LED lighting market poised

LED lighting is another key application market for LED. At present, the LED landscape lighting and LED street lamp is the rapid development of the market two application areas, the general lighting market is difficult to start in the short term, the cost is the biggest obstacle to the popularity of LED lighting. At this stage, the cost of LED lighting appliances is fluorescent lamps and HID (xenon lamp) appliances 5-10 times, resulting in high cost because of the unit brightness of the light source prices and peripheral components. White high power LED prices to be higher than the traditional lighting a lot, while lighting products also need heat sink, power and lens and other peripheral components. In the LED lighting market, due to the low price sensitivity of landscape lighting products, the market started earlier. 2004 -2008, China's landscape lighting LED market with an average annual compound growth rate of 42.8%. With the continuous decline in the cost per lumen, as well as the government's strong push, LED lighting market continues to accelerate the pace of development, the gradual expansion of the field of penetration.

For specific alternative products, the future of LED lighting is likely to replace halogen lamps. At present, the halogen lamp is mainly used in the shops and other commercial facilities, if it is replaced by LED lighting luminous efficiency better, can greatly reduce energy consumption, reduce operating costs of electricity, that is, the initial cost and operation cost of the total after 2-4 years will be cheaper than the existing source. On the other hand, the Ministry of science and technology in the country to carry out the Ten City million semiconductor lighting application engineering, LED street lamps as the focus of the promotion of products has become the focus of market attention. At present, the Ministry of science and technology has been established in Mianyang, Chengdu, Chongqing, Yangzhou, Xiamen, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Xi'an, Tianjin, Nanchang, Weifang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Fuzhou, Dalian, Harbin, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Shanghai 21 city pilot city for the project. In addition, the local governments have also developed a related semiconductor lighting development plan. Because LED lighting with high cost, while facing the lack of standard and heat dissipation performance needs to be improved, the power driving needs a series of new design, through its own development of the market in the short term is difficult to form a scale, the country and local government support, the LED lighting market is expected to enter a new development process.

In 2009 -2013 years, Chinese LED lighting market will show rapid development momentum, the amount from the point of view, the size of the market for LED Street compound annual growth rate will reach 38.8%, the size of the market for LED lighting landscape of the average annual compound growth rate will reach 21.7%, higher than the market average compound growth rate, the rapid development of the lighting market direct drive high power LED products more than 1W market demand.

From the business point of view, due to the large power products for higher technical requirements, CREE, OSRAM, Lumileds of European and American manufacturers have a strong competitive advantage, Chinese Taiwan enterprises with a good cost-effective products occupy a mid-range market, some domestic large-scale packaging enterprises such as Foshan country star in recent years in high power products is also made the progress is not small.

2009 -2013 China LED market size forecast (100 million yuan)

Source: CCID Consulting