LED plant lighting blue ocean market opens

Plant lighting has become one of the hottest topics in the LED lighting industry in the past two years. Benefiting from the legalization of overseas industrial hemp cultivation in various countries and the construction boom of plant factories and vertical farms around the world driven by the epidemic and agricultural intelligence, plant lighting has ushered in unprecedented opportunities for development, and the demand for equipment is rapidly increasing. . Especially LED lamps, compared with traditional plant lighting products, LED lamps have the advantages of low calorific value, high photoelectric conversion efficiency, long life and adjustable spectrum in plant lighting scenes, and become a new star in the plant lighting market.

Therefore, various LED companies have been aiming at the horticultural lighting track one after another, with high investment enthusiasm and vigorously increasing the layout of horticultural lighting, in order to seize the opportunity in this blue ocean market

According to the analysis of LEDinside, the optoelectronic research division of TrendForce, the global horticultural LED market output value will reach US$301 million in 2020, with an annual increase of 57%.

Although plant lighting has become a hot topic in the LED lighting industry in recent years, in fact, LEDs have been used in plant growth lighting research as early as 1989. It was not until 1999 to 2000 that the first commercial LED horticultural lighting products appeared in Japan. Now, red and blue LED lamp beads are widely used in plant lighting.

Today, lighting equipment has been widely used in plant cultivation, but the complexity of light requirements for plant growth has made the research on the effect of light on plants never stop.

Initially, people learned from the process of plant photosynthesis that plant growth requires the participation of light. Further research found that red and blue wavelengths of light can effectively speed up plant growth, and UV-A ultraviolet, far-red, green and other wavelengths of light also play different roles in plant growth. In addition, different plants also need to adapt to the corresponding light intensity and photoperiod to achieve optimal growth. It is not difficult to see that light formulations suitable for the growth of various types of plants are still being explored.

In order to meet the light needs of various plants in different growth cycles, the company continues to deepen the research in the field of LED plant lighting and launch products that better meet the needs.

Taking ENELTEC as an example, its high-efficiency plant lighting LED series products include monochromatic light series LEDs covering different wavelengths from 380-760nm, discontinuous spectrum excited by phosphors, continuous spectrum full-spectrum series and sunlight-type full-spectrum series. Spectrum series LED products have the advantages of good heat dissipation, long life and high photon flux efficiency.