Energy saving lamp prices soared 20% behind the scenes of 500 million hoarding phosphor

Energy-saving lamp since the middle of last month prices rose about 20%, which was recently visited some of the city lighting energy-saving lamps in the city dealers get the message. According to the survey, the price of energy-saving lamp fluorescent powder and its main raw material prices skyrocketing, 5 months. 10 times, each manufacturer production of a loss of 20% energy-saving lamps. This round of skyrocketing, in addition to the country to adjust the factors of the rare earth industry, the industry broke the news, there are 500 million of the company funded hoarding phosphor.

Energy saving lamp costs rose 20%

Shanghai Lighting Industry Association Deputy Secretary General Yu Liming said: now do energy-saving lamps, do more losses, do a loss of 20%, 30%. Investigation shows that there is a monthly loss of 1 million yuan enterprises, this loss has lasted for about 3 months.

According to Wang Riel Lighting Co. Ltd. introduced energy-saving lamp fluorescent powder accounted for more than 10% of the cost, so the fluorescent powder caused prices of energy-saving lamp market turmoil, the phosphor lamps for more than 10% of the cost of such claims, Yu Liming agrees.

About the rising cost of energy-saving lamps, careful calculations: each energy-saving lamps consume about 1 grams of fluorescent powder, according to 3300 yuan a kilogram, is 3.3 yuan per gram, the production of each energy-saving lamp fluorescent powder required cost is 3.3 yuan, according to the previous 300 yuan a kilogram to 0.33 yuan per gram. With 1 grams of powder, the cost is 3 cents, so now do a capillary (energy-saving lamp tube) only fluorescent powder costs rose 3 yuan.

Energy saving lamp prices rose 2 to $10

Visited the camp in the town of Lu Ying lighting 10 energy-saving lamp dealers, there are 9 dealers said that since mid July has begun to appear price phenomenon. Only 1 said so far there is no price increase, each lamp price ranging from 2 to 10 yuan.

According to a surname retailer, energy-saving lamps from the end of last year, there has been a slight price situation. At the end of last year, in early June of this year there have been price increases, but at the beginning of August apparent prices soared, rose about 30%, but the LED fluorescent powder lamp price does not appear less.

A PHILPS dealer, said: the number of different watts of energy-saving lamps prices are not the same, probably around 20%. A brand engineering lighting distributor, said: 13 watts rose by $5, up 55 watts of $10. "

The only one has not yet increased the price of the dealer said that manufacturers are discussing matters of price increases, price increases are inevitable.

Commission by letter: not received notice of price increases

Currently on the market sales of energy-saving lamps are divided into two kinds. One by the government through the promotion of energy-saving subsidies to the streets, communities, and the other is entirely market behavior, according to market demand for enterprises to adjust their own price.

According to the staff of City Economic and Information Technology Commission Energy Department introduced the national development and Reform Commission will host the annual energy-saving lamp bidding, the enterprises themselves offer, these energy-saving lamp is mainly for the community, street, far below the market price, the enterprise can get a part of government subsidies, but these enterprises should carry out strictly their sales according to the price in the next year, unless the development and Reform Commission issued a notice of price increases can be.

Fluorescent powder prices reversed 10 times

Wang Lighting Co., Ltd. manager Wang said that as early as a few years ago, the biggest increase in fluorescent powder is about 50%, even less than 1 times, and each time the price will rise after a fall. But this year 2, March, he obviously felt the price up, just a few months has been turned up about 10 times, the original about one kilogram of about $2000, now in the range of $3000 to $300.

Yu Liming also confirmed that low-grade fluorescent powder prices rose to 2800 yuan / kg, a little higher grade rose to $3300 / kg, or 3 million 300 thousand yuan a ton. She said: the price is rising from the second half of last year, but now up too fast, a little do not understand. "

Three color phosphor is an important raw material for the production of energy-saving lamps, and the raw material of phosphors is rare earth resources, China's rare earth resources account for more than half of the world's reserves. An important cause of phosphor soaring is the national policy for rare earth resources increasingly tight. In May 19th this year, the State Council on promoting the sustained and healthy development of rare earth industry, a number of opinions, in the future to carry out heavy blows to the rare earth industry, curb indiscriminate mining, malicious competition situation.

Behind the scenes boost store powder fried powder"

According to industry sources, the original one kilogram of phosphor can produce 20 Watt energy-saving lamps only about 450 do, earn 0.8 yuan a capillary can only earn 360 yuan a kilogram of fluorescent powder only, but if he sells direct fluorescent powder hoarding, can earn 2000 yuan a kilogram, you don't have to pay the wages of the workers and other additional costs therefore, some enterprises hoarding reselling fluorescent powder.

"Some manufacturers responded quickly," he said. "Some of the manufacturers have been buying a lot of money when they first started selling prices. Some rare earth manufacturers see prices go up so fast, still in a wait and see period, not eager to sell.

Insiders pointed out that the price of fluorescent powder rose so fast, there is speculation that the existence of the enterprise. Some companies saw a trend in the price of fluorescent powder, simply do not stop the production of energy-saving lamps, 2 hundred million of the total purchase of fluorescent powder, until the price to rise and then shot. But now, the phosphor transactions must be cash transactions, one of the PHILPS processors sigh said, the original production cycle is 80 days to return the funds, the purchase of fluorescent powder will give a period of capital turnover, must now cash transactions. Ming Kai Lighting Appliance Co., Ltd., said: "I think hoarding powder