Founded in 1998, Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is a non-profit trade association that oversees Bluetooth® technology. As it supports more than 34,000 member companies, the Bluetooth SIG promotes collaboration among its members to create new and enhanced specifications, extend technology, drive global interoperability through world-class product certification programs, and develop brands ...

The 11th Hong Kong International Spring Lighting Fair, hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from April 6 to 9. This year's Spring Light Show attracted more than 1,430 exhibitors from 9 countries and regions to provide a convenient procurement platform for exhibitors and buyers, attracting approximately 21,000 buyers from ...

In view of smart lighting showing strong potential to lead growth of the global lighting industry in the next decade, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a Taiwanese government-funded R&D institute, released its spectrum-adjustable LED lighting modules and LED-based indoor positioning system at this year’s Taiwan International Lighting Show and LED Taiwan, to inspire more Taiwanese L...

Ever since elected the new chairman of Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA) this May, Soddy Huang, also head of Kingtec Group, a conglomerate of lighting, hardware and electronic parts businesses, has had his schedule filled with more meetings with officials and traveled even more frequently among countries across ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) bloc, simply in an eff...

This year’s HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair Autumn Edition, held October 27-30 in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, again proved the unparalleled presence of China in the global market for lighting fixtures: Chinese companies continued to make up the majority of over 2,500 exhibitors on the showground. The rise of them, mainly on a price-slashing strategy, has distressed...

President Steven Lin of Yah Juang Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. was elected chairman of the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA) in early 2013, and has been involved in completing several missions since taking office, which he hopes will take shape before his three-year term expires in 2015. The missions Chairman Lin has set for himself include working together with other local a...

By KEN LIU In 1985, the Wenshui Community in northern Taiwan's Miaoli County had over 800 residents and served as a transportation and business hub for the townships of Dahu, Shitan, and Tai'an. The population later plunged and by 1999 there were only 86 people left, most of them oldsters and children. One reason for this shrinkage was a new access road that made it easier for the community's ...

By KEN LIU From the very first day of Just Power Integrated Technology Inc.’s founding in 2009, the company's president, Ching Yang, has clung to the idea of incorporating only useful and handy designs into the company’s LED lighting fixtures, which are all for indoor use. The firm's initial offering, a light tube dubbed “Anytime,” was based on that idea, and it has since introduced a slew ...

By KEN LIU Ford was surprisingly not promoted as a car brand but for household lighting at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2014 (Spring Edition), held April 6-9. The Ford marque was seen at the contract supplier SKN Global Ltd.’s booth in Hall of Aurora, a venue for brand name exhibitors. SKN, a Hong Kong-based company, is licensed to market lighting and electrical appliances worl...

C.F. Lin, chairman of the Cross-Strait Lighting Committee of the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA), recently brightened up a committee meeting by making such comments as “The lighting business is better in 2013 than in 2012”; “Almost every Taiwanese manufacturer in this line has grown this year”; and “LED lighting still has 15 years of space for development.” These statements ref...