restructured into an incorporated company in 2011

HC SemiTek said that operating income in the first half of 2013 dropped 40.42% Y-o-Y, after the last year's irrational price competition in LED chip market, the price of LED chip has fallen dramatically. Affected by this, the sales volume of chip is more than that in same period last year, but sales revenue and gross profit decline. In response to fierce market competition, the company has made some adjustments in product specifications in the first half of this year, objectively resulted in a decline in sales of some products. Meanwhile, it has invested larger commissioning research and development costs for 4-inch production lines of its new subsidiary in Suzhou. The subsidiary increases recruitment scale and management expenses. In view of the above main reasons, the company's operating profit, total profits, and the net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders for the first half of 2013 suffer decrease.

The community of Serenbe is built around sustainability: everything from the home's methods of construction to the organic produce on the tables breathes sustainability. This philosophy encouraged Luis Imery, founder of The Imery Group (www.imerygroup.com) and designer/builder of Proud Green Home, to make Serenbe the home of their net zero project. They partnered with LG Squared Inc., a residential designer, to provide creative support in building the ideal home. A number of LG products were selected to help achieve net zero efficiency.


HC SemiTek Corporation, formerly Wuhan HC SemiTek Co., Ltd., was founded in 2005 and restructured into an incorporated company in 2011. HC SemiTek is a leading LED chip supplier based in Wuhan, China. As a high-tech enterprise in the field of "New materials, and New energy", we are committed to R&D, production and sales of the high-quality LED chips, mainly in GaN-based blue and green light series. The worldwide leading R&D capabilities enable us to make continuous innovation based on customer demand. Currently, we serve clients throughout the country, and the product has been successfully applied to a number of domestic key projects.

a broad range of precision component packaging products including embossed carrier tapes

A global leader in delivering advanced carrier tape solutions, has completed the move of its Shanghai operations to a larger new facility. The newly expanded factory is double the size of the old plant, and built in response to growing global demand for precision high quality carrier tape from the semiconductor, electronic, and LED industries. It is located just two kilometers from the old plant within the Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone business park.

This new state of the art facility will manufacture Advantek’s complete line of carrier tape in polystyrene (PS) and polycarbonate (PC) materials. Also installed are new advanced systems capable of supporting the industry’s new high precision requirements for small devices and bare die.

Combining this latest China investment with factories in Taiwan and the Philippines, Advantek has greatly enhanced its capacity and flexibility to support our customer’s ever changing needs for the latest in carrier tape solutions. In addition to this strong base of manufacturing sites, Advantek provides direct customers support through network of global sales teams, regional distribution centers, and local customer application teams.


Advantek offers a broad range of precision component packaging products including embossed carrier tapes, anti-static cover tapes, shipping reels, static shielding / moisture barrier bags, desiccants, and humidity indicator cards. For 35 years Advantek has been delivering innovative carrier tape solutions to the world’s leading semiconductor and electronics manufacturers. Advantek began shipping carrier tape in the 1980’s.

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another sign of an American manufacturing renewal

General Electric (GE) announced plans to invest US$ 30 million and add more than 150 jobs in U.S., expanding capacity of GE Lighting’s domestic manufacturing operations to meet growing consumer demand for led flood light energy-efficient soft white incandescent light bulbs. The announcement coincides with a new agreement between Walmart and GE, as part of Walmart’s US$ 50 billion domestic manufacturing commitment to bring more American-made products to consumers. This agreement will put U.S.-made GE energy-efficient soft white incandescent light bulbs on the shelves of 3,400 Walmart Stores by summer 2014.
Recruitment and hiring for the new manufacturing positions will occur over the coming months at three GE plants in Bucyrus and Circleville, Ohio, and Mattoon, Illinois. These new positions add to the more than 700 employees currently at work across the three plants.
“As a company whose history dates back more than 130 years, we understand that to grow, we have to invest—in R&D and in workers,” said GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. “Today’s announcement is evidence of our continued commitment to creating advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and yet another sign of an American manufacturing renewal.”
GE and Walmart have a history of collaborative innovation. Working with GE, Walmart helped to pioneer the development, testing and use of LED systems in the retail setting. Walmart helped GE to conceive and perfect the application of LEDs in refrigerated display cases. Walmart store parking lots in the U.S. and abroad were among the first in the industry to switch to LED.

Since 2009, GE Lighting has invested more than a billion dollars to reshape the business, focusing on energy-efficient products and increasing led high bay light spending by 20%. GE has moved quickly to respond to increasing consumer demand for incandescent bulb alternatives, expanding existing manufacturing capabilities, while also working with Walmart to put domestically made bulbs into the hands of their consumers. Production of the domestically made bulbs will start the first half of 2014.

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I believe that the combination of our cutting edge technology

With over 33 years of mass production experience and core competencies in plastics injection molding and aluminum die casting; the marriage of such, with forward thinking LED technology and engineering, has produced the first and only full line of Isolated Phosphor Technology (IPT™) based LED direct replacement light bulbs manufactured by Matrix Lighting sold and distributed under the brand Viribright Benchmark by VBL.
Tripp Smith assumed the role of the new Vice President of Sales for the retail channels and brings with him a real depth of expertise and passion experience for the lamp business. With extensive sales and executive leader experience, Smith and the entire VBL sales teams have over 100+ years of lighting sales experience and are poised to strengthen VBLs placement in the North American market.
“I’m very excited about joining the Viribright sales team.” Smith said. “I believe that the combination of our cutting edge technology, combined with our brand, assortment, shapes, sizes and color temperatures put us in a position to win in the LED Light Bulb market in North America.”

“We are excited to have Tripp enter into a leadership role within our sales team” – said Jim Hardaway SVP of VBL. “We look forward to expanding our existing market share and seeing even more energy efficient Viribright LED light bulbs on retail shelves in the near future.“ “These are exciting times and we have the intention to remain a significant player in the transformation to energy efficient LED lighting in our markets.”

news data feeds continuously updated throughout the day

Wireless Ronin Technologies, Inc. has deployed a custom-designed, 60-foot-wide LED display along with its channel partner, Thomson Reuters, in the lobby of a major retail financial institution in Midtown Manhattan.Rather than the typical mono-color, right-to-left tickertape, Wireless Ronin designed and developed a one-of-a-kind digital signage solution for the highly trafficked location of the national financial institution. The display features a full color, multi-directional presentation that includes stock prices and company logos for the top 40 NASDAQ and NYSE stocks as well as top news stories and branded promotional content from the financial institution. The content is led high bay light integrated with Thomson Reuters Knowledge Direct data solutions, with market and news data feeds continuously updated throughout the day.
"This financial service retailer sought a digital solution to differentiate them from their competition and engage both existing clients in the branch as well as prospective customers walking by," commented Scott Koller, Wireless Ronin's president and CEO. "This custom solution demonstrates our Content Engineering team's creative abilities to design a solution that delivers on our customers' objectives. Based on the positive feedback from this initial deployment, this customer plans to install the ticker solution in additional locations, including a San Francisco branch next month.

On the evening of the 22nd of August, the led flood light ccepted the resignations of CEO Harald Sommerer and CFO Mathias Dähn effective 30 September 2013. This step had been preceded in recent months by intensive discussions on the future strategic direction of the Zumtobel Group. During these discussions it emerged that the two board members and the Supervisory Board held different views on the operational implementation of the global growth strategy during the important phase of the technology shift to LEDs. The Supervisory Board thanked the two board members for their efforts on the company’s behalf.

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Wuhan government actively encourages the use of innovative concepts

The company hopes to advance the promotion in broadening the usage of high efficiency lighting solution through the co-operative resource business model. Vice Mayor of Wuhan Municipal People's government Xing Zaozhong, Director of East Lake High-tech Zone Administrative led high bay light, and Philips Greater China President Liang Hanfeng were all in attendance at the founding ceremony. During the ceremony, the East Lake High-tech Zone Administrative Committee and Philips signed a strategic cooperation agreement which will promote energy saving and emission reduction and sustainable development for Wuhan and surrounding areas.
It is also the frontline to transformation and development for the Wuhan city circle,” expressed deputy mayor Xing Zaozhong. Philips ESCO (Wuhan) has now officially opened its doors to becoming a driving force for Wuhan City's East Lake High-tech Zone's environmental protection industry development. The Wuhan city government and East Lake High-tech Zone Administrative Committee plans to contribute ample supporting services towards the company so as to construct an even more superior environment for development.

Wuhan government actively encourages the use of innovative concepts and technology in order to create a “resource saving, environmentally friendly “oriented society. Therefore Philips’ sustainable development strategic contract is a welcomed addition.” President Liang Hanfeng said, “Important parts of Philips "grass root market strategy" is basing operations in China and delving deep into mid and western parts of the country. The establishment of the company in Wuhan symbolizes that we are making solid progress in implementing strategy in mid and western regions. At the same time, Philips and Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone together have formed a strategic partnership leading to the creation an 180W led flood lights business model that helps to promote the expansion in usage of high energy efficient lighting in Wuhan and surrounding area, advancing towards the promotion of sustainable development in mid and western parts of the country.”

the new subsidiary are to strengthen the LED industry

The joint investment between San’an Optoelectronics and Yankon Lighting was announced on September 9th. The two companies will establish a development company for new illuminant and lighting R&D. Total investment in the company is RMB$30 million (US$ 5 million), 40 percent contributed by San’an at RMB$12 million (US$2 million).

The joint venture between the two companies make use of the combined technology and market superiority to create a market pipe line for development of new LED illuminant and lighting products. Price/performance ratio requirements during market based operation will place priority on application and sales for products produced by the joint venture company. The registered capital for the joint venture was paid in full. According to the developmental needs in the undertaking of the joint venture, both sides agreed to invest heavily so as to increase registered capital.


San’an expressed that the developmental goals of the new subsidiary are to strengthen the LED industry, advance in consolidating domestic LED superiority, expand cooperation, speed up internationalization, increase LED production line layout, and improve supporting measures. The advantages of this joint venture are in expansion of company cooperation and increasing LED production line layout.