CB lighting /cens global pass, tl sep bo /earl/kl-09-0018-ew*/ share-J editor, 2014-09 CB Lighting Co., Ltd. LED light bulbs and LED track lighting systems CB Lighting Co., Ltd., whose initial incarnation was Carry Beaming Lighting Co., Ltd. founded in 1982, has achieved major successes in

By KEN LIU From the very first day of Just Power Integrated Technology Inc.’s founding in 2009, the company's president, Ching Yang, has clung to the idea of incorporating only useful and handy designs into the company’s LED lighting fixtures, which are all for indoor use. The firm's initial

By MICHELLE HSU Wood is one of the most ancient of materials. But until recently, it was rarely used in lighting products. Today's new generation of energy-efficient lighting seems especially incongruent with wood due to its high-tech nature. In fact, though, wood has been making a splash in new

By JENNY WU The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (GILE) is renowned for buyer-friendly organization and large number of exhibitors, as well as wide-ranging exhibits, including product inspection and laboratory equipment, LED drivers, transformers and ballasts, LED chips, LED modules,

With strong market for LED light bulbs and LED backlights for TVs and mobile phones, Taiwan's LED maker Uni-Opto Technology Co., Ltd. projects Q3 revenue to rise at least 30% from a quarter earlier, with July revenue likely to exceed NT$800 million (US$26.6 million). The company has begun deliv

Thai market for light bulbs and fixtures is growing more than 30% with LEDs are expected to take 50% share in the near future. The government sector extensively promotes the use of energy saving lighting products among users of both household and commercial sectors, while private sector from local

The Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Association (TLLIA) and the Taiwanese LED chipmaker, Formosa Expitaxy Inc. (FOREPI), recently announced forming a strategic partnership with the TCL Group, a major consumer-electronics manufacturer in China. F.R. Chien, chairman of both TLLIA and FOREPI, signed t

With plastic processing technology it has gleaned since 1982 from the manufacturing of computer keyboards, Behavior Tech Computer Corp. (BTC) will promote waterproof LED bulbs, LED high bay lights, and moderately intense blue LED light tubes at Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2014, as w

The LED packager Solidlite Corp., founded in 2001 in Taiwan, will exhibit a series of patented LED lighting products, including package-free LED emitters, LED remote phosphor caps, LED horticultural systems, and LED sensor lamps at the 2014 Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition scheduled for

By KEN LIU A total of 10,097 buyers from 112 countries and regions eagerly shopped for energy-saving lighting products, especially LED lamps, that were displayed by 1,081 exhibitors from 14 countries and regions at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) 2014, which was held o

By CARMEN LO Although products assembled by retailers still dominate mainland China’s LED-lighting market, branded products supplied by lighting manufacturers are increasingly popular because of disappointment about the poor quality of retailer-assembled lamps. In the LED age, the term "assem

By MICHELLE HSU The increasingly close ties between lighting industries across the Taiwan Strait were in the spotlight at the Taipei International Lighting Show (TILS) held in late March this year. The show featured a special cross-strait lighting industry forum on life applications of emerging

Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS), held March 20-23 at the Nangang Exhibition Hall of the Taipei World Trade Center, a major lighting show in Taiwan, this year for the first time was held jointly with LED Taiwan, an LED manufacturing processes exhibition, to reveal upstream, midstream and d

Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., Lite-On Technology Corp., and Lextar Electronics Co., Ltd. have all announced plans to boost sales of LED lighting to account for 40% of their total revenue for this year, for which all have recently introduced new products. Packager Lite-On has released an entir

To help Taiwanese manufacturers, exporters and traders explore world markets, CENS attended six international trade shows in March, including Malaysian International Furniture Fair (MIFF), LED Next Stage, International Hardware Fair Cologne, International Auto Aftermarket Expo (IAAE) Tokyo, The Ind

Ching Mars Corp. was established in 1985 and is today an ISO-9001-certificated manufacturer of warning and multi-purpose strobe lights, mainly for automobile use. Among the company’s best-sellers is its low-profile LED bar lamp series, available in single or double-sided models, made with 1W LED

Established in 1991 in Taipei, the Buckingham Industrial Corp. specializes in designing and manufacturing commercial and residential lighting fixtures including downlights, spot lights, track systems, wall lamps, ambient lights, pendants, LED light bulbs, and LED luminaires. The company offers

A winner of Good Design Award 2012, Red Dot Design Award 2011, iF Product Design Award 2012, and M Technology Award 2009, Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT) has recently released a series of LED lamps, including the Orion series 4-inch recessed lamps, the ALTLED T8 high-bay lamp, zero-glaring lin

After two years of declines since 2012, the global market for LED capital equipment will rally this year, again with China driving the biggest demand fueled by investments by chipmakers from Taiwan and China itself, according to Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International (SEMI). The U.S.-

Uni-President Securities Group’s investment arm estimates in 2014 Taiwan’s LED makers to see revenue from backlight sales rise to the levels set in 2011 and recover their share of LED lighting market from Chinese competitors by offering better quality. The institution points out that in the firs

Formosa Epitaxy Revenue Hits New High in March F.R. Chien, chairman of LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI), believes that the company’s monthly revenue hit a new historic high in March this year, with sales recording quarterly increases. Chien bases this performance on several factor

At the Light + Building 2014 lighting trade show, slated for Mar. 30 through Apr. 4 at the Frankfurt Exhibition Center in Germany, a total of 71 Taiwanese manufacturers will show off their advantages in LED manufacturing and R&D. Among the prominent Taiwanese exhibitors will be the ADATA Technol

This year Nan Ya Photonics Inc., the LED subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), will exhibit a wide range of LED-lighting equipment covering industrial, commercial, and residential applications at the Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS). Among its industrial lamps are explosion-pr

The LED Next Stage 2014 of Tokyo, Japan, is estimated to draw around 60,000 visitors and over 300 exhibitors during the four-day run beginning March 4. Approximately 20 Taiwanese manufacturers have signed up for the show with the exhibitor delegation co-organized by China Economic News Service (

A winner of Good Design Award 2012, Red Dot Design Award 2011, iF Product Design Award 2012, and M Technology Award 2009, Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT) has recently released a series of LED lamps, including the Orion 4-inch recessed lamps, the ALTLED T8 high-bay lamp, zero-glaring linear la

According to market consultant LEDinside, a subsidiary of TrendForce Corp., average selling price (ASP) of LED light bulbs dropped at least 20% year on year worldwide in January this year, with 40W incandescent-replacement bulbs dropping 21% or so while 60W replacement bulbs down around 28%. The

Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. Chairman Robert Yeh expects the company’s revenue for the first quarter to likely outstrip the second highest of NT$6.7 billion (US$225.2 million) of Q4, 2013 regardless of fewer workdays in the first quarter due to Chinese New Year holidays. Yeh, whose company is

By MICHELLE HSU From typhoons and floods to global warming, Mother Nature is making her ire over ecological destruction felt with increasing intensity. Countries around the world are heeding the message with redoubled attention to environmental protection, increasingly in the form of green buildin

By JENNY WU China has set itself the goal of becoming a world LED powerhouse in 2020 with millions of households using highly efficient LED lighting, and its LED industry aims to snatch 30% of global market for LED functional lighting by 2015. To do that, it will have to overcome outstanding

By MICHELLE HSU The market for new-generation "green" lighting has grown steadily over the past few years, though the rate of growth has been slower than expected. The global market for LED lighting, the dominant green-lighting category, was worth an estimated US$7 billion in 2013 and is expecte