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    ProPhotonix has developed the Cobra Clean FX1 UV-C LED module that radiates at 265 nm, a wavelength that has been said in recent studies to deactivate the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 instantaneously at proper doses. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of ProPhotonix.)
    Lighting for Health & Wellbeing

    UV-C SSL news: Luminus adds LEDs, ProPhotonix debuts module

    Maury Wright
    Nov. 11, 2020
    Germicidal UV-C interest continues to ramp, and SSL manufacturers answer with new packaged LED components and modules or light engines in varied form.

    With Average Spectral Difference, Bridgelux is proposing a new metric that it says could deliver light sources with spectra engineered to more closely match “natural light” — the meaning of which remains undefined by LED and lighting standards. (Image credit: Graphic courtesy of Bridgelux.)
    As financial reporting times come closer, companies such as Osram and Signify are taking a hard look at the impact of the coronavirus COVID-19 on their operations, margins, and forecasts. (Image credit: Graphic by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)
    Photo credit: Image courtesy of Amerlux.
    Austria’s ams plans to sell 4% of its Osram shares in order to drive ahead with financing its acquisition of the larger Munich-based company. (Image credit: Graphic by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)
    AMS shareholders today gave a big thumb's up to management's plan of selling shares to help pay for Osram. (Photo credit: Image by Tero Vesalainen via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)
    AMS is confident that shareholders will vote for a new rights issue to help it refinance its acquisition of Osram. (Photo credit: Image by Shahid Abdullah via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)
    A single LED luminaire style provides projector, spotlight, and wall-wash effects in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, where Zumtobel considered and handled challenges such as tight beam distributions, high ceilings, and art preservation with its custom SSL fixture. (Photo credit: Image by Faruk Pinjo, courtesy of Zumtobel.)
    German merger and acquisition law grants control of cash to the acquirer only if it picks up at least 75% of the target company’s stock. At 59.3%, ams governs Osram, but doesn’t control the cash. (Photo credit: Image by Helmut Jungclaus via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.)
    LEDs & SSL Design

    AMS’ acquisition of just-enough Osram shares leaves it needing more for true control

    Mark Halper
    Dec. 10, 2019
    At 59.3%, the Austrian sensor maker gained governance of Osram, but it did not gain control of the cash. No wonder ams is trying to buy more. It also faces a rankled Osram workforce...
    Back in January, CEO Olaf Berlien and Osram were celebrating their illumination of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. But they were already beginning to shift greater emphasis onto photonics, a change which could accelerate with the acquisition by ams. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Mark Halper.)
    LEDs & SSL Design

    AMS acquires Osram

    Mark Halper
    Dec. 9, 2019
    In a dramatic race to the finish line, the Austrian sensor company gets enough shares to take over the world’s second-largest lighting company, approvals pending.
    Office installations like this one outfitted by Circadian Light can operate with greater lumens per watt now that Circadian has replaced its violet chip with a different violet chip that is twice as efficient. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Circadian Light.)
    Lighting for Health & Wellbeing

    Circadian doubles the efficacy of its nighttime blue-free engine, signs Acuity to use it

    Mark Halper
    Dec. 5, 2019
    The human-centric lighting specialist has parted ways with Plessey to find a more efficient violet chip.
    Photo credit: Image by Pete Linforth via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or noncommercial purposes.
    LEDs & SSL Design

    Osram endorses latest ams takeover offer as 2019 losses mount

    Mark Halper
    Nov. 12, 2019
    CEO Berlien now intends to sell his shares. The future of IoT remains in the balance, but horticultural looks likely to stay.
    Business has picked up recently for ams, which supplies sensors to smartphone makers including to Apple for the iPhone 11. (Photo credit: Image by aixklusiv via Pixabay; used under Pixabay free license for commercial/editorial purposes.)
    LEDs & SSL Design

    AMS pushes on, making a more lenient offer for Osram

    Mark Halper
    Oct. 22, 2019
    The Austrian sensor company launches an altogether new bid that lowers its minimum ownership stake to 55%, while keeping its price steady.