Enter the international market of LED lamps, obtain attestation is urgent

Is generally believed that 2012 will be LED lighting off year, the reason is of course many countries began to disable the incandescent lamp, and Chinese, semiconductor lighting will be included in the seven strategic emerging industries; this year (2012) for more than 10 million LED lamps. In addition, at the beginning of this year, the South Korean market, replace the 40 Watt LED bulb has fallen below $10, a variety of factors make people believe that the spring of LED lamps is not far away, business opportunities everywhere.

Especially the relatively mature international market, is the LED lighting industry eager to cut the area. However, to cut into the global LED lighting market, it is in line with the norms of the first priority. For example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promote the energy star (Energy Star) is the major LED lighting export enterprises should pay attention to the threshold.

Energy Star logo is jointly created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Environmental Agency, EPA) and the Department of energy (Department of Energy, DOE), designed to ensure that the energy efficiency of the products listed in line with regulatory requirements of. Since January 1, 2011, all new products made by the manufacturer to participate in the Energy Star program, through the EPA accredited certification bodies (EPA-recognized CB) audit, and complete the approval test according to the specific conditions (Qualification Testing), in order to use the energy star label. Therefore, LED lamps must meet the corresponding safety requirements before entering the U.S. market.

Access to the U.S. market, energy star for the threshold

The development of Energy Star lighting products standard, if from the light source, LED light source can be divided into early and traditional light source, LED light source lighting products including LED lamp and LED lamp, the traditional light source lighting products including the use of incandescent lamp, HID lamp, lamp fluorescent lamp and compact fluorescent light bulbs. According to the information provided by the UL testing center in Nansha pointed out that the current energy star lighting product standards are being integrated. There are four kinds of lamps and lanterns product specification: lamp, integrated LED bulb, compact energy-saving lamp and decorative lamp string. These specifications were developed by the United States EPA and DOE, but because of the existence of the requirements are not uniform, covering fewer products and other shortcomings, has long been unable to fully meet the needs of the industry. Therefore, the current standard will be integrated into three parts, namely, lamps, household (replacement) bulbs and decorative lamp string. Different product types should meet different standards.

Nansha UL Testing Center mentioned above, UL was established in Guangzhou Nansha Chinese detection service center, not only can provide testing services complete for clients in the Greater China region (Verification Services), including commodity testing, inspection and audit projects, more will help manufacturers from product design to final time input the production process, leading to more cost-effective and comprehensive management platform, and further strengthen the quality management of the retail supply chain.

UL Testing Service Center for LED lamps, including home appliances, consumer electronics, lighting equipment and other electrical and electronic products, service reliability testing, performance testing and energy efficiency testing, the establishment of a service center is the second New Zealand, American and British testing center, the first stronghold of UL testing services in Asia expand the. UL vice president and general manager of Greater China Zhou Weifang said: "the US energy star is the United States government led energy saving certification program, has been the majority of North American buyers and consumers. UL is active in the Greater China region to establish local testing capabilities, in order to provide one-stop service for manufacturers and provides the security and efficiency of authentication, further help on both sides of the three manufacturers to accelerate the export rate of the North American market."

It is understood that the internal UL testing center of Nansha and build the world's leading lighting laboratory, advanced testing equipment, the laboratory has a world class, including the integral ball and LM-80 testing system, the new distributed brightness meter. UL can be used for lighting equipment and other electrical and electronic products, providing optoelectronic performance testing and energy efficiency testing services. In addition, UL Testing Service Center lighting source LED lamps testing laboratory, is currently the world's largest LED lamps and light source performance testing laboratory.

Because the United States market is huge, each verification unit all strive for relevant qualifications. For example, appropriate technology has just passed the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority TAF (TAF) in LED LM-80 (luminous maintenance rate) of the accreditation, the accredited representative xuante authorized LED factory to LM-80 test report xuante execution will become a formal document to apply for EPA the energy star certification, enabling LED vendors to enter the American market. It was founded in 1994 and has been established in Taiwan, Shanghai, Hsinchu, Kunshan, Beijing, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Japan, Asia and Silicon Valley.

United States electric light source packaging, need to add a new label

In addition to the energy star requirements of LED lighting, the Federal Trade Commission and the provisions since June 2011, the electric light source in the packaging of sales in the United States on the need to add a new label, do not meet the new requirements of the light source volume will not be allowed for sale in the United states. The new regulations, the label will replace the original single to power to distinguish between various types of electric light source model, increase the luminous flux, the annual energy cost, average life, temperature, amount of mercury and electric light source energy efficiency and toxic and harmful substances related information. The new labels will enable consumers to clearly identify the different light source of energy-saving and environmental protection level, in encouraging the use of self ballasted fluorescent lamps, LED lamps and other energy-efficient products at the same time, the low efficiency of the incandescent lamp light source products