15 May 2013
A study by researchers at a Madrid university which found that LEDs can be damaging to retinas has sparked a fresh health scare.
Dr. Celia Sanchez Ramos of Complutense University, who has been investigating what’s known as the ‘blue light hazard’, predicted ‘an epidemic’ of retina problems due to increased exposure to LED lighting.
10 May 2013
Osram is closing its production site in Tangerang, Indonesia, as part of a restructuring programme that it hopes will save €1 billion by 2015.
09 May 2013
LED light bulbs have been given the thumbs up by consumer magazine Which?. In its latest issue, Which? tested nine LED lamps and recommended six of them as 'best buys'.
07 May 2013
Lighting manufacturer Abacus has been rescued from administration by a group of investors after racking up an £8 million pension deficit.
07 May 2013
A local authority is to delay the introduction of some 26,000 LED street lights – after a protestor claimed they would ‘damage the brains’ of local residents and that they were an ‘untried and untested’ technology.
29 April 2013
Humiliated German light fitting maker Hess won't be holding an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting to discuss the financial situation at the company – because it can’t afford to.
24 April 2013
Sales of LED products were up 38 per cent for Philips in the first quarter of 2013 – but it wasn’t enough to make up for the sluggish construction market, which left overall lighting sales flat at €1.98 billion.
22 April 2013
Marks & Spencer has replaced T5 ribbon wall light fittings with Philips LEDs in over 170 of its shops, with the help of Balfour Beatty Engineering Services.
11 April 2013
Philips claims to have developed the world's most efficient warm white LED lamp.
27 March 2013
Cheap LED lamps can cause radio interference, says the consumer protection magazine Which?
