LED vendors advantage is component integration

China's Taiwan region and trends ITRI Industrial Economics Research Center Deputy Director Lin Zhixun pointed out that from the current economic situation, LED is one of the few next year should not induced decline in industry. Last year, the global LED lighting market in Asia and emerging applications demand growth driven by $330 million, the annual growth rate of 60%, and has overtaken Japan to become the world's second largest after the United States of the lighting market. Estimated that by 2012 the global LED lighting market will grow to $1 billion 400 million, especially in architectural lighting and commercial lighting will be the most strong growth momentum, and at this stage Taiwan LED manufacturers the most advantage of the direction of development, is the integration of components.

According to the Institute statistics, the global lighting market size of $113 billion 200 million in 2007, compared with 2006 growth of 10%. Including lighting market size of about $91 billion 200 million, light source market size of about $22 billion. Because the electricity consumption will be more convenient, more lighting, so in 2007 the United States is still the world's largest lighting market, the global market share of about 20%, China in 2007 has surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest lighting market, accounting for about 17%. Among them, the LED lighting market size of about $330 million in 2007, the annual growth rate of 60%, mainly driven by demand growth in Asia, as well as the increase in the field of LED lighting manufacturers and other factors.

Lin Zhixun said that in recent years the lighting market consumer demand many changes, consider from the past focus on light not bright, the cost of evolution to the importance of safety and comfort, as well as the cost and energy saving etc.. Estimated that by 2012 the global LED lighting market will grow to $1 billion 400 million, mainly in the rising energy demand and energy prices driven by the growth of traditional light source technology with slow progress and bottlenecks, and application of technology to reduce the cost of LED, will also make the LED lighting application barrier is reduced greatly, also building lighting and commercial lighting will both become the main energy growth of LED lighting in the next few years.

Individual application market point of view, in terms of building lighting, Lin Zhixun said that the main application is still dominated by multi color, but the use of white LED gradually increased from 15% in the past to improve to 48%. Including garden lights, searchlights, step lights, balcony lights, such as the rapid growth of the use of white LED. According to the Institute estimates, architectural landscape lighting market size of about $151 million in 2007, Europe accounted for 32%, China, accounted for 31.2%, estimated in 2012 will grow to $684 million.

Commercial lighting includes font / contour lighting, consumer handheld lighting products, outdoor lighting and retail display lighting and so on. According to the Institute research statistics, in 2007 the global light / font outline lighting market size of about $46 million, estimated that by 2012 will grow to $100 million. Lin Zhixun pointed out that the current font lights / contour lighting market is still mainly used in small project properties mostly, the main customers for global large chain enterprises, including McDonald's, Wal Mart Wal-mart etc.. Due to the small size of the manufacturer and the phenomenon of territoriality, the United States is currently there are more than 6 thousand font lights / contour lighting manufacturers.

Consumer handheld lighting products, the global market size of about $43 million in 2007, is expected to grow to $100 million by 2012. Lin Zhixun said that the current LED outdoor lighting products in mainland China as the world's largest producer, Nichia and Lumileds and other international manufacturers have signs of decline. Use of high brightness LED products, and the price and reliability of the product market share can be the key to expand.

As for outdoor lighting, ITRI estimates, in 2007 the global LED outdoor lighting market size of about $8 million, in 2012 will grow to $41 million. Asia is the world's largest LED outdoor lighting applications market, especially in Taiwan and Mainland China to promote the most positive, such as from 2007 to 2008 have been announced on both sides of the LED street lamp standards and tender installation.

Retail display lighting 2007 scale of about $19 million, is expected to grow to $193 million by 2012. The utility model is mainly used in the display cabinet, and integrates the illuminated objects to highlight the commodity characteristics. LED lighting to replace the traditional light source market size of about $6 million to the United States accounted for about 35% of the regional market, accounting for about 40% of Europe, mainly by the 2012 market size is expected to grow to $93 million.

Source: Lean news