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Soraa Challenges the LED World

| Energy Management, LED, Sustainability
February 9, 2012

In 2007, Soraa’s founders made a bet on an LED technology platform completely different than current industry practice, a technology most industry experts at the time considered to be impossible to execute. They bet on Gallium Nitride substrates for LEDs, or GaN on GaN™ LEDs rather than sapphire in its...
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Tagged Bulb, Gallium Nitride, Halogen, LED, Lighting, Soraa
Lower Maintenance Costs Driving LED Sales

| Electrical, Energy Management, LED, Sustainability
January 19, 2012

Bulbs built around light-emitting diodes last 10 times longer than conventional bulbs. What does this mean for companies? According to the Wall Street Journal it’s the decrease in maintenance costs, rather than energy savings that will have large corporations spending big money on LED bulbs. No more ladders blocking frozen-food...
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Tagged Bulb, CFL, incandescent, LED, light-emitting diodes, lower maintenance costs, retrofitting
Nutrition Label for Lights

| LED
October 28, 2011

There’s a new label on light bulb packaging that’s user friendly….no really, it’s true. It’s easy to consider switching to energy efficient bulbs such as LEDs the next time your exisitng one goes out but trying to figure out which bulb is best for the job is challenging and time...
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Tagged Bulb, energy costs, energy efficient bulbs, LED, lumens, mercury, wattage