Chinese LED enterprises export worries

Has been accused of LED lighting market disorderly competition seriously. Due to the lack of upstream core technologies, the young emerging market in the homogenization of competition inextricably bogged down in the mud. Small factories can produce, and then fight the price - this is a listed company issued by the helpless voice of technical staff.

Months, the European Union and the United States imported products to improve the standard of LED lighting industry adds haze, this also means that a total of more than 8 thousand LED enterprises export of the road will be more difficult to walk. Competition in the domestic market, but the price of small factories, small factories soon died; competition abroad, substandard products lead to export blocked, the market is difficult to collect.

Under this background, to establish and standardize the "standard" began to be more and more people call "". At the same time, the government is making efforts. Last month, the concern of the Guangdong LED benchmark system recommended product catalog, which shows that the industry is calling for a more orderly and healthy market.

Recently, the reporter in the "Shenzhen new lighting standard analytic Seminar on SGS China district consumer electronics division director Mr. Guan Junchao conducted an exclusive interview, the latest interpretation of LED standard for everyone to bring.

Detection of new features

Reporter learned that, according to the luminescence principle of LED, detection of overload state and biological safety requirements are particularly strict, which is different from the incandescent lamp, energy-saving lamp detection place. The detection of LED lamps, you must consider three aspects of safety, performance and energy efficiency.

Theory, LED can achieve up to 50 thousand hours of life, while the incandescent lamp is only 1500 hours. But the LED lamps sold on the market are uneven in quality, many consumers will spend high price for the LED lighting products, not only look forward to high efficiency and energy saving, on the contrary, often use less than a few weeks is not bright, flicker etc..

Guan Junchao told reporters, these are the example of the quality of the. Each test has content and index, corresponding to the strict implementation of the quality of the products, there will be a great improvement: "only an energy efficiency test, including light efficiency, energy efficiency index, 6000 hour survival rate, 6000 hours before the switch and a luminous maintenance rate cycle number, start time, preheating time, premature damage rate, the color rendering index, color stability, power factor and other content, not to mention the other test items. These must be strictly controlled clearance, in order to ensure that qualified lighting products. "

New requirements of environmental protection

Last month, energy-saving lamp recycling difficult "legacy" was a massive burst. Based on this, the environmental performance of LED has been raised again. Due to the different principles of luminescence, LED does not cause mercury pollution, but it does not contain other harmful substances is hard to say. Will not be able to walk the old road lights, but also to detect to check.

Guan Junchao said: "in Europe, has been forced to perform WEEE and RoHS instructions of discarded electronic products and it contains toxic substances were detected. In July 1, 2011 the European Union issued a new version of the RoHS directive 2011/65/EU, enforced in January 3, 2013. WEEE directive also released in July 4, 2012 a new version of the mandatory execution in February 14, 2014. "

This means that if the LED lamp China to export, must standard technical indicators in the two aspects. And this will not only be the international requirements, with the development of LED lighting market, the country will also be environmentally friendly products on the LED lamp similar requirements.

How to unify standards

Today, although the national LED enterprises up to more than 8 thousand, but more than half do not have their own core technology. And many LED manufacturers on the middle and lower reaches of the product has not been integrated. If detected, imported and domestic mixed together, different manufacturers to produce "part" mixed together, the standard will not be unified?

Guan Junchao said, "if you are detected according to the standard, the difference between standard and not too large. Because most of the testing standards are following the IEC standard system. North America has its own standards, but it will also use some of the IEC standards, or a lot of test items and IEC standards the same, so the test items and methods are similar. "

In addition to this, the lack of core technology of the LED lamp is a direct result of the price rise "". Today, there is no large-scale LED enterprises to enter the civilian market. In the "commercial" and "civilian" areas, LED lamps will be different?

Guan Junchao explained, "the testing standard is based on specific occasions of products and installation to the division, not in commercial and civil division. For example, an embedded LED lamp, it is the standard IEC 60598-2-2, if you shop at the store or factory, it is commercial, with residents in the home is civilian, but the same testing standards. "

Detection of mixed consciousness

At this stage, China's LED lighting lamp itself detection based on categories and different regions are divided into compulsory and voluntary regulations two.

Reporter interviewed a number of LED companies are people found that many large enterprises LED lamps will voluntarily strictly testing non mandatory parts. In their view, although this will increase the cost of some, but more conducive to consumer confidence, but also conducive to enter the international market.

How to that enterprises to participate in the detection of the situation? Guan Junchao said the company's sense of detection is uneven, relatively speaking, the larger companies and well-known enterprises pay more attention to testing and quality improvement.

While talking about the problems in the detection of enterprises and the expectations, Guan Junchao said