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The company is one of the largest domestic U. S. facilities to offer customized LED products, with all design, manufacturing, and device testing, performed in-house. Opto Diode can adjust the output, the angle of emission, wavelength (from 365 nm all the way out to 940 nm) packaging, and the way the LEDs are tested, depending on customer requirements.
According to Russ Dahl, director of sales and marketing at Opto Diode, “In response to numerous customer requests, we are pleased to announce our new capability of producing customized light- emitting diodes, with operating wavelengths from ultraviolet (UV) to the infrared (IR). High quality, military and/or industrial grade LEDs can be built and tested in-house to fulfill spec requirements, to ensure that the devices are exactly the way the customer wants. No other custom LED manufacturer in the U.S. has this capability, with this wide of a spectral range.”
From high output, to industrial grade LEDs, Opto Diode offers custom and standard LED products for military, aerospace, medical, and scientific communities. Applications include airfield lighting, curing, fluorescence, machine vision, visual inspection (NDT) and microscopy.
Opto Diode Corporation based in Newbury Park, California, is a division of ITW, delivering high- performance, standard and custom photodetectors, and reliable, high quality infrared LEDs and visible LEDs. The company’s domestic U. S. manufacturing plant includes a wafer fab and ensures delivery of volume quantities at competitive prices with short lead times.
The firm supplies to a variety of industries, including test & measurement, biotechnology, medical, entertainment, military/defense, industrial, aerospace, automotive, and R&D.
The ITW Photonics Group was created to bring together and build on the technical expertise of individual companies that specialize in photonics technology and span the full spectrum of wavelengths. The group consists of: Lumex - LED and LCD technology; Cal Sensors - IR Detector and Emitter technology; and, Opto Diode Corp - LED, Silicon Photodiodes and Electro-Optical Assembly technology.
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www.compoundsemiconductor.net January / February 2011
Shenzhen Kaifa, Epistar, Evertop & Country Lighting To Push LEDs Forward
The joint venture will engage in the research, manufacture and sale of light emitting diode (LED) wafers, chips, source modules, light sources and lighting with a total investment amount of $160 million.
Shenzhen Kaifa Technology, a subsidiary of Great Wall Technology, has entered into a joint venture (JV) agreement with Epistar JV Holding (BVI), Evertop (Fujian) Optoelectronics and Country Lighting (BVI) (together with other JV Parties).
All the partners are based in China, except Evertop and Country Lighting, which are incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.
Epistar and Country Lighting are investment holding companies, while Evertop is a designer and manufacturer of LED related components and modules, and Great Wall Technology is a manufacturer of computer parts.
The new JV company, KFES Lighting Co., Ltd., is engaged in the research, manufacture and sale of light emitting diode (LED) wafer, LED chips, LED light source modules, LED light source and LED lighting and provision of after-sales services, with a registered capital of $120 million and total investment amount of $160 million.
Under the terms of the JV agreement, Great Wall Kaifa, Epistar, Evertop and Country Lighting will own 44%, 40%, 9% and 7% stakes, respectively, in the JV, by making a capital injection of $52.8 million, $48 million, $10.8 million and $8.4 million, respectively. It is expected that the capital investment by Great Wall Kaifa will be funded by its internal resources.
The registered capital of KFES will be contributed as capital injection by the JV parties in two stages in cash.
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