The Taiwan government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) won the Frost & Sullivan Best Practices New Product Innovation Award 2015 for its In-Line Compact Thermal Analyzer (ICTA). Held annually in Singapore, the Awards program recognizes best-in-class companies in Asia Pacific. This program has identified many outstanding companies from the automotive, energy, building & en...

B.J. Lee, chairman of the LED chipmaker Epistar Corp., forecasts the 2015 high season for LED backlight market to arrive one month later than expected in April and the market revenue of LED bulbs to increase only 30 percent year on year in 2015 worldwide, despite the shipment volume to surge to 2-2.5 billion units from last year’s 1.2 billion or so. Lee’s company is the world’s No.1 LED chipma...

High season has returned to Taiwan’s LED industry earlier than expected, with revenue beginning to climb this March across the island’s sapphire-substrate, chip and packaging sectors. Although fewer workdays in February due to the weeklong Chinese New Year break led to reduced revenue at most of the island’s LED makers in that month, industry executives say the Taiwanese industry’s revenue wil...

ZINIU Lighting Technology Corporation is a professional lighting company specializing in research, manufacturing and application of different kinds of LED lighting products. Now the company manufactures and markets a wide range of LED lighting products to domestic and worldwide customers. The LED products cover lighting source, commercial lighting, home lighting, outdoor lighting, landscape li...

Shenzhen Sonlite Lighting Co., Ltd. manufactures a wide-range of halogen lamps and LED lamps, mostly approved by UL, CSA, CE and TUV for declaration of conformity, and over 85% of which exported to Europe, North America and Australia. The P1W5 A19 LED bulb has a long service life of 30,000 hours and works without causing IR or UV to ensure better utility. The mercury-free, eco-friendly light i...

Taiwan’s epitaxy-wafer, packaging, and integrated-manufacturing LED companies are projecting a growth of at least 20% in 2015. The increasing adoption of flip-type LED chips by LED TV makers such as Samsung will bring lucrative business opportunities to Taiwan’s high-end chipmakers, particularly the Epistar Corp. and Genesis Photonics Inc. The Evelight Electronics Co., which is reported to ...

Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. Chairman Robert Yeh says his company, world’s No.1 LED packager by volume, will invest NT$10 billion (US$322.58 million) over three years and some NT$30 billion (US$967.74 million) over five years to boost production capacity depending on order growth. Yeh has declined to comment on media reports that the NT$30 billion project, reportedly the biggest ever i...

Chairman B.J. Lee of Epistar Corp., reportedly the global leader of blue LED chip manufacture by volume, said the company is seeing surging orders as de-stocking in LED industry wanes in December. Corporate sales will surge in 2015 on huge orders from Samsung, which will adopt Epistar flip-type chips in backlit TVs, said Lee. Industry executives project Epistar's revenue for 2015 to rise ov...

Top executives of Taiwan’s leading LED packagers expressed optimism toward Q4 corporate outlook, with Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. Chairman Robert Yeh estimating corporate earnings of at least NT$1.2 per share to achieve total 2014 earnings exceeding NT$5 per share. Yeh, whose company is the world’s No.1 LED packager by volume, said corporate sales will undergo seasonal surge in Q4, normal...

Taiwan Premier Jiang Yi-huah has approved a plan submitted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to replace all mercury streetlights on Taiwan with light-emitting diode (LED) counterparts by 2016 for NT$5.49 billion (US$183 million), to then become the world’s first nation to have all roads lit with LED lamps. Industry executives say the plan offers a real-world test bed for local LED ma...