Foreigners are reluctant to buy low-price LED products in China
As Chinese products flood the market, quality becomes an issue. Some large buyers remind that well-made LEDs can last for ten years, while cheap LEDs sometimes burn out in less than a year. More commonly, they start to emit some strange colored lights, which may envelop the house in a slightly pink, green, or even "rainbow sorbet" color spectrum as the lighting industry calls it.
Benjamin Carson (Benjamin Carson) owns an Australian billboard company that uses LED lights to make outdoor billboards. Carson said, "The stability of the lights is reduced-I don't know if they can reach the life they promised."
Carson said that the price of LEDs of American brands is usually one-third higher than that of Chinese LEDs he bought. However, he is still considering the use of American LEDs, because there are too many billboards using Chinese LEDs, which will burn out in less than a year or appear strange color blocks.
Some buyers are even more vigilant. Mike Pugh, Xicato’s procurement director in San Jose, California, said, “We don’t buy Chinese LEDs, and we are not willing to take risks.” This company, which provides indoor lighting systems for retail companies and hotels, has moved from a global perspective. The company buys LED lamps, such as CREE of Durham, North Carolina, Lumileds of Philips, which is headquartered in San Jose, California, and Osram Opto Semiconductors of Regensburg, Germany.
China’s LED industry is still in debt due to the previous investment wave, and now it mainly relies on factory equipment purchased from 2009 to 2011. However, with the rapid growth in sales, Chinese companies have ordered a large number of new equipment from Western suppliers since the beginning of this year, which may improve the reliability of their products.
