BUSINESS WATCH

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Makers of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are preparing to increase capacity in response to growing demand. LED suppliers were operating at 30% of capacity earlier this year, but are now producing at full stretch, says Emma Ritch, an analyst at business-information firm Cleantech Group in San Francisco, California. Among the companies that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars this year to expand LED facilities are Cree, based in Durham, North Carolina; Seoul Semiconductor, which supplies firms such as Samsung and LG with LEDs for televisions; and Epistar in Hsinchu, Taiwan.