2014 growth in global shipments of LED lighting
2014 global shipments of LED lighting products in 2013 compared to an increase of 68 %. Among them, the growth rate in North America is expected to reach 72% LED lighting products in China market growth rate of 86% of the amount . Meanwhile, under the support policies of the mainland market, LED manufacturers will significantly accelerate progress in terms of industry consolidation and technological advances may open new prospects . This means that the LED lighting market is expected to reach 100 billion will be enhanced this year.
Currently on optimistic expectations LED downstream industries has two basic , first and foremost the United States , some states required a substantial increase in energy efficiency standards ; followed by Japan moratorium fluorescent lamps, fluorescent lamps Panasonic made the cut in 2015 , all to LED.
This year , LED shipment data continued to exceed expectations in Taiwan , Taiwan's listed companies monthly data show that in February epitaxial silicon vendors total revenues of NT $ 3.667 billion , an increase of 41.26% , growth of 0.33% year on year growth in January- February 30% ; packaging applications total revenues of NT $ 4.195 billion , an increase of 24.05% , 12.84% MoM drop in total January- February increased by 21.60% . Chinese New Year holiday did not affect the sales of manufacturers , but an unprecedented show strong demand .
If the molecule sectors, upstream chip manufacturers in Taiwan Epistar is one of the outstanding performance of financial data vendors , although too few days in February , but its February sales still grew by 4.95% MoM contrarian , an increase of 57.48% . Epistar pointed out that this LED industry boom of the turn for the better , the company obviously felt from January to strong market demand . By February Epistar each product line 's performance can be found , LED lighting applications and product orders demand remains strong. Overall, the first quarter is not short off-season can be described , in March and April orders demand remains strong , the company first quarter revenues are expected to exceed performance expectations .
LED is the most established industry this year . March is the traditional peak season LED rapid growth will begin to fulfill orders . From the market point of view, without worrying about the needs of the first half , the second half without having to worry about supply .