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ST Rolls Out Fault-Management Chip for Safety-Oriented LED Signage and Lighting

LED lights for critical applications such as vehicle lights, streetlamps and emergency lights are even more dependable and long-lasting thanks to a new fault-management chip from STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications.

17 Oct 2012

Tempo Launches Series 5000 Line of Mid-Range Linear LED Lighting Solutions

Tempo Industries, a leading manufacturer of superior-quality modular and linear LED lighting with a 25-year lighting industry success record, today announced its new Series 5000 line of mid-range linear LED lighting solutions.

16 Oct 2012

Researcher Studies How Buildings Can Use Daylight to Become More Energy-Efficient

Light is an important commodity in real estate: A nice splash of direct sunshine can lift the value of any house or apartment. But sunlight is a housing asset in another way. A healthy dose of it means any given building can use solar power extensively, as a potentially cheaper and more environmentally friendly energy option.

16 Oct 2012

Chevrolet Dealership Improves Outdoor Lighting with EverLast Induction Luminaires

"They should move the showroom outside," said a salesman at the Kelly Chevrolet dealership regarding the recent lighting upgrade. In the summer of 2012, the Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Chevrolet dealer partnered with Schielle Thornton Electric to complete an initiative to significantly improve their outdoor lighting.

15 Oct 2012

Holonyak’s Path to LED Discovery

Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called “the magic one” because its light, unlike infrared lasers, was visible to the human eye.

11 Oct 2012

Cree Launches High Performance Color LEDs

Cree, announces commercial availability of XLamp® XB-D color LEDs and XLamp XM-L multi-color LEDs. The high performance color LEDs provide lighting manufacturers with discrete and multi-color LED options to more cost-effectively address a wider spectrum of applications such as architectural, vehicle and display lighting.

From WOLFSPEED, INC. 10 Oct 2012

Digital Lumens Intelligent LED Lighting System Helps Ardo UK Reduce Energy Costs

Digital Lumens today announced that Ardo UK, a leading supplier of high-quality frozen fruit, vegetables and carbohydrates (potato, rice and pasta), has upgraded an 80,000-cubic-meter mobile racking cold storage facility in Kent, England to the Digital Lumens Intelligent Lighting System, saving 97% of its lighting-related energy costs annually.

10 Oct 2012