Halogen lamp oversupply GE lighting production line to suspend production

According to foreign media reports, GE lighting is located in the production base of the city of Ohio, a halogen lamp production line from November 24th (next Monday) will be suspended for six weeks in order to ease the current situation of oversupply.

Soft White halogen lamp on Circleville production line

This line mainly produces a halogen lamp called "Soft White". The company said that the suspension will be affected by 50 employees, half of which will be transferred to other positions in the production base. The production line last year moved back to the United States from abroad, and created 50 jobs, a total of 233 employees in the production base.

Company spokesman Alicia Gauer said the production line will resume operations in January 5th, when employees will return to their original posts.

When asked whether the Soft White sales are expected, Gauer said: Soft White is one of the most popular bulbs on the market, we expect this situation will continue until 2015. As for the temporary suspension of the end of the year only with customer demand and capacity adjustment results. "

In addition, GE lighting and a Soft White production base in the United States Bucyrus, Gauer said she could not determine whether the plant will be shut down.

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