Bain Capital and Advent International are preparing a fresh offer for German lighting maker Osram Licht AG, ratcheting up a bidding war with Austrian sensor maker AMS AG. The two buyout firms will spend the coming weeks conducting due diligence,…
Bain Capital and Advent International are preparing a fresh offer for German lighting maker Osram Licht AG, ratcheting up a bidding war with Austrian sensor maker AMS AG. The two buyout firms will spend the coming weeks conducting due diligence,…
Curt Hutchins, Group President, Lighting Division, Eaton provided the statement: “Today we revealed to employees that ‘Cooper Lighting Solutions’ will be the company name and brand that will represent the Lighting business as an independent, publicly-traded company following the anticipated…
What, exactly, is the IoT and how does it relate to building energy management? The IoT is the concept of connecting any device with an on/off switch to the Internet and/or to each other. IoT uses one common Internet Protocol…
The 2019 ENERGY STAR Products Partner Meeting was held Tuesday, September 10 – Thursday, September 12, 2019, at The Westin Charlotte in Charlotte, NC. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would like to thank all the partners and industry stakeholders who attended, presented, and helped…
According to the National Electrical Manufacturers Association’s (NEMA) A-line Lamp Index, LED A-line shipments increased 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2019 compared to Q418, but decreased 7.1 percent compared to Q118. Halogen A-line lamps posted a decrease in…
After selling the lighting business, Cree is accelerating its development in silicon carbide technology. The US firm announced the plan to establish a silicon carbide corridor on the East Coast of the United States with the creation of the world’s…
Keeping with its new emphasis on “high-tech photonics” over general illumination, Osram has introduced two new infrared LEDs — which Osram calls IREDs — intended for use as facial recognition chips that unlock smartwatches. The Munich company said that its…
Strong demand for mini LED in 2020 is expected offer related equipment suppliers, driver IC vendors, panel makers and materials distributors lucrative business opportunities. US-based semiconductor equipment supplier Kulicke and Soffa Industries (K&S) expects mini LED equipment to outrace advanced…
Several LED manufacturers in the industry have turned their business focus to automotive applications targeting the progressing automotive and electric vehicle development. Osram released the idea of the first hybrid LED “Eviyos” two years ago and is progressing the second…
Shuiji Nakamura, the blue LED inventor and the winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014, visited Taiwan last week and delivered speeches in Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University and Chung Hsing University, as well as in Micro LED company…
Congratulations to the project managers and marketing teams of Aeon, Douglas Lighting Controls, EarthTronics, G&G Industrial Lighting, Klein Tools, MaxLite, Prescolite, TAMCO, Tivo Lighting and WAC Landscape Lighting for having their products selected for this month’s LED Lighting Picks. Do…
Electrical contractors are in a good position to capitalize on a big chunk of this developing niche. Electrical contractors may be in better position than they realize to develop a profitable presence in the emerging Smart City market. Panelists at…
Innovative tunable white, mid-power LED enables luminaire manufacturers to improve color tuning, shrink optics and fixture profiles, while enabling new design options. Nichia announces its game-changing 2-in-1 tunable white LED. This is the industry’s first tunable white LED in a…
The city’s Public Lighting Authority on Monday is expected to complete the replacement of nearly 20,000 defective LED streetlights that caused premature dimming and failures. The replacement, which is expected to cost between $7 million to $8 million, is ahead of the lighting…