2009 global LED market trends five

Back in time, the beginning of 2008, the global energy prices, with the advantages of energy saving LED has become a popular star industry, and constantly have new manufacturers across the LED industry. Optimistic about the LED industry in the lighting market and LCD backlight market penetration growth, continued expansion. In an optimistic market situation, the third quarter of 2008 by the global financial tsunami, the market demand in addition to instant freezing, lighting and other emerging market penetration is not as high as expected, Christmas light string, small size display backlight both market by consumers purchasing power decline, showing a decline phenomenon.

Due to a slowdown in demand, consumption at the beginning of the year to expand its production capacity, product price leads to huge downward movements, the overall market sentiment from prosperity to recession, but growth in the first half on the market, the negative effects brought by the offset part of the second half of the market downturn, in 2008 the global LED market in 2008 compared with a slight increase of 3%, $6 billion 760 million.

2009 LED industry trends outlook

1, the market showed negative growth

By the impact of the global financial tsunami, consumer spending capacity fell sharply, delaying or reducing the purchase of related electronic products. Companies also reduce advertising spending and capital expenditures, which will make the LED market demand fell. The Christmas light string as an example, in the past year to purchase a new market in Europe and the United States always light string, create each year -- one billion yuan Christmas business, but in 2008, affected by the financial turmoil, the repeated use of the purchase of the 2007 consumer products or reduce the purchase quantity, the 2008 Christmas lights market shrinking, the market phenomenon will be expected in 2009 continued.

Although the negative impact of such a huge, but because of the LED in the lighting market, LCD backlight market saturation is quite low. And LED has energy saving, multi color, long life and other characteristics, is conducive to the creation of a new selling point of the product, which will make the system vendors more active use of LED, in order to attract consumer attention and consumer spending. In this emerging market driven, will reduce the negative impact of the global economic recession, the global LED market is estimated to reach $6 billion 700 million in 2009, compared with a slight decline in 2008 1%.

2, government investment, driven by market demand

In order to save the global economic boom, governments continue to expand public investment in the construction, expect to drive economic growth. In all kinds of public construction investment in the city, including street lighting, landscape lighting, indoor lighting and other public buildings are the focus of government investment, such as the China ten city lights plan, LEDCity plan of the United States, the U.S. Department of defense in the Pentagon installation of LED lighting, the plan will be an important factor leading industry through LED the economic winter. In many public works in the market, the LED lamp as the focus of development, the main reasons are: (1) LED street price fell sharply, the LED lamp set the investment recovery period is shortened

(2) lights for outdoor lighting, people can actually feel the effect of street lamps, LED (3) the development of LED lighting technology is relatively mature, so the governments to promote LED lighting is mainly to promote the project.

3, product prices continued to decline

On the external environment analysis, LED need to narrow the price gap with the competitive light source, in order to expand the application market and market penetration. And the outbreak of the financial tsunami in 2008, resulting in sluggish market demand growth in 2009, leading to more intense competition in the market price. On the internal environment analysis, with the help of production technology and process equipment improvement, LED production costs continue to decline. Changes in both internal and external environment have driven LED product prices continued to decline, driven by LED in 2008, the unit price decline factors, will continue to affect the development of the industry, making LED products continued to decline.

4, the lighting market will continue to grow

The recent decline in energy prices, making LED, solar energy and other alternative energy needs to slow down, but the energy is limited, unlimited demand, the prospects for such energy industry in the future is still quite promising.

For the LED industry, the lighting market is the largest potential market, and with the improvement of LED light-emitting efficiency, as well as government subsidies or incentives, there are more and more applications in the field of LED to replace the traditional light source. LED is expected in the future development of the lighting market will be public and private, after the first business people, from small to large, from the point and the surface, the trajectory of development. Forecast 2009 lighting LED market will reach $630 million, an increase of 35% over the year of 2008.

5. Standards gradually formed to accelerate market applications

LED applications continue to expand, and the luminescence characteristics of light emitting structure, LED light source principle and traditional light sources, LED standard is gradually valued by the market, government and industry associations actively involved in the field of development, especially in the United States the most rapid development. The United States Department of energy (DOE) released in September 2007 Energy Star (EnergyStar) solid state lighting standard, according to the standard lamp luminous efficiency is divided into 2 stages, the first stage of the highest light efficiency required to achieve 35lm / W; the second stage must reach 70lm / W level, it refers to the live commercial lighting lamps for general lighting, such as kitchen cabinet lamp, desk lamp, downlight, lights, outdoor trails outdoor wall lamp etc.. In addition, DOE is expected in July 2009 through the LED product standard "EnergyStarCriteriaforintegralLEDlamps" for the use of LED as a light source to do a more clear specification, but also on the LEDReplaceMarket more clearly regulate the efficiency of LED must be equal to or higher than 25W incandescent lamp etc.. Therefore, with the LED lighting standards are becoming more and more complete, manufacturers have gradually followed the standards will be