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The added value for LED lighting products: intelligent control

LED lighting market is relatively fragmented, since in different fields LED has different lighting applications and different requirements and demand. Commercial lighting and industrial lighting will concern more about production cost and appearance, while residential lighting would like to take product quality and lighting effect into account.

 

LED lighting market is relatively fragmented, since in different fields LED has different lighting applications and different requirements and demand.

 

When it comes to market penetration, currently, the penetration of vehicle LED lighting products is still maintain a low state. Similar conditions also existed in other LED lighting area, like commercial lighting, industrial lighting and residential lighting. The only one with high LED penetration is display industry. However, it is estimated that from 2012 to 2020, the market penetration of LED lighting products within these industries will have a “green” growing.

 

Usually, buyers have less knowledge on product quality and standards for LED products. They would like to choose cheap LED lamps for trial and end up with a “broke lamp and broke heart” condition. They lose confidence for some cheap but low-quality LED lighting products, which exerted bad influence on both LED technologies and market. This is not to say that all products should be on the same quality level. But consumers need to understand what they are going to buy? What’s the expectation they should have? A unified standard would helpful in figuring out such issue.

 

So far, LED has developed for nearly 30 years. It is actually very hard to have breakthrough on core technologies. However, intelligent control system can give more additional value to LED lighting applications. Take mobile phone for example, undoubtedly, this is the most frequently replaced electronic products in the world. Please do not doubt their duration. Their life could be longer than most of electronic products in our house. People continue to buy new cell phones because: a. the amazing developing path of this industry; b. new models usually have much more advanced functions than old ones. Same reason could be used in LED industry, in order to sized the market, makers need to continuously provide new models with more value-added advanced functions and features.

 

About the future development of global  LED Panel Light industry, Carlos LEE indicated that “How to connect current technology developing state with future potentials, this cannot be solved independently by a company or a country. This is a big issue requires global collaboration.”

Russia and India became the new export markets of LED lighting products

In 2012, the international LED lighting market was affected by the debt crisis in Europe. The global economy sustained a constantly sluggish state for a long time. Some large brand, like Philips, OSRAM, Toshiba poured into the European and American markets, directly leading to the death of many small and media sized LED factories there. For this part, the demand of the domestic market did not achieve a qualitative leap. Relatively, domestic LED manufacturers that are able to compete for key bids and special projects are much less than that of Europe and America. Export can only be treated as an emerging market for LED lighting products such as Mains led lights . The LED research department of the international research institution TrendForce indicated that many counties and regions except Europe and America has shown a clear upward trend in the demand for LED lighting products, including Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Africa, etc, which provided more development opportunities for LED industry both in the mainland and Taiwan region.

 

Russia and India became the new export markets of LED lighting products

 

For a long time, Russia has enjoyed a rapid increasing penetration rate in the LED lighting market. It is estimated that the proportion of Russian LED lighting market will be 1% – 5% by the year of 2015. Energy efficiency and optimization of electricity consumption are two main reasons for the stable and rapid development of LED lighting industry in Russia. By 2014, the entire Russian lighting market size will reach up to about 600 million euros, more than half of which will be in commercial area. Other parts are from public lighting applications and outdoor lighting applications. Russia has joined into the WTO, the declination of import tariffs will inevitably lead to the large amount importation of LED lighting products from other countries and regions, and consequently, expanding the profit margin of LED corporate in Russia.

 

More than 80% lighting products used in India are from the mainland, including traditional lighting products and LED lighting products. The India Government is planning to improve the proportion of LED lighting systems in public lighting projects and other outdoor lighting applications. It is estimated that until 2015, the compound annual growth rate of the LED lighting market in India will reach 41%.

The LED lighting products export prices to Thai for two or three times compared to domestic can be zero tax

Yesterday, Thailand Kaitai Bank joined hand with City Bureau of Foreign Trade and the World Exhibition (China) Co., Ltd. to held the Si-no-Thai trade promotion, they invited experts and insiders to introduce Thailand lighting and appliances market conditions and opportunities. The reporter learned from the Referral conference that Thailand is part of the ASEAN countries, some of China’s merchandise exports to Thailand has achieved zero tariffs in accordance with the FTA. In addition, Thailand is now in the reconstruction phase. The demand for LED lighting products, appliances, building materials and other products, Zhongshan companies can consider opening up the Thai market.

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According to the Bureau of Foreign Trade Deputy Secretary Liang Han-xi, in 2011, the city’s import and export value of Thailand is $ 498 million, including $ 313 million of imports, exports 185 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 3.28%. As ASEAN countries in the industrial developed countries, Thailand has obvious advantages in the manufacturing, automotive, petrochemical and other industries, with the convergence of the city’s existing pillars of competitive industries. Currently, Thailand’s post-disaster reconstruction, civilian and government procurement opportunities coexist, while building materials, LED lights and other products want to be able to get the Thai government purchase orders.

According to the the Kaitai Bank Group subsidiary the Kaitai Research Center analysis, the 2012 total lighting market in Thailand is about 1.4 billion yuan of scale, LED accounts for about 12%, which is expected by 2015, the proportion will increase to 45% -50%. General manager of Thailand Silver Sky Trading Co., Ltd. said the Thai government is vigorously implement LED lighting products projects, and increasing demand for the LED. He said that Only if we got the Chinese domestic origin, the LED products which exported to Thailand can enjoy zero tariff, and in Thailand, the price is 2-3 times that of domestic exports. But the light source products which exported to Thailand should go through the certification system in Thailand certification. Zhenghua said that Thailand’s economic growth rate is expected to be 5% for domestic enterprises, which means that a lot of

He said that the Chinese domestic origin to prove that the the LED products exported to Thailand can enjoy zero tariff, and in Thailand, the price is 2-3 times that of domestic exports to the light source products in Thailand to go through the certification system in Thailandcertification. Car Zhenghua said that Thailand’s economic growth rate is expected to be 5% for domestic enterprises, which means a lot of business opportunities, such as small appliances, stereos, air conditioners, computers, etc. all are very popular.

DOE: LED lighting products will be the most environmental friendly in the world

From a recent report published by Department of Energy (DOE), LED lighting products will be the most environmental friendly in the world. The most significant difference between LED lamps and traditional filament lamps is the degree of the impact on the environment. This report classified lighting industries as 5 levels in terms of environmental contamination or environmental effect. Among all kinds of lighting products, LED lights have been listed in level 5. “It is the last product that will cause damages to our environment.”

DOE: LED lighting products will be the most environmental friendly in the world

In another article named “The Manufacture and Effect of LED”, the author compared three different lamps (Filament Lamps, Compact Fluorescent Lamps and LED Lamps) in aspect of service life, production process and operation conditions. This report did a comprehensive study for the effects impacted by these bulbs during their packages, transportations, works and recycles. This is also the first report that discussed LED lighting products officially. DOE always spent a lot of energy on environment protection, especially for air and water sources, to maintain the international competition of the United States. There is another important reason: to save loads of money for families and companies.

 

“Review of the Lifecycle Energy Consumption of Incandescent, Compact Fluorescent and LED Lamps” is a conclusion mentioned in DOE’s last report. In this report, DOE continued to use this conclusion and summarized more concrete and detailed estimation.

 

This report suggested that traditional Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) was much similar with LED lamps in the aspect of energy consumption. Both of them consumed less energy compare with Filament lamps in manufacture, transportation and operation. Due to the high efficiency, 15W CFLs are equivalent to 60W Filament lamps. This report conducted totally 15 tests. 14 of them showed that LED lighting products will be the most environmental friendly among these three types of lamps.

 

In particular, LED lamps have a poor performance in recycling part. The majority of LED lamps are made of aluminum alloy, which will exert a significant effect on the earth after scrap and bury. Even so, LED lamps are still more superior than Filament Lamps and CFLs. DOE gave out several solutions for this problem and decided to improved the production process of LED lighting products to improve this situation.

 


How to Solve Problems Hide behind the Excessive Development of China types of led lighting?

Recently, regardless of the mainland or abroad, the LED lighting industry is in rapid development, but behind the rapid development Chinese LED lighting products has exposed the lack of core technology and innovative capacity, disorderly competition in the market and other issues. Specific performances are as follows:

How to Solve Problems Hide behind the Excessive Development of China types of led lighting?

Firstly, as for the output value, the current mainland types of led lighting market penetration rate is only 5%. Relying on imports of core technologies and higher overall cost, which becomes a stumbling block to hinder the further development of LED industry. The LED chip is like the engine of a car. Lack of core technology will be directly restricts the development of this industry. It is understood that the LED upstream chip production technology lies in the hands of foreign companies, and the slower the process of domestic technology affects the development of the industry. MOCVD epitaxial furnace and its related technology, on behalf of the most high-end of the LED Street Light industry chain, mainly depends on imports,  which greatly restrict the cost control of the LED industry upstream.

Secondly, as to the overall level, the gap between China and the international-class is still about two years. Many developed and developing countries or regions in the world are accelerating the development of semiconductor lighting technology and industry. On technology, China is in the second echelon.

Thirdly, blind investment and the lack of core technology lead to the imbalance development of LED lighting market. Inconsistent quality is also a common issue for LED enterprises. The types of led lighting market exists a lot of small and medium-sized enterprises to produce low-quality products, and the industry pattern is unstable.

Fourthly, with international giant companies entering into the Chinese market, lots of enterprises with core competitiveness in mainland will face the risk of M & A, while enterprises lack of competitiveness may be eliminated directly. If we do not regulate the market, Chinese LED Lights market may degenerate to a wedding dress maker for foreign lighting giant.

According to the analysis of a number of experts, recommendations are as follow:
Strengthen the guidance of government planning on the whole types of led lighting, and carry out enforceable national industry standards as soon as possible, especially related products in the industry standard in the demonstration project, such as street lamps, tunnel lights, display, landscape lights, so that it can provide procurement of local governments and enterprises, standard to follow.