Lighting maker Tons Lightology Inc. projects its revenue for 2016 to increase at double-digit rate year-on-year thanks to ambitious marketing plans, according to company chairman, S.C. Tang. He says after having secured a stable market share in Taiwan last year, his company will step up sales in the mainland Chinese market this year as its top priority before making a foray into the Japanese m...

Market consultancy LEDinside of Taiwan projects light emitting diode (LED) to penetrate 36 percent of the global lighting market in 2016 with sales revenue of US$30.5 billion, up from 2015’s 31 percent with revenue of US$25.7 billion. LEDinside, established in 2007 as TrendForce’s LED division, provides daily updates on the global LED industry, including data, intelligence, LED adoption, price...

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs-administered (MOEA-administered) Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has worked with the Parks & Streetlights Office of the Taipei City Government’s Public Works Department to install Taiwan’s first “smart LED streetlight system” for expressways on a section of the Zhongxin Bridge, which spans the Tanshueh Inlet between New Taipei City and Taipei ...

Nanya Photonics Inc. Chairman Wilfred Wang has indirectly summed up the massive impact of China on the information technology and electronics sector in Taiwan and globally, by describing the global light emitting diode (LED) industry as a miserable business and predicts many uncompetitive manufacturers will likely go under this year due chiefly to consistent overcapacity at mainland Chinese manuf...

Industry executives believe Royal Philips NV's cancellation of selling its light emitting diode (LED) unit Lumileds to a consortium led by GO Scale Capital of mainland China will help Taiwan’s LED makers breathe a sigh of relief, as the said sale, if materializing, would turn over Lumileds’ 2,000-plus patents to their mainland Chinese competitors. The Dutch company has announced the cancellati...

Chairman C.C. Chen of the LED maker Genesis Photonics Inc. says the Taiwan-based company is pursuing the goal of becoming a globally top-three maker of chip-scale-package (CSP) LEDs in an effort to evade competing against mainland Chinese makers in the increasingly crowded sector. To achieve said goal, Chen's company has entered into alliance with Sharp Corp. to develop LEDs for high-end backl...

After nearly three quarters of sagging market, Taiwan’s top-two makers of light emitting diodes (LEDs) saw orders rise in December, 2015, and believe the high season will likely arrive after the upcoming Chinese New Year break, which falls on Feb. 6-14. In spite of the downtime for inventory taking, Epistar, recognized as Taiwan’s No.1 LED chipmaker, still saw its revenue for last December ris...

Light emitting diode (LED) maker Unity Opto Technology Ltd. has reportedly won considerable orders for LED light bulbs from Europe and has begun filling the orders, valued at around US$3-4 million by quarterly shipment, in the final quarter. The Taiwanese maker projects to receive US$30 million in orders for such bulbs from Europe throughout 2016 based on the recently booked orders. European o...

Test Rite International Co., Ltd., recognized as Taiwan’s biggest home improvement retailer, has contracted LED maker Unity Opto Technology Ltd. for supply of LED light bulbs to sell under its brand name, as well as having won the exclusive dealership to sell Toshiba-branded light bulbs made by the Taiwanese maker. These moves are part of the retailer’s aggressive plan to snatch half of the Ta...

Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., reportedly the world’s No.1 light emitting diode (LED) packager, has denied news reports that the company had begun putting workers on unpaid furlough to deal with weak sales. Company executives say that although a seasonal surge failed to materialize in the third quarter across the industry, leading to a 2 percent or so of sales decrease from last quarter at t...