LED lighting will usher in a round of growth opportunities
Tungsten lamps have always been favored by the European and American markets, which are favored by low temperature and high efficiency, because of their excellent light color quality and high efficiency relative to incandescent lamps. Therefore, regardless of the production and export conditions in recent years, its development curve has bandability. Compared with other traditional light source products, the decrease trend is not obvious. At the same time, domestic enterprises producing tungsten halogen lamps such as Foshan Lighting, Changzhou Fuxing, Zhejiang Shenghui, Anhui Shilin, Guangmingyuan and other enterprises have also seized the "golden tail" of the order of tungsten halogen lamps, which has a lot of profits. But this situation will change in the next step.
From September 1st, 2018, the sixth phase of the (EC) 244/2009 in the European Union's ErP Directive (Energy-related Products) is in force, requiring that no one will be placed the low-efficiency non-directional household tungsten halogen lamps in the EU market.
This also means that the pear-shaped transparent glass bulb tungsten halogen lamp for general illumination that cannot meet the energy efficiency requirements of the instruction, which is often referred to as “bubble in bubble”, will be banned. Tungsten halogen lamps for special lighting, such as oven lamps; directional tungsten halogen lamps, such as Mr series, Par series, etc.; G9 lamp single-ended tungsten halogen lamps and R7s lamp tungsten halogen lamps (for example: common double-ended tungsten halogen lamps), etc. are not affected. It should be noted that this prohibition does not apply to related products that already on the store shelves and in the warehouse.
The (EC) 244/2009 Phase 6 requirements were originally effective on September 1, 2016, and will be effective in the new European Union (EU) 2015/1428 regulations, as recommended by the European Lighting Association (Lighting Europe). The date is pushed back two years to September 1st, 2018.
In addition to the EU market, Australia has also announced that it will phase out tungsten halogen lamps for general lighting in 12 to 24 months. The other major tungsten halogen lamps are also planned by the United States. The elimination of tungsten halogen lamps for general lighting by 2020 will undoubtedly make the development prospects of tungsten halogen lamps worse.
Judging from the monthly export of tungsten halogen lamps in 2018, the export volume and amount of tungsten halogen lamps declined in August, and the unit price increased because the tungsten halogen lamps, which are not in the forbidden sale, are mainly the reflective type and special purpose products. These are high-priced product. In the future, it is foreseeable that in the situation that several major markets in Europe, America and Australia are planning to eliminate tungsten halogen lamps for general lighting, it will really enter the down range, and related LED replacement light source products such as LED filament lamps will usher in a round of growth opportunities.