90% LED lighting business losses No core technology development bottlenecks

In the recently held "2011 China Low Carbon Economy, Trade and Industry Development Forum", LED lighting companies Levin Di Optoelectronics Technology (Shenzhen) Company Chairman Deng Albert revealed that 90% of the LED business losses, due to the large number of domestic manufacturers lack of core technology to invest in innovation and R & D is very small. Deng said Albert, LED enterprises focus on opening up the market, but also in the product technology to do their homework. Industry experts pointed out that fanaticism development exposure industry defects, LED highbay light industry is facing a core technology constraints, lack of standards and funding stagnation pressure of the bottleneck, rely on the simple replacement of incandescent lines should change.
In the context of the national advocate energy saving and low-carbon economy, the momentum of rapid development of LED lighting industry. Ministry of Industry data show that 1-4 2011, LED industry investment to maintain rapid growth, the investment of more than 30 billion yuan, the growth rate of more than 90%, become a veritable hot spot for investment. At present, China has initially formed the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, the northern region, Jiangxi and Fujian four semiconductor lighting industry gathering area, wafer production, chip preparation, package integrated industry chain prima facie to constitute a LED applications.
Policy support, "Long-term Scientific and Technological Development Plan" will be energy-efficient, long-life semiconductor lighting products included in the key areas of priority themes "first priority themes. The local government also stepped up efforts to support the industry, this month, the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Department released the report on the organization of the second batch of provincial strategic emerging industries of special funds LED industry projects, "said 2011 will be arranged 450 million yuan focus support the development of LED industry.
However, with the favorable policies to promote the domestic LED industry development spurt exposure in addition to many other issues. Insiders said that the lack of core technology, liquidity poor as well as industry-standard deletion problem has seriously hampered the development of LED industry.
HC D & B ICT Division Deputy Director of the thick, LED epitaxial wafers and chips account for 70% of industry profits, packaging accounts for about 10% -20%, LED applications account for about 10% -20%. At present, more than 4,000 LED enterprises, mostly in the packaging and downstream sectors, the industry's most critical substrate materials technology, wafer production of core equipment, technology patents long been monopolized by foreign enterprises. MOCVD (GaN films on special equipment, GaN is the main material used to make the LED light-emitting diode) epitaxial furnace and its supporting technology LED industry chain is the most high-end, mainly rely on imports situation has greatly restricted the upstream industry chain costs control.
This is exactly one of the reasons for the high price of LED high bay light products. Albert Deng introduced nowadays government procurement accounted for a larger proportion of the LED lighting products, followed by industrial and hotel lighting, the proportion of civilian procurement few. He said Levin Di products are mainly exported to Japan, not heavily invested in the mainland market is considered one of the reasons is often more than incandescent, more than ten times the price, consumers can also be difficult to accept. Albert Deng predicted that the future LED industry will show a polarization of the situation, either with core technology as the industry giant, either by industry reshuffle restructuring or closure of loss of competitiveness.
In addition to the technical constraints, LED lighting also face the embarrassment of the lack of testing standards. Deng said Albert, the company's products in Japan has passed PSE certification, but there is a lack of domestic industry standard, lack of standards in terms of product specifications and energy measurement.
Liang Meng, Senior Fellow of the Institute of Finance of the People's Bank of China is the People's Daily reporter admitted that some energy companies has become a "changing a light bulb company can achieve the kind of energy-saving effect, change the light bulbs in the building again, what a lack of detection standards.
Testing standards, the product is good or bad can not tell. "Albert Deng said, there are differences around application standards are not uniform, resulting in a cross-regional open up the market met with resistance. More importantly, in recent years, LED lighting landscape lighting and road lighting over large areas, the lack of standards will result in low-end redundant construction, waste of resources is not conducive to long-term development of the industry. Industry, cross-regional open up the market met with resistance.
Learned from the National Lighting Appliance Committee for Standardization, there are 12 basic validation standards for LED lighting by these standards if all goes well after the relevant administrative departments for examination and approval, is expected to soon promulgated and implemented.
Core technology, the lack of specification testing standards, the lack of liquidity more direct impact on the LED lighting business. Albert Deng introduced early factories, research and development, promotion and other costs have accounted for the enterprise part of the funds, part of the LED companies provide free products to rely on energy management contract to recover funds, allow some companies to come to the edge of collapse.
"Securities Daily" reported that the forthcoming semiconductor lighting "12th Five-Year Plan" With the announcement of the national standards of LED products, LED products is likely to include enjoy financial subsidies, industrial lighting, commercial lighting may start.
But the thick, pointed out, the the LED enterprise blindly rely on government financial subsidies unrealistic, how the core technology and excellent quality products to win market recognition is the key. He also pointed out that the simple idea to rely on LED lighting products to replace ordinary incandescent need to change, should work hard in the terminal application of innovation.

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