The world level and domestic level of the LED lighting industry
Has our LED lighting technology reached a level that can replace all light sources overnight? Let us take a closer look at the world and domestic levels of this industry?
1. In Europe, due to the relatively mature awareness of environmental protection and energy saving of Europeans, the acceptance of adopting environmentally friendly products is relatively high. In addition, the EU’s earliest relevant laws on the elimination of incandescent lamps have been implemented. Subsidy programs have been launched (subsidies have reached 30% to 55% of product prices). Therefore, in the global field, the application and promotion rate of LED lighting in the European market is relatively high. At present, it is in supermarkets in some major European countries. Large quantities of LED bulbs and spotlight products below 10W have begun to be sold. European lighting giants Philips and Osram have unveiled their application product series on a large scale at the 2010 Frankfurt Lighting Fair, and have begun the construction and promotion of market channels.
As EU countries often formulate unified standards due to the different interests and starting points of each country, the introduction of many systems and regulations is relatively delayed. At present, relevant European market access standards and technical thresholds are relatively loose. CE's technology for solid-state light sources (SSL) The revised draft still mostly refers to some technical requirements of traditional light sources without major changes.
Philips and Osram have invested heavily in the research of basic LED lighting technology before 2000. Among them, Osram has always been a leader in fluorescent materials for white light LEDs, but Osram has been selling in the market in recent years. Encapsulated white light lamp beads have few types of promotion in the field of general lighting products, and they are mainly focused on the promotion of indoor bulbs and modular lamps; while Philips takes the strong advantage of its capital and is the first to acquire in the field of LED applications The American lumiLEDs company and other solutions companies with technical advantages have obtained core technologies and related patents to explore and find high-quality foundry companies in the mainland Chinese market to help him do foundry production, and use extremely stringent standards and huge orders for The bait maximizes the compression of the profit of the foundry company.
Foundry companies have aggressively entered the Asian market, using China's accumulated experience in the field of applied technology to make huge profits for them.
2. In America, due to the impact of the financial crisis, Americans began to pick up calculators to calculate their expenditures. For the reality that the price of LED lighting products is higher than that of traditional lighting, the United States, which has always been generous, has some hesitation and wait-and-see. Therefore, in major markets and Supermarkets have not yet seen LED lighting application products on the shelves and large-scale promotion, and occasionally only some low-voltage flashlights and night light products can be seen sporadically. Technology: Americans are very strict in terms of market access. In addition to the Energy Star standard, the draft UL standard for solid-state light sources is also being formulated and released one after another. At the same time, other access standards are also being formulated and negotiated. LED application products have been swayed by European and American chip companies, and they have the momentum to immediately plunge into the consumer market around the world. However, due to the high and cumbersome costs of UL and other certifications, the real start of the LED solid-state lighting market in the North American market is estimated Will be after 2012.
A group of LED chip manufacturers headed by American companies such as CREE, lumiLEDs, bridgELux, etc. are firmly grasping the core technology of LED chips. Flickering LED technology can completely replace traditional lighting all over the world. The world factory-China, hurry up and start the application. R&D and production of products. Our American market needs your products. On the one hand, they drove midstream and downstream application companies to purchase a large number of their products with a profit rate of more than 70%. On the other hand, they took the lead in organizing various associations or alliances. Out of product technical standards that they can't even meet, they use mainland Chinese manufacturers as a testing ground for their immature technologies.
3. In Asia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, the ultra-high-brightness LED blue light technology was developed by the Japanese in the 1980s. Therefore, Japanese society has the highest enthusiasm for LED lighting applications in the world, so the Japanese market is interested in LED applications. The support for LED products is very strong. In recent years, the government has launched a plan to redeem LED products with points. The sales growth rate of LED products in the Japanese market has been far ahead of other countries. For South Korea and Taiwan, due to the relatively mature semiconductor manufacturing And research and development technology, currently 70% of the world's high-end LED chip manufacturing is completed in this area, even Japan Nichia, Citizen, Osram, American bridgelux, semiLEDs, etc. are almost mostly produced in Taiwan.
4. In Mainland China, with the increasing pressure for energy conservation and emission reduction, the Chinese government has initiated various supporting policies and measures for the LED industry around 2007. There are now more than 30 upstream mid- and low-end chip manufacturers that have or will soon have scale, and most of the companies with low-end and mid-end packaging products are concentrated in the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, and their production capacity has already occupied The world's total output is 60%, and downstream end-use products are even larger. It is estimated that there are nearly 3000 LED packaging and application companies in Shenzhen alone.
With the further misleading of government policies, the flamboyant atmosphere of attracting investment in the Mainland, and the promotion of large state-owned enterprises, listed companies, venture capital, and wealthy bosses, LED companies have now shown a strong momentum of surging forward and succeeding. Everyone in the industry just needs a little bit. If you pay attention, you will notice that there are at least 50 so-called "largest" optoelectronic industrial parks in the country or even the world in the past two years. What's more, even some third- and fourth-tier counties and cities have declared that they will establish the world's largest optoelectronic industry. Park.
The fate of these so-called "biggest" companies is worried that the result of such a rush will be corpses. The fierce price competition will not only lead to a huge waste of manpower, materials, resources, land, and a messy ending, but the winners from the blood pool will be easily won by the international lighting giants or the international lighting giants. Capital grabbing, whether the LED industry ends up making clothes for others is still unknown.
Take the ancient town of Zhongshan as an example: Although it has experienced the baptism of the international financial crisis in 2008 that led to the closure of the ancient town's lighting industry, due to the strong low-end consumer market in China, the ancient town of Zhongshan is still in turmoil, and the marketing momentum is unabated. As the LED lighting industry is gaining momentum, Guzhen seems to usher in the "spring" of great development. The local government is ambitious to organize various seminars and alliances with the National Semiconductor Organization, hoping to create a globalization with the help of semiconductor lighting. The LED lighting market and enterprises are clustered.
