What kind of opportunities and challenges facing for LED highbay lights industry in 2013

2012, LED highbay lights industry ups and downs, endless variety of accidents, the industry battered, but not through wind and rain, how rainbow. Outlook 2013, LED industry will face the opportunities and challenges of how to do?

Patent expires, LED packaging companies or welcome an opportunity to

Hanlaishuwang spring and autumn, from the world's first practical visible spectrum light-emitting diode (LED) was born until now, LED industry has spent 50 Spring. In October 2012, held by GE LED invention of the 50th anniversary meeting, LED Kaishanzushi Holonyak said, LED is in the "infancy." Visible, LED technology innovation is vast, and get original patent is still a lot of opportunities. Then, in 2013, China's LED enterprises can have the opportunity to break through the blockade of international companies patent? LED industry in turn what kind of patent breakthrough? LEDinside Xiaobian throw "special" a jade, especially with your guess under 2013 patent trends. Generally there, there was no specific, time being the reference:

Patent expires, LED packaging companies or welcome opportunity. As we all know, the global LED industry, patents have been firmly grasp the Cree, Philips, Osram, Nichia and Toyoda Gosei's hands ......

Branded channels, spring Butterfly general lighting market

2012 China's LED industry dismal, especially international markets tightening, so inertia and lack of core technology export Chinese LED enterprises suffered orders scarce torture. However, a number of research institutions and industry are generally optimistic forecast given that in 2013 the global LED market will pick up a whole, presented to the Chinese LED enterprises glimmer of hope.

In mainland China LED market, fiery government bidding for many LED companies swarm, from the profits of listed companies involved in perspective, over-reliance on government projects apparently can not hold up the umbrella business survival; simultaneously, subject to the entire LED downstream impact of relative surplus production capacity, engineering units will be subject to increased cost of sales, payment cycle is longer, the recovery of funds increases the risk of many other adverse factors, and thus no longer a mainland China LED companies keen meat and potatoes ......

Collapse reshuffle, market competition winner

"This year the LED market will usher in the real outbreak," chairman Li Xuliang Kingsun recently told Yangcheng Evening News reporter an exclusive interview, said: "Two years ago the LED industry 'entree' No, businesses wanted to eat 'appetizer' Results anyone hungry. 2013, LED 'entree' to start the table, but there will be some companies starve. "

Industry experts predict that 13 years remaining epitaxial chip companies will be less than 30, three domestic MOCVD equipment manufacturers appear, but due to the presence of imports large area MOCVD machine stop state localization MOCVD machine difficult to have the stage show; And with More large-scale expansion of LED packaging companies, small and medium sized packaging factory continent will face the crisis of closure; 2013 known as the Chinese LED market expansion important year, analysts predict LED highbay lights, spotlights in the mainland market penetration will exceed 30% ......

Chip prices stumble endlessly, supply chain structure DIPLOMAT

Because handheld devices and LED lighting products related needs, in 2013 the global LED production value will reach $ 12.4 billion, compared with 2012 growth of 12%, but the overall LED industry oversupply in the short term can not be resolved. Over the past two years combined with domestic and foreign enterprises to invest in China LED chip production process is the most critical equipment MOCVD, is not difficult to infer China LED structural overcapacity situation will continue in 2013 in, LED chip prices fall further, in the upper reaches corporate earnings will be compressed, and the LED supply chain will appear Structural Integration.

Since the beginning of 2009, LED lighting, long-term growth prospects attracted many enterprises to join Chinese LED industry. According to statistics, as of mid-2012, accounting for about 90% of global giants of the China International LED LED supply chain a huge investment, and Chinese enterprises in the LED lighting industry chain is also about $ 4,080 invested one hundred million yuan of which the upstream chip The investment of 1,960 billion yuan, accounting for nearly half the lighting investment.

Innovation and lack of talent, poaching into shortcuts

Current, LED generally believe, LED industry in the future will be the survival of the fittest situation. Enterprises to develop and improve core competitiveness and nurture talent is very important. LED triumph of these years, the industry has not established a mature talent training mechanism, the lack of fresh blood input, sustainable development, lack of stamina.

Epitaxial silicon industry chain upstream of talent most scarce. In MOCVD equipment, for example, the United States and Germany AIXTRON VEECO two companies of the global market share of 90% to 95%, although the Japanese equipment is more advanced, but the basic for their own personal use, rarely exported. Many companies do not understand the actual situation of the mainland, to think that the device can be directly put into production. In the money spent on the purchase of equipment after the United States and Germany, only to find the lack of knowledgeable, experienced real talent to commissioning and operation of the device. These companies had to from Taiwan and South Korea and other places of business people to meet their urgent needs paid digging ......

China LED industry chain integration accelerated, save for the king

LEDinside that, in analyzing the LED industry consolidation, the media did not really pay attention to play the role of Taiwan's LED business importance. With the LED packaging market overcapacity and mainland China LED industrial upgrading, will inevitably lead to some mainland enterprises to turn to Taiwan-based enterprise areas of expertise. It is estimated that in 2013 three safety photoelectric LED chip production capacity will exceed the leading manufacturers in Taiwan chip Epistar and Everlight. Beginning this year, Taiwan-based companies have felt profound threat mainland enterprises; stake in Formosa Epitaxy Sanan before, Ronda and power alliance, or is widely gallium and Epistar LED companies also have realized that the mainland will inevitably erode Taiwan-based enterprise territory, and to make preparations in advance.

Meanwhile, the Taiwan-funded enterprises are also actively joint venture set up factories in mainland China, hoping mainland capital and market capacity advantages, expand its market share and profits. Epistar early 2010 investment in factories in Xiamen, posterior segment blue LED production process. June 2012 ......

Industrial transfer, foreign swallow like a whale, local infighting

With the rapid development of LED market, benefit from the national five-year plan and the strong support of the local government under the mainland LED industry has taken shape in the Bohai Sea, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and other three regional cluster development of the overall industry spatial pattern. Among them, the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta, China's LED industry is most concentrated areas, middle and lower reaches relatively complete industrial chain, focused on the country over 80% of the relevant enterprises, but also the mainland LED industry fastest growing region, industry comprehensive obvious advantages, and LED-related equipment and raw material suppliers have settled in these two regions. In addition, the mainland's huge market potential to attract more and more international LED giant turned to China, adjust their strategies to intensify the layout in China, will be industrial transfer to China, and increase efforts to open up the Chinese market. And on China domestic market, LED industry also staged a gradient transfer migration movements ......

Light efficiency contest, challenge the limits, not the most light, only brighter

Luminous efficiency has been a contest of various manufacturers can not lose the war, CREE invincible in the lighting market is not only the success of its marketing strategy, and more is technically light efficiency records constantly refresh their customers the ability to continue to bring technological competitiveness. 2012 among firms that are not easy to catch, but opened a larger gap. The emergence of GaN homoepitaxial, but there is a bend in the brightness of the intention to overtake. The Taiwan factory Formosa Epitaxy, it is claimed that the whole lamp finished luminous efficiency 230lm / W Guards records.

However, although the release nPola Seoul Semiconductor single chip 500lm luminous flux to the message, but in the end is how much of the input power has been cited without hair, so there is a lot of light effects outside of their reverie. Mitsubishi and its suppliers own the substrate to become the first customer of this product, almost homegrown, ambiguous which was really interesting. Seoul can expect in 2013 openly reveal the answers ......

"GaN-on-Si" carve up the market, nPSS into a new popular

Material from the substrate, the silicon substrate afraid to previous years the threat theory into reality challenges, Toshiba on December 14, 2012 announced the development of LED lighting for white GaN-on-Si ( silicon nitride) LED chips "TL1F1 series (1W)", and will start from late December to 10 million / month scale production. Initial dose is 10KKPCS power, nothing else, 2013 GaN-on-Si is likely to enter the market share of LED digit percentage, within a few years it is possible to two-digit percentage, and sapphire, SiC-thirds world.

The graphical substrate technology in 2012 to become the extension of the technology companies competing to the second half of 2012, using the rate of over 70%. But in 2013 nPSS may become the new mainstream, nPSS contact method using nano-imprint is on the template and the substrate parallel nano has an extremely demanding, Stripping, exhaust and pollution will make the master batch is very difficult ......

States to accelerate the standardization process industries, 2013, or as a "standard of"

Each country's technological culture and habits, will be reflected in its industrial standards and legal provisions, while the LED industry is no exception. In the past few years, countries have introduced LED industry certification, standards, or the establishment of trade union organizations, is intended to regulate the industry as early as possible of the LED industry into chaos on track. Outlook 2013, the face of the widespread and continuing product quality, specifications and performance issues, "standardized" no doubt will continue to be the industry keywords.

EU Member States in order to protect its people's lives and property safety, gradually worked out a lot of machinery, low voltage electrical products, electromagnetic compatibility, product safety directive, etc. These products are more mandatory by the approved certification body to perform validation, to obtain proof shall be affixed CE mark can only be sold in the EU countries. It is worth emphasizing that, in December 2012, the EU published in the Official Gazette on directional lights.

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