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Long time no Blog

By Ian Bryant on April 23, 2009 9:48 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Not sure where the time has been going the last few months but all we hear is the downturn in business and business closing down, well I have to say that from my side I see that the LED market did take a dip in the first 2 months this year but since then we have been going flat out. The orders and enquires are pouring in and times look to be really good going forward.

We at Carclo have re-organised ourselves and the LED team is now a standalone group within Carclo and this has meant changes in the way we work with the group as now they are our suppliers of the moulded optics, this means we are in the process of increasing our capacity and will have a number of production sites worldwide manufacturing our optics.

This will be a benefit to our customers in we will have even better local support and supply.

We have also been busy at shows with Strategies in Light being the start of the year and LightFair next month closely followed by EuroLED in the UK.

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Site update: Inlustra starts nonpolar GaN production

By Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com on April 15, 2009 11:27 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Just to flag a story on an LED-related development.

Inlustra Technologies, a spin-out from the gallium nitride (GaN) research laboratories at the University of California at Santa Barbara, said it has started to fill orders for its nonpolar and semipolar GaN substrates. The company's materials are aimed at the blue and green light-emitting diode (LED) and laser markets.
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