Since October 1st of 2012, China will gradually ban the import and sale of incandescent lights according to the power consumption. The phase-out process of incandescent lighting products has entered the implementation phase. New lighting source, especially the LED lighting industry will continue to obtain great supports from the government. LED lighting market has bright prospects and huge potentials.
LED lighting applications are speeding up their penetration into the market. For now, LED lighting industry is on the threshold of a dramatic boom.
The hottest LED lighting applications in the mainland is LED road lamps and LED Panel Light. With the support policy from the Ministry of Science and Technology, LED road lamps were promoting at an amazing speed. Both purchasers and suppliers showed their enthusiasm in this area. Presently, there are estimated one million pieces LED street lights will be installed in 21 pilot cities within ten years. And another plan of two million pieces LED street lights within 50 pilot cities is ongoing. This is a characteristic of China. This is a generation speed of China. It is too fast that this market may probably be destroyed by foams at the end.
In the LED T8 application area, according to the previous market plans, there are some mature commercialized products that had been promoted in the LED lighting market. It is believed that LED T8 application market is the first mature LED lighting market. The most commonly used LED T8 tube applications are parking lot lighting, shopping center lighting and advertising backlight. The selling prices in these area have already reach the critical point (150).
High-quality products have sophisticated technologies in optics, cooling designs and power suppliers. However, there are still a large number of low-quality LED products in the market, which is the biggest challenge for the commercialization of LED products. With the launch of standards from the Energy Star and EU, the above problems may greatly be improved.
Theoretically, lamp cover is the begging of lamps’ development. However, for a very long time, LED manufacturers could not solve the multi-specification problem and led to the embarrassing situation that the development of LED lamp cover is far behind that of the other compartments. Although the cost of LED lighting products has dropped sharply, there is still no major improvement in the global LED lighting market. Which LED technology can finish the commercialization and become the new darling of the market after LED T8 Tubes?