Can not afford to go to the embarrassment: LED lamps export price less than half of the United States and Japan

According to the from Quanzhou entry-exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau was informed that the first 7 months of this year in our city the new LED light source lamp export price is about $6.4. And this price, less than half of the United States, Japan, LED lamps prices.

Price not go

Get into the low end

It is understood that in recent years because the LED chip prices decline, which led to the LED lamp has 3, the current average price of 30 yuan - 100. The first 7 months of this year in our city the new LED light source lamp exports of 9 million 153 thousand and 200 units (sets), the value of $59 million 439 thousand and 400, according to reporters rough estimate, each Taiwan (sets) the price is about $6.4, which is about 40 yuan, the lowest price is only slightly higher than the industry.

And Japan, the United States and other enterprises to produce LED product prices are far apart. Insiders pointed out that the United States LED lighting market price of about $40 in 2011, is expected to fall sharply to $15 in 2010. While Japan's five largest traditional lighting manufacturers SHARP, Toshiba and other LED lighting products launched in June 2011, the lowest retail price reached $18. This price level is about three times the price of LED lamps.

competitive convergence

The more squeezed the profit

Determine the core part of the LED lamp price is the chip, accounting for about LED lamps cost at least 1/3. Chips are different, the price difference is very large. Insiders pointed out that the most expensive is the U.S. chip, followed by the Japanese chip and the German chip, while the lower the price of domestic chips, its heat dissipation is also poor.

Analysts pointed out that, due to the late start, compared to developed countries in Europe and the United States, the domestic LED industry regardless of market size or technical aspects there is a considerable gap. The main reason is the lack of core patents, especially the most critical white light, high power LED lamp thermal balance problem, has been the United States and Japan monopoly, suppress the development of China's industry.

In fact, this is not difficult to circumvent the problem of Quanzhou LED industry. In the LED industry chain, Quanzhou enterprises are mainly distributed in the packaging, application, such as the middle and lower reaches of the upper reaches of the substrate, epitaxial wafers, chips rarely involved. While the latter accounted for about 70% of the industry's profits, the former accounted for only 30%.

Quanzhou LED industry technology innovation strategic alliance Chairman Huang bridge pointed out that Quanzhou currently has two hundred or three hundred LED enterprises, engaged in chip R & D and production of only a company in Jinjiang, in fact, there is no innovation and development, is to do the processing, low value-added products. As the industrial chain is not perfect, the mode of the enterprise and the product are similar, the vicious competition among enterprises is mainly reflected in the low price competition.

On downstream cooperation

Breaking patent barriers

Quanzhou entry-exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau Inspection lighting experts pointed out that Japan and the United States holds the core technology industry, due to the technical blockade, local enterprises get is always two or three stream technology and products, and the application of these technologies constantly produced products have to face the risk of patent infringement claims of others.

"However, in two or three years, a number of important core areas of white LED patent will have spent 20 years of patent protection, this is some of the more powerful Quanzhou enterprises involved in the upstream industry chain, the core technology, R & D investment opportunity. "Yellow River Bridge said.

In addition, some of the core technology for the development of enterprises, experts suggest that you can consider the upstream and downstream cooperation. For example, Xiamen LED leading enterprises in the industrial chain upstream chip technology research and development to occupy a leading position, but in the downstream product applications, packaging production force is weak, while the spring enterprises have advantages in this regard. This brings the cooperation space, LED enterprises to carry out the division of the industrial chain, leading enterprises in the industry upstream technology research and development, SMEs can be expanded through the application, packaging links.