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| Siemens plans Osram IPO, appoints new CEO 30 Mar |
| Osram will become a publicly-listed lighting company with Siemens as a long-term anchor shareholder, and Wolfgang Dehen as its new CEO. |
| Digital Lumens supplies LED lighting systems for 7 Americold warehouses 29 Mar |
| Groom Energy has installed Digital Lumens systems in three Americold facilities and will bring SSL technology to four more cold-storage warehouses. |
| LSG and Lumetech convert Dallas parking garages to SSL 29 Mar |
| Five parking garages in downtown Dallas, Texas now have brighter and lower-power LED-based lighting via a city partnership with the Lumetech Group and the Lighting Science Group. |
| GE Lighting launches new version of Infusion LED module 29 Mar |
| The Infusion module is designed to be easy to replace, and offers a wide range of color temperatures and light outputs up to 3300 lm at 4000K. |
| Brillianz supplies LED luminaires to jewelry retailer F. Hinds 28 Mar |
| Brillianz has developed the BayLite range of down-lights and track lights for the high-end retail display market. |
| Counting down to Strategies in Light China: Why China is the next frontier 28 Mar |
| Over the past few years, China has undergone dramatic growth as both a supplier of LEDs and LED-based products, as well as a market for these products, and this will be a theme for discussion at Strategies in Light China. |
| Samsung and Sumitomo Chemical to make sapphire substrates for LEDs 28 Mar |
| Production of sapphire crystals and wafers for LED manufacturing is expected to commence in Korea in 2012. |
| Radiant Imaging merges with Zemax 28 Mar |
| The merger of two companies involved in optical design software and test & measurement will create a company with a strong focus on the LED market. |
| Totalight offers free LED lamps 25 Mar |
| Customers can receive free LED lamps and then make regular payments over a two-year period based on the energy savings achieved.
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| Philips SpeedStar road-lighting LED luminaire is carbon neutral 24 Mar |
| Philips has calculated the carbon footprint for manufacturing and recycling its SpeedStar luminaire, and has offset these carbon emissions by purchasing carbon credits. |
| Cree shares drop after LED sales forecast revised
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| Cree has lowered its revenue and other targets for the current quarter, citing lower-than-expected sales and aggressive pricing pressure. |
| LEDs play an increasingly vital role in life-science applications 22 Mar |
| LED lighting technology can enhance our health, serve in rehabilitative therapy, and enable diagnosis of critical life-threatening conditions. |
| LED Manufacturing News: ULED, Optogan, Beiji Haotian 22 Mar |
| United LED has placed a multi-tool order for Veeco MOCVD systems, Optogan has placed a multi-system order for Oxford Instruments’ etch and deposition systems, and Aixtron is supplying five MOCVD systems to Beiji Haotian Technology Co., Ltd. |
| Counting down to Strategies in Light China: conference highlights 22 Mar |
| Strategies in Light China takes place mid May in Kowloon, Hong Kong and will look at issues such as how the SSL industry’s focus is changing from lumen per watt to lumen per dollar. |
| Osram Sylvania claims PAR38 LED lamp record 22 Mar |
| A laboratory prototype PAR38 LED lamp has demonstrated an output of 1650 lm with an efficacy of 68 lm/W and a CRI of 92. |
| Outdoor Lighting: Tucson chooses Cooper SSL, Brazil allies with PolyBrite 22 Mar |
| Brazilian agreement will open South American market for PolyBrite while Cooper delivers LED street lights in Tucson, Arizona, and LED Roadway Lighting will test GPS-enabled luminaires. |
| LED Japan/Strategies in Light 2011 issues call for papers 18 Mar |
| The LED Japan Conference and Expo/Strategies in Light 2011 Advisory Board is now accepting abstracts for the conference, which will take place in Yokohama Japan on September 28-30. |
| Nexxus Lighting's Array LED light bulbs to be sold at Lowe's 18 Mar |
| Beginning June 2011, a range of Nexxus LED lamps will be available on Lowes.com and in Lowe’s stores. |
| Outdoor Lighting: Osram LEDs light Beijing streets, US cities tap EECBGs 16 Mar |
| The Chinese “10 cities 10,000 lights” program is responsible for a LED street-light retrofit project in three Beijing districts, while grants and utilities continue to drive outdoor SSL projects in the US. |
| Osram Opto demonstrates 142 lm/W warm-white LED 15 Mar |
| The R&D result was measured under standard conditions at room temperature and the LED had a CCT of 2755K with a color point on the Planckian curve. |
| NEMA publishes two solid-state lighting standards 14 Mar |
| Two new solid-state lighting standards have been released by NEMA, covering LED drivers and dimming of incandescent-replacement LED lamps. The organization has also released an educational guide to energy-efficient lighting. |
| Bridgelux reports R&D results for GaN-on-silicon 11 Mar |
| Bridgelux has demonstrated GaN-on-silicon LEDs with 135 lm/W efficacy, and hopes to utilize 8-inch wafer fabs for low-cost manufacturing. |
| Lighting Science Group enters L Prize with 60W-equivalent LED lamp 08 Mar |
| Lighting Science Group and Light Prescriptions Innovators have developed an LED lamp which they plan to submit to the DOE for L Prize evaluation. |
| Osram Opto expands LED capacity with 6-inch conversion 07 Mar |
| Osram Opto Semiconductors will convert its InGaN-based LED chip-manufacturing facilities in Germany and Malaysia to use 6-inch wafers, achieving a two-fold expansion in capacity. |
| UL acquires Lighting Sciences, Inc. 03 Mar |
| UL has expanded its capacity for photometric testing of lighting products through the acquisition of solid-state lighting test specialist Lighting Sciences, Inc. |
| Lynk Labs works with strategic packaging partners for AC-LEDs 02 Mar |
| At Strategies in Light 2011, Lynk Labs unveiled a broad family of new AC-LED packages, developed in cooperation with different manufacturers, namely Citizen, Epistar, Everlight and Unity Opto. |
| SIL delivers LED driver advancements and enabling technology demos 01 Mar |
| Major IC makers including Texas Instruments, NXP, Marvell, On Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, and Microsemi announced new SSL driver technologies at Strategies in Light, and complementary enabling technology was prevalent on the exhibit floor. |
| Octa Light opens first high-power LED assembly line in Bulgaria 01 Mar |
| In an opening ceremony attended by the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Octa Light has opened its LED manufacturing facility and launched its BullStar series of LEDs, after years of manufacturing LED-based lighting fixtures. |
| LRC evaluates LED and induction street-lights for local roads 01 Mar |
| RPI’s Lighting Research Center has published another specifier report on LED street lights focusing this time on residential roadways, and again found that an HPS light generally outperformed the SSL products. |
