For the LED lighting market in Sichuan enterprises can catch up from behind

The evening of December 15, 2009, 1246 LED (semiconductor light-emitting diode) efficient energy-saving lamps to illuminate the streets of Chengdu hi tech west of the 13. These street lights have more than 10 domestic and international patents, life of up to 50 thousand hours. The total cost of up to 24 million yuan of the project, the purchase price is $6 million 930 thousand lamps.

In May last year, the Ministry of science and technology to implement the Ten City million application engineering pilot, to drive the development of LED lighting industry. Chengdu ten city million pilot leading group revealed that by the end of 2011, the city will install more than 10000 LED street lamp, the installation of more than 5000 LED tunnel lights. After the introduction of favorable policies have led to the lighting industry giants have set foot in the LED market.

Sichuan enterprises to face market

As Chengdu's first "ten city lights" project lighting manufacturers, R & D lighting Ltd. Sichuan Sony started LED lighting products in the early 2003, and have been in Beijing and other places to complete more than 100 LED lighting project.

Zhang Ming, chairman of Sony light source, said the company will seize the "Ten City million" promotion of the machine, and strive to develop in May 2010 than the current market price of 50%-60% civil energy-saving lamps.

In Chengdu Shuangliu Southwest Airport Economic Development Zone, Sichuan grand Technology Co. Ltd. invested thousands of yuan of energy-saving LED lighting production line will be put into use, the general manager Li Kejie said that next year will be with the enterprises in the supply chain including the Pearl River Delta, the depth of cooperation, more large-scale mass production.

At present, the "beachhead" of the domestic LED market is the largest action Sichuan Jiuzhou Optoelectronics Technology Co., ltd.. As the only province covering the LED industry chain of large state-owned enterprises, Jiuzhou in 2005 on the packaging and application as the entry point into the LED industry. At the beginning of 2008, Jiuzhou LED semiconductor lighting industrial base a project completed and put into production, the formation of an annual output value of 1 billion 200 million yuan of scale, after completion, will form an annual output value of 20 billion yuan of scale, and become one of the three LED semiconductor lighting industry manufacturing base.

It is reported that Sichuan currently has a total of more than and 30 enterprises and research units engaged in the development and production of semiconductor lighting, mainly in Chengdu and Mianyang.

Short board restrictions on Industrial Development

The data show that the average 2001-2008 growth in China LED market sales rate of 28%. by LED at the speed of development and the trend estimates, the domestic LED lighting market size in 2010 will reach 100 billion yuan, in 2015 reached 150 billion yuan.

LED as a new type of solid-state cold light source, low energy consumption, long life, green environmental protection, more than 90% of the traditional incandescent lamp, fluorescent lamp and fluorescent energy-saving lamps more than 60%. However, due to the high cost, LED energy saving lamps are mainly used in the road lighting and urban lighting project in the use of electricity, has not yet entered the homes of ordinary people.

Zhang Ming said that the research reasons of LED prices remain high is the core technology of the master chip in a few European lighting giant hands, packaging and product used in the production of domestic manufacturers currently only from Europe or Taiwan imported chips in the middle and lower reaches.

Professor Deng Hong of Institute of microelectronics and solid electronics, LED lighting costs from 60% chip, a fingernail sized chip price is not from the product itself, but its technical content.

The development of LED industry in Sichuan is in the initial stage, the scale of enterprises is generally small, leading enterprises have not yet formed, the market development ability is insufficient, the industrial agglomeration ability needs to be improved.

Technical or Chengchuan enterprises breakthrough

Some experts believe that the development of Sichuan LED industry, with its resources and technological advantages, is entirely possible to catch up from behind.

Provincial Science and Technology Department of high tech Cheng Yimin introduction, Sichuan province in the LED substrate material sapphire crystal and phosphor manufacturing has a number of patents, technology in the world are in a leading position. These two materials are the key materials in the upper and middle reaches of the LED industry chain.

Strong R & D strength is also the development of Sichuan LED lighting industry support. Sichuan currently has 1 million 553 thousand and 100 LED related science and technology professionals, the total number of professionals in the national series of fourth. Each year, more than 40 thousand students in microelectronics, new materials and Applied Physics and other related professionals, of which there are 1/3 in Sichuan.

Deng Hong believes that the Sichuan enterprises should make use of the comparative advantage, the development of ideas on key breakthrough in core technology, developed with independent intellectual property rights of key products, to form a complete industrial chain, thus forming a cluster development scale.

Sony light source, by virtue of the current international leading LED dedicated phosphor technology, will invest at least 100 million yuan upstream chip development.