Incandescent lamp is still in the sale of LED to win the long way to go

After years of savings in power, with the October 1st incandescent elimination order to take effect, LED lamps and incandescent lamps between a vigorous tug of war officially kicked off. An interview with reporters yesterday found that, despite a boost in energy saving and environmental protection policies and other factors, but there are LED lamps in front of 130 years of using the inertia and the obvious price advantage of incandescent lamp, energy-saving lamps and the balance of power, to win the game, there is still a long way to go.

Incandescent lamps are still on sale with LED lights to start a protracted war

Banned incandescent lamps are still on sale

According to the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of customs and the State Administration for Industry and commerce, the State Quality Inspection Administration jointly issued the "gradual ban on the sale of ordinary incandescent lighting notice", in October 1st this year, to prohibit the sale and import of 100 watts and above ordinary incandescent lighting. Up to yesterday, the elimination order has been in force for half a month, but the reporter visited the market found that some businesses are still selling more than 100 watts and incandescent lamps.

Lok Lok in Xinzhou shop, still selling 100 watt incandescent lamp prices ranging from $3 to $8, are placed in an inconspicuous place, usually placed in the storage cabinet or as a sample bulb installed under the lights. According to the clerk, said: Although the incandescent lamp is gradually withdraw from the market, but it is the brightness of the lighting LED lamps and energy-saving lamps can not match, and the initial cost of LED lamps is much higher than incandescent lamps. Therefore, some construction sites, migrant workers still need to use incandescent housing. "

Left Lok house, the reporter also found a number of stores in the wholesale market and a number of small hardware stores in the sale of 100 watts and more than ordinary incandescent lamp. In the village of a hardware store, the clerk took out several 100 watt incandescent lamps is introduced: "3 dollars a, cheap and durable. If you need more light, and 200 watts, lighting effect will be better. "

The incandescent lamp manufacturers to freak

Yesterday, the director of the Institute of high industry LED Zhang Xiaofei told reporters that in the country, although the incandescent lamp has gone out of the agenda, but now is the most profitable time incandescent lamp manufacturers. According to the Institute of Engineering LED industry monitoring found that a lot of incandescent lamp manufacturers are much better than before. Incandescent manufacturers do too much before, intense competition. With the rise of energy-saving lamps, LED lights, a lot of business or collapse or transformation of incandescent. Due to the lack of competitors, insist on the incandescent lamp manufacturers instead welcomed the turn.

"Europe and the United States has entered the time of incandescent lamp, incandescent lamp, but because the optimum light intensity and low price, and consumers also believe that energy-saving lamps and LED Lamps lighting quality than incandescent lamp, light color choice is not much, start slow, even there are concerns that fluorescent light flashes the cause of migraine and epilepsy, therefore, many European countries have set off a boom in hoarding incandescent lamp. Under the elimination order, incandescent production, sales will be banned, so that the European and American markets will undoubtedly become China's incandescent lamp manufacturers market. Zhang Xiaofei said.

Reporters found through Baidu search, September 1, 2009 is the EU in its 27 member countries prohibit businesses to buy 100 watt incandescent lamp time. Some media reports said, as early as the wind came out, recently, some people in Germany, Austria and Hungary continue to buy incandescent bulbs. "People are snapping up and they don't want to lose this familiar traditional product," says Alice Pilgov, a market researcher at the German market. "Many people store incandescent bulbs for 5 to 10 years. "

LED lamp power rapidly enhanced

In the last year the national development and Reform Commission and other ministries "out of order" this policy baton under the guidance of domestic LED lighting market reached the spectacle of thousands upon thousands of horses and soldiers. Institute of Engineering LED industry latest statistics show that in the first half of this year, more than 1800 new LED indoor lighting companies, of which more than 60% of new entrants to the company had been mainly engaged in the production of LED display and LED packaging.

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