The conversion to LED lighting is happening everywhere, and hazardous environment facilities like oil rigs and heavy manufacturing are no exception. Designing LED lighting systems for these environments poses a special challenge in making sure that the products hold up under extreme temperatures and exposure to highly corrosive airborne chemicals. So what makes a successful hazardous-environment LED lighting product? To find out, I asked John Peck, Dialight’s VP of Engineering. Dialight began its foray into LED lighting with panel indicators, and now offers a full line of LED lighting for hazardous environments.

Samsung has decided to stop pushing its light emitting diode business outside of South Korea, despite reckoning it would be a growth area a few years ago.

Like Philips, Sammy has realised that LED is not, after all, where it’s at, and it will be shutting the unit down overseas.

Philips recently announced it would be spinning off the majority of its lighting business, which has been around for over a hundred years, into a separate company. The firm is only hanging onto large, complex lighting systems, spinning LEDs off after a price war in the sector left profit margins looking a bit slim.