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| Tyco launches modular SSL system product family 31 Jan |
| Tyco’s Nevalo SSL family of products includes LED modules, drivers, cabling, optics, and thermal components that luminaire makers can combine, yielding products in form factors such as downlights and spot lights. |
| Cree demonstrates 60W-equivalent LED retrofit lamp 27 Jan |
| LED-based A-lamp achieves Energy Star requirements for 60W replacement lamps, but Cree hasn’t formalized plans to bring a product to market. |
| Digital Lumens LED lighting wins with food distributors 26 Jan |
| Quandt’s Foodservice and United States Cold Storage install Digital Lumen’s LED-based Intelligent Lighting Systems and Relamp LED offers new financing option for the SSL system. |
| Rubicon Technology demonstrates 12-inch sapphire wafers 26 Jan |
| Sapphire substrates are now available at various diameters up to 12 inches, should any LED makers wish to investigate the possibility of manufacturing on such giant wafers. |
| Fire hazard causes recall for Eco-Story LED lamps 25 Jan |
| A US-based supplier has recalled around 42,000 LED lamps that can pose a fire hazard when used without a class II transformer. |
| DOE hosts webcast on Caliper Round 11 test results
24 Jan |
| Results will be presented for commercially-available products including arm-mounted and post-top roadway luminaires, linear replacement lamps, and high-bay luminaires. |
| Lighting for Tomorrow 2011 competition focuses on SSL 24 Jan |
| The American Lighting Association and the Consortium for Energy Efficiency launched the 2011 Lighting for Tomorrow competition at the Dallas Lighting Market with a focus on lighting controls and LED-based solid-state lighting. |
| Instrument Systems receives major order from Korea 24 Jan |
| LG Innotek has placed a large order for LED test equipment with Instrument Systems, and a light-measurement expert has also joined the German company. |
| Streetlight Intelligence, National collaborate on street-lighting technologies 21 Jan |
| National Semiconductor and Streetlight Intelligence plan to combine their respective experience in integrated LED drivers and intelligent control and monitoring products for street lighting. |
| Providence, RI issues RFP for LED street lights 21 Jan |
| Bids for a pilot program to provide 81 LED street lights need to be submitted by January 31, but there is a mandatory site visit on January 25. |
| Seoul Semiconductor unveils Z6 and Z7 HB-LED lamps 20 Jan |
| Seoul's new LEDs are the 4-chip, 4-watt Z7 series providing up to 440 lm at 5500K, and the multi-chip RGBW Z6 series. |
| ARC Show sees Arrow team with Carclo 19 Jan |
| This year’s ARC Show 2011 featured a number of interesting LED-related companies and products, and some relevant business announcements. |
| Cree struggles with inventory corrections in Asia 19 Jan |
| Lower-than-expected sales by Cree’s LED component distributors in Asia caused the company’s revenue to drop below analysts’ expectations. Cree said the underlying cause was a pause in LED street-light demand in China and lower-than-expected growth in LED bulb applications. |
| Outdoor Lighting: Acuity supplies LED luminaires to Vancouver 18 Jan |
| Acuity’s Holophane unit will supply acorn-style, post-top LED luminaires to revamp a Vancouver, Canada neighborhood while Cleveland’s SSL situation stagnates and LEDs come to cattle yards on the US prairie. |
| Luminus LEDs power new tactical flashlights 18 Jan |
| Several flashlight makers have built their products around single LEDs from Luminus. |
| Intematix delivers remote-phosphor optics family 17 Jan |
| Luminaire makers can rely on blue LED lights sources and use Intematix’s phosphor-coated optics to offer products such as downlights in color temperatures ranging from 2700 – 4000K. |
| SemiLEDs shares suffer on weak outlook 14 Jan |
| Although SemiLEDs continues to expand its LED production capacity and introduce new high-performance products, its share price was hit badly by news that it had lost business to a significant customer based on price. |
| Outdoor Lighting: Dover installs LEDs, others question technology costs 13 Jan |
| The city of Dover, Delaware is installing 118 LED street lights, while Foley, Alabama considers a SSL project and the citizens of Rochester, Minnesota question the economics of a pilot project. |
| CES shows health of LED-based consumer products 12 Jan |
| The Consumer Electronics Show, held January 6-9 in Las Vegas, showcased new LED-related TV technologies. |
| Lextar lights up 6-inch LED wafer 11 Jan |
| LED manufacturer Lextar Electronics claims to be the first LED maker in Taiwan to demonstrate blue-light emission from a processed 6-inch-diameter LED wafer. |
| DOE temporarily suspends the PAR 38 L Prize competition 06 Jan |
| Effective immediately the DOE has closed the L Prize competition for PAR 38 SSL retrofit lamps, but plans to reopen the competition with modified requirements at Lightfair International in May 2011. |
| Nichia appoints Lumitronix as its first-ever LED distributor 05 Jan |
| By appointing a distributor in Germany, Nichia appears to be moving away from its strictly-regulated, direct-distribution strategy. |
| Indoor Lighting: Vanderbilt University classrooms, Pasadena library get LEDs 04 Jan |
| Vanderbilt University installs LED retrofit lamps in a classroom building, eliminating 34 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions while LEDtronics supplied SSL retrofit lamps to the Pasadena, California Central Library. |
| Outdoor Lighting: California and Iowa cities get LED street lights 04 Jan |
| Beaumont, California enters the third year of a comprehensive street-light upgrade project while Urbandale and Ankeny, Iowa jointly win an EECBG award for SSL street lights. |
| California implements new light-bulb laws 03 Jan |
| California has introduced a new standard for 100W incandescent lamps, one year ahead of the rest of the USA. |
| LED Industry News: Taiwan and China 03 Jan |
| Mitsui and Unity Opto are to invest in Forepi, LED makers in China plan to add numerous MOCVD systems in 2011, Epistar is making a further investment in its China-based JV, and Tyntek is also expanding. |
