A Burger King restaurant in Germany has adopted energy-efficient LED lighting from Everlight Electronics, for use in parking lots and for indoor applications.

Burger King has equipped its first energy-efficient restaurant, opened in early June in Waghäusel, Germany, with LED lighting from Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. [TSE:2393].

LED lights in Burger King parking lot

The new eco-friendly restaurant design adopted by Burger King utilizes state-of the-art technologies, while renewable energy provides one-third of the restaurant’s energy consumption.

Lighting plays a key role; long-lasting interior and exterior LED bulbs save more than 55 percent of energy consumption annually compared to traditional lighting methods.

SL-Dolphin lighting pattern

Outdoor

The parking area is illuminated by six 60W SL-Dolphin street lights in neutral white with Phoenix lighting pattern (see chart) featuring a luminous flux of ca. 6000 lm and a color temperature of 5000 K. The asymmetric wide-view angle ensures high uniformity at pole heights of 6-8m and therefore is ideally suited for parking and roadway applications, says Everlight.

Existing Everlight SL-Dolphin lights are now being shipped with a patented electronic ballast—developed and produced—in Germany that has various dimming options, a life span up to eight times compared to other LED street light solutions or conventional street lights, a high-temperature protection mechanism and an efficiency of 93 percent.

Interior lamps use Everlight’s A-Lamp

Indoor

The restaurant’s guest area is equipped with red interior lights in Italian design using Everlight’s A-Lamp replacement LED lamp as the light source. This implementation, realized by German company E2, features a high uniformity of illumination due to the A-Lamp’s glare-free light distribution.

The eight LEDs cannot be seen from the outside, resulting in a pleasant lighting effect resembling that of a frosted light bulb. The A-Lamp’s power consumption of 7.5 W is more than 50 percent less than the 18W of an energy-saving lamp with a comparable luminance.

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Borealis LED products protect us and our surroundings by eliminating the damaging UV and IR radiation associated with traditional lighting. There is no warm-up time, with instant-on full light output, no flickering and constant, stable color. Designed with dimming capabilities and able to fit into standard fixtures, Borealis has simplified the migration to LED lighting.

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Leading Distributor Offering PolyBrite’s Borealis® LED Lamps
Chestnut Ridge, NY. – Tuesday, June 29, 2010 – Millennium Visual Systems today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with PolyBrite International, Inc., manufacturer of Borealis® LED Lamps and Lighting Systems. Millennium is adding the new line of Borealis products to their existing portfolio of LED lighting technology solutions. The company is an established national supplier of both indoor and outdoor LED lighting solutions.

Millennium will offer the new Borealis® line of LED lamps including patented A19, B10, PAR38, R20, MR16, T8, Panel and Street Lights, High and Low Bay lighting in a variety of color temperatures. The Borealis brand utilizes PolyBrite’s proprietary polymer technology, and achieves maximum brightness, unparalleled performance, and unrivaled light quality. The Borealis line is designed with dimming capabilities and fit into standard fixtures.

Borealis® LED products consume up to 90% less energy than traditional lighting with no radiant heat or Ultraviolet Rays (UV). Providing at least 50,000 hours of operation, Borealis lamps are virtually unbreakable and shock resistant resulting is a significant reduction on energy consumption, maintenance and recycling cost without compromising the quality of light and the environment.

“Our customers will now have the option of using a safe lighting alternative to environmentally taxing Incandescent and Fluorescent lighting.” said Dave Goldberg, Chief Operating Officer of Millennium Visual Systems. “Our agreement with PolyBrite follows our company’s ongoing commitment to earth conscious practices.” Mr. Goldberg further noted that “At Millennium we are deeply committed to providing earth friendly, energy efficient products to promote living a “green” lifestyle.”

“PolyBrite is delighted to appoint Millennium as a stocking distributor for Borealis® LED products. Our agreement strengthens our distribution channels within the lighting industry,” said Carl Scianna, President and CEO for PolyBrite International. “Millennium will stock Borealis products in-house, and provide customers with their highly regarded customer service when purchasing PolyBrite’s Borealis LED products.”

About Millennium Visual Systems: Headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, NJ with business operations in Chestnut Ridge, NY, Millennium Visual Systems designs, produces, sells, and services electronic signs, programmable displays, LED bulbs and emergency lighting that is widely used in government, schools, hospitals, offices, factories, restaurants and retail businesses. Millennium is nationally known for their reputation of delivering quality, reliable products, supported by a high level of professionalism to ensure customer satisfaction. For more information on Millennium’s line of LED products call (845) 356-4100 or visit at www.millenniumvisuals.com, Facebook, Twitter, or Linkedin.

About PolyBrite International: PolyBrite International, Inc. has established itself as an innovative global LED lighting technology company since 1995. PolyBrite designs, develops and maintains complete control in manufacturing solid-state lighting products, creating LED lamps, Street Lighting, Panel and Tube Lighting and complete Signage lighting systems under its Borealis® Lighting brand. The Borealis brand of products utilizes PolyBrite’s proprietary polymer technology and patent pending designs, bringing the energy efficiency, environmental sustainability and economic advantages of LED technology to the marketplace. More information on PolyBrite’s Borealis brand of products is available on the Internet at www.polybrite.com or www.borealislighting.com or by calling 1-800-320-3801.

Leading Distributor Offering PolyBrite’s Borealis® LED Lamps
Naperville, IL. – Tuesday, June 29, 2010 – PolyBrite International, Inc., manufacturer of Borealis® LED Lamps and Lighting Systems today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Millennium Visual Systems. Millennium is adding the new line of Borealis products to their existing portfolio of LED lighting technology solutions. The company is an established national supplier of both indoor and outdoor LED lighting solutions.

Millennium will offer the new Borealis® line of LED lamps including patented A19, B10, PAR38, R20, MR16, T8, Panel and Street Lights, High and Low Bay lighting in a variety of color temperatures. The Borealis brand utilizes PolyBrite’s proprietary polymer technology, and achieves maximum brightness, unparalleled performance, and unrivaled light quality. The Borealis line is designed with dimming capabilities and fit into standard fixtures.

Borealis® LED products consume up to 90% less energy than traditional lighting with no radiant heat or Ultraviolet Rays (UV). Providing at least 50,000 hours of operation, Borealis lamps are virtually unbreakable and shock resistant resulting is a significant reduction on energy consumption, maintenance and recycling cost without compromising the quality of light and the environment.

“PolyBrite is delighted to appoint Millennium as a stocking distributor for Borealis® LED products. Our agreement strengthens our distribution channels within the lighting industry,” said Carl Scianna, President and CEO for PolyBrite International. “Millennium will stock Borealis products in-house, and provide customers with their highly regarded customer service when purchasing PolyBrite’s Borealis LED products.”

“Our customers will now have the option of using a safe lighting alternative to environmentally taxing Incandescent and Fluorescent lighting.” said Dave Goldberg, Chief Operating Officer of Millennium Visual Systems. “Our agreement with PolyBrite follows our company’s ongoing commitment to earth conscious practices.” Mr. Goldberg further noted that “At Millennium we are deeply committed to providing earth friendly, energy efficient products to promote living a “green” lifestyle.”

About PolyBrite International: PolyBrite International, Inc. has established itself as an innovative global LED lighting technology company since 1995. PolyBrite designs, develops and maintains complete control in manufacturing solid-state lighting products, creating LED lamps, Street Lighting, Panel and Tube Lighting and complete Signage lighting systems under its Borealis® Lighting brand. The Borealis brand of products utilizes PolyBrite’s proprietary polymer technology and patent pending designs, bringing the energy efficiency, environmental sustainability and economic advantages of LED technology to the marketplace. More information on PolyBrite’s Borealis brand of products is available on the Internet at www.polybrite.com or www.borealislighting.com or by calling 1-800-320-3801.

About Millennium Visual Systems: Headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, NJ with business operations in Chestnut Ridge, NY, Millennium Visual Systems designs, produces, sells, and services electronic signs, programmable displays, LED bulbs and emergency lighting that is widely used in government, schools, hospitals, offices, factories, restaurants and retail businesses. Millennium is nationally known for their reputation of delivering quality, reliable products, supported by a high level of professionalism to ensure customer satisfaction. For more information on Millennium’s line of LED products call (845) 356-4100 or visit at www.millenniumvisuals.com, Facebook, Twitter, or Linkedin.

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For more information contact:
Tula Kareotes, Marketing Coordinator
PolyBrite International
630-717-6700
tula@polybrite.com
www.polybrite.com

Megan Sheehan, Creative Director
Millennium Visual Systems
845-356-4100
ms@millenniumvisuals.com
www.millenniumvisuals.com

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS — Elected officials have green lit a project that would install an LED sign in the community to inform residents about emergencies and other announcements.

However, the proposed sign would violate Borough ordinances, according to Mayor Joseph Parisi, Jr.

The sign is 3 feet, 10 inches high by 7 feet, 10 inches wide, according to Dave Goldberg of Millennium Visual Systems.

Parisi fears that if the ordinances were changed, local businesses would want to put large signs of their own.

“I would vehemently ask the council not to change the sign ordinance because then every commercial property and everyone else can turn around and say, ‘I want one!’” he said. “The other option is you go in front of the Board of Adjustment and ask for a variance.”

Councilwoman Carroll McMorrow, a supporter of the sign, said she is willing to do what it takes to get the sign up, and stressed to the council that they should not pass up on the opportunity.

“I just think it’s such a wonderful idea in today’s time to be given an opportunity to get something like this to benefit the residents,” she said. “It’s transparency, it’s openness in government and it’s getting the word out there faster.”

The mayor disagreed.

“To me, it’s a waste of our money, a waste of our resources and it takes the beauty away from Englewood Cliffs,” Parisi said.

The majority of the sign’s $19,000 price tag comes from two grants awarded by Mid-Bergen Regional Health Commission for $14,000.

McMorrow said LG Electronics is willing to sponsor the remaining $5,000 for the purchase.

The deadline to accept and use the grant money is the end of July.

Officials were able to test a sign out. A demonstration display was lent to the Borough and temporarily displayed in front of the Ambulance Corps building on Hudson Terrace.

However, finding a permanent location may be a problem.

“We don’t have a downtown central location like these other towns do,” said Councilman Ilan Plawker. “We talked about electronic signs over the years many, many times and each time we come to the same decision. We don’t have one location that lends itself to where a majority of people in town could see it.”

Plawker suggested using the grant money to improve communication in the Borough in a different way – creating and updating the Borough website.

“It seems to me that a website developer and maintaining that website for Englewood Cliffs would serve the community a lot better than a sign on Hudson Terrace,” Plawker said. “The fact of the matter is the town sorely needs a website reaching out to the whole community.”

The government is working with Millennium Visual Systems, an LED electronic sign and programmable display company based in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y.

Mid-Bergen contacted McMorrow, the Board of Health liaison, a couple of months ago to inform her that Englewood Cliffs is one of five municipalities to receive a $12,000 grant. She was informed of the additional $2,000 at a later date.

“I was very excited to hear that because there are only certain communities chosen, and Englewood Cliffs was one of them,” McMorrow said. “If we do not use that money, we will lose that money.”

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Article From NorthJersey.com

Recognizing that catastrophic failure of electronics in an LED luminaire is a concern, the DOE recommends a new way to account for such failures in addition to the widely used L and B specifications.

LED luminaires are extremely complex relative to legacy lighting technologies and the industry has struggled with an accurate way to rate the lifetime of such solid-state-lighting (SSL) products. The DOE has published a new recommendation for testing and reporting LED luminaire lifetime that accounts both for failure attributable to declining light output or lumen maintenance, and to catastrophic failure of the luminaire.

The new “LED Luminaire Lifetime: Recommendations for Testing and Reporting” guide recommends that luminaire makers specify an F rating for catastrophic failures – for example F10 at 30,000 hours would imply that 10% of the luminaires in a given population would fail catastrophically by 30,000 hours of usage.

DOE Lighting Program Manager Jim Brodrick mentioned the report in his weekly Postings newsletter writing, “Longevity is considered one of SSL’s major advantages over traditional lighting technologies, and manufacturers are quite naturally touting it as a big selling point. But the topic is extremely complicated.” Indeed both LED manufacturers and luminaire makers need a way to accurately define lifetime. Moreover, buyers need accurate information to justify SSL purchases and calculate accurate payback windows.

The new recommendation builds on the L and B ratings that originated with Philips Lumileds. First lumen maintenance was defined with a figure such as L70 at 50,000 hours implying that an SSL product would decline to 70% of its initial light output after 50,000 hours of usage – essentially reaching the end of its useful life. The B figure was added such that L70/B50 at 50,000 hours implies that 50% of a population of lights reach the L70 point in 50,000 hours.

The L and B specifications were first targeted at lumen maintenance at the LED component level. LED brightness can decline based on age, drive current, and operating temperature. Indeed, LED makers such as Philips provide L and B specifications relative to current and temperature.

Shortest of L/B and F specifications is figure of merit for lifetime rating

Luminaire makers must provide fixture level specifications based on the entire system. The L and B luminaire ratings must account for lumen maintenance and for catastrophic failure of one or more individual LEDs. Luminaire designs based on arrays of LEDs can suffer individual LED failures without falling below an L70 spec.

L and B ratings at the luminaire level have not accounted for catastrophic failures. Such failures would not likely be due to LED failure but rather to failed drive electronics, failed solder joint or other problem. A simple component such as an electrolytic capacitor can cause a catastrophic failure.

The DOE recommendation actually identifies 12 reliability considerations that could contribute to a catastrophic failure lifetime rating including electrical connections, printed circuit boards, thermal elements, the drive electronics and more. The F rating should account for all of the considerations.

The DOE further recommends that luminaire makers choose the shortest life rating between L/B and F specifications as the one used in a luminaire lifetime rating. For example, if a luminaire L70/B50 point is 50,000 hours and the F10 point is 40,000 hours then the luminaire maker should report a lifetime of 40,000 hours.

The new report was developed by a working group under the guidance of the DOE SSL Quality Advocates program. The group was formed jointly by the DOE and the Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance. This work follows the earlier “Reporting LED Luminaire Product Performance” report that led to the Lighting Facts label.

Of course defining a way to specify lifetime still doesn’t solve the inexact science of determining actual numbers. As Brodrick noted in his newsletter, products rated for 50,000 hours can’t be actually tested in real time. And the fast-paced SSL industry will result in new components, drive electronics, and other changes long before a single product makes it through a six-year, 50,000-hour deployment. So luminaire and LED makers must extrapolate the lifetime ratings.

Ledon supplies Langenegg with retrofit LED lamps at cost to help the municipality provide its citizens with the e5 Energy Box

The municipality of Langenegg won an EUR 8,000 prize in an Austria-wide competition called “Austria’s Climate Protection Municipality 2009.” The city will use the funds to provide its citizens with an e5 Energy Box that includes a CFL energy-saving lamp, a switchable plug, an ammeter, and a LEDON led retrofit lamp that Ledon supplied at cost to show support for the energy saving initiative.

“We are at the same time very happy and proud to provide our residents with this e5 Energy Box put together with the help of the prize money. Due to the innovative technology of Ledon LED lamps, it is particularly easy for everyone to contribute one’s share in reducing energy costs and increasing energy efficiency,“ says Georg Moosbrugger, mayor of Langenegg.

The Ledon LED lamp is a 6W replacement for a 40W incandescent lamp. It is 30% more efficient than a CFL and runs 85% more efficient than an incandescent light bulb. Moreover, the LED lamp has no warm up time, is dimmable, and contains no mercury allowing for easy recycling.

The e5 program is dedicated to sustainable energy across the state of Voralberg in Austria. There are 30 different municipalities that participate including Langenegg. Each municipality has its own e5 energy team, and the Langenegg team put together the e5 Energy Box that citizens can pick up for free at the town hall. The team also supplies citizens with information on minimizing energy usage.

The Climate Protection Municipality program is an annual competition sponsored jointly by the Verbund electrical utility, the Austrian Association of Municipalities, and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management. The 2010 program is now underway.

A new packaging company will target the LED-backlit TV market, with operations based in JiangSu Province, China.

LED-packaging specialists Everlight Electronics has announced its intention to launch a new company focused on LEDs for TV backlights with partners LG Display and Amtran Technology. The joint venture will be capitalized with $30 million, will be based in WeJiang City, JiangSu Province, China, and plans to start mass production by year’s end.

The joint venture will enter the LED backlight market at a time of high demand. Just last week, analyst iSuppli reaffirmed its belief that a shortage of LEDs for TV applications would persist through this year. The firm projects shipment of large-sized LCD panels with LED backlights to reach 276.7 million this year with the number growing to 477.6 million units in 2011 and 817.9 million units by 2014.

Jointly, the three partners in the new venture have shared experience relative to all key aspects of LED-backlit LCD TV technologies. Taiwan-based Everlight has deep experience in LED packaging. Korea-based LG Display is one of the leading manufacturers of thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD panels for TVs, monitors, and notebook computers.

Amtran technology is a contract manufacturer of computer monitors and TVs based in Taipei, Taiwan. The company has a close partnership with Vizio and in fact owns a stake in the company that was the market leader for TVs in the US for 2009.

The companies believe that their shared experience will enable the yet-to-be-named venture to rapidly offer state-of-the art LEDs for the backlight market.