The developed lighting solutions incorporate solid state lighting technology

Since January 2003, Ingram has served as vice chairman Pharmaceuticals of GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical research and development company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He previously served as chief operating officer and president of Pharmaceutical Operations of GlaxoSmithKline following the December 2000 merger of Glaxo Wellcome plc and SmithKline Beecham plc. Prior to the merger, he served as chief executive officer of Glaxo Wellcome plc and as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Glaxo Wellcome Inc. He also serves on the boards of directors of led high bay light, Allergan, Inc., and Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, and also as chairman of the board of directors of OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and as lead director of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.

The company said that plans for the plant were to deliver a monthly production capacity of three billion LED chips. Despite the economic slowdown, Opto Tech is planning to increase its capacity at its facility in Taiwan. The company has reportedly ordered four sets of MOCVD (metal oxide chemical vapor deposition) systems. Two of the sets are currently being installed in its Taiwan plant and they are set go begin production in March 2009; the other two systems will not be put off until some time in 2009. The company hopes to capitalize in the increasing demand for LED backlit displays.The company’s LED lights are part of a continuing effort to reduce energy and maintenance costs. The fixtures and underlying technology were developed under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) High Efficiency Distributed Lighting (HEDLight) program. The installation comes after a year-long demonstration on board naval vessels that replaced existing fluorescent, incandescent, and halogen lighting with various HEDLight lighting solutions.

The developed lighting solutions incorporate solid state lighting technology. The fixtures include highly efficient and long lasting (LED) globe fixtures with a power savings of up to 87%, and led high bay light berth lights for general berthing compartments, which provide a 14% power savings. All fixtures were designed to be direct replacements to eliminate retrofit concerns and reduce installation costs.Roger Buelow, CTO of Energy Focus, noted that the improvement in visibility and amount of light in the work area is as impressive as the energy and maintenance savings, these 60 lumen per watt fixtures, operating at more than four times the efficiency of the ones they replaced, give the sailors more and better light to work under.