With the Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS) being held the third time this year as was the annual Innovative Product Award competition, the organizers, Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and Taiwan Lighting Fixture Manufacturers’ Association (TLFMA), said that the competition

This year’s Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS 2012), held March 13-16 in Taipei and co-organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA), saw the annual meetings of the Global Lighting Association (GLA) and Zhaga Consor

Taipei, May 23, 2012 (CENS)--The upcoming implementation of electricity rate hikes has sparked shopping for LED bulbs in Taiwan. Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. said it had sold out its first batch of NT$299 (US$10.3 at US$1: NT$29) LED light bulbs, numbered at 100,000 units, at 7-11 stores and

About 6,000 buyers showed up on the first day of the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) 2012, which was held on Apr. 6-9, a record high since the spring show was made independent from its co-location shows four years ago. A total of 15,220 buyers visited the show this year.

Demand for eco products such as solar panels tend to vary according to official policies and prices of fossil fuel, and the same applies to the LED lighting market, which last year took a downturn. But the sluggishness of such market in Taiwan has been gradually reversing with the currently US$100-

In Tsannkuen (Shzng Zhou) Enterprise Co., Ltd.’s booth at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) 2012, staged Apr. 6-9, Panco Pan, general manager, introduced its line of proprietary LED lights: “These lights feature simple, slim design to maximize roominess in any living space

Taipei, May 2, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan’s industry executives are inspired to make bright forecast on the outlook for the LED (light emitting diode) lighting market in light of the emphasis of the new light source technology at latest international lighting fairs, including the one in Hannover, Las Vega

Taipei, April 30, 2012 (CENS)--Delta Electronics Inc. is vigorously boosting its LED (light emitting diode) lighting production capacity by 150% in 2013 to keep up with brisk demand. Taiwan’s spectacular hikes of electricity rates, which will be enforced on May 15, have fueled demand for energ

Taipei, April 30, 2012 (CENS)--By the end of 2015, all imports and sales of incandescent bulbs rated higher than 15W will be broadly banned in the China’s capital city of Beijing, with and all government institutions, guesthouses, hotels, marketplaces, office buildings and factories in the city to

Taipei, April 23, 2012 (CENS)--The Taiwan-based Fin-Core Corporation has introduced a patented heat sink that delivers 30% more thermal dissipation efficiency than competing types in LED lamps with its 20% larger thermal area, ending up with doubling lifespan of an LED light bulb. So far, the c

Taipei, April 18, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan’s enterprises are increasing installations of LED lamps to counter the upcoming implementation of new electricity rates, providing a big boost to the island’s LED industry, according to LED manufacturers. The government announced that beginning May 15 the i

Taipei, April 13, 2012 (CENS)--The Taiwan-based Delta Electronics Inc., a world-caliber power supplies manufacturer that has diversified into LED lightings, has confirmed its talks under way with several Japanese customers for contract orders for LED bulbs, which are expected to pump considerable g

Taipei, April 6, 2012 (CENS)--China Electric Mfg. Corp., Taiwan’s No.1 lamp maker, aims to sell more than 200,000 LED lamps in Japan this year, nearly triple that sold in the world’s No.3 economy last year. According to the general manager, Z.W. Chang, the LED lamps the company will promote in

Founded in 1971, the ISO 9001:2000-, TS 16949-certified Giantlight Traffic Supplies Instrument Co., Ltd. has been designing and developing customized lighting systems for automotive and motorcycle applications. The company’s products are certified to meet such international standards as SAE/DOT, EC

Taipei, April 3, 2012 (CENS)--Lextar Electronics Corp., an LED subsidiary of LCD maker AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), will target Europe, North America and Japan with the LED bulbs it recently rolled out as direct replacements for 40W and 75W incandescent bulbs. To be shipped sometime this quarter,

Taipei, April 2, 2012 (CENS)--Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., Taiwan’s biggest LED packager by volume and revenue, will boost LED lighting sales to account for 15% of its annual revenue this year, up from 9% last year in reflection of its bright perspective of LED market. The company feels tha

Taipei, March 27, 2012 (CENS)--China Electric Mfg. Corp., currently Taiwan’s No.1 lamp maker, plans to release 7.5W LED light bulbs retailed below NT$400 (US$13 at US$1:NT$30) sometime in April to stimulate consumption of the bulbs. The price range represents a huge markdown from NT$500 (US$16)

Taipei, March 21, 2012 (CENS)--Benefiting from rising trends against use of nuclear energy along with upcoming price hikes of electricity supplied to enterprises in Japan, both Taiwan-based Delta Electronics Inc. and AcBel Polytech Inc. have garnered orders for LED lightings from the country to sec

Taipei, March 16, 2012 (CENS)--A South America-bound Taiwanese trade delegation, organized by Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and composed of 54 enterprises from different sectors on the island, has successfully enhanced Taiwan’s trade ties with countries there by winning a great

Taipei, March 13, 2012 (CENS)--Nan Ya Photonics Inc. yesterday unveiled a demo room for its LED lighting products in the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) headquarters building in Taipei, and announced it will kick off mechanized assembly lines of LED light bulbs in June this year. FPG, one of Taiwa

Taipei, March 12, 2012 (CENS)--Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) will make major inroads into the field of LED (light emitting diode) lighting, as Nan Ya Photonics, under its auspices, will ally with Epistar, Precision Silicon, Formosa Advanced Technologies, and Industrial Technology Research Institute

Founded in February 2008, Ledlink Optics Inc. supplies optical lens for LED lamps spreading light at angles ranging from 8 to 140 degrees, making it a professional supplier of the crucial LED lighting components. The company has lenses for symmetrical streetlights, rectangular-beam pattern lens

Taipei, Jan. 30, 2012 (CENS)--Regardless of almost one year of excessive LED-backlight supplies, Taiwan’s LED industry gurus are optimistic about 2012 outlook for the LED market, whether it is backlight or lighting application. Chairman B.J. Lee of Epistar Corp., now the world’s No.1 maker of b

Taipei, Feb. 1, 2012 (CENS)--Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. has recently won the Taiwan Excellence Awards 2012 for the outstanding designs of its LED lamps evaluated in a contest among 1,145 products from 426 manufacturers of various industries. The awarded products from the world’s No.1 LED p

Taipei, Feb. 3, 2012 (CENS)--Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT), a leading manufacturer of high-power LED lamps in Taiwan, has recently entered into alliance with solar-panel makers in anticipation of bright outlook of solar-powered LED streetlights and landscape lights. The company, which is

Taipei, Feb. 16, 2012 (CENS)--Diamontex Co., Ltd. has introduced a collection of LED lamps using its chemical vapor deposition-based (CVD-based) diamond technology, which delivers descent thermal-dissipation performance on the lamps. A U.S.-trained materials science Ph.D. and a professor at the

Taiwan's prominent lighting manufacturers promoted their new brand names and smart technologies at the 2011 Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) in late October. This was a significant change from their past emphasis on manufacturing capability. One such company was Bright

Clearly to diversify applications, Taiwan’s light emitting diode (LED) makers are trying to develop products for aquaculture, horticulture and animal husbandry, a niche seen to bear promise in the long run although insignificant now. Such effort culminated in the formation of a “horticultura

Two Taiwanese market consulting organizations, LEDInside and the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK), forecast that sales of LED lighting will expand by 50-60% to top the US$10 billion mark this year and achieve a compound annual growth rate of 25-40% between 2012 and 2015. The Mast

Amid continual development globally of the green lighting industry in recent years, driven partly by rising eco-awareness underpinned by the fact that electricity used in lighting accounts for over half of all such energy consumed, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has been e