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.
Island manufacturers form alliance to promote the lighting source of tomorrow
Nov 25, 2014By 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 enterprises from around the world. In July this year an OLED-lighting consortium named the “OLED Lighti...
New products help manufacturers provide proof of their quality
Sep 16, 2014By KEN LIU With manufacturers rushing to come out with LED lighting products that can differentiate them from their rivals, it is becoming increasingly important for them to prove the quality of the light their offerings produce. Spectrometer maker AsenseTek Inc. is addressing this issue with a series of palm-sized spectrum measurement gadgets, dubbed “Lighting Passport,” together with meas...
New natural lighting systems save electricity and the environment at the same time
Sep 12, 2014By 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 enhancing the lighting through special devices in the tube to bring highly efficient natural illuminat...
Wood is re-emerging as one of the most fashionable materials in lighting product today
Sep 12, 2014By 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 lighting products displayed at creative woodworking exhibitions in Taiwan. With ingenuity, light...
Taiwan's LED suppliers hope auto-light niche will help upgrade their profit margins
Sep 10, 2014By MICHELLE HSU The outlook for the international lighting market is bright, and Taiwanese manufacturers are well positioned to take advantage of the rosy prospects. Many of the island's lighting companies with their sights set on the mainland Chinese market, such as the LED lighting manufacturers Everlight, Epistar, Lextar, Genesis Photonics, Edison, and LedLink Optics, displayed how the plan...
The future is bright for this company's innovative lighting solutions
Sep 04, 2014By 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 award once again shows that his firm’s innovative designs meet the need of end users. The PANDOR...
Visitors from around the world look for efficiency and innovation in lighting products
May 14, 2014By 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 on Apr. 6-9 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The number of exhibitors was up...
Information management and people-oriented design will be the make-or-break factors in the emerging market for smart lighting.
May 07, 2014By 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 smart lighting technology, hosted by Steven Lin, chairman of the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Asso...
Chairman Robert Yeh of LED packager Everlight Electronics believes that the team made up of his company and chipmaker Episar Corp. is likely to dethrone Nichia Corp. soon as the world’s No.1 LED maker by revenue. Currently, the two companies are the world’s No.1 LED packager and chipmaker, respectively, by production capacity. Last year their combined revenue of NT$47 billion (US$1.5 billion a...
Revenues for this January showed unevenness among Taiwan’s LED makers, with some gaining and others losing from the previous month. Companies that posted gains include Lextar Electronics Corp., Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd., Genesis Photonics Inc., Edison Opto Corp., and Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI), with underperformers being Epistar Corp. and Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. Gaine...
