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Industry news4 February 2019

Horticultural LED Advances

LED solutions for horticultural facilities is booming and is now the future for indoor plant and algae growth. The Lighting Magazine talks further about the benefits and requirements in detail.

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Media18 April 2018

Lighting with LED |What Happens when Lighting isn't just about Lighting?

Associate Electrical & Lighting Engineer – Caitlyn Young, discusses the recent installation of Empyrean’s Andromeda LED lights at the Wynnum Manly District Cricket training facility.

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Industry news18 January 2018

LED Lighting Cuts Carbon Dioxide Emissions

The use of LEDs to illuminate buildings and outdoor spaces reduced the total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of lighting by an estimated 570 million tons in 2017 (equivalent to shutting down 162 coal-fired power plants)!

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Media3 November 2017

Sunshine Coast Export Showcase 2017-2018

The Sunshine Coast offers a winning combination of location advantages including a low cost of doing business, diverse economic resource, government support and investment opportunities.

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Media10 October 2017

How to share in the Kawana health precinct boom

Fuelled by the new Sunshine Coast University Hospital and its associated health precinct, the population of the Wurtulla-Bundilla area is expected to nearly double in the next 25 years.

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Industry news26 September 2017

LED Sports Lighting is taking over!

Floodlighting stadiums for the world of televised sports may be glamorous but not many of us are lucky enough to have the opportunity.

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Media16 June 2017

Lights, Camera, Action for Nationally Televised Netball Stadium

The Sunshine Coast Lightning’s home performances in the inaugural season of the Suncorp Super Netball tournament are being illuminated by 76 highly efficient LED lights installed at USC Stadium, enabling the Lightning’s home games to be broadcast to a national TV audience.

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Industry news18 January 2017

Why CRI Should Never Be Used in Efficacy Calculations

Light sources that can provide the many benefits expected from lighting at a lower electric power should be formally encouraged or regulated by governments. But some policies that modify or patch efficacy guidelines with a color rendering index (CRI) requirement intended to ensure quality of light are fundamentally flawed. This article will explain how a revised look at the definition of the lumen could yield simple regulatory metrics that ensure efficient and quality light.

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Industry news18 January 2017

Smart Lighting Solutions Illuminating the Streets

Every urban city across the globe is transforming to becoming a smart city, offering a better quality of life to its residents. The concept of a smart city percolates to different divisions within an ecosystem – from infrastructure to mobility; healthcare to education; city services to lighting.

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News16 January 2017

LED Warranties - What you need to know!

Being relatively new technology, within the general lighting industry at least, LEDs seem to have a new qualifying parameter or feature monthly. Developments in the quality and performance of lamps and luminaires have always garnished a bit of hype, but as this playing ground gets more and more level the sales focus has shifted to “intangibles” – and of late, warranty has been playing a bigger role that ever before.

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News16 September 2016

Questions Everyone Should be Asking their LED Supplier

I’ve seen a lot of consumer guides on the internet which give “mom and dad” advice on selecting quality LED products for their home. These guides are often regurgitation’s from the Department of Energy recommendations in the States or from other consumer advocacy groups. While helpful, there is not quite as much at stake when purchasing a handful of $10 LED globes when compared to replacing a few hundred 400W Metal Halides in a warehouse.

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Media12 April 2016

Birtinya Firm Lights the World Through Export Market

Expanding their horizons beyond Australian markets has made business brighter for Birtinya-based Empyrean Lighting.

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Media19 January 2016

Empyrean's New Canadian Agent - Prolux Lighting

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Media4 November 2015

Empyrean Lighting Announced as Award Finalists

Empyrean Lighting is delighted to be named as finalists for this year’s Sunshine Coast Business Awards in three categories – Export, Building & Manufacturing and Innovation.

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Media11 May 2015

Empyrean Featured as a Local Entrepreneurial Company

We are very proud to call the Sunshine Coast home for Empyrean Lighting. As you will read in the attached article, it’s a perfect place to found and headquarter entrepreneurial ventures.

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Industry news4 February 2015

Jufei Opto Signs White LED Patent License

Jufei Opto recently announced it had signed a strategic white LED patent license agreement with Toyoda Gosei’s Shanghai arm.

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News15 December 2014

Corona™ LED Panels

Troffers, troffers, everywhere!! They literally have companies pulling out their hair!!

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Industry news30 May 2014

Electricity bills set to rise about $200 per year

Power prices are set to rise by about another $200 a year, writes Amy Remeikis, for the Brisbane Times. The average Queensland power bill will rise by 13.6 per cent next financial year, equating to around $192 per year.

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Industry news21 May 2014

Cree launches 200lm/W, 1226lm discrete LED

Cree has announced the new XLamp XP-L LED family, promising that what the company calls a member of its high-density grouping of LEDs will provide a drop-in upgrade for lighting products that use the prior XP-G/G2 LEDs.

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Media29 April 2014

QLD Company pushing the LED lighting limits

Sunshine Coast firm Empyrean Lighting showcased their latest technologies at the annual Total Facilities Expo in Melbourne in early March. Empyrean brought fresh ideas and innovation to the table to impress buyers shopping to fit-out commercial projects.

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News18 March 2014

Why You SHOULDN'T Buy an LED High Bay

If you’re shaking your head at the moment, I don’t blame you. The above statement is logic which escapes consumers and LED manufacturers alike- including Empyrean Lighting once!

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Industry news13 February 2014

Surface-emissive OLED Panels Mature Slowely

Over the past year, manufacturers of OLED panels have improved color performance and lifetime, but as Maury Wright reports, high cost remains an issue that limits the technology to niche applications.

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News3 February 2014

How Cheap LED's Actually Cost You Money

Save a bit of $$$ up front on “average” LED lamp technology and it could cost you in the long run. With so many LED options on the market it’s easy to get caught up in the junk.

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Media1 February 2014

LED Panels | Corona Up Down

Empyrean Lighting’s LED Corona panels have added a brand new product – an Up/Down Panel. Newly released on the market, the up/down panels gives you the best of both worlds by emitting 90% of its light downwards and the remaining 10% upwards.

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News21 January 2014

LED Technology - Why Should I Care?

In a nutshell LED lamps and luminaires are more efficient, greener, and safer than traditional technologies (such as incandescent, fluorescent, and halogen).

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Media30 December 2013

LED Spotlights are Back! | Empyrean Lighting at Birtinya

With 425 lumens, using just 7watts of power and able to work with every transformer/dimmer combination – Empyrean Lighting has created an unbeatable LED spotlight.

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Industry news10 December 2013

Quantum Dot Technology Progresses

Ken Marrin reports that quantum dots are poised to unleash high-color-gamut performance in LCDs, especially in TV applications, as materials manufacturers work through reliability, cost, and lifetime issues.

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Media18 September 2013

Breakthrough in LED Medical Luminaires

Detecting cyanosis is a challenge for hospital medical staff and Empyrean Lighting has found a way to integrate LED technology to improve its early detection leading to improved response time for treatment.

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Media7 September 2013

Bondi Beach gets an "LED makeover"

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Industry news2 February 2012

Are you using all of the lumens that you paid for?

The latest LEDs can reliably operate at drive currents well above binning currents, delivering more lumens and robust luminaire life while lowering system cost, explain David Cox, Don Hirsh, and Michael McClintic.

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