March 2, 2012, Shenzhen gold lumens and Sharp signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Under the agreement, future gold lumens exported to the Japanese market for LED lighting products are used Sharp chip. This is the continent but also a collaboration with the Japanese chip companies to enter the Japanese LED street light market, LED lighting companies.
Since the earthquake in Japan, more and more mainland LED lighting business through the purchase of chips or strategic cooperation, with Nichia, Sharp, Toyoda Gosei, Showa Denko KK and other Japanese domestic chip manufacturers to enter the Japanese LED street light market.
Japanese local statistics show that in 2011 the Japanese market, sales of LED bulbs has risen to 31 million, a figure expected an increase of nearly 40% compared to the beginning of last year. In addition, major appliance stores have also opened up a sales area of the LED street light market.
In recent years, the rapid growth of market demand, the Japanese market has become one of the important goal of China’s LED high bay lighting manufacturers to compete in overseas markets.
According to the manufacturer revealed that the mainland one ready to enter the Japanese market, the LED patent is a threshold, while the standard one pass, and as long as you have to overcome these two obstacles, we can successfully enter the Japanese market. However, the Japanese market is not as enterprises imagination is good, not only face patent restrictions and standards as well as from local enterprises in Japan, strong competition.