The global LED lighting application market differentiation
Because of alternative light sources and global incandescent lamp replacement boom, driven by rapid growth of the global LED lighting market in 2014, but in 2015 due to the alternative light source products (including lamp, ball steep light) products such as prices, product profit expectations, making LED lighting market momentum.LED lighting market scale growth slowed, the scale of the global LED lighting market for $2015 in 25.7 billion, year-on-year growth of 44% in 2014, LED lighting market penetration rate reached 31%.Expected from 2016 to 2018, the global LED lighting market is growing gradually stabilized, partial alternative light sources have change is completed, the market growth rate steady at around 20%.Lighting enterprises begin to focus in the field of professional lighting, such as commercial lighting, engineering lighting, building lighting, etc.
The global LED industry presents the following characteristics: one is the LED lighting application market differentiation.In the face of LED lighting products price decline trend, the global LED companies looking for niche.Key enterprises to value chain, strengthen industrial lighting, automotive lighting, lighting plants, innovative research and development in the field of intelligent lighting segment, according to different application environment to provide alternative lighting solution.In 2015, for example, the global LED lighting industry market scale will reach $2.366 billion, is expected to reach $3.935 billion in 2018, the compound annual growth rate of 18.5%.In the field of industry, LED courtyard lamp for accounted for the biggest lighting products, the current global focus on LED companies to enter the field, such as general electric, sharp, Toshiba, mineko iwasaki electric, etc.
The second is the global high brightness LED industry scale growth slowdown.In the past decades, the application of different market makes the high brightness LED industry compound annual growth rate steady at 20% ~ 20%.But in recent years, the decline in output growth is obvious, high brightness LED output value of $14.2 billion, 2014 growth rate fell to 9% from 19% last year.Only a modest rise, 2015 annual output value reached $14.5 billion, up 2% from a year earlier.
Three is the international LED spin-off blustery giant enterprise m&a.In 2015, the LED industry key enterprises have announced a sale or spin-off LED lighting business, make industry pattern change.Philips company as the leading lighting companies, the earliest start a series of split and restructuring plan.Announced last year to $3.3 billion will be its lighting companies Lumileds80 GSRGO % of the shares sold to the Chinese Capital Scale Capital, but then was rejected because has not been approved, are now looking for a buyer again.Again this year with the United States light engine and a manufacturing OLED panel manufacturing company purchase agreement.The philips is planning to its lighting business and medical business spin-off.
Osram as European lighting enterprise of bibcock, 2015 will hold a 13.47% stake in foshan lighting sold to guang sheng group.Now ready to sell light source parts business spin-off.
Traditional American general lighting lighting companies, announced in 2015 LED lighting business and integrating solar energy related business, and to set up a new company Current, make the lighting business have more independence and development space.
Under the pressure of competition, the United States Cree will power devices with radio frequency devices business spin-off from head office, branch office, reduce lighting products of low profit business, promote the competitiveness of the core business.
Japan panasonic lighting is also frequent, 2014 respectively, turned off the lamps factory in Shanghai and hangzhou factory in China, the future will continue to close the fluorescent lamp factory in Indonesia and Japan, two factories, comprehensive contraction lighting business.
Toshiba effects, such as the yen and business losses in 2015 announced his retirement from white LED business.