Expansion of production overcapacity caused by the tide, the galaxy sapphire manufacturers have had a difficult time

The application of sapphire substrate market, Apple has not imported iPhone protective cover, plus the LED industry downturn, in the past few years off the expansion wave hit the sapphire industry, Taiwan factory Ruijie (5256) closed Mandarin factory; the peak (8121) flag down the deficit high real tired spotlight electric capital 1/2, remarkable operating plight of crystal; the United States has been revoked in July this year, emerging stock listing.

Sapphire crystal rod factory, once because Apple intends to use for screen protective cover, and set off an investment boom, but because the price too high, sapphire cover can not be replaced by the original Corelle gorilla glass, Apple's main partners very advanced technology (GTAT) declared bankruptcy in October 2014, another main application of LED industry downturn hit. Upstream sapphire crystal rods, substrate supply chain.

The day before the factory closed, Ruijie, factory capacity is Guoguang pay expenses according to the company's statistics, the factory for the production of 2 inch chip, the effective capacity of 275 thousand pieces per month, only 14 thousand, accounting for revenue ratio of 4.82%.

For the Department of Taiwan PSS Ruijie patterned sapphire substrate manufacturers, PSS products can enhance the brightness of blue LED 30%, its customers include crystal electric (2448), the new century (3383) and Blu ray LED LED chip factory factory, trading this year against the wind, the first three quarters of the deficit by more than market expectations, the factory started production or is big transformation, joint impact upstream material suppliers. As for whether the market to alleviate? Crystal electricity that the sapphire substrate is still oversupply situation.

The flag down from the peak electric light tired deficit of more than the amount of paid in capital of 1/2, 16 held temporary shareholders' meeting, the peak is a passive element core factory, Taiwan investment for the photoelectric sapphire factory, because of the price and demand are not much improvement, the peak due to hold a stock right up to the electric condenser 84%, Taiwan before a loss in the three quarter also drag more peak earnings, the peak of the first three quarters of this year loss of NT $256 million, net loss per share of 1.4 yuan nt.

The current downturn also impact firms listing plan, have resigned due to U.S. grain brokerage brokerage counseling, in July this year has been revoked emerging listing.

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