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Energy-efficient LED lamps for Sri Lanka fishermen 2010-06-30


The team reported its results in Electronics Letters (volume 46, p. 787).


Formosa Epitaxy to expand LED 2010-06-30


Formosa Epitaxy to raise capital for expanding LED capacity


According to a widely circulated report from Taiwan’s Digitimes, the Taiwan based maker of LED chips, Formosa Epitaxy is planning a major expansion of its LED capacity from 43 MOCVD sets to 81 by the end of 2010. According to the report the company plans to raise the capital by issuing up to 150 million shares with a view to a target of around US$ 162.6 million. An upcoming eholders meeting will discuss financing options before a decision is made. The new developments will occur in Taiwan and China.


There are a number of opportunities developing in Asia for the company, including the Chinese plan to move to LED street lighting and provide subsidies to help the process. The company feels that street lighting will be a major opportunity for LED makers whether subsidies develop or not. With growing markets in Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan there is enough local demand that the company feels the new capacity will be absorbed.


With other markets around the world starting to evolve and expand there will be many more opportunities for market growth.


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Infineon and OSRAM both champion the cause of sustainable development and environmental protection. In collaboration with the OSRAM partner network LED Light for you, the German company Diana Electronic Systems has developed an energy-efficient LED lamp for the Global Nature Fund to be used in Sri Lanka. Local fishermen will use the lamps instead of their environmentally harmful kerosene lamps when fishing at night.


There are 85,000 canoe fishermen in Sri Lanka, many of whom catch prawns in the mangrove swamps at night. The prawns are attracted by the light of the fishermen’s kerosene lamps and trapped in a complex system of baskets. While the prawns are fished sustainably, the kerosene lamps used by the fishermen pose a genuine environmental hazard. Leaking kerosene can pollute the water and spawning grounds; moreover, these lamps emit surprisingly large amounts of CO 2. The country’s 85,000 canoe fishermen burn roughly 100,000 litres of kerosene every night or 30 million litres per year, corresponding to 75,000 metric tonnes of CO 2 per year.


LED lamps for Sri Lanka:


Launched by the environment foundation Global Nature Fund, the project “Improving livelihoods of fishermen in Sri Lanka by introducing LED and compact fluorescent lamps for night fishing” aims to solve this problem. The environment foundation is sponsored by the Wuppertal-Institut, Dicota and Sika AG. Its objective is to promote the use of eco-friendly LED lamps for night fishing, as well as other forms of energy-efficient lighting in homes and public buildings. Supported by the LED Light for you (LLFY) partners OSRAM and Infineon, Diana Electronic has developed a robust, watertight, low-cost alternative to replace the fishermen’s kerosene lamps. The Global Nature Fund is distributing 100 of these


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