These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. They are offered to help global buyers and other readers better understand what is going on at the fairs and the latest offerings by Taiwanese exhibitors.
Taiwanese makers have enough clou
Jun 01, 2010The Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA) held its annual members’ meeting for this year on March 26, during which David Chang, general manager of David Technology Inc., was elected as new chairman. Before assuming the chairmanship, Chang had worked with the association as supervisor, chief supervisor, standing board member, and vice chairman. His company, David Technology, is an int...
Double-digit growth in LED m
Jun 01, 2010The Taiwan International Lighting Show, co-sponsored by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and Taiwan’s Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFMA), after eight years of suspension, was resurrected in March this year. Notwithstanding the gradual but apparently steady economic recovery, this year’s lighting show focused on more advanced lighting technologies rather than traditi...
Key to success of the lighting show is
Jun 01, 2010With global warming still being reported as a pressing issue, one solution of which is to use more energy-efficient lighting, especially when lights generally burn about 30% of all electricity. Hence many countries are promoting increasing use of lighting that consumes less electricity as part of their green policy. And with the current state of product development, LED lamps hold promising marke...
TAITRA and TLFEA set up a dedicat
Jun 01, 2010The first Taiwan International Lighting Show, held from March 12 through 15 this year, drew 170 lighting manufacturers in 400 booths, who truly showed ingenuity in lighting products by displaying a range of patented innovations, an advantage that Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA) did not neglect to tap fully by setting up a ...
Four-day event aims to build on succes
Apr 02, 2010The 2010 Spring Edition of the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair will kick off on Apr. 13 for a four-day run at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, hoping to build on the success of its debut last year. The products on show this year will be sorted by category: commercial lighting, green lighting, household lighting, LED lighting, outdoor lighting, lighting accessories/parts/c...
Night-school dropout turns
Apr 02, 2010The rags-to-riches story of Keen Hsu, chairman of lighting manufacturing conglomerate Bright International Group Ltd., is the stuff of inspirational speeches and movies. Some 35 years ago, Hsu as usual dug ditches as an impoverished 18-year-old. The heat of the day forced Hsu to think ahead, realizing that he had to take up more ambitious livelihoods or face a life of misery and poverty. So ...
3-stage photo-sensitive dimmer one of many energy-efficie
Apr 02, 2010Aussmak Optoelectronics Corp. will explore opportunities in the global lighting market with cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) lighting fixtures. CCFL lamps are noted for longevity, energy efficiency, dimmability, non-tanning UV ray, and low mercury contamination, inspiring the two partners to coin a new label for such lamp based on “Long Life, Controllable, and Decontamination,” with the...
CEO believes Asians are the consum
Apr 02, 2010Clearly showing ambitions to tap the Asian market for further growth, Philips Lighting’s Consumer Luminaires Business Group (CLBG) officially launched its Ledino collection of LED (light emitting diode) lights for households at the autumn edition of the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2009. Reinterpreting, with ample business savvy, what has been reported and said repeatedly of the huge...
Viewing bright outlook for the light emitting diode (LED) streetlight market, Taiwan’s LED makers, coordinated by the government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), set up in early January a consortium comprising manufacturers of all related sectors. Vice Economic Minister J.C. Hwang, citing some market studies, pointed out that around 160-180 million streetlights would be...
Bright future for LED lighting lit
Apr 02, 2010Guangdong Province is recognized as China’s LED-lighting hub, with most of the manufacturing taking place in Shenzhen City, followed by Dongguan, Zhongshan, Foshan, Jiangmen and Huizhou. Over 2,600 LED-lighting manufacturers are spread across Guangdong, generating revenue totaling 31 billion Chinese yuan (US$4.5 billion) in 2008, with such total to rise to a projected 80 billion yuan (US$11.9...
