Specialty SSL

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Horticultural Lighting

Sollum enriches its variable spectra lighting system for horticulture

April 18, 2024
Enhancements to “SUN as a Service” aim at improved electricity management and recipe optimization. They’ll even keep the lights on when the utility might want to stop the flow...
Image courtesy of NASA via Flickr
Horticultural Lighting

New Space Station crew looking at yet more LED-based horticulture

March 11, 2024
Ultraviolet and algae are under investigation in Japanese and European chambers aboard the orbiting science lab.
Image courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Jessica Fontenette, via Flickr
Lighting for Health & Wellbeing

LEDs deter turtle snags on fishing nets

March 7, 2024
Flashing green lights brought down the “bycatch” rate by 42% in a Cypriot trial, preventing deaths.
Photo by Simon Daoudi on Unsplash
LEDs & SSL Design

Ams Osram readies a massive write-down for micro LEDs - UPDATED

March 1, 2024
The amount could approach $1 billion. After long and costly expenditures in Kulim, Malaysia, enough is enough as the company loses its strategic customer, believed to be Apple...
Image courtesy of Glamox AS
Architectural Lighting

Fish feed factory beats E.U. fluorescent ban by swapping LEDs into existing housing

Feb. 27, 2024
In a move that minimizes material waste, Mowi Feed installs retrofit kits from Norway’s Glamox.
Image courtesy of Messe Frankfurt GmbH
Architectural Lighting

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT | Light + Building 2024

Feb. 21, 2024
A selection of products highlighting trends at the Light + Building tradeshow in Frankfurt, Germany (March 3–8, 2024).