IKEA said in September at LED light looking through the silicon substrate technology to reduce costs

You will remember the last year, IKEA announced that from the beginning of September 2015, IKEA stores in the world can you find a non LED lamp they want to sell all the bulbs are replaced by energy-efficient LED lighting. In fiscal year 2014, this ratio has reached to 75%. Compared to incandescent bulbs, these bulbs can save 85% of electricity, the life of the former is only a factor of 20.

If it can be done, it will be a big deal. In IKEA, you can spend 5 to buy a $7 Sbasan energy saving light bulbs, the same, you can also spend $49 to buy a 6.3 watts, the size of the same as the Ridel LED bulb. In order to get used to the low price of the consumer in the fall or can find a suitable light bulb in IKEA, IKEA had to quickly reduce costs.

Aledia is a French start-up LED technology company, in the just concluded B round of financing, it received a $31 million investment. One of the new investors is GreenTech IKEA (IKEA), a company that was founded in 2008 and is owned by IKEA, which typically invests in green energy and green food companies in europe.

This is the third time IKEA has invested in LED. Prior to this, the Swedish company also invested in Japan's LED technology company El-Seed Corp. Last August, Ltd Design LED Products LED, they invested in a Scotland, the company's LED lighting products use a special thin tiles, low price, and can be "tiles" seamless stitching into various shaped lamps.

IKEA's new investment in the use of Aledia 200 mm diameter, even larger silicon substrate Gan to reduce the cost of LED lamps.

In a statement related to the financing of Aledia, IKEA green technology, said they believe this low-cost LED lighting technology allows customers to spend less money on the LED lights, and eventually spread to the global family. Low LED technology so that consumers and investors are full of interest. Aledia CEO, co-founder Giorgio Anania said, this round of financing was oversubscribed. "

At the same time Aledia and another investor in the world's second largest by Valeo lighting company (Valeo) signed a supply contract, but did not mention whether to supply IKEA. In an interview in May this year, Zhu Changlai, general manager of IKEA China retail, told reporters that IKEA's current LED suppliers in china. This is similar to the era of energy saving lamps, IKEA also chose to work with Chinese companies at the time - they usually provide a more attractive price.

But the situation may change in the future. Clean and efficient energy in this matter, IKEA recently some radical". At the beginning of June, IKEA announced plans to invest 1 billion euros in the next five years to invest in new energy and other climate change programs.

For IKEA, this is a great number of great? You can come up with another figure, understand IKEA's ambitions in the retail sector is still much greater: IKEA intends to reach an annual revenue of 50 billion euros in 2020. To this end, IKEA will open more stores in emerging markets, and through the improvement of the design to further promote the cost of flat packaging.

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