A few days ago, I attached the LED seminar held in Shanghai. About 200 people attended, most of them are local LED manufacturers. Some of them delivered a speech in the seminar, shared their experience or expressed their opinions on running a LED company in the right direction.
As the 4th generation lighting source, LED lighting industry still in the early stage of their development, full of potentials and opportunities, plus the support policies coming from local governments. During this meeting, many attendances posed questions, like “Many LED patents are about to expire. What kind of influences would this effect on the entire domestic LED lighting industry? Positive or negative? ”, “In terms of market, What the size of it during the replacement process (fluorescent lamps replaced by LED lights)?”, “Whether the gathering of LED industrial bases can be finally realized?”. Most attendances were filled with expectation and nervous. No one has a clear sight for the future in such market chaos.
In the Japanese market, as a result of power shortages caused by the earthquake and tsunami, energy-saving technology, like LED lamps have become a hot topic among buyers, producers and even the government. LED bulbs enjoyed a hot selling in 2011, shortening the distance with incandescent bulbs. It is expected that the sales hot will be continued in 2012. On the other side, with the increasingly mature of LED technology and gradually normalization of the market, the price of LED bulbs continuously dropped for a long time. According the related research results, the dropping rate of LED bulbs’ prices was even higher than LED screens in 2011. However, some experts yet came with totally opposite conclusions. In their opinion, by the end of 2012, the Japanese LED bulb market will touch the top and then turn down.
In consideration of the above analysis, some LED producers started to shifted their attention from LED bulbs to LED ceiling mounted lamps. LED ceiling mounted lamps is a type of LED panel, which is another important member in the whole family of LED lighting industry. Normally, selling prices of LED ceiling mounted lamps are within the range of 20,000 yen to 50,000 yen. Although they were classified as high-value commodities, they still had good performances in Japanese market. According to the introduction of GfK, LED ceiling mounted lamps accounted for about 70% sales in the complete market for ceiling mounted lamps.