1st of October in this year, the China Government will launch a ban for incandescent lamps. It has been explicitly indicated in relevant documents that incandescent lamps with power consumptions more than 100W should stop selling in the mainland. It will be an opportunity for LED bulbs or not? Whether the implementing of such issue can improve the relatively downturn LED lights bulbs market? Some people felt confident about this market, but some other people still expressed their concerns.
Experts believed that in Japan, in Korea and other places of South-East Asia and North America, LED bulb market has huge developing potentials. Under the influences of European debt crisis, many LED manufacturers chose to step back.
Earlier, OSRAM, GE Lighting, Philips and other international companies have introduced their own LED bulb series, having good performances in the lighting of Japan, Korea and North America. However, the performances of China’s LED lighting products could not make people satisfied.
The market spindle of LED bulb lighting industry is in rural areas. But subjected to the high prices of LED lighting products and the limited market awareness, the rural market has not yet been fully opened. Besides, the over-expensive selling prices is one of the three biggest obstacles that blog the increasing of market awareness in LED lighting area. In fact, whether LED bulbs can successfully take place of incandescent bulbs or not raised suspiciousness in the heart of both producers and buyers.
Consumers’ concerns usually showed as followed:
1) Incandescent lamps can be used in the kitchen, while LED bulbs could not escape the interferences of fumes and dust.
2) Unmatched base. Normally, incandescent lamps used in rural areas used B22 base, totally different from the E27 bases of LED bulbs. Thus the replacement of incandescent lamps with LED bulbs will be more complex than “screwing”.
3) Incandescent applications are usually used in low-end places. Buyers may probably be unwilling to afford such expensive products (LED bulbs) in relatively unimportant places.
In view of the above points, you can speculate that if incandescent lamps exit in the domestic lighting market, LED bulbs will not meet the demand in some areas. In addition, it is incandescent lamps with power consumption higher than 100W that will be banned in the mainland market. LED manufacturers should not put too much expectation on the LED bulb market.