The Taiwan-based Valens Co., Ltd. has been dedicated to the development of LED auxiliary driving lights and well recognized by professionals for its well-honed R&D technologies. With high quality and performance, Valens’ products, including truck light, warning light, side light, etc., all have been certified to ECE R65, SAE CLASS 1 and ICAO Type3. Three decades ago, the firm received a big or...

In an exclusive interview with United Daily News Group, a local news agency and parent company to CENS, Soddy Huang, chairman of Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA), noted that special-purpose lightings, such as industrial lighting and auto lighting, will emerge as a new blue ocean for the local lighting industry, as ever more insiders are dedicated to such applications this year. ...

As the U.S. Congress moves quickly to pass the first federal law governing self-driving cars, many auto makers have poured considerable resources into R&D of autonomous vehicles, which, in turn, is very likely to trigger massive demands for auto lens, a core part to support the technology of autonomous driving system, in the coming years. Compared to a smartphone lens, an auto lens features a ...

Biing-Jye Lee, chairman of Epistar, a globally leading high-brightness LED epiwafer and chip manufacturer based in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, commented earlier that if Taiwan’s LED firms can work together to build a domestic ecosystem for the production of mini LEDs by making the good use of existing advantages including strong R&D capabilities and high-productivity clusters in Taiwan’s LED indust...

Tatung Thailand today announces that it will collaborate with Eastern Technological College of Thailand for an industry-university project, which includes talents training in research, design, management, and manufacturing. Contract signing ceremony was held earlier today with the chairman of Tatung Thailand Co., Mr. M.Y. Hsieh, and the president of Eastern Technological College of Thailand, Dr....

The Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., world’s largest EMS (electronic manufacturing service) provider by size and a major OLED supplier for iPhone, is seeing a positive turnout in the investment in the U.S. It is forecasted that Hon Hai, with the market being positive about the company’s plan to invest in the U.S., would enjoy a steady growth as the revenue of the products lik...

Thanks to increasingly strong market demand for LED products worldwide, Taiwan’s LED industry has experienced significant recovery during the first half of this year, with insiders generally scoring encouraging performance and expected to maintain the current growth momentum into the third quarter. Among them, Epistar Corp., reportedly world’s largest manufacturer of LED epitaxial wafers and d...

Despite the exacerbating supply glut and growing underselling rivalry which has seriously dampened the global LED industry since last year, Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., a large-sized LED packager and branded vendor of LED lighting, remains optimistic about the prospects of the LED lighting market in the short term, stressed Robert Yeh, the firm’s chairman, at an investor conferen...

With global governments actively promoting LEDs as the light source for various lighting applications, the global market size of LED industrial lighting will near US$3 billion in 2016, according to a report by LEDinside, an LED market research unit under TrendForce, Taiwan-based market intelligence and consulting service provider. The report shows that the global market for LED industrial ligh...

Lighting maker Tons Lightology Inc. projects its revenue for 2016 to increase at double-digit rate year-on-year thanks to ambitious marketing plans, according to company chairman, S.C. Tang. He says after having secured a stable market share in Taiwan last year, his company will step up sales in the mainland Chinese market this year as its top priority before making a foray into the Japanese m...