OSRAM in the new forest LED chip plant put into operation, the future will be expanded

OSRAM announced today, is located in Malaysia opened a new LED chip plant scheduled to start operation. OSRAM Group CEO Olaf Berlien at the opening ceremony for the factory said: "the factory opened according to the budget completion on schedule. OSRAM LED business to achieve the high growth rate of 19% in the near future, we are very pleased with this momentum, further expansion of production capacity. In a series of investment also proved that we as technological change and transformation to the high-tech company's efforts: ten years ago, the traditional lighting business OSRAM also accounted for 80%; today, 2/3 of OSRAM's sales are from the photoelectric semiconductor based business."

In November 2015, OSRAM announced a new LED chip plant in Kulim, is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2017 and put into operation, which is an important part of OSRAM's "diamond" innovation and growth plan. Now, this module can be the expansion of the plant has been put into operation, and the distance of announcing the plan only in the past 2 years, from the factory started just over half a year. As the first stage of completion of the plant, OSRAM has invested 370 million euros. Next, the factory will also carry out the two stages of expansion, the total investment will reach 1 billion euros, including expanding the LED assembly capacity in OSRAM's global alliance in the factory.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors division chief executive Aldo Kamper stressed that the factory has opened a very considerable productivity, "a series of factory production for a week, will New York, Hongkong, Berlin and the Rio city street lighting all the renovation of LED." If the whole world of street lighting are upgraded to LED, opened a factory specifically for the production of only 5 and a half years. Compared with the traditional street lighting, LED lighting can be nearly 80% energy saving. In addition, color stability and brightness LED lamp has more excellent speed, when the streets are empty, the lighting brightness can be reduced.

Blue LED chip OSRAM opened a factory can produce white light through the conversion layer. The chip can be used for general lighting (as mentioned above public street lighting), can also be used for building facade lighting, private and commercial lighting, lighting and billboards and plant lighting and other special applications. By 2018, the global LED general lighting market is expected to reach 6 billion euros, of which about 6% for street lighting. The market is expected to 2020, the average annual growth rate of 7%. 2018, optoelectronic components (including general lighting) the overall market size will reach 17 billion 500 million euros.

The factory opened second stages completed, OSRAM also plans to LED chips for automotive lighting and video projection and other high-end applications in series production. The factory site is located in a green area, so in the design of a high degree of freedom. In addition, the new factory still represents the latest technology. Compared with the 4 inch LED chip technology, 6 inch wafer production system in a single cycle per wafer can produce 125% more.

OSRAM is currently in the global investment, with six factories in the production of the expansion of the LED network. Therefore, OSRAM is also in the expansion of the Regensburg factory, the factory currently has 2500 employees, and plans to recruit 1000 staff. The factory mainly for the production of advanced LED laser diode chip and high quality automobile headlight, and infrared diode on sensors. These sensors can be applied to the mobile phone in face recognition or vehicle intelligent auxiliary system (such as vehicle distance control).

In addition, OSRAM will also expand in Germany Schwab Ming Hing factory. The future, OSRAM will clean room at the factory for the production of LED raw materials. Exeter city in the United States, OSRAM and another factory in the main parts of the production of LED. In China Wuxi, OSRAM is chip assembly for LED products will enhance the back-end production capacity, such as a light emitting diode shell and some of the major optical element package. In Malaysia, there are a series of nearby Penang factories in the production and assembly of LED chip.

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