月份：2012年11月

Low-power products will become the mainstream in the LED packaging market in 2013

According to a recent report of TrendForce (the international research institute) about the LED packaging market, by the end of 2012, the estimated output value of LED package used in LED lighting applications is approximately 2.66 billion USD, growing by 23.5% compared with 2011. LED package used in the architectural landscape lighting applications (LED Flood Lights) and interior lighting applications (led tunnel light Bulbs) accounted for the highest proportion. However, under such circumstance, prices of LED packaging products were falling continuously. International lighting markets have been gradually opened as a result of advance import and price incentives. From the standpoint of global LED bulb market, the average selling price of equivalent LED lighting technologies for 40W incandescent bulbs dropped to around 10USD in Korea, the United States and the United Kingdom in 2012, which increased the buying intentions of consumers.

 

Low-power products will become the mainstream in the LED packaging market in 2013

 

From the standpoint of LED packaging market, the reversion of LED specifications caused the sharp reduction of LED lighting production costs. In the past, high-powered LED lights dominated the LED lighting application market. However, when 5630 packaging technology was introduced, mid-powered LED lighting products started to swarm into the market. In fact, high-powered LED packaging techniques lack of competitiveness compared with 3014 and 5630 packaging in the LED packaging market. Currently, high-power LED lighting applications are facing with excess production capacity problem. It is expected that may upstream LED suppliers will continue to increase the investment of low-power LED packaging industry. In addition, low-power LED lighting applications still has 20% price cut in 2013.Thus, it is believed that low-power LED chips will be dominated in the competitive LED bulbs and LED tubes market in 2013.

 

From the standpoint of the terminal LED lighting market, according to related industrial report, the demand for energy-saving applications brought about by the earthquake in 2011 significantly enhanced the consciousness of power-saving of Japanese people. Thus in Japan, people have higher level of recognition on LED lamps and more purchase intentions, plus the dramatic price dropping, in 2012, LED lighting industry rapid developed in Japan. In the global point of view, compared with traditional lighting industries, the market penetration of LED lamps has reached up to 17.6%. This data is even higher in Japan, which is 30%-50%.

The special actor for evening party— LED creative lighting(luminous tree)

In the evening party for 60 Anniversary National Day, the LED landscape tree of “Light Cube ” acting area become the party.

The command deputy director Zhao Dongming said, “Light Cube” acting area, namely as the center of Tiananmen Square national flag, on its four sides are more than 4000 trees of light art ” luminous tree “.

These ” luminous tree ” is the LED creative lighting, a high-tech content. Every tree light and tree LED tube can transform 7 kinds of color through the computer operation.   ” tree ” height can also transform and swinging. More than 4000 performers stands in the ” tree “, holding the props ” luminous tree “, according to the director’s instructions.

The special actor for evening party--- LED creative lighting(luminous tree)

Half of the floats use LED display

Cambered LED display, mobile video playback, more vivid colors display … the 60th anniversary of mass demonstrations floats commonly used LED creative lighting display , it will be more watchable than the 50th anniversary of this display of technological innovation continued progress.

Floats Expert Group Leader Li Yuheng said in an interview with reporters, this year nearly half of the mass demonstrations that the floats used on the LED display device, while 10 years ago, only two floats fitted with this equipment.

Float manufacturing department Yuzhi had participated in the 50th anniversary of the floats LED display production work, he recalled: “I remember 10 years ago, only two floats fitted with LED–Radio and Television Department of the floats and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the floats. The most impressive is the Ministry of Science and Technology of the ‘science and technology which are primary productive forces’ floats,’ one ‘word is used LED display, when closely look at, it is the flowers ‘1’, and when seen from afar, it is a banner.

Yuzhi said, 10 years ago, It is such a simple device, in which the led tunnel light-emitting chip dependent on imports, this year’s LED display is not only a breakthrough restrictions on the shape, but also improve the brightness and clarity. The more important is the light-emitting the chips which are all made ​​in China.

Last year, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, a huge expansion volumes, the slowly rising rings are impressive. What they use is LED equipment. Yu Zhi said, this year the floats LED creative lighting screen forms will also varied, with video, text, and also with move and play video. “It can be said that, this year the LED floats represented our country in this field in the most advanced technology.

LED industry recapture glory for the 60th anniversary birthday gift

In the upcoming 60th anniversary of the National Day celebrations, the LED will play a major role. In order to create a festive, joyful and peaceful atmosphere of the National Day, LED create a bright and beautiful night, a tribute to the 60th anniversary.

led industry create a bright and beautiful night

It is understood that Beijing has built or renovated 21 energy saving and environmental protection night lighting landscape. These new and transformation of Landscape night lighting will have the first trial at 7:30 on the evening of September 14 lights to show the colorful, beautiful night in Beijing.

LED industry recapture glory for the 60th anniversary birthday gift

Currently, Beijing’s night lighting basically formed city night landscape lighting system. The new night Landscape lighting system in Tiananmen Square is as the center of the main line to the north-south axis and east-west Chang’an Avenue, in more than 150 buildings along Chang’an Avenue, Second, Third, Fourth Ring Road and Fifth Ring Road over 30 overpass installed night lighting facilities, and formed over 2000 night lighting facilities, more than 200 night lighting attractions.

In the transformation process, technical personnel adopt with high-tech lighting products, and improve the lighting of Engineering Science and technology content. After the transformation, the Tiananmen area lighting saves significant in energy saving. According to the introduction, the Tiananmen square nightscape lighting energy saving is remarkable, the total power from 210.2kW down to 100kW, energy efficiency improved 5 percent. In addition, after the transformation of energy-saving lighting and greatly reduces the environmental pollution, in which the carbon dioxide emissions by 20 tons, sulfur dioxide emissions reduction of 0.8 tons. The effect of energy saving in led industry and emission reduction is equivalent to increase the volume of forest area 74.46 mus, effectively improve the environment quality.

According to the Beijing Municipal City Nightscape Lighting Department official responsible for the introduction, in order to meet the National Day 60 anniversaries, Beijing Tiananmen area lighting renovation, Tiananmen, the monument to red base, flag pole pedestal, Jinshui bridge, platform, Zhengyang gate. Tiananmen Castle red walls build a new lighting facilities on the basis of the original floodlights and led tunnel light, so it makes the Tiananmen tower walls more uniform brightness, red color, avoid glare produced on rostrum, improve the visual environment, and achieve the solemn, generous, magnificent, in order to reach beautiful effect.

Solar led lighting technology innovation

LED with low power consumption, the extraordinary life has been widely applied to the signal indication, digital display and other weak areas. However, due to the opening angle is small of the traditional LED street light source, dot area, the scattering of light is highly directional light source, so it is easy to form a spot light uniformity and other factors shackles its application in the field of led lighting technology.

Solar led lighting technology innovation

Laiwu City, Phoenix Solar Lighting Co., Ltd. technical staff of painstaking research, trial and error, by traditional solar lighting structure, intelligent controller, reflector lamp angle updates and technical improvements, the optimal tilt angle design, flat head and round complementary, making it more uniform light, the overall higher brightness, lower cost, more conducive to the application and popularization.

The company has developed the flat head LED pillar and torch-style combination of light source structure, through the reasonable control of the flat head high brightness white LED installation angle. LED combination of light emitted by the uniformity of the illumination light and illumination to be increased dramatically. The technology not only makes light effects to be strengthen, but also the combination of light energy is about 4W, and the brightness can reach 20W or 40W, and can be more effective use of solar energy. They Only need 12W solar cell capacity, 12V/24Ah the batteries to ensure that such LED light source in five rainy days continue to work effectively, and the useful life is more than 100,000 hours for more than 10 times of the energy-saving lamps.

The combination of light source is specially developed for street light field cross-shaped and rectangular combination of the light source, giving full play to the opening angle flat head led lighting technology uniformity and round LED panel lights point area of ​​high brightness, so that the two complements each other, in order to maximize the light efficiency, overcome the point area of flat head LED brightness as Round LED, round LED light uniformity as flat head LED shortcomings.

For the controller, to achieve the maximum collection use of solar photovoltaic technology, 12V DC power supply to the light source to provide the energy reserves, the battery, the light source produces a 6500K white light. At the same time, by streamlining the intelligent controller structure, the structure is more simple, lower failure rate, good technical preparations to further reduce costs. Moreover, by detecting the output of solar cells and battery power, thereby determining the system status, to achieve automatic control of the entire system and intelligent management.

Development prospects of green energy-saving solar LED lightings

World concerns about the security of energy supply and action to address climate change, to promote the rapid development of renewable energy technologies and industries worldwide, such as photovoltaic, wind power generation in the annual growth rate of more than 20%. Renewable energy has become an important alternative energy to diversify energy sources to address global climate change and achieving sustainable development. Especially in the recent two years, as the international oil price fluctuations as well as the Kyoto Protocol implementation come into force, renewable energy development become the hot spot in the field of international energy, and has been gained widespread concern in many countries of the world. By the end of 2006, the global renewable energy power generation installed capacity exceed 200 million kilowatts, including small hydropower of about 80 million kilowatts, wind electricity 75,000 kilowatts, geothermal power generation 10 million kilowatts, solar power generation more than 700 million kilowatts, solar photovoltaic average annual growth speed of more than a 60% of the production capacity of close to 2 million kilowatts.

Development prospects of green energy-saving solar LED lightings

Energy-saving advantages of solar led lightings

Along with economic development, China’s electricity for lighting will greatly improve, the research and application of green energy-efficient lighting gain more and more attention. Solar led lightings and led panel lights as a cold light source with a higher cost, green, safe, reliable, stable quality, long service life, easy installation and maintenance characteristics, green lighting, road lighting, advertising light boxes lighting, urban landscape modeling lighting and home lighting system can be widely used, but the higher one-time investment of solar led lightings is the bottleneck of the development.

Lighting consumption accounts for about 20% of the entire electricity. Consumption is an important way to save energy, and reduce lighting electricity. To achieve this goal, the industry has research and develop a variety of energy-saving lighting equipment, and certain results. However, the requirement is also far from the “green light”, the development and application of more efficient, reliable, safe, durable new street light is imperative.

By the end of 2006, China’s renewable energy capacity is totaled 200 million tons of standard coal (excluding traditional biomass), accounting for about 0.5 percent. For 2010, renewable energy accounted for 10% of the national total primary energy consumption, the goal has taken a solid step forward.

Resolve the technical problems of the development of LED streetlight

With the LED lighting market blowout market, LED street development becomes clearer. Public companies have viewed for the LED street lamp market situation, LED as a new type of solid-state light source, has been in more and more areas of lighting show energy-saving effect. Such as the alternative to neon landscape lighting, energy savings of 70% to 80% energy saving LED traffic lights.

It seems the high cost is not the only factor to hinder LED companies settled with market, companies still need to overcome the technical performance of the challenging problems. Although the LED panel light industry developed fast in recent years, yet it still lacks the the authority technical standards, resulting in the industry as a whole varies greatly, and the promotion of a wide range of very adverse. This is the LED technology to evolute than reality faster desire.

Relatively high technical difficulty LED streetlight, the problem of lack of technical standards is particularly evident. According to statistics, all of Shanghai there are about 500,000 street lights, including the urban area of about 350,000, semiconductor lighting, currently only a short demonstration section Wuning Road. Many excellent technical LED manufacturers and integrators do not know how to design a practical street lights, the application departments can not tell the specific requirements. Shanghai Semiconductor Lighting Engineering Research Center for example, a lot of manufacturers, in order to solve the LED heat problem, design a “hollow” lampshade. But for the street light, the poor shape “shelter” function is not suitable for the street lights.

Resolve the technical problems of the development of LED streetlight

Also an obstacle to the development of streetlight is application promotion. Summarized as follows:

1, due to the informal standards of  LED street lamp, it is not the general promotion of LED for street where several major parameters such as: color temperature, CRI (color rendering index) and glare has not been determined.

2, the price of LED street is too high. the streetlight building owners are bull system. This caused great difficulties to the LED street lamp promote the application.

3, the Ministry of Construction of the new street design standards develop “urban road lighting design standards” (CJJ45-2006), which started on July 1, 2007, but it did not mention the use of LED lights problem.

led lamp china color temperature is required to break the five major challenges

Along with the people of energy saving and environmental protection demand is more and more high, and the ten city ” semiconductor lighting project started, our country basically determined by led lamp china outdoor lighting for the main direction of attack. Among them, LED street lamp catch the attention and seen by the government to promote the application of lighting market which is important to cut a point. In the LED chip and packaging technology continues to progress, it is not hard to discover, many elevators, bus, the cabin of the aircraft, catering shop entrance, even including the 2009 National Day parade, numerous star concert, with LED as lighting protagonist, to brilliant quartet.

led lamp china color temperature is required to break the five major challenges

The application of these iconic milestone event are giving more prominence to the significant increase in the trend of white LED applications in China. Coupled with the issues of environmental protection and energy conservation under global attention, including North America, Australia, Japan and Taiwan are the development of energy-saving and carbon reduction regulations and lighting standards will contribute to the development of led lamp china applications market. This also means that the LED lights will immediately become innovative technology to dominate the field of road lighting, therefore, the people hailed the development of China’s LED Street Light golden years in 2009.

Analysis: in 2008, global LED street light penetration rate is only 0.5%, the penetration rate of LED street lamp in 2009 is expected to be more than 1%, up to 2.15% in 2010, the terms of each block will take about 110 street lights LED demand. According to the experts-terms, it is estimated that the demand of LED used in street lamps will be an increase of 167% compared to last year, and is expected to the LED penetration break through to 5%, will be the demand for rapid takeoff.

However, the led lamp china can achieve the same level with high-pressure sodium lamps, whether it is energy-saving and other issues in practical applications in industry, government, academic and research from all walks of life caused widespread debate. For a time, the Voice of praise and skepticism, and since, promote co-exist with a wait-and-see camp. This special collection of experts from different angles analysis of the views and recommendations of the LED street light industry, and strive to reveal hot LED street lamp truth for the majority of industry participants to resolve the problems facing the development of key technologies.

LED working lights overcapacity, GT plans to cut 25% of the United States of America

Photovoltaic and LED working lights equipment manufacturer GT Advanced Technologies recently announced that the company will lay off about 25% due to weak market demand in Asia, and its third-quarter revenue may be expected at a minimum level.

GT: expected Q3 revenue of 110 million-140 million U.S. dollars

Tom Gutierrez, Chief Executive Officer of the company said: the Asian Bank does not intend to apply for any new loans for the purchase of new equipment. If the banks stop mortgage, I am worried that this would be a problem.

LED working lights overcapacity, GT plans to cut 25% of the United States of America

GT Company will be held on November 6 to announce the latest earnings report last month. The company had expected its third-quarter revenue of between 110 million to 140 million U.S. dollars. After adjustment, the company expects a loss per share of about $ 0.05 earnings per share of $ 0.02.

Gutierrez refused to disclose more details about the third-quarter earnings, but he said, obviously, if there are any big surprises, then we would have announced  it. According to foreign media reports, analysts on average expected earnings per share of $ 0.04 for the third quarter, on revenue of $ 125.4 million.

LED working lights overcapacity, GT plans to lay off

As of March 31st, GT company in the United States have a total of 460 employees and contract workers. In Asia, with 203 employees. Gutierrez said, the company will layoff the United States of America employee, and the cuts ratio is about 1/5, and the Asian region employee layoffs ratio is about 30%.

The company expects to save USD13,000,000 through layoffs, and the fourth quarter related to the reorganization of the expenditure of approximately USD4,200,000.

American analysts said,   announced layoffs can be said to be expected, but this is not surprising. He said that, due to excess capacity, PV and LED panel light service are faced with the periodic problem.

In addition, GT, said the company will integrate the existing business units – PV, polysilicon and sapphire – into a single department, and named for the crystal growth systems department (crystal growth systems).

Since the PV of the company’s customers are struggling to cope with the problem of demand weakness and austerity. GT had to restructuring.  As of the end of March, the company’s revenues reached $ 955.7 million, while the Asian market accounted for 95% of the company’s total revenue.