LED lead the United States and the United States and the United States and the United States and the return of venture capital venture capital LED

Although the government of the United States does not provide financial subsidies or preferential policies on the enterprise, but its distinctive industrial and consumer oriented policies provide a direction for the development of enterprises. In 2009, the United States government has been promoting green energy oriented industrial policy, and led to the energy consumption of consumer energy products.

According to the U.S. Department of energy statistics, in 2010 the global LED production increased by 55% over the previous year, reaching $9 billion 900 million, production of 81 billion, of which 23% of the products from the United states. According to the forecast, in 2015, LED lighting global market sales will exceed $18 billion 200 million in 2020, could reach $65 billion, will include lighting market share of 70%, then LED lighting products will enter the traditional lighting field, has become a major global illumination method.

Faced with such a good prospect for the higher value-added LED industry, production quality, corporate reputation, brand awareness and R & D capabilities will become the main factor to improve competitiveness. As for the price of a lot of LED products than traditional lighting, apparently present in the markets of developed countries recognized by a relatively high degree of market in developed countries, the United States and Europe has become the primary goal of the industry take cities and seize territory. Therefore, the factory moved back to the United States, the occupation of the local market as soon as possible, is the primary consideration in the LED lighting industry.

According to industry, another reason for the return of the LED industry, the United States is optimistic about the return of venture capital LED. According to statistics, only in 2009 a year, venture capital investment in the U.S. LED industry amounted to $300 million, most of these enterprises are emerging.

Higgins, President of advanced energy group, said in an interview with reporters in the new plant, in 2010, he closed the production line in China, began to build a factory in Houston. Starting in 2012, the plant will employ more than 250 employees. Higgins said they commissioned the European design of a production line, hoping to enhance the degree of automation of production, in order to reduce the amount of labor, improve production efficiency. The new production line put into operation, the original need to thirty people to complete the production tasks, will be reduced to less than 10 can be completed. He expects the new production line to increase production to four times the original.

"Although there will be quality problems, but returned to the United States production, we can close supervision, effective control of quality problems. Answered Higgins. He said that they produce more than 270 kinds of different types of LED lighting products, produced in the United States, they can be nearby quality control, defective rate reduction, offset by increased labor costs. He expects the next four or five years, the United States LED lamps domestic product share will reach 75%.