LED specialist 'lichtline' (27 employees, founded 2010) is in provisional insolvency. Administrator Peter Roeger of PLUTA is seeking an investor to take over the business. Operations and orders continue as usual. What makes an LED maker attractive to investors? #lighting #led

'Upgrade everything' isn't the only play. @UniofOxford studied 50 circular lighting projects: 36 cut energy, median 59.5%. Dublin Port Tunnel upgraded ~1,800 light points in existing infrastructure, saving an est. €3M. Replace or retrofit? #lighting #CircularEconomy

Curved OLEDs in a production car: the @AudiOfficial Q9 debuts 3D-curved digital OLED rear lights on 0.1 mm glass (200 mm radius), 512 segments across 6 panels. Up front: 25,600 micro-LEDs in ~13 mm. Lighting or exterior display? #OLED #AutomotiveLighting #MicroLED

LiFi in far-UVC: FBH_Berlin, @UniStrathclyde and @Cambridge_Uni reached a record 1.5 Gbit/s at <235 nm over 30 cm. Sunlight is almost absent there, which helps outdoor links. Optics, receiver or modulation: what would you push first for range? #lifi #uvc #led

The new LEDprofessional Review LpR 117 is out: Smart City Lighting 🏙️ With @amsOSRAM, @TALQ_Consortium, @ULSolutions, Zhaga, IEEE Smart Cities, @GoodLightGroup and Prague's Dvorecký Bridge. Download the full issue: link in comment #smartcity #smartlighting

Old louvres in, new luminaire profiles out, with no remelting. TRILUX and OTTO FUCHS won Platinum and Green at the Build Back Better Awards 2026 for "Louvres in the Loop". RCY profiles in silver, gold and black are now in customer pilots. #lighting #circularity #aluminium

What does your LED driver already know? @Tridonic's "Brighter Perspectives" webinar shows how GEN4 driver data supports design, troubleshooting and maintenance. With Klaus Mohr and Lewis Wassell. 21 Oct, 10:00 CEST, online events.teams.microsoft.com/e… #lighting #leddriver #webinar

A new sales playbook is coming to TRILUX: Carsten Beier becomes Chief Sales Officer on 1 October 2026, leading global sales. He brings leadership from RHEINZINK (CEO) and ~25 years at Sievert Group. Focus: market expansion, customer alignment, sales digitization. #lighting

OPmobility just paid 600B KRW for 100% of Hyundai Mobis' lighting unit — 2.5T KRW revenue, 5 plants across Korea, China, Mexico & Czechia. Closing H2 2027. What's the first integration move: manufacturing, customers, or roadmap? #OPmobility #AutomotiveLighting

IALD Enlighten Americas 2026 — "Into the Sunset" — Oct 15–17 in Austin, TX. Sessions on sustainability, lighting controls, net zero design, AI in lighting practice & circadian lighting. Keynote by Steve Lieberman on production design for clubs & festivals. #LightingDesign #IALD

EMC, RED, ENEC — all under one roof. @glamox_UK opened a new lab near its Dobczyce site in Poland, centralizing testing, research and compliance for building, marine and naval lighting. Features a SAC-3 EMC chamber and CTF Stage 3 status for ENEC cooperation. #lighting #EMC

Fraunhofer IPMS unveils a full-color RGBW OLED microdisplay on 28 nm CMOS: 2.52 × 2.52 µm² subpixels, up to 5040 PPI. Flexible frame-based/memory-based driving for video + ultra-efficient static images. Shown at Eurodisplay 2026. @FraunhoferIPMS #OLED #microdisplay

Cables off, microLEDs on. Avicena's live ECOC 2026 demo: a connectorized microLED optical link that detaches & reconnects mid-transmission — no external lasers. Built for AI scale-in/scale-up interconnect. @AvicenaTech #microLED #opticalinterconnect

CEO change at @Tridonic: Saurabh Pandhi takes over from Hugo Rohner as of 14 September 2026 — promoted from within the @zumtobelgroup, where he's led Thorn Lighting's global business since 2021. #Tridonic #SmartLighting