In an opening ceremony attended by the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Octa Light has opened its LED manufacturing facility and launched its BullStar series of LEDs, after years of manufacturing LED-based lighting fixtures.

Octa Light held in mid February an official opening ceremony for the first high-power LED assembly line in Bulgaria. As a major event for the country and for the semiconductor industry, the ceremony was attending by the Buglarian Prime Minister and his Deputy, as well as scientists from the Buglarian Academy of Sciences and the Insistute for Solid State Physiscs, representatives of the major Bulgarian technical Universities and the Buglarian National Comitee for Lighting, business partners and international guests.

With its new state-of the-art faciltiy, including a 4000 sq.m build area, laboratories, clean rooms and lighting-fixture manufacturing areas, Octa Light has also launched its first packaged LED named Bullstar.

Octa Light Bulgaria PLC is a privately-held company owned by major investors Monbat PLC (50.5% shareholding) and Octagon International (49.5%).

The first Bullstar LEDs offer full color-binning according to the ANSI standard, including cool white (6500K, 5700 K), neutral white (5000K, 4000K) and warm white (3500K, 3000K, and 2700K), as well as other colors.

Octa Light says that the the Bullstar series offers a typical emission of 110 lm for cool white, 100 lm for neutral white and 90 lm for warm white. Also, the silicone lens has a half emission angle of 110 degrees, permitting direct insertion in area-lighting luminaires without the need for additional secondary optics. This boosts luminous flux efficiency and lowers the final product costs, says the company.

Octa Light says that it plans to