the company has centered on promoting its own-brand LED lighting fixtures

The LEDs can be used in spotlights of any size, from small stage spots to large moving heads. Volker Mertens, LED Marketing Manager at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors explains: “OSRAM Ostar Stage has a wide range of applications with different colors and configurations – a real treat for lamp designers. More color combinations are in the pipeline for the Ostar platform. By mixing the different OSRAM Ostar types it is possible to create an enormous range of colors, including pastel shades.”

Everlight executives estimated the company’s capacity utilization ratio would pick up quarter on quarter in 2012 to full capacity in the third quarter thanks to increasing penetration of LCD TVs lit by LED backlights and growing market of LED lighting. While staying profitable, the company had decreased utilization capacity ratio in the fourth quarter in 2011.Since 2011, the company has centered on promoting its own-brand LED lighting fixtures and won contracts to supply LED streetlights to mainland China provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, and Hebei. Lighting sales are estimated to account for around 10% of the company’s 2012 revenue.

ASF(tm) utilizes the production-proven heat exchanger method (HEM) for producing high quality sapphire boules and cores suitable for the LED industry and other industries requiring high quality sapphire material.The ASF furnaces will increase Shangcheng’s production capacity, which the company believes is needed to meet expected demand from the LED industry and other industrial applications.

Colors have never been richer at the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nev., and it has enthusiasts seeing vintage cars in a new light. Following the installation of more than 600 GE energy smart? LED replacement lamps, patrons are remarking on a "remarkable difference" and the museum is enjoying $18,000 in annual electricity savings as the result of its environmentally intelligent investment.