Panasonic maybe will close the LED lighting factory in Indonesia

Due to depreciation of the yen led to the deterioration of the import earnings, so the Japanese leading LED lighting required Panasonic plans to Japanese market LED lighting products are all moved back to Japan domestic production. Reported that, Panasonic is located in Indonesia's West Java province's only LED lighting factory for a production of residential products overseas bases, the seat Indonesia factory output 8 percent exported to Japan, while Panasonic plans to close before the end of October this year, the factories, capacity will be moved back to Japan plant, whereby the desired Japanese market LED lighting products in full production moved back to Japan.

According to reports, the plant supplies seat Indonesia Southeast Asia, demand for production capacity in China within this year moved to the factory in East Java province were, Panasonic expects to borrow by the production reorganization measures to reduce the negative impact of exchange rates brought about.

According to the relevant investigative agencies released data show that in 2015 H1 Panasonic market share in Japan LED bulb / fluorescent lamp market up 46.2% on top.

Panasonic on May 26 issued a lighting business growth strategy, in addition to plans to expand its automotive LED headlights and other vehicle than the sale of lighting products, but also plans to end the year 2018 the production of fluorescent lamps, the Japanese domestic shipments of lighting products in full changed to LED, target of the year 2018 will expand the scale of lighting business revenue to 400 billion yen, will increase 3 percent to about 3 one hundred billion yen compared with the year 2014, the operating profit rate of 8% above the target level (FY2014 operating profit rate less than 5%).