Frost & Sullivan Recognizes LUXeXceL for Its Pioneering Manufacturing Technology for Advanced Optics in LED Lighting

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes LUXeXceL for Its Pioneering Manufacturing Technology for Advanced Optics in LED Lighting PR Newswire LONDON, Sept. 18, 2012 - Its Printoptical technology has the potential to become a standard in the near future LONDON, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent research on the advanced optics market for LED lighting, Frost & Sullivan presents LUXeXceL Group B.V (LUXeXceL) with the 2012 European Frost & Sullivan Enabling Technology Award for its Printoptical Technology. LUXeXceL's pioneering manufacturing process addresses the key challenges to large scale adoption of LEDs in general lighting. Currently, the majority of the LED chips are designed to deliver maximum light output and changing LED chips usually means changing secondary optics designs as well. Changing designs means stock is wasted, leading to huge losses. Further, injection moulding, which is the conventional technology employed for manufacturing LED optics is a time-consuming and expensive process. This delays the development and introduction of new LED lighting devices. "Although LED for lighting applications is quite promising, the lengthy and expensive manufacturing processes and lack of industry standard have been the major challenges faced by system integrators in developing secondary optics needed for most LED lighting fixtures or luminaires," said Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Shyam Krishnan.