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

Jan W. Denneman, president of the Global Lighting Association (GLA) and chairman of the Zhaga Consortium, as well as a VP with Philips Lighting, announced at the opening ceremony of the Taiwan International Lighting Show 2012, which took place on March 13-16, that the Global Lighting Forum (GLF) ha

Bryan Douglas, chief executive officer of Lighting Council Australia, stresses that Australia needs standards to weed out underperforming LED lighting products from the Australian market. Standards are needed, he believes, to boost Australian consumer confidence in the nascent, but quickly evolving

Taiwan's LED lighting industry has moved one step closer to reaching the goal of having all of its products worldwide receive one-stop certification, after the Center for Measurement Standards (CMS), part of the governmental Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), unveiled a certification

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-

Taipei, May 14, 2012 (CENS)--LED Lighting Taiwan 2012, which will take place on June 19-21, has enrolled around 10% more exhibitors than 2011 event, according to organizer Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA). These exhibitors include Epistar Inc., Everlight Electron

TFU Industry Co., Ltd., established in 1995, specializes in plastic-injection services, also having transformed in 2004 to offer integrated services, from product design, development, and mold fabrication to plastic injection. With state-of-the-art production equipment, coupled with ample te

Taipei, May 8, 2012 (CENS)--Epistar Inc. Chairman B.J. Lee pointed out that the interface standards that Zhaga Consortium is working on for LED light engines will make LED lamps prevalent in three years following the releases of several Zhaga-standardized engines at the Light+Building 2012 fair hel

Taipei, April 25, 2012 (CENS)--Epistar Chairman B.J. Lee yesterday said that sales from lighting LEDs will likely account for 20%, or NT$4 billion (US$137 million at US$1:NT$29), of the company’s revenue for this year, up from last year’s 15%. Lee made the bright forecast based on approximately

After suffering a long period of sluggish sales that began in 2009 as a result of the global financial crisis, Taiwanese manufacturers of machine-tool components and accessories rebounded with robust sales in the first three quarters of 2011 thanks to the robust recovery of the world economy. T

Gin Chan Machinery Co., Ltd., established in 1988, is a specialized manufacturer of precision accessories for grinding machines and milling machines. The company uses ‘GIN’ brand to distribute products the world over. Gin Chan has recently set up a second plant of 3,000 square meters in Sulin of

Taipei, March 27, 2012 (CENS)--Yeh-Chiang Technology Corp. has reinvented the brand name “Xu Guang” it acquired from the bankrupted Taiwan Fluorescent Lamp Co., Ltd. as an LED lighting brand under subsidiary Taiwan Lighting Co., Ltd. Taiwan Fluorescent was founded in 1954 as Taiwan’s No.2 lamp

Taipei, March 23, 2012 (CENS)--Color Stars, Inc., a member of the ColorStars Group headquartered in Irvine, California of the U.S. convinced the international expert jury of the “red dot award: product design 2012”. After an evaluation process lasting several days, it received one of the coveted aw

Taipei, March 21, 2012 (CENS)--Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. is recognized as Taiwan’s most profitable LED maker, with its 2011 after-tax net income of NT$1.3 billion (US$43.5 million at US$1:NT$30), or NT$3.14 per share. In the fourth quarter of 2011, Taiwan’s No.1 LED packager reported preta

Taipei, March 12, 2012 (CENS)--Over 350 lighting manufacturers are estimated to mostly demonstrate LED lighting technologies at 800-some booths of the Taiwan International Lighting Show 2012, which kicks off today and ends on Mar. 16. Taiwan's LED heavyweights, including Everlight Electronics

Ecolighting, Inc., founded in the Hsinchu Science Park, northern Taiwan in July 2008, is a highly specialized maker of modern lighting drivers and control modules for LED (light emitting diode) lighting fixtures. Besides being a maker of increasingly popular LED lighting, whose maturation is dri

Founded in 1988 in Taipei as a lighting-fixture exporter, Home Resource Industrial Co., Ltd. has become a leading LED-lighting manufacturer in China distributing in over 60 markets globally, offering LED lighting fixture, spotlights, aluminum exterior lamps, aluminum bulkheads, streetlights, garde

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

Since its debut in 2010, the Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS) has doubled in size and will likely see over 1,000 booths booked this year, which seems insignificant when compared with the larger international exhibitions held by other industries, albeit encouraging for an emerging industry

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

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

Sheraton Kampala Hotel of Uganda has recently replaced many of its traditional interior lights with 5W LED MR16 lamps made by Glacial Tech Inc., a Taiwan-based company specializing in thermal-dissipation solutions, power supply and LED lighting. Glacial Tech’s lamps, labeled with brand name “Gl

Founded in 1988 in Taiwan, Goldyear Industrial Ltd. is the sole LED-lighting manufacturer in Taiwan capable of developing all components required for LED lighting fittings, namely optical lens, thermal-dissipation devices, and power drivers. Many of its products have been certified with UL, CUL

A total of 530 exhibitors displayed their latest products in 1,873 booths at the four-day Taipei International Building, Construction and Decoration Exposition 2011, which got under way on Dec. 15. The show drew around 60,800 attendees, including 1,154 professional buyers. The numbers of e

The global financial tsunami, albeit sparing the designer goods sector, has caused Taiwan’s yacht-building industry to list over the past few years, with the ripple-effect washing over downstream suppliers of yacht and marine hardware, including the top-2 in Taiwan—Man Ship Machinery & Hardware C

Taipei, March 2, 2012 (CENS)--A show delegation composed of 36 Taiwanese exhibitors, including China Economic News Service (CENS), will participate in LED Next Stage 2012 trade show, which will be held March 6-9 at West 1-2 halls in Tokyo Big Sight. CENS, Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Associat

Taipei, March 1, 2012 (CENS)--Fuyu Electric Co., Ltd., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of office lighting fixtures, develops, makes ultra-efficient T5 and T8 lighting fixtures with 95% more light output than comparable conventional models. Special designs enable the company’s T5 and T8 lighting fix

Taipei, Feb. 24, 2012 (CENS)--Delta Electronics Inc., AcBel Polytech Inc., Phihong Technology Co., and Leader Electronics Inc., Taiwan’s major power-supply makers branching out into LED lighting manufacturing, estimate sales of their LED lamps to grow at am exponential rate this year. They base

Taipei, Feb. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Mainland China is likely to enlarge LED-lighting subsidization coverage, including not only more product items but also more supply sources, according to deputy sectary general of China Solid State Lighting Alliance, Tang Gouquin. Tang made the statement yesterday