Chen Yansheng, Vice President and Assistant Sectary General of China Lighting Electrical Appliances Association said in the 9th healthy development summit forum of China’s LED industry that the future development of LED lighting will gradually change from illuminant substitution to luminaire and the boundary will be fuzzy because of LED lighting.
He also said sales volume of LED lighting products in 2012 was about 42 billion yuan, accounting for 10% of the sales volume of lighting products, of which $3.5 billion for export. The largest exporting country is America, taking up to 15.29% of the total volume of export. The one followed America is Japan, reaching 10.44% of the total volume of export. International market of encapsulation LED is $13.7 billion using 23% for lighting, 22% for backlight of TV/monitor, and 19% for mobile devices.
Since this year, there has been a small upsurge in domestic market. Chen Yansheng indicated that the change reflects in three aspects. First, because of the rise of cost performance, consumers gradually know and accept LED lighting products. Second, the lighting products dealers are actively promoting LED lighting products. Last, LED lighting enterprises are starting channel distribution.
He denoted the illuminant substitution products has a larger demand in the market temporarily among LED lighting products, such LED bulb, MR16, PAR light, tube and so on. The future development trend will gradually turn to luminiare, such as office panel light, ceiling mounting light and the most widely used overhead light etc. “The boundary of illuminant and luminaire will be fuzzy because of LED lighting. Associations in Japan and Europe will change along with it. For example, JELMA and JLA have been merging together in March this year.”
At last he said, LED lighting is the direction of future lighting industry. Traditional lighting products especially the high-effective lighting products will coexist with LED for a quite long time and the market share of LED will grow year by year.