In five years beginning 2008, incandescent lamps, long known as a highly-inefficient light source and one of the major culprits behind global warming, will completely disappear from the Taiwan lighting market, according to a green plan recently announced by the local administration. Such policy makes Taiwan another developed economy, after Australia, California and Canada, to take substantia...

Not a typical corporate captain who runs his empire from a distant executive chair but one who believes in the hands-on approach, Polo Yang, director of Wellypower Optronics Corp.'s Business Division, watches eagle-eyed at the fluorescent lifespan tester in his company's factory, comparing the latest results on a row of T5 fluorescent tubes from major international suppliers against those of his ...

Apparently the fallout in the home building sector in Spain recently has not fazed the enthusiasm of global buyers of lighting and residential products and services, nor has the downturn distracted lighting suppliers from the pivotal task of focusing on green solutions in the midst of all the urgent buzz about global warming. And the numbers speak for themselves: Some 165,000 global visitors cros...

More important than its once-two-year staging is that the lighting and building sectors are two pivotal economic drivers-with lights of all kinds consuming a significant proportion of overall power input generally and building sectors being the foundation upon which so many other downstream economic activities are built: the Light+Building of Frankfurt has evolved to become the world's biggest tr...

The China Economic News Service (CENS), Taiwan's biggest private publisher of trade journals, sent a delegation to promote CENS Lighting Magazine at the Light+Building 2008 show and Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2008 in April this year. CENS Lighting provides the most complete and up-to-date information on lighting manufacturers, and their products, in both Taiwan and China. ...

LED lighting's main focus will continue to be various commercial applications, a belief advocated by market watcher M.J. Huang, who also says that such more energy-efficient lighting will not likely replace traditional ones to become mainstream in residences in the short-term. The reason: Solid-state LED lights retail for considerably more than traditional ones, such as incandescent and fluoresc...

China has joined other countries throughout the world in promoting light-emitting diode (LED) lamps as a major means of energy conservation, and the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has emerged as a major base of their production. A vital impetus for the development of the country's LED lamp industry is the National LED Lighting Engineering Program, which was inaugurated in 2003 under the sup...

Those who stay with or, even better, ahead of the demand curve eventually end up winning. And in recent years such curve has been highlighted not just by esoteric academics but world-sweeping trends—global warming and resulting catastrophic weather events as well as skyrocketing fuel prices—that are urging citizens all over to look for greener solutions, with one such means still as sensible, rea...

According to the statistics released by the Central Weather Bureau (CWB), the temperature for Taiwan averaged at 24.1 Centigrade throughout 2007, the fourth highest level on record in the decade since 1998. Global warming has become a common issue facing people on the earth and carbon-dioxide emission is the primary culprit behind the changing climate. Lighting of all kinds today consumes ar...

Last September the government of Taoyuan County in northern Taiwan began encouraging its citizens to replace their incandescent bulbs with energy-saving lamps by offering them 20,000 free compact fluorescent lamps in collaboration with Philips Lighting Taiwan, Delta Electronics, and major retailers. The campaign is part of the county government's effort to wake its people up to the severity of...