the LED lighting field as an internationalized local brand

During a recent webinar, Shenzhen ChangFang Lighting Secretary of the Board Qinqin Wu expressed that the company’s LED packaging products and led high bay light products will continue to be the main business direction for the company and that in the future the company will have a fixed position as leader in the LED lighting field as an internationalized local brand.

In regards to the problems faced by the company for their future development plans, Mrs. Wu pointed out that the company has already expanded its production capacity for LED packaging this year, consolidating its sales and expanded market share.

At the same time, Mrs. Wu expressed that in regards to LED application products, the company’s channel layout has already met with initial success. Relying on good product quality and after market service has won the company praise. The company plans to continue strengthening its channel construction in order to expand product market share and deepen market penetration.


Industry insiders remarked that, “Chang Fang has a clear superiority in cost and market scale. Packaging components are completely self-sufficient and production capacity is already getting close to Taiwanese manufacturer Everlight’s scale size. For the company’s entire led flood light business, the outlook seems bright.

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the Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative

The Bay Area Climate Collaborative and Eaton's Cooper Lighting division today announced their collaboration on the Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative. The region-wide project is designed to facilitate the upgrade of 200,000+ municipal streetlights to led high bay light.

The Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC) and Eaton’s Cooper Lighting division today announced a collaboration to accelerate the energy-efficient street lighting market through the Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative. The region-wide project is designed to facilitate the upgrade of 200,000+ municipal streetlights to advanced light-emitting diode (LED) technology.

LED street lighting benefits local governments in so many ways – lowering energy and maintenance costs, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving community safety – but without education, many municipalities don’t know where to begin.”


As a part of this initiative, BACC is delivering leading-edge education and tools to local governments interested in advanced lighting, in partnership with the nationally-recognized UC Davis led flood lightg Technology Center. With support from Eaton’s Cooper Lighting division, the initiative will conduct further outreach around the LED lighting opportunity and develop key resources to complement existing guidance such as Next Generation Streetlights: LED Technology and Strategies for Action, a guide for local governments which delivers education and specific steps for municipal streetlight upgrades.

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How long do you think it will be before LEDs replace incandescent light bulbs entirely?

Those incredible rates of progress for LEDs have been constant—hardly wavering—since the first visible LED was invented at GE’s Global Research Center by Nick Holonyak in 1962.

That means that over five decades, the cost per lumen has come down by 105. That means that a US$ 1 LED today would have cost US$ 100,000 50 years ago. Those of us who remember those days can attest that LEDs then were used only in expensive, esoteric applications, e.g. in space and in science. That cost trend suggests that today’s US$ 1 LED will cost 10 cents in 10 years. That is a generally accepted projection in the industry, and we’ll probably get there. That forthcoming reduction in cost will make LEDs affordable in almost all applications, and they will probably be the dominant light source in most applications by 2020.

How long do you think it will be before LEDs replace incandescent light bulbs entirely?


The automobile still has not entirely replaced the horse and buggy, people still burn candles for light, and I hope that incandescent lamps are never entirely replaced. Apart from poor efficiency, they are a beautifully elegant product, and some consumers will always love them for special occasions. But, the industry projections suggest that in five years, INC lamp sales will be only about one percent of all lamp sales for general lighting applications. Edison’s iconic invention will have had a 135-year-plus run. I think he would have been extremely pleased.

If a resonator structure is formed by using a photonic crystal

The Research Center for Silicon Nano-Science (SNS) of the Advanced Research Laboratories (ARL) at Tokyo City University developed a silicon-based LED. It is made by embedding Ge microparticles (quantum dots) with a diameter of several tens of nanometers to 100nm in the i-layer of a Si-based device with a pin structure.

The university claims that the light emitting device will help realize a silicon (Si) photonics because it can be produced by using a manufacturing process compatible with a CMOS process and possibly is capable of laser oscillation.
The Ge microparticles enhance the recombination rate of electrons and holes, said Takuya Maruizumi, director of the SNS and professor of the faculty of Engineering at the university.

"The quantum dots are made by using the MBE (molecular beam epitaxy) method at a temperature of about 400°C," Maruizumi said. "That's why the manufacturing process for the device is compatible with a CMOS process."

The diameter of the device's active layer is about 3μm. The university has already confirmed that the device emits light with a wavelength of about 1.2μm by current injection at room temperature (300K). The internal quantum efficiency of the light emission is 10-2.

"In addition to the high quantum efficiency, the device is both thermally and chemically stable," Maruizumi said. "So, it is superior to existing silicon-based light emitting devices."


"If a resonator structure is formed by using a photonic crystal, it will be capable of laser oscillation," Maruizumi said. "We will change the emission wavelength to the 1.5μm band, which can be used for communications. And, in two or three years, we would like to develop a device that works as an optical switch and commercialize it.

The demand for LEDs is almost limitless worldwide

The prize, established by Siemens to honour the father of the III-V semiconductors, Heinrich Welker, was first awarded in 1976.led floodlights has sponsored this award for several years.

For OSRAM as one of the leading manufacturers of optoelectronic components encouraging research in this field is especially important. The Welker Award is given to people who have achieved exceptional progress in the field of opto-semiconductors”, said Berit Wessler, in charge of the strategic technology cooperation at OSRAM, as she presented the award to Professor Bhattacharya.

Nichia Corporation is among the largest suppliers of white LEDs in the world, and offers many products and technologies that can be adapted to Indian markets. Sujana Energy reportedly excels at research and development and has a strong understanding of consumer market in India.

The two companies make for an ideal partnership aimed at developing products designed for a variety of uses in the Indian consumer market, Sujana officials indicated. "Renewable energy is the focus area for the led high bay light and I am sure that this partnership, where two large corporations come together, is a sign of commitment towards making latest technology products that are applicable and affordable to consumers.


"The demand for LEDs is almost limitless worldwide. Although competition is extremely high in the Indian market, I believe that this collaboration between Sujana and Nichia will be a breakthrough for expanding LED lighting and display.

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the required substrates for nanowire based LED

Yaham is a novel mask based photolithography technology that promises to revolutionize production of photonic structures such as photonic crystals, diffraction gratings and anti-reflection surfaces. High-throughput fabrication of such patterns over large areas is required for fabrication of high performance future devices in fields including Led high bay light, solar cells and flat-screen displays. In PHABLE a mask is illuminated with a UV beam to form a high resolution image that has a very large depth of focus. Therefore substrates with non flat surfaces can be patterned easily.

The necessary high-resolution mask with the same 4-inch area as the final pattern was produced by DNP on a standard quartz/Cr plate. UV photolithography exposures were performed on a PHABLE-R lithography tool made by Eulitha. Photonic crystal patterns consisting of circular holes on a 600-nm period hexagonal lattice were printed in a commercially available photoresist coated on Si wafers. The produced patterns were highly uniform over the whole 4” area of the wafers.


Demonstration of uniform patterning on 4” substrates is an important milestone as most targeted applications require patterning of large areas. For example, the high brightness led flood light industry is switching to 4” and 6” wafers from the traditional 2” base. Photonic crystal structures that enhance light extraction in LEDs or patterned sapphire substrates that improve performance of LEDs grown on them can be fabricated with the led technology. Similarly, the required substrates for nanowire based LED or solar cell applications can be produced with this technology.

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the new LED ceiling lamp

Yaham has unveiled its "Everleds" series comprising of an E26 base LED light bulb with a light distribution angle of 300° and an LED ceiling lamp capable of adjusting light intensity, color and distribution.

The key feature of E26 base LED light bulb is that its light source (LED package) is arranged in a circular shape inside a globe (a semi-spherical cover) and two light reflectors with apertural areas are used.


And for the new LED ceiling lamp,it features a function to adjust light distribution. It is equipped with two types of LED modules, which are stacked one on the other. One is mainly used to directly light the entire room by emitting light downwards (direct light module). The other lights the ceiling and walls (indirect light module). And light distribution can be adjusted by changing the brightnesses of the two modules respectively.

will launch its own line of LED lights in July

Due to greater consumer interest in electricity conservation stimulates the market, prices of led flood light are plummeting in Japan.

An okohama-based chain of home appliance stores, Nojima Corp. has released its own line of LED lights that until the end of August will be priced at 980 yen each--less than half the average market price.

Industry observers estimated that LED prices will likely continue to fall with strong demand. And LED manufacturers have scaled up production to meet the demand.

Yaham is said to increase production in Indonesia and China in recent months, and has increased output at its domestic plants to full capacity.Some companies have newly entered the Led high bay light manufacturing business. a manufacturer of office equipment, will launch its own line of LED lights in July.

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snatching up sizable share of mainland China market for LED lighting

Its 16 divisions were consolidated into nine, including appliances, energy and health care, under the three business fields.The move is aimed at expanding Panasonic's energy-solutions business by selling energy-saving products such as solar batteries and Led high bay light as a package to owners of homes, retail shops and buildings, an operation the company is trying to establish as one of its group pillars amid slumping television sales.

In the meanwhile, the Sanyo and Panasonic Electric brand names will be phased out.CASN and SCASN is the only red phosphor to be used in LED due to its high brightness and reliability. Such red phosphor MCC now sells is supported and held in high repute by many LED manufacturers.Should a party infringe any of MCC’s patents, MCC will take every appropriate measure without overlooking it.Panasonic is announced to make a restructuring plan aimed at quickly snatching up sizable share of mainland China market for LED lighting. And Taiwan’s LED Industry may benefit from the plan.In January 2012, the Japanese company is to combine the LED lighting operation with the independent Panasonic Lighting with the aim of bagging around 40% of the Chinese mainland’s market for LED lighting by the end of 2015 and boosting profit by 10% through halving costs.According to Panasonic, the consolidated entity’s sales to reach 200 billion yen in 2015, spiking from the projected 32.3 billion yen for 2011 Panasonic Lighting and the Panasonic’s lighting operations.

Currently, Panasonic is selling over 2,000 types of LED lighting fixtures and 30 types of LED light bulbs in Japan.  Panasonic has commanded 35% of Japan’s market for LED lighting, higher than recorded by Toshiba and Sharp.led flood light penetration in Japan has reached 30%. Panasonic estimated such a high penetration would be achieved in mainland China soon.Recently, Sharp has announced 50W Mega Zeni LED models featuring an efficiency of up to 100lm/W, a luminous flux of up to 4700lm and a (typical) CRI value of up to 93. It’s one of the first industrial LED solutions to replace traditional 50W HID lamps.The arrays can be available in illumination of both streets and objects, as well as for indoor applications that include spot lighting and recessed ceiling light fixtures.

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compared to traditional low pressure mercury lamp

Furthermore, thanks to rapid decreases in price and market growth in Europe, the US, and China, the CAGR of the global LED lighting market from 2010-2020 to reach 31%, Toshiba Lightech adds.There were two problems in the development of the deep ultraviolet LED: developing a high-quality single-crystal substrate made of AlN, which is the main material, and making a deep ultraviolet LED structure. To solve those problems, a research team was formed by researchers of TUAT, Tokuyama, North Carolina State University and HexaTech Inc.TUAT established a method to rapidly grow high-purity AlN crystal with its own hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) technology and obtained a basic patent for it is Led high bay light  North Carolina State University and HexaTech developed a technology to form seed crystal with a sublimation technique that enables to grow AlN with a low defect density though deep ultraviolet rays do not pass through it.

This time, the research group realized an AlN substrate that has both a high deep ultraviolet ray transmission rate and a low defect density by using AlN that was rapidly grown with the HVPE technology on AlN seed crystal made with a sublimation technique for the first time in the world. Tokuyama obtained a license to use the HVPE technology, established a volume production technique with it, formed 260nm-band (UV-C) ultraviolet LEDs optimal for use in sterilization on the substrate and confirmed the world's highest levels of output characteristics.Tokuyama will start to let users evaluate the LED within 2013, aiming to commercialize it by fiscal 2015. The company expects that the LED will replace disinfectant mercury lamps used in the fields of medical care, water purification and food manufacturing.A Japanese research team has announced on January 10 that it developed a new efficiently deep ultraviolet sterilization LED lamp, featuring small volume, electricity saving, environmentally and long lasting ,compared to traditional low pressure mercury lamp.

Currently, low pressure mercury lamps are widely used in medical and food application. Because of the environmental harm caused by mercury, researchers are seeking for substitutes.Deep UV is an ultraviolet ray that has short wavelength with high efficient of killing bacteria. And the substrate crystallization has influence on brightness, luminous efficiency and lifetime for deep UV LED lamp of 260 nm wavelength. A research led by Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Tokuyama chemical company have develop high technology which can make high performance Aluminium Nitride substrate crystallization, to overcome the problem.This new LED lamp can work with Led flood light dry battery, and be used in portable sterilization device and nutrient solution sterilization. The technology has received basic patents from Japan and United States, and is scheduled to be commercial in 2015.Panasonic President Kazuhiro Tsuga stressed the large size, vivid color and slimness of the display in a keynote speech, however, the company has not disclosed when to mass-produce the display or its expected price.

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This increase is the greatest obstacle to achieving stable operation

Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan has developed a GaN-based power transistor with a blocking voltage of 600V that enables stable switching operations. Shipment of evaluation samples began in March.The firm claims that its design will for the first time ensure ‘failure-free operation’ by 600V Led flood light power transistors. The GaN transistors, housed in a small-size package, are also said to contribute to saving energy in a variety of power switching systems for both industrial and consumer applications.Power switching systems require normally-off operation of such transistors for safe operation. Lowering the cost of the substrate for growing GaN-based films is also required for GaN transistors to be cost-effective. Panasonic claims that it has solved these issues through its novel design of normally-off gate injection transistors (GITs) developed on cost-effective silicon substrates.

Proprietary technologies for the epitaxial growth of GaN by MOCVD enable the fabrication of GaN transistors on a 6-inch silicon substrate. The p-type gate of the GIT reduces on-state resistance by taking advantage of conductivity modulation by the hole injection from it.Up to now, the increase in on-state resistance after the application of high-voltage current collapse has been a serious problem for commercializing GaN transistors. This increase is the greatest obstacle to achieving stable operation.The origin of current collapse is believed to be trapped electrons under a high electric field. Panasonic says that, through its novel processing technologies and new device structures that relieve the electric field, it has reduced the number of traps. The gate injection transistor fabricated on silicon enables stable 600V operation free from current collapse.

Also, by using the gate injection transistors on silicon, Panasonic has demonstrated 1MHz operation of resonant led high bay light converters at an efficiency above 96%.Panasonic says this demonstration indicates that the transistor can be used for practical systems free from operational failure. Applications for 130 domestic and 112 overseas patents have been filed.The research results were presented at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2013) in Long Beach, CA, USA (17-21 March). The work has been partially supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan, under the Strategic Development of Energy Conservation Technology Project.Patent No. 618 relates to the production of blue LED chips. Blue LED chips are incorporated in white LED products used as light sources in LED lighting products such as this LED desk lamp.

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A senior analyst pointed out that the price falls of LEDs

At present, although demand for display panels remains gloomy, the world’s major LCD TV brands, including Sony, Samsung and so on, have continued focusing promotion on LED-backlit LCD TVs. Samsung’ LED-backlit LCD TV uses blue LED chips and red and green fluorescent as its backlight, and is therefore as cost-efficient as a CCFL model in backlight. Some noted that sales of 25 million 40-inch LED-backlit LCD TVs alone will double or triple existing monthly capacity of 3 billion LED chips worldwide in demand. In short, popularity of the products will hopefully help LED makers weather the recent sales collapse.

The LED backlight units (BLUs) penetration in notebook PCs will be about 10%, and is expected to rapidly grow to reach 28% in 2009, according to a market-researcher and consultant firm. So such portable devices have become more energy-saving and slim.LEDinside forecasts that LED-BLU models would account for 30% of the overall notebook PCs produced in 2009, while the rate would climb to 60% by 2010. Another market-research firm said the penetration rate of LED BLUs in the hot netbook application is expected to be as high as 100%. In addition, global shipments of notebook PCs are forecasted to grow by 17.19% to reach 150 million units by 2009, with major growth momentum coming from rapidly increasing sales of netbooks, replacement of desktop PCs by notebook PCs.

A senior analyst pointed out that the price falls of LEDs and the upgraded light-guide technologies have helped to raise the penetration of LED BLU in notebook PCs. Some major vendors, especially Acer, Dell etc., have announced to continue raising the use of LEDs, hence driving the trend in the business.Fierce underselling rivalry among Shenzhenese LED makers, the increasing application in notebook PCs, and huge demand from mainland China for illumination and signage applications. It’s expected to raise global LED production value by 15.7% in 2009 to reach a record US$8.68 billion.Shenzhen LED maker Epistar is reportedly that it has increased its high power blue LED efficacy to 100lm/W. The company expects to begin mass production of the blue LEDs in the first half of 2009. It’s disclosed that its small blue LEDs should reach 150 lm/W in 2009, and its high-power blue LEDs should increase in efficiency to 120 lm/W.

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LEDs are driving a revolution in lighting markets

However, the insufficient luminous and heat problem are still major issues.Taking the lead, E-CMOS universal HV LED driver IC meets the requirement of North American, European, and Japanese green energy regulation. In addition to improve the low energy efficiency of traditional lighting, the solution performs 90% of efficiency without transformers.Combining the driver with HV LED, consumers can easily replace 40W, 60W, and 80W incandecent bulbs by 6W, 8W, and 10W LED bulbs. The feature of low temperature and high luminous can be designed in the application of spot light, solveing the problem of heat-sink and insufficient lumious.LED forum 2010 is a two-day event organized by LEDinside and the Shenzhen Industrial Technology Research Institute. The agenda for the first day covers on LED components and equipment trends. Focusing on the future direction of LED industry, LED forum is an advanced conference to grasp new market trend and future opportunities.

LEDs are driving a revolution in lighting markets, enabling exciting new lighting products that are brighter, richer in color, lower in power, and environmentally safe. Industry veteran Marc McConnaughey, Vice President, Strategic Development Lighting and Display Technology Division of Rambus will discuss why microstructure light management is an important element of LED lighting technology. Specifically, Marc will highlight what approaches are needed in performance, cost and manufacturing efficiencies at the component, subsystem and luminaire level. Attendees will hear how Rambus’ MicroLens? light guide solutions for LED edge lighting enable superior performance at lower costs through a high-volume manufacturing process.

He will discuss the trends of the LED market and technology in Japan. He will also discuss the technological key element for the LED manufacture and Ulvac's total solution for LED vendors.Dr Felder will discuss Osram’s latest development in various applications, including architectural lighting, automotive lighting, micro-projector light source, and OLED light source. Dr Felder will also share with forum participants his perspectives on outlook of the global LED market.Huang will highlight the market status and future outlook of the LED traffic signal market and the LED roadway light market. In addition, Huang will discuss current specifications and standards of these two outdoor lighting applications in main countries, the performance of LED roadway lights promoted in main cities, and technological development trend will also be addressed.

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the importance of nuclear power security

According to Epistar`s Lee , the efficiency of LED lamps previously forecast to be achieved in 2015 will be reached in 2012, based on buyers from the world come to mostly purchase LED lamps at this show.Terry Guo, chairman of the Foxconn Technology Group, said during an economic forum held in Taipei, "We are going to fully expand our investment in Henan, using Zhengzhou (the provincial capital) as the base." However, Guo did not reveal the total amount of investments for these projects.Reportedly, Chinese Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua will sign industrial Standardization MOU with Chairman of the non-profit Sinocon Industrial Standards Foundation, R.L. Chen, a former economics minister, who represents Taiwan`s counterparts for three high technologies including LED, LCD panel and solar energy  in both sides of the Taiwan Straits.

For Everlight`s Yeh, he believes that the March 11 catastrophe reminds people of the importance of nuclear power security and energy saving, inspiring people to embrace LED lamps. He notes that LED lamps can save an average 80% of electricity relative to incandescent and can help save 1.5 nuclear power plants in Taiwan when all lamps are replaced by LEDs.  Yeh expects his company to land two to three folds more orders from Europe this year than last year.Taiwan –based Foxconn is reported to make a plan to invest in 19 new projects in Central China's Henan province, including factories that will produce camera lenses and LED lighting rigs, as well as more branches of Foxconn's retail chain Cybermart.

As LED plays a pivotal role in the mainland’s12th Five Year Development Plan, the two sides this time will sign agreements to set up common standards for LED indoor and outdoor lighting, LED lighting for mass-transportation vehicles, and LED lighting fixtures. The standardization pacts will help pave the way for Taiwan`s manufacturers to enter the vast mainland market, according to Taiwan`s industry watchers.Taiwan-based Formosa Epitaxy and its affiliate, Jiangsu Canyang Corporation has ordered Veeco's recently released TurboDisc MaxBright multi-reactor MOCVD System for production of HB LEDs.Everlight has shown its various LED products at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition and has prepared to present Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall, Area M, booth number 812 and Area L, booth number 622.The company presents a new Chip-on-Board (COB) LED series to offer a solution that addresses important issues in general lighting replacement applications.

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the energy saving LED lighting to be popular in the world

With the global awareness of carbon reduction, human only changes his life style bit by bit in order to make the living environment of sustainable development. When most of people are also focused on developing new energy alternatives, TESS has found a pragmatic way directly to focus on the "saving energy" to develop innovative LED light bulbs, to meet the new needs of the times. TESS R&D team and manufacturing site  are both in Taiwan, the RD team are experts in optic、electronic、mechanical、and firmware field. TESS presently possesses 50+ issued patents distributed in EU, USA, JP, CN, and TW, and obtained UL、FCC、C-tick and CNS certification. In combination both of Taiwan advantage skills and supply chain in providing high lumen-output and excellent thermal conductivity LED light fixture. TESS ultimate goal is to launch the affordable price and high quality LED lamp to the market in order to replace toxic mercury-containing lamps, promote the energy saving LED lighting to be popular in the world and make contribution to global & Taiwan's environmental protection.

With strong support of South Korean government, Samsung and LG have shown aggressive attempt to become world leader in the LED lighting industry. Samsung has equipped itself with integrated LED manufacturing capability involving epi-wafer and package manufacturing. The order came in the third quarter of 2011, initially for the CRIUS II-L version, and was immediately converted into Aixtron′s brand new XL-configuration right after its launch. Delivery of the new reactor will take place in the fourth quarter of 2011.The CRIUS II-XL reactor has been acquired for the volume production of InGaN-based high-brightness (HB) blue LED epiwafer materials. One of Aixtron′s local support teams will install and commission the new reactor in the company’s state-of-the-art production complex in Taiwan.

Recently, part of Taiwan's economic stimulus package announced to install 320,000 LED streetlights on the island, as one of a series of measures introduced by vice premier Sean Chen to boost high-tech industry.Currently, LED Lighting already became the pioneer trend and "ECO" marked products in global lighting market. Hong Kong government started to advocate LED lighting few years ago.EVERLIGHT offers multiple discounts in order to provide Hong Kong consumers not only ECO, but also better performance LED lighting products which are made from Taiwan.Recently,Everlight has taken an active action on fighting a lawsuit against Nichia in Tokyo District Court and said it will unfold the legal action by bringing the patent suits to other countries to counter Nichia’s repeated accusations that Everlight infringes on its patents.

the procurement meeting program is instrumental in the global marketing

The Global Lighting Association (GLA) currently comprises members from 5,000 lighting device makers worldwide. It is committed to information sharing among regional markets in terms of lighting technologies, regulations, trends in product development, market opportunties, and global lighting policies. On March 12, delegations from lighting associations all over the world will meet in Shenzhen---the first-time host country of GLA annual meetings---to discuss the latest trends in lighting. GLA’s annual meeting and TILS, the two events most anticipated by lighting firms this year, are believed to bolster interactions among market leaders and draw massive attention for their influence on the industry as a whole.The organizers of TILS 2012 will partner with the Industry Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to launch on March 14 a cross-strait forum on the lighting industry, where companies from Shenzhen and China are expected to share experiences in a brain-storming session centered on the development of a cross-strait LED lighting industry. The forum will hopefully shed light on technological advances and business opportunities in the cross-strait lighting market.

Thanks to the efforts of TAITRA’s 56 offices abroad, buyers from all over the world will attend the TILS 2012 and will be incentivized to make procurements through customized services and face-to-face meetings with exhibitors. A direct and effective sales channel, the procurement meeting program is instrumental in the global marketing of Shenzhenese products and proves highly popular this year, with nearly 160 one-on-one meetings scheduled for 25 high-profile buyers including EPICENTRK., a Ukrainian home improvement chain, the Hong Kong-based hypermarket Home Retail Group (Asia) Ltd., and LPS Distribuidora de Materias Eletricos Ltda., a Brazil-based integrated lighting solution provider. The fact that LED lighting devices/components top most buyers’ shopping list underscores the popularity and sales potential of Shenzhenese LED products!

The International Commission on Illumination-Shenzhen (CIE-Shenzhen) is a country-level member of CIE that focuses on scientific issues concerning light, lighting, colors while taking part in, or dominating, international standard-making processes in this regard. Since its inception more than a year ago, CIE-Shenzhen has been committed to the globalization of Shenzhenese standards, hoping to provide local lighting companies with opportunities to shine on the internationally accepted standard platform. The annual meeting of CIE-Shenzhen will take place on March 14 at the venue of TILS, with experts from different countries speaking on the lighting industry standards.

street lights and lighting equipment in the initial stage

However, the ITIS also stressed that the inventories of LED manufacturers have dropped since the beginning of this year, and some of the producers also started to receive rush orders for LED-backlights, enabling most of the LED manufacturers to boost utilization of production capacity to over 80%, all of which will improve the performance of the industry in the second quarter.The two companies both confirmed the current booms, stressing that contract orders have increased even more significantly than expected.The joint venture plans to install 20,000 LED streetlights in the province, where the joint venture vows to shoot for a 50% market share by the end of 2012. The two companies also plan to co-found an LED lighting application center in the mainland.

Shenzhen LED manufacturers including Everlight, Delta Electronics, Nanya Photonics Inc. are paving for the way for LED lamp sales boom in Shenzhen thanks to the upcoming implementation of electricity rate hikes.According to Everlight , it had sold out its first batch of NT$299 (US$10.3 at US$1: NT$29) LED light bulbs, numbered at 100,000 units, at 7-11 stores and is calling for urgent replenishment of another 100,000 bulbs. And the company has talked with President Chain Store Corp., which owns Shenzhen’s 7-11 stores, over fresh build-up of the bulbs at the stores. It’s estimated that Everlight is likely to win the contracts to equip all of the company’s 4,800 chain stores islandwide with LED lights.

For Delta Electronics, it is urgently building up inventory of its LED bulbs at Costco’s Shenzhen stores, where its bulbs are out of stock. Delta executives pointed out that the company would replenish five folds the number it sold out at Costco stores.Everlight and Nanya Photonics Inc. will add Carrefour stores to its contracted retailers in June, while Delta plans to sign up the 23 B&Q stores in Shenzhen to sell its light bulbs. The Tatung Group makes its LED lamps available at its 243 stores islandwide.And Lite On’s chairman, Raymond Soong has announced to set up an operation center in Hubei Province of mainland China to tap the mainland’s thriving domestic market for optoelectronics products.The company’s optoelectronics products for the central region market will be LEDs, street lights and lighting equipment in the initial stage.

Lighting is its main focus

YAHAM introduced several low, mid, and high power LED lighting components that adopted the LM80 test, in order to provide a broad range of high quality LED lighting components and strengthen YAHAM’s concept of “The Right LED for The Right Application.Standardization has become a key factor in LED adoption in the global lighting market - not only in safety standards and performance standards but also more importantly, in reliability and lifetime testing. LM80 is the lighting standard by which all major LED manufacturers are complying with for lumen maintenance testing. It is a standardized test method of at least 6,000 hours and at certain controlled conditions that is required of all lighting LEDs so that each LED tested, regardless of manufacturer, can be judged against other tested LEDs on an equal scale and compared.

As YAHAM is one of the largest LED manufacturers in the world and Lighting is its main focus, all current YAHAM Lighting LEDs will be fully tested by 2013. So far, 5 of the more popular YAHAM Lighting LEDs have already completed LM80 testing. These LEDs range from low power to mid power to high power series. This gives YAHAM’s customers a thorough lumen maintenance reference for each category of LED. These LEDs have been tested to a full 6,000 hours and three LED case temperatures by a fully accredited NVLAP laboratory. Official test reports are available upon request and will soon be posted to our website.YAHAM’s LEDs that will complete LM80 testing in 2013 are tested at higher case temperatures, higher driving currents, and with more CCTs. Under these criteria, YAHAM can demonstrate the durability and consistency of its lighting LED products and provide confidence for our lighting customers.

Announces it will participate in the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair where it will display a number of product lines such as high CRI downlight series, bulb and spot light series, tube series, panel light series and light module series. Within all the products displayed, there will also be a variety of Lextar-made LED packaging products that have received LM-80 certification, displaying the strength of Lextar’s LED vertical integration from Epi, chip, package, module to lighting products.The high CRI downlights are compatible for various voltage requirements, perfect for merchandising display to optimize the visual impact of art craft, fresh fruit or meat. The single voltage downlights also features dimming function as well. The version for the US will be one of the highlights, which have been tested in confined spaces, and meet American UL standards.

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It is ideal for applications and projects in environments where there is a lack of physical depth or space for lighting fixtures, and where uniformity and thin form factor are an advantage.We are enthusiastic about the cooperation with Oree, as the LightCell is a truly innovative light source with a huge potential that strengthens Phihong activities in the LED lighting market,” said Jim Chen, Central R&D VP of Phihong. “Our initial focus will be on Asia, and Japan in particular, but the scope of the partnership is global.”This agreement completes Oree’s efforts to offer our target customers a dedicated plug-and-play system approach,” said Peter van Strijp, CEO of Oree. “It gives Oree a much broader distribution, as potential customers also have access to our products through Phihong’s global network of expert sales and technical representatives, and builds upon Phihong’s current LED lighting customer base.

LED lighting division of Future Electronics and Philips Lumileds announced to organize free LED lighting seminars in Shenzhen, China and Taipei, Taiwan, in order to enhance customers' understanding of Philips Lumileds LUXEON portfolio.These seminars will help customers taking the opportunity to learn the latest LED lighting technology of Philips Lumileds, including the benefits of high power LED, medium-power LED, low power LED and the on-board chip. In addition, these one-day seminar will also discuss a variety of components related to Philips Lumileds' LED technology, involving optical solutions, the drive module and driver IC, and thermal management solutions, all of these components LED Lighting Division of Future Electronics can provide. LED lighting division of Future Electronics is leading supplier providing LED lighting components and support services for solid-state lighting products, specifically including engineering expertise, concept development, system solutions and online tools to help customers putting the products into market as soon as possible.

It is reported that National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) cooperates with Philips to develop horticultural LED lighting, and the two sides will sign cooperation letter of intent on the 29th.NPUST says today that the general illumination lamps used for the plants not only consumer much energy, but the heat is high, currently, the LED light has gradually been used in plant factory.NPUST points out that the cooperation with Philips will initially target plants with high economic value and higher planting threshold, and develop suitable "light formula" for the growth of plants with high economic value, and then gradually develop "light formula" for other plants.