By MICHELLE HSU From typhoons and floods to global warming, Mother Nature is making her ire over ecological destruction felt with increasing intensity. Countries around the world are heeding the message with redoubled attention to environmental protection, increasingly in the form of green building design. The green movement has spread to a range of product categories that now balance the pul...

Robert Yeh, chairman of LED maker Everlight Electronic Co., Ltd., announced at the company’s Jan. 19 yearend banquet that its earnings for 2014 will be better than 2013’s estimate of NT$3.5 per share while projecting the company’s revenue for 2014 to rise 25% year on year. According to the LED packager's executives, major growth drivers for the company’s 2014 revenue are LED lighting, LED inf...

Taiwan regained the global lead as LED-components supplier in 2013 with estimated revenue of US$4.8 billion, up 5% from 2012’s US$4.6 billion, according to the nonprofit Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association (PIDA) of Taiwan. The association recently released its study of the global photonics industry, which encompassed photovoltaic, image sensor & optical I/O device, optical-fi...

Both Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. and Epistar Corp. saw their 2013 revenue surge past the NT$20 billion (US$666.6 million) mark to hit new highs, with December revenues topping expectations. Everlight, the world’s No.1 LED packager by volume, had revenue of NT$24.6 billion (US$823 million) by the end of 2013, up 29.58% year on year. Although the company’s revenue for the fourth quarter c...

Bright forecasts for the LED lighting market in 2014 have inspired LED makers LiteOn Technology Corp., Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., and Epistar Corp. to ramp up promotions of competitive products. According to market consultant LEDinside, an estimated 1.3 billion LED lamps will be shipped worldwide in 2014, up 68% from 2013. The Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK) of Taiwan governm...

Looking back at the development of the LED industries in Taiwan and China throughout 2013, industry executives generally paint a picture of the Law of the Jungle, with restructuring taking the form of big players encroaching on territories of weaker competitors, similar players banding against primary competitors, and struggling manufacturers choosing to exit. Market consultant LEDinside feels...

With Cree cutting prices of its 60W and 40W replacement LED bulbs by at least 70% as of November 2013 from the same month of 2007, Taiwan’s LED bulb makers are struggling to follow suit to shore up shipment volume, sparking buzz that in 2014 household LED lamps will become major revenue generator for them. Industry executives say the island’s LED makers involved in bulb manufacturing include p...

Lighting-fixture heavyweights in the United States and Europe searching for LED chips in Asia to offset inadequate in-house LED device productions are approaching Taiwanese maker Epistar Corp., the world’s No.1 blue-chip maker by quantity. Acuity, Cooper, Hubbell, and Philips together command half of the North American lighting fixture market. Acuity, Cooper, and Hubbell do not have in-house ...

C.F. Lin, chairman of the Cross-Strait Lighting Committee of the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA), recently brightened up a committee meeting by making such comments as “The lighting business is better in 2013 than in 2012”; “Almost every Taiwanese manufacturer in this line has grown this year”; and “LED lighting still has 15 years of space for development.” These statements ref...

The “Temple of Light,” a result of collaboration between Tainan City Government’s Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Coretronic Culture and Arts Foundation (CCAF), formally lit up in mid-September, 2013 year after two years of planning and preparation. The Temple of Light is actually the historic Wind God Temple, the only shrine in Tainan devoted primarily to the worship of the Wind God, transfo...