Panasonic intends to 2018 to expand the lighting business to 400 billion yen!

According to Japanese media reports, the Panasonic Corp said the day before, fiscal year 2018 will bring the lighting business sales revenue from 2015 in fiscal year 320 billion 300 million yen to 400 billion yen.

Panasonic LED lighting large shipments, the world's leading technology, the market share of the lighting market in Japan up to about 4. Panasonic believes that in Japan, LED lighting will gradually become popular, but the traditional lighting sales will decline, the market outlook is not optimistic. Prior to this, Panasonic's lighting business in addition to residential and store lighting appliances, as well as LED bulbs and lighting parts, in the future, Panasonic will focus on the business of office and road lighting and other non residential areas.

LED headlight is also one of the focal points of Panasonic lighting in recent years. In 2015, a new type of semiconductor laser was fabricated by using aluminum nitride material. The output power of the laser was increased to 4.5W and the irradiation distance was increased to 700 meters, which represented the highest level of LED lamp. Panasonic plans to use the technology in 2019. In May 9, 2016, Matsushita and Xingyu shares signed a "strategic cooperation agreement, both sides will expand strategic cooperation in the field of electronics LED automotive lighting, automotive sensors.

Panasonic had previously announced that the fiscal year 2018 will be the European lighting business sales revenue increased from 2014 yen in fiscal year 30 billion to $36 billion. Panasonic believes that Europe and Japan compared to LED penetration is still low, there is room for growth in the future will be based on the relevant parts of the LED lighting market development.

Japanese manufacturers, Toshiba out of the Chinese lighting market. Recently, Anhui Konka Green Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. and Toshiba official handover. Konka officially received Toshiba lighting business in China, involving an amount of over 1 billion yuan. Through this agreement, Konka lighting also won the Toshiba lighting in mainland China, Hongkong market, the use of TOSHIBA Toshiba brand.

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