providing lighting designers, lighting system integrators and lighting subsystem developers with in-depth features and application stories, as well as product and market news updates for this rapidly evolving technology. http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/ 2012-05-17T12:16:14+01:00 text/html 2012-05-15T04:00:00+01:00 http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/ http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/documents/articles/news/121670.html#top Cree subsidiary, Ruud Lighting of Racine, Wisconsin USA, a Cree subsidiary, has been awarded a nationwide contract to supply LED lighting for the exterior of Walmart neighborhood stores. Christopher Ruud, vice president of Ruud Lighting, confirmed the information Monday night at the Mount Pleasant Village Board meeting, according to ...<br><br>Category: ledappsextcomml text/html 2012-05-15T04:00:00+01:00 http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/ http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/documents/articles/news/121671.html#top Lighting Science Group of Satellite Beach, Florida USA, joined Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray and officials from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the Department of the Environment (DDOE) to celebrate the completion of the first phase of the city's relighting project. The project is expected to save ...<br><br>Category: ledappsenviron text/html 2012-05-15T04:00:00+01:00 http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/ http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/documents/articles/news/121672.html#top Future Lighting Solutions of Montreal, Canada and LumenOptix report having successfully developed a line of LED downlight luminaires for retrofit applications to replace recessed downlights of various sizes and light outputs. A customer of LumenOptix initially presented the challenge of replacing 90W metal halides in the customer's shopping mall. The ...<br><br>Category: ledlumdown text/html 2012-05-15T04:00:00+01:00 http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/ http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/documents/articles/news/121662.html#top Luminus Devices, Inc. announced today the availability of its new MD10 light engine. The MD10 is a fully contained single chip, high lumen density source designed for a variety of indoor and outdoor lighting applications. It is available in 800 and 1100 lumen output levels and color temperatures of 3000K and ...<br><br>Category: ledmodother text/html 2012-05-15T04:00:00+01:00 http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/ http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/documents/articles/news/121663.html#top Sharp Electronics Corporation announced plans to launch a new portfolio of LED downlighting, track lighting, and recessed troffer solutions. The new LED luminaires will reportedly be designed and manufactured in its facilities in the US.   Sharp says that this product offering is the first of what it says will ...<br><br>Category: ledappsintcomml text/html 2012-05-15T04:00:00+01:00 http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/ http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/documents/articles/news/121665.html#top GlacialLight, a division GlacialTech Inc., has launched the GL-PL0312 LED Panel Light. The company says that the 58W LED panel is an ideal replacement for older, less-efficient light sources. Its key advantages are surprisingly low energy and maintenance costs, thanks to LED technology which brings greatly reduced power costs, long ...<br><br>Category: ledlumdown text/html 2012-05-15T04:00:00+01:00 http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/ http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/documents/articles/news/121661.html#top Light-Based Technologies (LBT) announced the appointment of Michael Holt, former CEO of Philips Lumileds Lighting, to its board of directors.<p> “We are extremely pleased to have someone with the experience and industry knowledge of Mike Holt join our board of directors. Adding a board member with his LED industry background will ...<br><br>Category: ledlumcontrol text/html 2012-05-15T04:00:00+01:00 http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/ http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/documents/articles/news/121646.html#top During the week of Lightfair International, Cree announced that it is partnering with Lutron, a maker of digital lighting controls (see <a href="http://www.solidstatelightingdesign.com/documents/view/cldoc.php?id=121653#top">press release</a>). Gary Trott vice president of market development at Cree put it succinctly when he said, <i>“With this alliance, we set out to fix a ...<br><br>Category: ledlumcontrol