We expect a strong revenue stream from these partnerships

In conjunction with the signing ceremony with the Japanese partners, MyLED Opto also signed three new Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) for the supply of its LED lights. The MoUs partners are Koperasi 1Malaysia Berhad, Awam Saujana Sdn Bhd, and a consortium comprising Poscti Sdn Bhd, Top IT Industries Sdn Bhd and Crestronics (M) Sdn Bhd respectively.

Earlier, on 18 July 2012, MyLED Opto had inked a similar tripartite MoU with Mofaz Direct SA Sdn Bhd and Amprex International Sdn Bhd respectively.

“We expect a strong revenue stream from these partnerships. Our LED lighting will be installed in various projects across Malaysia including the international universities located in Taman IImu, Terengganu,” Lai said

He also announced that on 20 September 2012, MyLED Opto has signed a joint venture agreement with Crestronics (M) Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of BSL Corporation Bhd and Hightech Factory Automation (M) Sdn Bhd to establish a joint venture company known as Crestronics Greentech Sdn Bhd.

with four located in Sao Paulo and the others in other states

The grand investment project was reportedly suspended for a while before, for a Brazilian nation-linked bank declined to finance Hon Hai’s investment until the Taiwanese company agreed to introduce newer technologies and manufacturing facilities as required by the Brazilian government into its display panel plant alongside the said manufacturing base.

With the new manufacturing base, Hon Hai will have a total of seven such bases in Brazil, with four located in Sao Paulo and the others in other states.

Taiwan’s LED industry has benefited from simmering anti-Japan sentiment in China, due to nationalization of the Diaoyutai islet. Formosa Epitaxy Incorporation (FOREPI) and Epistar to see booming revenues in September, because many LED-related orders diverted from Japan to Taiwan.

According to insiders, rising sales of color TVs in China drive demand for LED-backlit chips; while anti-Japan there has moved many Chinese LED TV factories and system providers to transfer chip orders from Nichia to Taiwan’s Epistar, FOREPI, Unity Opto Technology, Lextar, and I-Chiun Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

economically be made to serve custom lighting opportunities

allows customers to provide CAD files of the designs, which are directly printed in optics using a proprietary form of 3D printing. This removes the need for moulds, intermediate steps, and post-processing. Further, the Printoptical manufacturing process can print one optic or 10,000 – the customer only needs to order what they need. The reduction in the time taken to manufacture the optics, minimizes time-to-market and helps the manufacturer to better cater to customer demands.

Therefore, LUXeXceL’s technology provides the system integrator the flexibility to manufacture the desired volume, preventing wastage of the manufactured product. The system integrator also has the advantage of changing the LED chip manufacturer, depending upon the market trends, as there is no need for stocking optics. In addition, variations of an optic design for an existing fixture can easily, quickly and economically be made to serve custom lighting opportunities.

Further, the smoothness achievable in mould-making through subtractive machining is inherently afflicted by tool marks and abrasions and can never match the perfect smoothness formed by surface tension using the Printoptical process. The lack of flexibility in designing variety of textures and colours is another disadvantage of injection moulding that LUXeXceL has overcome.

“The outstanding benefits Printoptical offers is expected to obliterate the hesitancy LED system manufacturers have been showing in introducing newer products with different optic designs,” noted Krishnan. “Using LUXeXceL’s technology, the customer can manufacture optics like Fresnel lenses as well as free-form lenses, prisms, micro-structures, and optical laminates, and complex designs with complete colour graphics and textured surfaces, bringing LED out of its niche bracket for wider applications.”

will be able to enhance mutual competitiveness in the LED lighting market

announced that they have entered into an amalgamation agreement. The merger agreement was approved today by the Boards of Directors of both Lextar and Wellypower. The consolidation date of the merger is targeted for February 1st, 2013, at which time Wellypower will be absorbed into Lextar.  The merged entity will operate as Lexstar.  The swap ratio for LED high bay light and Lextar is planned to be 2:1, based on the stock’s market value, net worth, industry status and prospects, production capacity and profits, and subject to be approved by the shareholders meeting of both companies.

Lextar is a vertically integrated LED company and merging with Wellypower will provide many advantages in the sales and supply chain segments. Wellypower has ample experience in LED packaging as well as in lighting product production and sales. After the merger, the LED industry will be provided with a high degree of integrated operations.  The merger will reduce repeated investment and enhance the economies of scale of production and procurement, while at the same time expand sales channels abroad. Additionally, Wellypower is one of the largest T5 tube providers for China Electric MFG. Corporation, which has its own lighting brand TOA. This means that Lextar can have a more developed relationship with China Electric and will be able to enhance mutual competitiveness in the LED lighting market.

Wellypower’s Chairman Allen Huang said “Wellypower has already accumulated years of ample experience in the Taiwan lighting industry. In order to accommodate international energy-conservation trends, Wellypower believes it will obtain technological and management resources after the merger, which will be beneficial in quickening the company’s transformation into an LED one. The merger will also increase the company’s competitiveness and will beneficial for stockholders.”

Meanwhile, Chairman of Lextar Dr. David Su said, “Lextar is one of the top three LED companies in Taiwan and is the only one throughout the island to have a vertically integrated business model. Lextar believes the integration with Wellypower will be effective and resourceful, and will help the LED linear high bay light companies maintain a competitive edge in the LED market. Lextar has resource management, production and supply chain experience with company merging back in 2010 where it merged with the largest LED backlighting maker at the time, Lighthouse. Lextar’s merger with Wellypower this time around will provide the two sides more talent and resources, and will increase Lextar’s advantages in the ever-quickening and evolving LED lighting market.”

with current tactics being building brand value

However, 80% of LED high bay light bulbs in China are generic with only three month supply but priced extremely low, a major obstacle to promoting Everlight products there.

The executive said the firm is mapping counter strategies but needs time to adjust mainlanders’ consuming habits, with current tactics being building brand value and product exposure in China.

According to insiders, Everlight is establishing sales channels in China via governmental tenders, LED street lighting, LED lighting for commercial use as for hotels and department stores, and residential applications.

Taiwan government considers relaxing restrictions on the fourth-round Chinese investments. It may allow mainland Chinese investments in hotels and sports facilities and remove the investment ceiling forbidding Chinese investors to own controlling stakes in seven key industries, including semiconductor, IC assembly, FPD (LED linear high bay light) and components, metal-cutting tools, electronic and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, LED, and solar cell.

Its objective is to develop ways to integrate optical

All components will be provided from one source – from the fa?ade lighting to the internal lights and the floodlight system on the playing field. Through the installation of over 350 lights by subsidiary Siteco in combination with metal-halide lamps from Osram, the Munich-based light manufacturer is even exceeding the highest standards newly defined by FIFA regarding the quality of light on the playing field. “The modern lighting solution from Osram provides the latest sports pitch lighting and guarantees brilliant images in LED linear high bay light quality. Our products even offer 50 percent greater performance than the FIFA specifications prescribe”, says Klaus-Günter Vennemann.

The LED panel on the external fa?ade of the arena in S?o Paulo will measure 170 m in length and 20 m in height and will be capable of displaying images, detailing scores and even playing videos. Around 840 LED lights with a total of 34,000 LEDs from Osram subsidiary Traxon will make it the largest LED stadium screen in the world. Inside the arena, Osram will also be fitting four additional high-definition screens from 30 m to 7.5 m with LEDs, which will display the current score or slow-motion shots.

Energy efficiency despite the highest level of brightness
The lights used in S?o Paulo will produce pitch lighting that at 5,000 lux is almost twice as intense as, for instance, that in Munich’s Allianz Arena. At the same time, the energy-efficient technologies used will require considerably fewer individual points of light than with conventional lighting technology. This will not only help to save electricity costs, but will also reduce expenditure in terms of installation and maintenance.

The research project Low Energy Electronics Systems (LEES) has started its work with a kick-off meeting. The program’s initiator is the renowned Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center based in Singapore. The LEES team consists of eminent research and science specialists and is targeting the development of cutting-edge technology to increase energy efficiency and advance high-tech industries that complement microelectronics. Two AIXTRON CRIUS 1x200 mm systems, which the project managers ordered early this year, will form the technological foundation basis for the LEES project work. They will be available for use in the project from the fourth quarter of 2012.

SMART is a collaborative project between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF). Its objective is to develop ways to integrate optical and electronic components on a chip – cost-effectively – using the highly promising III-V-on-silicon technology. By 2016, the researchers aim to have developed novel material compounds, process technologies, and integrated circuits on 200 mm CMOS-compatible silicon wafers.

Prof. Eugene A. Fitzgerald from MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) is the Lead-Principal Investigator for the project with Soon F. Yoon from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department (EEE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), LED high bay light. “Given the increasing scarcity of energy resources, we are being challenged to provide integrated circuits that have more functionality and higher performance, and use less power,” says Prof. Fitzgerald. Therefore, research is also focusing on the search for solutions that improve energy efficiency by using the latest most efficient storage devices, such as ultra-capacitors and nanobatteries.

LED chipmakers are still positive about their business

According to industry executives, it attributed the situation mostly to much higher price/performance ratio of Taiwan-made chips than that of LED high bay light chips made in the mainland. Besides, Taiwan’s LED chipmakers lead their mainland Chinese competitors by two years in terms of technological sophistication.

As a result, in spite of threat from mainland China , Taiwan’s LED chipmakers are still positive about their business.

Chairman Alpha Wu of assembler Unity Opto Technology pointed out that his company is pushing Epistar for delayed chips to keep up with the company’s humming production.

Epistar executives said contracts from assemblers like Unity have inundated their company’s production capacity in the recent two weeks.

FPI executives said immense orders from Unity and backlight module maker Luemns of South Korea have left their company’s production lines no idle capacity. They said the orders will keep the company’s lines busy until the fourth quarter.

Unity’s Wu pointed out that chips from the mainland’s manufacturers, including San’an, are still uncompetitive in pricing and unreliable in quality.

Some Taiwanese assemblers said the mainland’s chipmakers can hardly convince Taiwan’s assemblers to use their products as the chipmakers, in most cases, have set up integrated production mode in cooperation with the mainland’s Led linear high bay light assemblers and application-product suppliers, making the mainland’s assemblers threatening to Taiwan’s assemblers as soon as they grow full-fledged with the money made by the chipmakers from Taiwanese assemblers.

your investment unless you plan to have an ongoing habitat

LEDs also allow growers to tailor their light spectrum to manipulate and maximize certain plant attributes, thereby increasing a plant’s given nutraceutical content.”

Even so, Michele Perchonok, a food scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, says the U.S. space agency would likely only grow fruits and vegetables such as potatoes, strawberries, cherry tomatoes; salad greens, carrots, and bell peppers in hydroponically-equipped lunar greenhouses. She says they would most likely transport earth-grown soybeans, wheat and peanuts to such a lunar colony in bulk.”

“Some of these plants take three months to grow,” said Perchonok. “So, it makes no sense to start building growth chambers or greenhouses if all you’re doing is one six-month stay. It doesn’t give you a good return on your investment unless you plan to have an ongoing habitat.”

“Still, Folta says the biggest challenge would be getting sufficient light to support crops like tomatoes and corn that require lots of photosynthesis.”

the power electronics market the stable supply they demand

SiC is a high-performance semiconductor material used in the production of a broad range of lighting, power and communication components, including LEDs, power switching devices and RF power transistors for LED high bay light wireless communications. 150-mm diameter single crystal SiC substrates enable cost reductions and increased throughput, while bolstering the continued growth of the SiC industry.

“Cree’s ability to deliver high volumes of 100-mm epitaxial wafers is unrivaled in the SiC industry and our latest 150-mm technology continues to raise the standards for SiC wafers,” said Dr. Vijay Balakrishna, Cree materials product manager. “Our vertically integrated approach assures customers of a complete solution for high quality 150-mm SiC epitaxial wafers, providing industry leaders within the power electronics market the stable supply they demand.”

Recently, Everlight’s spokesman B.Y. Liu has said that the company is developing a two-pronged strategy for its LED luminaire business, including contract manufacturing operation and brand name operation.

It’s the first time that the company decided to led high bay lighting provide contract manufacturing service to brand name luminaire suppliers after introducing its own-brand lighting fixtures in 2011.

with shipments continuing through the end of the year

The project consists of a combination of LED high bay light, SafeSite? Class I, Div 2 Area Lights and associated mounting bracket accessories.  Dialight will begin to deliver product in September, with shipments continuing through the end of the year.

Area and Flood Light LED luminaires. Capable of replacing high output sources of the past such as 1000 watt metal halide and using 50 percent less energy in most applications, the new luminaire features more than 20 optical configurations. Among them is a new FrontlineOptic? technology designed specifically for auto dealerships. THE EDGE H.O. luminaire delivers brilliant and focused light to applications seeking a high output solution.

“Buying a car is a visual experience and quality lighting has an immediate positive impact on the retail shopping experience,” said Mike Lallier, president and owner, Reed Lallier Chevrolet. “Cree designed THE EDGE High Output luminaire to meet the specific needs of auto dealerships. The revolutionary solution provides superior color quality that allows us to effectively extend our selling window after dark. The advanced optical control of THE EDGE H.O. luminaire delivers light precisely where it’s needed to always showcase our inventory in the best possible light.”

luminaire precisely distributes light where you want it – meaning customers only pay for the light required.  In addition,led high bay lighting exceptional thermal management enhances reliability and contributes to a system that can provide more than a decade of near maintenance-free service – eliminating expensive relamping cycles.

SunSi plans to offer a wide range of LED products for large consumer retail chains

To acquire these rights to distribute Lightsky's LED products, SunSi paid $750,000 in restricted common stock in return for the exclusive rights in North American territories, including the United States, Canada and Mexico. In order to maintain exclusivity for the five year period and for the automatic renewal periods, SunSi must achieve certain performance milestones.

SunSi plans to capitalize on this enormous market opportunity by leveraging Lightsky's reputation, technology and quality products to penetrate numerous markets it has already identified. SunSi plans to offer a wide range of LED products for large consumer retail chains, commercial office space, warehouses, parking facilities, stadiums and arenas, exterior building facades, airports, and for LED fluorescent replacement lighting.

Three cities including Yucca Valley in San Bernardino County's Morongo Basin, Goleta on the Santa Barbara coast, and South Lake Tahoe in Eldorado County have made full use of a California Energy Commission program to help spread municipal use of better lighting.

In Yucca Valley, the CEC helped the city replace more than 1,000 older fluorescent lights and their ballasts with more efficient "T8" tubes, which can reduce energy consumption by up to 5 watts per bulb. The city also replaced lighting in exit signs with LED bulbs. The upgrades were done in the city's Community Development Building, Community Center, Town Hall, Museum, and Senior Center.

the project will pay for itself in energy savings in about eight years

Project Director Jack Stucky said it would have a huge impact on local tax payers. He said, "Tax payers pay for the energy we use up there now, and it's significant."

Stucky said, "We're saving energy, we're putting money into the local economy and it's going to reduce the costs of our utilities."

Stucky predicts the project will pay for itself in energy savings in about eight years. The contract shows the project is expected to be completed by November 20, 2012.

From lighting up the Olympic opening ceremony to decorating Tower Bridge (and saving 40% on its energy bills in the process), LEDs have certainly made their mark this summer. Now LED specialists Light Planet are raising the bar even further and have developed a new finance initiative to support the implementation of energy efficient lighting technology by businesses and organisations.

LEDs on the Key Bridge for their superior vibration resistance

The first phase of the three-year project is about 80 percent completed, with 8,000 new lights in place, said Ted Atwood, director of Baltimore's Department of General Services. Switching the 10,000 city-owned streetlights was the first step. Next up are the lights owned by Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.

For local and state government agencies looking for ways to trim costs, converting street and traffic lights is an opportunity for savings. A study by the Clinton Climate Initiative says streetlights can account for as much as 60 percent of a municipality's electric bill.

Maryland agencies are also making the switch. State officials estimate that LED streetlights have a life span of seven to nine years, versus three to four years for standard sodium vapor lights.

This summer, the Maryland Transportation Authority is testing LED lighting on the Key Bridge as it prepares to replace antiquated fixtures.

"MdTA decided to use LEDs on the Key Bridge for their superior vibration resistance, resulting in less maintenance costs and more energy savings," said spokeswoman Kelly Melhem. "Based on the [outcome] of this pilot testing, we will look at our overall specifications for roadway lighting.

windows will meet a variety of needs in both government and private sector applications

Existing methods used to produce sapphire windows do not meet all the demands of military applications. Rubicon Technology has developed an entirely new growth platform specifically to produce very large polished sapphire infrared (LED high bay light) windows for the Air Force Research Laboratory. Production will be scaled to meet the current and future requirements of the Air Force, beginning with intermediate sizes and progressing to windows as large as 36 x 18 x 0.8 inches. These sapphire windows will meet a variety of needs in both government and private sector applications.

Sapphire is a desirable material for military and other high-performance applications due to its hardness and strength, transparency in the visible and IR spectrum, thermal conductivity, thermal shock resistance, abrasion resistance, high melting point and chemical inertness. As a result, it is ideally suited for IR windows in extreme environments where material durability is just as important as optical clarity.

“Sapphire’s exceptional physical and optical qualities offer many benefits in applications such as military IR windows,” noted Raja M. Parvez, President and CEO of Rubicon Technology. “However, producing high-quality sapphire large enough for such applications has proven difficult. So Rubicon drew on more than a decade of experience and our culture of innovation in crystal growth technology to develop an entirely new platform to address this need. This research sets the stage for many defense and industrial applications for large sapphire windows of exceptional optical quality.

“We are honored to be working with the led high bay lighting Laboratory to create this new technology, and look forward to helping customers in other industries realize the benefits of large-area optical sapphire windows.”

the American consumer with more energy efficient

Therefore, creating a made-in-U.S.A. solution to the challenges of bulk GaN production will benefit the company, the LED industry, and the American consumer with more energy efficient, less expensive and more readily available components.

Soraa says manufacturers using other substrates have to use three, four and even more to get the same brightness. Multiple sources of light within a lamp mean fuzzy shadows and not the crisp light required of an MR-16 for best use in commercial, museum or high-end consumer applications. The MR-16 lamps or bulbs are Soraa's first commercially available product.

ARPA-E, a new agency within the U.S. Department of Energy that invests exclusively in transformational energy technologies, began funding Soraa as a consortium member for this project in 2011. ARPA-E's recent decision to make Soraa the lead organisation on the project means that the firm will become the prime contractor working with ARPA-E to commercialise GaN substrate technology.

According a US Department of Energy study , applications for GaN substrates have the potential to reduce U.S. energy consumption by over 30%. Those same applications represent potential markets, including laser diodes and power electronics, of over $50 billion annually.

the tiny chips used to illuminate LEDs to lighting hardware

The international accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP contracted Philips Lightolier to provide customized LED fixtures and control systems to replace all the lighting in its 32-floor, 650,000-square-foot office space located near Times Square.

The retrofit, according to Ernst & Young, will save the company about $1 million annually and reduce lighting energy consumption by 54 percent and maintenance cost by 50 percent. The building supports about 5,800 employees and used 6.2 million kilowatt-hours a year before the energy-efficient lighting was installed.

The company already manufactures more efficient conventional light sources and produces incandescent bulbs that are 25 to 33 percent more energy efficient, Eftekhar said.

Lightolier′s 300,000-square-foot corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility at 631 Airport Road employs more than 250 people, and houses a 5,000-square-foot laboratory. The company is completely vertically integrated, Eftekhar said, manufacturing everything from the tiny chips used to illuminate LEDs to lighting hardware for products like track lighting that it invented in the 1960s.

make up for the slowing display market

However, a major shift occurring in the lighting industry toward more-efficient, longer-lifetime, LED-based lighting, will more than make up for the slowing display market.

Currently, governments are encouraging to use LED lighting products with new regulations and subsidies. LED lighting will enjoy the benefits of these mandates. Therefore, growth in sales of LED phosphors will be driven by sales to the LED lighting industry. Backlighting LEDs are growing at <5% annually; LED lighting is growing at about 30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), by LED count.

The report points out that better phosphors are needed to bring LED lighting into wider use. Phosphors are one of the keys to achieving the ambitious LED lighting market penetration goals and differentiating the quality of LED lighting products versus other technologies. Phosphors can improve the quality of LED light to meet consumers’ demand, as a result, LEDs are still many times more expensive than incandescent bulbs.

Noribachi, a premier U.S. based LED and solar lighting accelerator, experiences rapid success with the NORImark LED alliance program. The program, debuted in early 2012, was created to standardize LED lighting while empowering lighting industry stakeholders with state-of-the-art, market-ready LED solutions.

the use of LED lighting in airfield installations

EvoLucia's LED lights save over 50% in energy-savings and can contribute to substantial decreases in energy costs and maintenance. The facility's total electricity consumption, including traditional and LED lights, has dropped over 42% from a high of 400kWh/day in July 2011 to a low of 232kWh/day after the installation in April 2012. "We are saving about $1500/month in energy costs and we are projecting that our maintenance bill should drop by $15,000 annually based on the EvoLucia products' nearly 100,000 hour life," added Nishijima.

Recently, the Lighting Research Center (LRC) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has cooperated with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to jointly study the use of LED lighting in airfield installations, and has released LED Airfield Lighting report.

The report was published by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies through the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP), which funded the study. A panel of experts from aviation, government, industry, and academia appointed by the National Academies oversaw the project.

The report compiled and written by John Bullough, senior research scientist and adjunct assistant professor at the LRC, draws on the experience of airport operators, on published accounts of LED airfield installations, and on the LRC’s knowledge of LED lighting technologies and aviation applications.