With major global branded vendors continually launching wearable devices, global shipments of such products as smart watches, smart bands and smart glasses, are predicted to grow 49.8% year-on-year (YoY) to 39.1 million units in 2014, according to Photonics Industry & Technology Development Associa

At the Guzhen lighting fair, Zhongshan Allway Lighting Electric Technology Co., Ltd. exhibited a series of LED lighting fixtures, including troffers, spotlight, downlight, track light, panel light and bulb. Founded in 2006 in Zhongshan City, Guangdong, as an affiliate of the Hong Kong Allway Ind

Zhongshan OuDi Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. primarily exhibited LED lighting for projects and households at the Guzhen lighting fair, including streetlights, wall washers, flood lights, tape lights, safety fence lights, ceiling lights, downlights, track lights, panel lights, T5 and T8 linear light

At the Guzhen lighting fair, Zhongshan Powersun Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. promoted decorative lighting, LED lighting and commercial lighting as panel lights, mining lights, flood lights, and LED cross-star light. Founded in 2005, the company is a professional LED-lighting maker that handles

By KEN LIU At a time when the organic light emitting diode (OLED) lighting industry is still in its infancy, Taiwan’s lighting manufacturers are working closely together to develop a complete supply chain for OLED lighting manufacturing with the aim of attracting partnerships with related enterp

Driven by continued launches of 3C (computer, communication, and consumer electronics) products, including curved TVs by Samsung and LG of South Korea, global demand for flexible electronics has been increasing. Such rising demand is creating huge opportunities for flexible printed circuit board

More than 20 million on-cell thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) touch panels shipped globally in H1, 2014, after only 4.7 million were shipped in all of 2013, as the technology has been adopted in the expanding entry-level and mid-range smartphones market, according to NPD Displa

Global shipments of TV thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels are expected to rise to 257 million units in 2015, a paltry 3% gain over the forecasted 249 million units to be sold this year, according to David Hsieh, vice president of NPD DisplaySearch Greater China. Hsi

Global thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel suppliers are forecast to ship 718 million large-sized (9.0-inch and larger) panels in 2014, up 3% from the previous year, according to NPD DisplaySearch. Panel price increases and growing average TV size will help revenues t

Lextar Electronics Corp. rolled out its LED panel light featuring seamless aluminum frame at the Autumn edition of the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2014, held Oct. 27-30.Unlike most LED panel lights on the market, the Lextar light has one-piece aluminum frame to achieve smooth exterior, w

Lextar Electronics Corp. rolled out a unique LED panel light with a seamless aluminum frame at the Autumn edition of the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2014, which was held on Oct. 27-30. Unlike most LED panel lights available on the market, the Lextar light is equipped with a one-piece a

More than 20 million on-cell thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) touch panels were shipped globally in the first half of 2014, compared with just 4.7 million in all of 2013, thanks to their adoption in the expanding entry-level and mid-range smartphones market, according to NPD Di

The Autumn 2014 edition of the HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair, the world's No. 2 lighting show, will take place on Oct. 27-30 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). A record number of 2,500-plus exhibitors from 37 economies have registered to display their latest li

To help Taiwanese manufacturers, exporters and traders explore world markets, CENS attended five global exhibitions in September, including Shanghai International Lighting Fair, International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), China International Furniture Expo, Furniture Manufacturing & Supply

By MICHELLE HSU With the rise of environmental awareness, the concept of "green" is gradually finding its way into works of creation, and paper is being applied ever more widely in furniture design and production as an eco-friendly alternative to solid wood. From the simple cabinets and seati

AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), a major maker of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels in Taiwan, plans to set up a low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) TFT factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province of China in 2016 to further build capacity for high-resolution and -end smartphone panel

Metal Industries Research & Development Centre (MIRDC), a Taiwanese government-funded R&D institute, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Zelenograd, a scientific industrial district in Moscow, Russia, to enhance bilateral cooperation on development of the semiconductor equipment industr

By MICHELLE HSU Since around the beginning of this year, consumers may have noticed reports in newspapers and magazines about a “daylight tubular device” (DTD) which, as its name implies, works on the principle of efficiently collecting natural light in a dome, introducing it into a tube, and en

By QUINCY LIANG Taiwan's flat panel display (FPD) industry has a long history and enjoyed close attention and investment from both the government and private sectors. But in recent years, local FPD makers have been facing increasingly high pressure from South Korean and Chinese counterparts in b

By CARMEN LO LEDs are becoming an increasingly popular light source throughout the world because of their lower power consumption, higher luminous efficiency, smaller size, longer life, faster response, lower driving voltage, higher shock resistance, and many other advantages over conventional l

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,

By KEN LIU In July this year the Taiwanese LED heavyweight Lextar Electronics Corp. won an International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) in the United States for its intelligent "PANDORA"pendant. Michael Yang, manager and chief designer in the company’s lighting product design dept., says the awa

Global shipments of large-sized (larger than 10-inch) thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels in July dropped 5% month-on-month (MoM) to 68.21 million units, according to WitsView Technology Corp., an LCD market research firm. Innolux Display Corp., the largest TFT-LCD m

The Autumn 2014 edition of the HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair will take place on October 27-30 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Over 2,300 exhibitors are expected to display their latest lighting technologies at the fair. The fair is a one-stop-shopping pla

Nineteen outstanding young designers from Taiwan were among the 91 recipients of the 2014 iF concept design award, presented in Hamburg, Germany in mid-June. Two of the Taiwanese designers, along with nine other peers, also shared a 30,000 euro prize awarded by the judges for design excellence.

Endorsed by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), the MOEA-backed Industry Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has set up the "OLED Lighting Commercialization Alliance" (OLCA) with Taiwan’s lighting manufacturers and designers, machine manufacturers, OLED-panel makers, and e-material maker

To help Taiwanese companies take advantage of the enormous market demand for home improvement and DIY products, CENS (the China Economic News Service) this year organized another (and bigger than last year's) delegation of Taiwanese exhibitors to the National Hardware Show (NHS). The annual

An estimated 25,000 buyers from around the world eagerly searched out the latest commercial and architectural lighting products displayed by over 500 top-notch exhibitors occupying more than 200,000 square feet of space at LIGHTFAIR International 2014 (LFI 2014), which was held on June 3-5 at the L

By STEVE CHUANG The year 2013 was a year of mixed performance by Taiwanese OA furniture parts manufacturers, given that gloomy economies weakened global enterprises’ willingness to invest in fixed assets and dampened the sector to some extent. But with economies in the U.S., Japan and Europe sho

By KEN LIU The five-day Computex Taipei 2014 trade show closed on June 7 in the midst of high expectations that it will bring lucrative business opportunities to Taiwan’s information and communications technology (ICT) industry this year. According to Chairman C.K. Wang of the government-