LED lighting share will increase investment in rare metals

According to the United States Congress passed the ban on incandescent lamps, the United States will start on 2014 New Year's day to stop selling the market's best-selling 40 Watt and 60 watt incandescent lamp. The aim of the campaign is to promote energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps, LED lamps and other energy efficient bulbs. It is worth noting that China, the European Union, Australia and other countries will also expand the scope of the incandescent lamp from the existing industrial areas to residential interior lighting.

Compared with incandescent lamp, LED lamp has obvious advantages in energy saving effect, compared with the traditional integrated fluorescent energy-saving lamp, LED lamp has more advantages in environmental protection. In addition, the energy-saving lamps contain mercury and other harmful elements, will have serious environmental pollution. The LED lamp does not contain mercury, the recycling of its circuit board is easier than the energy saving lamp, and the pollution of the environment is much smaller than that of the energy-saving lamp. It is understood that at present, each energy-saving lamps containing mercury in the amount of 3~5 mg per 1 mg of mercury, you can pollute the water of 360 tons. To sum up, as the LED lamp does not contain mercury, and in terms of service life and energy saving can achieve good results, so the prospects for the development of LED lamps are optimistic.

LEDinside latest market report pointed out that in 2012-2014, with the region's gradual removal of the effectiveness of incandescent lamp, LED lamps began to enter the home lighting market. Because the luminous efficiency and LED lamp prices, consumer acceptance gradually increased, LED lighting share also increased. 2013, China's home lighting market size will reach $5 billion 941 million, up to 36%, of which LED home lighting market size will reach $814 million, an increase of 96%, is expected to account for the world's total of 24%.

LED lighting demand is rapidly improving, to bring huge opportunities related to the demand for rare metal materials. LED is the core material of gallium (Ga) and arsenic (AS), phosphorus (P), indium compounds made of semiconductor chip light-emitting materials. Therefore, with the rapid development of global LED lighting, will lead to the rapid growth of gallium and indium demand, will drive more and more companies and individuals concerned about the rare metals such as indium and gallium. Indium and gallium market, trading volume and the rapid increase in the amount of.