But lighting industry sales representatives are surprised by how many LED street lighting units have been returned lately.
GE Lighting today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Lightech, a privately held, advanced lighting technology leader based near Tel Aviv, Israel. EdisonReport is confirming the price. Read the details
EdisonReport can confirm that GE has purchased Israel-based Lightech for an undisclosed sum. Press Release should be out later today. Developing....
- four-foot, medium bi-pin T12 lamps
- eight-foot, single-pin T12 Slimline lamps
Nuventix developed a method for moving air to cool LEDs using a single oscillating membrane, called a SynJet®, as an alternative to traditional fans.
From one of our sources at the DOLED SSL Conference in Seattle:
- Will reduce complexity/infrastructure--$702M cost savings program
Three different sources have told EdisonReport that Neil Schrimsher is no longer with Cooper Lighting.
This below message from Jim O'Hargan was forwarded to EdisonReport on 15 JUL:
New problem found five months after an identical 110-pound fixture came crashing down in the Tip O’Neill tunnel. Read the story
In a complaint filed on Friday, Samsung said Osram was guilty of patent infringement in eight core light emitting diode (LED) technologies.
Read the details
A recently formed Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Quality Advocates working group, a group of 32 industry experts on reliability, sought to determine a series of recommendations for LED reliability, or methods for estimating LED lifetime.
After failing earlier in the week to repeal the new standards, the House passed a bill that would bar the Energy Department from spending money next year to enforce them. Read the story
Three: Driver Annual Salary: $70,908; Electrician Annual Salary: $84,968; Guy sitting in chair Annual Salary: 84,968. Watch the video at CBS Chicago
- ...have caused the price of these compounds to substantially increase – as much as 3500% since January of 2010 in some cases.
- ...exports of rare earth materials were reduced 40% from 2009 to 2010 and another 35% during the first half of 2011 compared with prior year. Read the letter from Rick Leaman
- ...further refining due to the rare earth situation
- Rare earth elements are a critical component in the production of fluorescent lamps as well as GE Reveal® incandescent and halogen products.
- GE may need to limit orders prior to the August 1st change based on market conditions.
Read the letter from Todd Gilmore
233 members voted yes and 193 cast nay votes. Fails to gain supermajority required to pass.
Read the details at Fox News
The Bulb Act. HR 2417
Rep Mike Doyle(D-PA)
- TCP opening plant in US
- GE invested $60M in US for fluorescent lamps
No doubt, Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest men in history. He is best known for many revolutionary developments and inventions in the late 19th and early 20th century. Read the sad story of his life
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTC: LSCG) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Haworth issued the following statement regarding the movement to pass the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, H.R. 2417:
House Republicans are finally ready to make good on their promise to stay the execution of incandescent light bulbs.
Distancing from backlighting. Read the story at Yahoo
July 7, 2011 - Based on LEP (Light Emitting Plasma) technology, DP400 employs 280 W plasma lamp and produces 23,000 lm of white light with up to 95 CRI and efficiency as high as 115 lm/W at source.
Read the details at Thomasnet
Revenue in the three months ended in May dropped 43% to $5.6 million, yielding a loss of 16 cents per share, excluding some costs.
Tougher compeitition and lagging sales of chips will take a toll on SemiLEDs Corp, according to Jeffries & Co, which cut its ratings on the company. Read the details at AP.
ANITOWOC, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Orion Energy Systems, Inc. today announced that it has received a notice from NYSE Amex LLC indicating that the Company was not in compliance with the Exchange’s continued listing criteria
Down 3.05% to $31.81 Read the details
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), has announced a call for entries for its 35th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition.
EdisonReport is confirming a story that a change in senior management has occurred at one of the leading lighting companies.
11 JUL: Did the company change its mind?
- Office STILL cleaned out--confimed
- House STILL for sale--confirmed
6 JUL: Company finalizing Press Release
- Office cleaned out--confimed
- House for sale--confirmed
Developing...
- Oversupply ratio reaches 12%
- Growth of LED lighting market has just started to take off slowly
- Acceptance of LED light bulbs is still limited to the Japanese market
Read the report
MKM Partners Recommend Cooper with a target price at $70
- Moved Exceline from Union, NJ to San Marcos, TX
- The LED lighting market is not expected to take off until at least 2013.
- Overcapacity may spur a shakeout of China's LED startups. But Chinese officials are unfazed ."They don't care if they create excess capacity. They just want to lower their oil needs." Read more at Yahoo
There are plenty of reasons the lighting market should be a little dim these days. Residential construction activity is almost nonexistent in many major markets, Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe's (NYSE:LOW) are not seeing much renovation demand, and commercial real estate is scarcely better.
Prices of rare earths have skyrocketed this year as China moves to consolidate the sector in order to tighten its grip over the highly coveted minerals used in high-tech products, analysts said Monday. Read the details
GE Lighting engineers and scientists are developing a 60-watt replacement LED bulb that meets the specifications for the Department of Energy’s Bright Tomorrow Lighting (L Prize) competition. GE recently submitted a Letter of Intent to the Department of Energy to enter the competition.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry today signed a law that will free Texans from the federal government’s impending incandescent light bulb ban. Read the details.
ING analyst Sjoerd Ummels said the professional lighting segment has "not seen a meaningful recovery yet" due to the slump in construction in Europe's mature markets.
June 29 (Reuters) - Lighting fixture maker Acuity Brands' third-quarter profit missed market estimates hurt by higher material and component costs and it warned of volatile demand and higher costs for the current quarter.
“We will move China’s successful model to emerging markets like India and Brazil by franchising and own-brand selling,”
Read the story at Bloomberg
“We are at a turning point in lighting,” said Gerard Reid, an equity analyst at Jefferies International Ltd. “The real question is what the future holds, and the question mark has gotten bigger since we got the latest news from Philips.”
"Vizio's expansion into the LED lighting market stands to challenge the convention in the same way that it has had in the flat-panel television market," said B.J. Lee, Chairman of Epistar. Read the details at LEDs Magazine
Don’t count fluorescents out yet, argues Francis Rubinstein of Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Read the story at Greentech Media
"The tailwind from the economic recovery is likely over." Read the story at Reuters
BURLINGTON, Mass., June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The evenings are brighter along the streets and sidewalks of Weston, Florida, as the city has selected Philips Lighting – the global leader in the development of LED lighting technology – to provide 1,200 environmentally--sustainable, energy-efficient and aesthetically-pleasing Roadstar luminaires from Philips Roadway throughout the city.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Cree Inc., trading around 52-week lows, should get a boost from growth in LED lighting, according to a Sterne Agee analyst. Read the AP story.
Cooper Lighting's President, Mark Eubanks: “We’d be happy to host the president,” Eubanks said. He added that he’s not expecting the phone to ring anytime soon. Read the Washington Post article.
Now, there’s new technology on the horizon – light emitting plasma, which is automatically great because it sounds like a system they’d use on the starship Enterprise. Read more
- Linear Fluorescent: 25%
- CFL: 15%
Read the details
Received from Philips: "We are pleased to announce the appointment of Denis Lavoie to the position of Commercial General Manager for Philips Lumec and Philips Roadway Lighting effective immediately.
The California company will come out with a line of LED bulbs to replace 40-watt and 60-watt bulbs as well as a line of floodlights. Read Michael Kanello's article at Greentech
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG) — a leader in the ultra-efficient LED lighting revolution — announced the appointment of its Chief Executive Officer, James "Jim" Haworth, to its board of directors and to serve as chairman of the board.
Philips Electronics (PHG.AS) warned of sharply lower profits at its lighting division and toasters-to-shavers consumer business, due to weak demand in Europe.
The two issues—“Recommendations for Evaluating Street and Roadway Luminaires” and “A Method for Estimating Discomfort Glare from Exterior Lighting Systems”—offer new calculation methods for estimating efficacy and discomfort glare, respectively, from luminaires used outdoors.
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--US Lighting Tech (www.uslightingtech.com), the leader in induction lighting, announced today that it has completed a multi-million dollar credit facility (“credit agreement”) with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
- Jury Awards $3.0M to Lighting Ballast Controls
Read the details
Read the details at Yahoo.
The company is targeting an increase in LED lighting up to 40% of all its lighting business by 2015 and 40% of the total will some from international markets. Read more
GE's Hungarian lighting unit will retain for another year 600 of 1,000 employees it planned to lay off this year, GE Lighting said on Friday. read the story at Budapest Business Journal
The Company's current method of accounting for its OTA transactions as operating leases defers revenue recognition over the full five year-term of the OTA contracts, only recognizing revenue on a monthly basis as customer payments are due, while the upfront sales, general and administrative expenses related to these OTA contracts are recognized immediately. Read more on the 8-K report
VantagePoint Capital Partners, the Silicon Valley investor that helped bring Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) public, expects prices for LEDs to “plummet” within three years as competition intensifies to satisfy surging demand for energy-efficient lights. Read the story at Bloomberg
President Obama doesn't see this as the regulatory robbery it is. He sees it as stimulus. After all, the regulation has helped Cree hire new workers. See? Everyone wins! Read the story at The Washington Examiner
Are you a highly motivated marketing professional, capable of managing a technical line of exciting new products in a dynamic team-oriented environment?
President Barack Obama visited the Durham, N.C., headquarters of LED lighting producer Cree Inc. to try to show off the potential of American manufacturing in the 21st century.
Read the WSJ story
It would take an estimated $250 million, at minimum, to upgrade the system, McKinsey found -- money that's not on the table. Read the story at Crain's Detroit
The event features exhibits from six leading architects and lighting designers, who have each been invited to design the interior of a full sized 60-feet container using Philips’ latest lighting solutions
- GE steals the show with Avatars
- Limited air conditioning: uncomfortable temperature in halls; sweltering temperature between halls
- Only in China: Counterfeit Exhibitor Passes for $100 RMB
...developing...
Osram, the lighting maker to be spun out of Siemens AG (SIE), plans to make acquisitions to supplement research spending as a move toward LED marks the fastest change in the industry for three decades, chief Wolfgang Dehen said.
President Barack Obama will be visiting Cree Inc. on Monday. The White House confirmed the visit Thursday morning.
- Cree: $1.6M
- Philips Lumileds: $2.0M
- Soraa: $678K
- "....is one of a small number of LED general lighting companies to receive venture funding."
- Because of its disruptive system architecture, "SunSun Lighting is capable of producing the LED bulb with the highest lumen efficiency and the lowest cost," said Sonny Wu.
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. and NEW DELHI, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG) -- a leader in the ultra-efficient LED lighting revolution -- has secured Dixon Technologies as the company's exclusive distributor of its high performance LED bulbs, fixtures and infrastructure products in India's 1.8 billion dollar lighting market.
AURORA, Ohio, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TCP, the global leader in energy efficient lighting products, announced today that industry veteran Jorge Fernandez will be joining the company in the position of Sr. Vice President of Business Development.
US demand for advanced lighting is forecast to surpass $10 billion by 2015 on annual increases of about eight percent. Read more at Report Buyer.
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Atlanta, June 7, 2011—The 22nd consecutive edition of LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) broke all records for attendance and exhibit space in its May 17—19 run at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, the LFI 2011 venue. LFI, the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, covered 200,000 net square square feet of exhibits in its largest-ever trade show floor. There were 474 exhibitors, including 59 first-time exhibiting companies. Attendance levels also exceeded all records, with 23,709 attendees from around the globe representing 75 nations.
The highly coveted LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards received 239 submissions for the 14 designated categories for products making their debut on the 2011 trade show floor. Each product was judged by an independent panel of renowned lighting professionals.
Revel™ by Acuity Brands was voted the Most Innovative Product of the Year—the program’s highest award, recognizing the most innovative new product.
For a complete listing of all 2011 Innovation Award winners go to: http://www.lightfair.com/lightfair/V40/iAwards2011
Successful features added to enhance the 2011 show included a new LFI Mobile App, which allowed attendees a paperless, convenient way to track program schedules and events.
In addition, the new Spotlight Lounge allowed attendees to experience presentations by esteemed experts, such as iconic lighting designer Ingo Maurer, without leaving the excitement of the trade show floor. LFI also featured keynote presentations from world renowned lighting designers Speirs and Major from the UK, and from Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects, Chicago.
The energy and excitement at LFI 2011 were evident from Opening Day. Crowds thronged from the LFI Innovation Awards to the Ribbon Cutting and onto the floor where they experienced state-of-the art industry technology and design innovation. That night, attendees gathered for the first annual LightFEST atPhiladelphia’s Franklin Institute, the perfect setting for another LIGHTFAIR first. The event celebrated today’s leading lighting industry innovators, while paying homage to a man whose electrical innovations helped bring light to the world.
LIGHTFAIR International staff is already hard at work on the 2012 show set to be held in Las Vegas, May 7-11, 2012
For more information, visit www.lightfair.com.
Siemens, the German industrial group, on Monday sued Samsung and LG in Germany and the United States, claiming the consumer electronics makers infringed on its LED lighting technology, an unusual step in a branch marked by cross-licensing pact.
Dave Leonard, founder and CEO of Redwood Systems, grew discouraged trying to raise money in early 2008. He wanted to create the first digital lighting network -- combining information technology with advanced lighting to drastically cut electricity costs -- and he needed venture capital to do it.
For years, high-output and low-cost LED lighting products had been just out of reach, but Lighting Science Group has revolutionized the science of light in America to produce lighting products that deliver on the promise of LED technology.
GLEN ALLEN, Va., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has released its latest report titled, "The Market for OLED Materials 2011" which says that the market opportunities for the various materials used in OLED displays and lighting will exceed $2.0 billion (USD) by 2016.
Simon Cowell apparently ordered the lighting for Britain's Got Talent to be changed after fans criticised his looks. Read the story at STV.TV.
OXFORD, Mich. (June 1, 2011) — It is with great sadness that Relume Technologies announces the death of Peter Hochstein, founder of the company and an early innovator in the LED lighting field.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Philips Lumileds and Future Electronics today announced the extension of their exclusive worldwide distribution relationship.
A beam of light is focused on the object to alert the driver.
A YESCO franchise is an exclusive opportunity, awarded to individuals with a proven track record of great customer service, dependable quality and uncompromising integrity.
...becoming the first national Canadian retailer to ban the sale of inefficient incandescent and halogen lighting in its stores nationally.
"...DOE booth, which was a popular destination throughout the week for buyers of all stripes who wanted an objective, unbiased take on solid-state lighting." Read the posting
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: LSCG) ("LSCG"), a leading American maker of LED-based lighting, today announced that it has postponed its 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, May 25, 2011.
Many, many source companies sell complete fixtures, and the old model of source companies selling components to only OEMs and Distributors is out the door.
Security cutbacks, scanty lighting and a hands-off approach to rowdiness at Dodger Stadium provided a "perfect opportunity" for two men to brutally beat Giants fan Bryan Stow outside the ballpark, Stow's family said in a lawsuit filed against the Dodgers on Tuesday.
"We have not made a decision," GE spokeswoman says. Read GE's comments here.
Cree shares are trading higher Tuesday morning on a report that the company has won a contract from General Electric for production of 60 watt LED replacement light bulbs.
The purpose of this letter is to notify you of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) intention to postpone the effective date for the ENERGY STAR Luminaires Version 1.0 specification from October 1, 2011 to April 1, 2012.
NEW YORK – Rambus Inc., a company best known for its memory technology IPs and an army of in-house lawyers to protect them, this week came to Lightfair in Philadelphia to pitch the company’s patented lighting solutions, branded as Pentelic.
Jerabek Brings Decades of Lighting Industry Experience to Luminus and is Widely Recognized for His Leadership and Management Skills.
Edison Report Lightfair Coverage
- Selling to your Customer's Customer--developing...
- most source/component companies sell complete fixtures
- traditional channels 'out the door'
- The hotel problem in Philly
- Innovation Awards:
- Most Innovative Product of the Year: Acuity Brands, A5 OLED
- LIGHTFAIR 2013, Philadelphia vs New York: No decision yet.
- City of Philips: Approximately 10% of floor space.
- More OLED, Plasma, Controllable HID at show. Philips invests $57M in OLED capacity in Germany.
- The Top 'MUST SEE' List
- Fewer companies in China Pavilion
- Ed's Annual Question: "How can you be a leader in the lighting industry and not attend LIGHTFAIR?"
- Piper Jaffray to host private symposium on Wednesday
- Ed's Parties!
- First LightFEST: Franklin Institute. LIGHTFAIR donates $2500 to Partnership for Achieving Careers in Technology and Scienct (PACTS)
- Bill Brown Sales/ALP: Standing room only
- Fulham: City tour on Wednesday, party at the historic Tavern, Best food of the show
- Lowes Bar seems to be the late night gathering place
- LIGHTFAIR Introduces App for smart phones
- GE uses "Wii"-like technology in booth
- Heard at the Show:
- Concern about Philips Exiting Induction
- Pemco lights luminaires from wasted energy of other luminaires? (booth 3337)
Your humble editor sat down with Tom Salpietra, President & COO of EYE Lighting International for an interview about the company, their new LED luminaire, and his personal account of the big earthquake in Japan.
Ted Lattimore says the timing is good because company is profitable.
“Lighting within a healthcare environment calls for rigorous, continuous review of current standards and a keen understanding of our customers’ unique lighting needs."
By bringing the case, CAO Group, based in Salt Lake City, UT, says it “is protecting its investments in these innovations and its ongoing business and will pursue all available remedies in the lawsuit.”
LED bulb would 'talk' to Android app
AURORA, Ohio, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TCP is expanding their residential LED lamp series with products that feature a powerful combination of category-leading performance, functionality, and value.
It is basically a plastic soda bottle containing a mixture of purified water and chlorine.
High-Power R&D Result Sets Record for Solid-State Lighting Industry. 350 ma; 4500K.
Siemens said March 28 it planned to cede control of Osram as Chief Executive Officer Peter Loescher focuses the company around energy, industry, infrastructure and health care, shifting away from consumer-based products.
Solar LEDs to replace Kerosene
Eliminating the need for external drivers not only simplifies the design-in process, but also enables more efficient and consistent lighting performance, say the firms.
There is now a shocking new strategy to fight copper crime. Street lights are now staying on 24-hours a day in one Sacramento neighborhood and the city is banking on live wires to keep criminals away.
Effective 1 JUN; 3 or 4%. Justification: Transportation Costs
“Let’s Bounce: LEDs + Reflectors”
Siemens has mooted floating up to 75 percent of Osram if investor demand is strong, in what would be one of Europe's biggest stock market listings this year.
Royal Philips Electronics NV said Rudy Provoost is leaving as head of the lighting unit to join French electrical equipment retailer Rexel SA (RXL), where he will succeed Chief Executive Officer Jean-Charles Pauze next year.
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI, “Company”), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, continues announcements of a major expansion of its outdoor LED lighting portfolio.
SmartPOD to bring versatility and energy savings to multi-purpose Arena
DUBLIN, May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.29 on each share of the Company's outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable July 1, 2011, to shareholders of record on May 31, 2011.
Satellite Beach, Florida, May 2, 2011 – After being selected by the White House as a “Champion of Change,” an award associated with President Obama’s “Winning the Future” initiative,
The former head of marketing and strategy for Philips Professional Luminaire North America will replace Zach Gibler who was killed in an accident in January.
The product features outward-facing LEDs on metal fingers cooled with an inert liquid, creating a warmer, brighter output.
The market for LED backlights continues to grow as manufacturers leverage the technology for large display applications like notebooks, monitors, and TVs...
"...Is aggressively looking to expand its retail presence throughout India and aims to double the number of its exclusive retail touch points by the end of 2011".
Every two years the EdisonReport names the "Top 10 Must See Products" at LIGHTFAIR prior to the show.
Germany’s Osram, one of the two leading electric bulb producers in the world, is considering making Light-Emitting Diode (LED) technology investments in Turkey, Martin Goetzeler, Chief Executive of the company, told the daily Hurriyet over the weekend.
LED products accounted for 14% of Philips’ lighting sales in the last fiscal year. Meanwhile, shares in Cree and SemiLEDs have been hit by poor recent performance.
Using the national average for electricity prices of 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, Cree calculates that the payoff of office upgrades to LEDs can be less than one year to replace typical fluorescent tubes.
Electrical Products Group segment revenues for the first quarter of 2011 increased 16.5%.
New 40 watt equivalent A19 omnidirectional, 8.5 watt LED bulb is priced at $21.98; claims half the price of GE.
Sales up 15%; Income up 12%; Electrical Segment up 14%
Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of less than 20 percent, a high Power Factor (PF) of .99, and high efficiency of 94 percent.
"The acquisition of TLI allows us to take advantage of their core strengths, enabling us to better serve the commercial segment."
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Acuity Brands, Inc., (NYSE:AYI - News) ("Company"), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, has announced a technology sharing and business collaboration agreement with Neonlite Electronic & Lighting (HK), Ltd. (“Neonlite”).
LET THERE BE LIGHT, My Life Among Giants, Monarchs & Mobsters in the World of Architectural Lighting
Soars to Number 1 on the EdisonReport Best Sellers List
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have made an important discovery that could improve the performance of LEDs for general lighting purposes.
The stock price has now dropped almost 50% since December 2010.
Stocks that hit their lowest point in last 12 months.
72-watt replaces a 100-watt incandescent
Adding Additional 220,000 square feet.“We have the most installed LED street lights in the U.S. (of any manufacturer),” Ruud said.
NVC Lighting announced Sunday the recall of the 5W 220V 50Hz energy saving bulbs. The recall is estimated to wrap up a loss of 10 million yuan ($1.53 million)
On Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Spill, Bird Conservation Group Calls on BP to Install Bird-Friendly Lighting on Gulf Platforms
"Our European DEFINITY line of LED bulbs sets a new standard for lighting performance at an affordable price," said Rich Weinberg.
Helps Reduce System Cost, Speed Time-to-Market, Simplify Fixture and Lamp Design.
Name of Product: RGB DMX Controller, Model PX24500
Estimates authorized growers will use $5 billion worth of energy. That works out to the output of seven big electric power plants.
Federal Court Turns Down All Independent Claims of Osram Sylvania's Patent.
Chris Bailey: "...a centralized site for all things LED at Hubbell Lighting,"
The company specializes in building LED luminaires that are controlled through wireless networks.
Corrosion may have been started by contact between two different kinds of metal in the light fixture, and made worse by salt from snow and ice removal efforts.
A school in Surrey has been trying out a special lighting system, which it is claimed can improve concentration or calm pupils at the touch of a button.
Philips Color Kinetics, Digital Lumens, Luminus Devices, and LumenZ
Drive, Park, Walk and View Product Families Provide Solutions for the Four Major Outdoor Lighting Applications
Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEXS) announced the Nexxus' Array™ brand of premium LED light bulbs will be offered on Lowes.com and in 1,100 Lowe's stores across the United States.
The LMH6 module is the first high-lumen product in Cree’s fully-integrated LED module family.
The Board of Directors established a Special Investigation Committee to investigate allegations contained in the resignation letter of its previous auditors, MaloneBailey LLP.
Wireless controls, for example, deliver up to 25% lower lifetime costs than comparable wired systems, according to the paper.
Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has released its latest report titled, “OLED Lighting Markets Asia-2011,” that says the market opportunities in Asia for OLED lighting will generate $2.1 billion by 2016.
Silicon Era has uncovered a Nintendo patent for a 'Wii Light' accessory.
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI -News), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, has announced the launch of the Acuity Brands International Sales website to support its customer base outside of the United States and Canada.
The price of electric power in New York City could double over the next three years as the result of a recent ruling by theFederal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
It will develop and manufacture the lighting panels, core components of OLED lighting by combining design and manufacturing technologies accumulated in PEW with outstanding organic electroluminescent materials of Idemitsu.
The nation's accelerating shift from incandescent bulbs to a new generation of energy-efficient lighting is raising an environmental concern -- the release of tons of mercury every year.
A Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400, from Denpasar Bali to Hong Kong with 383 passengers, was enroute more than 60 minutes into the flight when the cabin lighting failed.
Siemens has announced that it plans to publicly list its Osram subsidiary in the autumn of 2011.
GE engineers figured out a way to nestle an instantly bright halogen capsule inside the swirl of a compact fluorescent light bulb.
Q2 EPS 45 cents vs est 50 cents. Hurt by higher material, component and fuel costs, and said it continues to experience inflationary cost pressures from rising commodity prices.
The Rosen Law Firm, P.A. announces that it is investigating potential securities claims against China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics, Inc resulting from allegations that the Company issued materially false financial statements since the fiscal year ended as of December 31, 2009.
The new LED T8 Lamp has been designed to replace the existing, two- or four-feet fluorescent lamps.
The new platform combines high density fluorescent and LED technologies into one light fixture.
"If I think back to last year's Earth Hour, I don't think it was as big a deal because, you know, novelty normalizes and this is no longer a novelty,"
China suppliers of lighting and related electrical devices react to demand for power saving models.
Will showcasee: LED, fluorescent, halogen, and ceramic metal halide.
Canaccord Genuity (video): "We've seen prices fall to the tune of over 50% in last six month; costs have only dropped 20-25%.
Cree, whose stock fell 12% just yesterday, is off to New York.
shares of LED maker Cree (CREE) are down $2.96, or 6%, at $46.04 in early trading after the company cut its fiscal Q3 revenue forecast on weaker-than-expected demand and weaker-than-expected pricing.
BOSTON — The company that made the now-corroding lights for the Big Dig tunnels is still advertising that it makes tunnel lighting. But that’s not what officials at the company said last week.
Two eight foot fluorescent fixtures fell. Though no vehicles were damaged, the mishap triggered an inspection of all 23,000 lights that hang overhead in the tunnels of the Big Dig system.
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE -News), a market leader in LED lighting, announces that Bruce Renouard will join the company as senior vice president – sales and business development, effective March 21.
FAIRFIELD, N.J., March 16, 2011 – Amerlux, a leading worldwide lighting solutions provider, recently celebrated the grand opening of Guangzhou Amerlux Lighting Solutions Co. Ltd., our new facility in China, as well as a Hong Kong sales office.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Mar. 17, 2011—Today, LUXIM named lighting industry leader, K.R. (Kaj) den Daas to its Board of Directors.
Ameresco Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) said Wednesday it has won a $9.4 million contract to provide energy efficiency upgrades and solar installations for buildings owned by the city of Portland, Maine.
- Callls CFL 'deadly poison',
- "LED's... contain arsenic and other poisonous materials.".
Normally EdisonReport does not cover local stories of this nature, but we are seeing more enforcement on a local basis.
The full color spectrum LED lighting in the ceiling and along the walls makes the cabin feel bigger and the new overhead bins (also found on the 787 Dreamliner) actually make the cabin bigger.
... have developed a metric for a new color-rendering standard with the potential to replace a decades-old one...
In a first for modern Japan, rolling blackouts were scheduled to begin and officials appealed to the owners of shops, restaurants and nightclubs to unplug the garish lighting displays that dot the capital of the world's third largest economy.
Though lighting represents about 17.5% of all global electricity consumption, only a small percentage of the lighting in commercial buildings is controlled by anything other than an ON/OFF switch.
Kathleen Hogan, deputy assistant secretary of energy efficiency at the Department of Energy, (DoLED) Defends CFL
Kentucky's Rand Paul adds abortion to lighting converstation.
...an inexpensive system that uses Kinect ($150 standalone) to control his apartment’s lighting by sensing where he is.
Philadelphia, Pa. – Global Industrial Lighting Solutions, (d/b/a Westinghouse Lighting Solutions,) announced today the sale of its assets to LumenOptix, LLC.
LinkedIn offers a new group called Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. Howard Brandston and Jim Benya have a respectful difference of opinion.
Some 1,200 San Bernardino street lights -- roughly one in 10 -- have gone dark as copper wire thieves and layoffs are taking a toll on the city's Public Works Department.
It’s all about the epitaxial talent, says Osram Opto CEO Aldo Kamper. Also: supply forecasts and the dawn of six-inch wafers.
Maryrose Sylvester to replace Michael Petras, who is leaving GE to pursue healtcare career.
Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann on Tuesday reintroduced the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act," a bill to repeal a 2007 law mandating that incandescent light bulbs be phased out.
“We look forward to extending our successful cooperation with Cree in the coming years.”
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Mar. 3, 2011—Today, the Wall Street Journal named LUXIM a winner in its Next Big Thing: Top 10 Venture-Backed, Clean Technology Companies Award.
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE -News), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of XLamp® XM-L LEDs in neutral and warm white color temperatures (2600K – 5000K CCT).
NORTHBROOK, Ill., March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- UL, a world leader in advancing safety, announced today that it has acquired Lighting Sciences, Inc. (LSI), a leading provider of photometric testing services, test equipment, and advisory services in support of the growing Solid State Lighting (SSL) market.
(DURHAM) -- Cree, Inc. has announced the commercial availability of an LED lighting unit intended for extreme low output applications that meets Energy Star requirement.
"Since the bulbs would be made entirely in South Carolina and sold in South Carolina, the federal government has no power to regulate it under the Interstate Commerce Clause."
Rev 2 of innovative HID lamp direct driver delivers up to 80% energy savings
- Controllable, Dimmable and Intelligent
- Built for the Smart Grid
- Drives Ceramic Metal Halides for superior light quality
One Sailor's request to replace humming fluorescent bulbs with a quiet alternative inspired the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to create the Solid State Lighting (SSL) project, currently being evaluated aboard several ships and submarines across the U.S. Navy.
"We are interested in how the light cycle changes affects 'clock genes' -- the actual molecular gears of the circadian clock within cells -- in different brain regions, particularly the prefrontal cortex, and how this translates to changes in the functioning of the cells in that region."
Acquisition of Siteco Lighting GmbH opens up further potential for growth in LED applications.
Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering company, is weighing an initial public offering of its Osram lighting business within the next two months, according to two people familiar with the discussion.
March 24, 2011 Strategy In Light, Santa Clara, CA. Lightech today showcased a greatly expanded range of power supplies for the fast-growing LED lighting market.
- By the agency's own math, it's 300 times less than the amount that would give a child a 1-in-10,000 chance of suffering harm even after long-term exposure.
- The stunts were clearly aimed at buffaloing Mayor Bloomberg into a huge remedial program. Never mind that the city is broke.
Howard Industries today pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to violate immigration laws related to its hiring of illegal immigrants at its Laurel plant, federal officials announced today.
- Replaces 200 watt HPS
- 972 fixtures to be replaced
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Acuity Brands, Inc., (NYSE:AYI -News) a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, today announced it has acquired for cash Sacramento, CA-based Sunoptics, a premier provider of high-performance, prismatic daylighting products.
- LED streetlights required an average of 40 percent more poles per mile than the HPS base case to meet the RP-8 lighting criteria
- Only one of the tested LED streetlights was able to provide pole spacing similar to the HPS base case
A panel of 12 judges awarded four light-bulb makers boasting extreme-efficiency lighting technologies with the highest honors today at the third annual Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) contest in Santa Clara, California.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Philips Lumileds announced an industry breakthrough today that will relieve luminaire manufacturers’ and lighting designers’ concerns over white light consistency and uniformity and will dramatically simplify the design process for LED solutions.
(February 22, 2011 -- Hangzhou, China) LED One is proud to announce that it has appointed lighting industry veteran Boyd Corbett as Vice President of Sales for its North American subsidiary, LED One, Inc.
Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) has announced that he plans to introduce legislation to reverse the ban on incandescent light bulbs which is scheduled to go into effect January 1, 2014.
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE - News), a market leader in LED lighting, announces commercial availability of the LBR-30™ LED lamp,
The lighting group cut the cost of imported materials but attracted greater overseas competition from smaller players.
- Complaints that the bluish-white lamps create darker areas between light poles.
- Davis expressed disappointment that the lamps "don't cast as much light as we assumed they would."
While taking a few days R&R in Ft. Myers, your humble editor had the opportunity to watch the 73rd Edison Festival of Lights. It was spectacular.
Most Americans support the U.S. law that begins phasing out traditional light bulbs next year and, despite some consumer grumbling, say they're satisfied with more efficient alternatives, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup poll.
DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --Ford Land Energy Efficiency and Supply Office is switching out and retrofitting 50,000 light fixtures that will eliminate more than 11,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions and will offer an annual savings of more than $1.3 million.
Lighting Controls Association Offers New Online Course on Wireless Lighting Control
Latest Patent Covers High Efficiency Lighting Characteristics of SolarOne’s SO-Bright® Technology
 (February 16, 2011 -- Hangzhou, China) Leading LED lighting innovator LED One proudly announces that company CEO, Dr. Gary Hua, was recently honored by media giant CCTV as a finalist for China’s “Economic Person of the Year.”
DUBLIN, Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) announced today that its Board of Directors increased the annual dividend from $1.08 to $1.16 per share at its regularly scheduled board meeting on February 15.
With this letter, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the release of the Final ENERGY STAR Luminaires V1.0 specification.
Somerset, NJ – The world’s first LED replacement for a 60-watt incandescent bulb is now also the first to earn ENERGY STAR qualification. Philips Lighting announced today that the Philips EnduraLED 12.5 watt A-19 has met or exceeded the quality and energy efficiency requirements for a 60-watt LED equivalent set forth by ENERGY STAR, proving that it is a highly-efficient, cost-effective lighting option for professional end users.
FEB 14, 2011--U.S. consumers shopping for light bulbs this Valentine’s Day and in the coming months may notice changes on retail store shelves: fewer incandescent bulbs and a wider selection of energy-efficient incandescent halogen bulbs.
Bracklesham Bay had to be closed after fluorescent lighting tubes were washed up along the coastline.
LED technology has been around for 50 years and has been long held as the most efficient form of illumination.
A power surge caused a bank of lights to go out....
It could gain a brighter profile among investors as well with the planned Nasdaq debut of Lighting Science Group, which wants to raise up to $150 million.
The Maricopa Association of Governments will solicit public discussion this week of its efforts to limit Valley light pollution.
Osaka, Feb 9, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation has developed and will introduce high-output, high-color-rendering(1) 25W-class LED lighting devices that boast an industry's highest luminous efficacy(2) of 91 lm/W for light sources such as store spotlights.
...contained eight times more lead than California law allows,,,
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: LSCG), a leading American maker of LED lighting, has filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering for the sale of $150,000,000 of its common stock.
Spring City, P.A., February 16, 2010 — The City of Topeka, Kansas will be hosting a press conference to announce their conversion of their decorative post top luminaires to energy-efficient LED lighting at 10 o’clock central time on February 16th at City Hall.
Silver Spring, MD—“Heroes of the lighting community” is how the National Lighting Bureau describes its sponsors “whose volunteered efforts and funding made 2010 the most remarkable year in Bureau history.”
About 261,000 LED Night Lights imported by American Tack & Hardware Co. Inc. (AmerTac), of Saddle River, N.J. An electrical short circuit in the light can cause it to overheat, smolder and melt — a fire or burn risk.
Article talks about LED being expensive compared to incandescants which can cost from '$2.00 to $10.00.' Perhaps the ban has already gone into place.
A limited-government group says it's ratcheting up its grass-roots efforts this week to repeal the phaseout of incandescent light bulbs slated to begin next year.
The California Lighting Technology Center plans to sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the University of California, Davis and the Department of the Navy at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at the CLTC facility.
Veeco's 4th-qtr profit soars as revenue more than doubles, but 1Q outlook misses Street views
Faced with a U.S. phaseout of incandescent light bulbs starting next year, some consumers are taking pre-emptive steps: They're stockpiling the bulbs.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The LED end-market players already had their chance to move the needle on earnings, and Cree(CREE_) and SemiLEDs(LEDS_) dialed back investor expectations, and took big hits on recent earnings disappointments.
Is Solid State Lighting Ready for Prime Time? Michael Kanellos is linked into Silicon Valley.
It's not LED, Plasma, or OLED.
Wikipedia: Electron Stimulated Luminescence is light produced by accelerated electrons hitting a phosphor (fluorescent) surface in a process known a athodoluminescence.[1][2][3] The light generation process is similar to a cathode ray tube (CRT) but lacks magnetic or electrostatic deflection.[4]
The sudden rise of dozens of government-backed Chinese competitors threatens to steal the thunder of market leaders just as a global transition to super-efficient lighting gets under way.
The UL approved Aleddra LED Linear Tube sets standard for LED lamps designed to replaceconventional fluorescent T8 and T12 lights while utilizing the existing fixture.
(ROSSLYN, Va.)—The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published LSD 58-2010 Air Infiltration Ratings for Recessed Luminaires. This new white paper was produced by NEMA’s Luminaire Section.
New Partner Program Encourages Industry-Wide Collaboration; Launches with First Several ControlScope Connected Partners
Silver Spring, MD—Howard P. Lewis, representing the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), has been re-elected chair of the National Lighting Bureau.
GLO recently opened an engineering office in Silicon Valley and raised about $25M in a closed round of financing.
Lightech, a global leader in electronic transformers and LED drivers, is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Zvi Schreiber as CEO, effective February 1st.
$6M in dispute over withdrawn acquisition bid.
Boosted by good sales coming from emerging markets like India and China, Philips today said it will look for acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region to maintain its growth momentum for its lighting business.
(Photo by Blaine Shahan/Lancaster New Era)
Delivers more than 800 lumens and consumes fewer than 10 watts. “This is a significant milestone for the industry,” said Chuck Swoboda
EPS drops from $0.84 per share to $0.81
Philips will expand plant; create 50 jobs.
MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today reported results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2010.
Core revenue growth of 14%
Pegasus Partners IV,LP and two of its operating advisors purchased 3,167,333 shares at an aggregate price of $10,452,200
Jan. 26. President Obama makes Orion in Manitowoc his first stop after his State of the Union address, where he continued promoting renewable energy sources by spotlighting Orion.
Lime Energy (Nasdaq:LIME), a national leader in design and implementation of energy efficiency solutions, has joined GE Lighting's Energy Services Program.
Night after night, year after year, this nightside reporter observed lights left on in federal government buildings.
Philips Electronics (PHG.AS) is set to post a doubling of quarterly profit on Monday, setting it up for the challenges of weak consumer spending, sluggish construction markets and upcoming management changes.
General Electric Co posted a better-than-expected profit, helped by strong emerging-market demand for heavy equipment and setting the stage for what could be a wave of strong manufacturing earnings reports.
President Obama, "We think GE has something to teach businessesses all across America.
 Misconception number one: The light from CFLs is ugly and unflattering.
Justification: raw materials, packaging and transportation. Specifically excludes 'recently introduced LED.'
Cree's stock fell from a high of near $70 last week to $52.xx today after not meeting analyst expectations.
"Demand isn't fantastic right now in the marketplace and things have softened a little bit,"
Bridgelux has added sales offices in both Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Increase letter specifically excludes LED.
While we were researching the earnings news on Friday, we were unable to access the company's public website.
ATLANTA (AP) — Lighting manufacturer Acuity Brands, Inc. said Monday that its first-quarter net income rose 4.7 percent from the same period last year, but its profit and revenue fell short of expectations.
VICTORIA, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carmanah Technologies Corporation (“the Company”) (TSX:CMH), a leader in solar LED lighting and power systems for a range of industrial applications, today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the Vancouver Registry of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada against Lightech Electronic Industries Inc., seeking restitution against Lightech in the Canadian Dollar equivalent of USD $625,000 plus interest and costs.
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE -News) has further simplified indoor LED fixture design with its newly optimized XLamp® MX-6 LEDs, which feature higher flux options, new, longer lifetime estimates and higher CRI options.
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI -News), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to announce the release of its popular Lithonia Lighting® Stock Guide for the iPad® and Facebook®.
LAS VEGAS, NV -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/06/11 -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) and LUXIM today announced a program designed to ensure local public works administrations receive genuine products for use in street lighting.
Pressures in commercial markets will continue to be a drag on earnings throughout the current year; however, numerous items such as lighting retrofit, government spending, energy efficiency projects and stimulus will help buffer underlying pressure. Yahoo tells us more.
LED Innovator Relume Technologies Names Industry Veteran as New CEO. Crawford Lipsey has proven track record growing lighting industry leaders
Leon Wagner, Co-Founder of GoldenTree Asset Management. More from Yahoo Finance.
Vista, CA to turn off every other light if tax increase not passed "Most lights are energy-efficient so dimming them won’t save much". More from the local CBS News.
More from LSG press release
Rep. Upton Considered for Energy & Commerce Panel. Keep your eye on Michigan Representative Fred Upton who is the frontrunner to head the Energy and Commerce Panel.
9 watts replaces 40 watt incandescent and 25,000 hour life
More from Cleaveland.com
Switching 117,000 Incandescent bulbs to LED's. More from Slashgear.com
Uses only 11 watts more from Yahoo Finance
Letter from Schwarzenegger
National Lighting Bureau Reports Third-Quarter 2010 Lighting Systems Index Improvements
Silver Spring, MD: Third-quarter 2010 NEMA Lighting Systems Index (LSI) performance bested the second quarter’s by 0.9% and was 5.6% ahead of third-quarter 2009’s, the National Lighting Bureau (NLB) reports. “While it’s hardly cause for jubilation,” says NLB Executive Director John Bachner, “it should give rise to at least some guarded optimism.”
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Uses accelerated electrons to stimulate phosphor to create light, making the surface of the bulb “glow”
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Creates the same light quality as an incandescent but is up to 70% more energy efficient
As I walked this year’s GreenBuild tradeshow and worked at our booth display, my primary impression was an engaged and broad audience. Many tradeshows are single industry silos. This one exists to advance the expansive future of green building – a rapidly growing industry. The attendees were concerned and informed about broad sustainability issues.
Decked with 100,000 light bulbs and topped with an illuminated cross
The brightly lit steel tree sits on a peak high enough for it to be seen by North Koreans living in impoverished border towns, which frequently suffer electricity cuts and food shortages.
DDOT conducted a study and analysis of LED lighting products from a variety of vendors and manufacturers.
2011 is the year for Smart Lighting. More from Venturebeat.
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Editor's Note: One of our sources in Israel has seen the Oree product and describes it as similar to an OLED panel, only much brighter. Because Oree uses LED technology, the cost is lower than typical OLED products. 
In addition to an impressive line up of residential, commercial, infrastructure and custom LED applications, the Company displayed wirelessly controlled, intelligent luminaires; color tunable lights; advanced product design fixtures; camera motion detection luminaires; and an a bulb with integrated motion detection. 
Your humble editor sat down with Danny Yu, CEO of Daintree Networks. Daintree developed networking software, with which they intend to disrupt the lighting industry. Their wireless system is based on open standards in interoperable forms. What does that mean?
SWITCH Lighting
