Cleveland Thinking Twice About Awarding LED Contract to Chinese Company

May 25, 2010
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson says the city council is going to take another look at a controversial no-bid contract recently awarded to Sunpu-Opto Semiconductor Ltd. to provide LED street lighting. The GE Lighting business unit, which had called ...

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson says the city council is going to take another look at a controversial no-bid contract recently awarded to

Sunpu-Opto Semiconductor Ltd. to provide LED street lighting. The GE Lighting business unit, which had called nearby Nela Park, Ohio, home for decades, had opposed the no-bid contract from the start and wants to submit a bid for the lighting. Sunpu-Opto is currently considering Cleveland as a site for a new U.S. manufacturing facility that's expected to employ 350. Cleveland Plain Dealer