Foreign lighting companies to maintain high growth momentum of high profitability

Philips is the world leader in the lighting industry, lighting industry is the first industry, Philips is now one of the four industries in 2010, Philips Philips Lighting industry sales 7.57 billion euros (25.4 billion euros of total revenue), up 8.7 percent, profit 870 million euros, up 11.5% followed the trend, Philips to develop the LED industry, LED lighting industry has accounted for 13% of Philips lighting industry become more perfect and close to the users, to project light from the electric light, from home lighting to commercial lighting, both product features and style, or sales channel system, are outstanding, and a series of marketing and promotion of public welfare activities, but also to the influence of Philips Lighting greatly increased, the world leader in the lighting industry's image and status of the doubt.

OSRAM is a Siemens lighting Division, second in size only Philips, the year will be separately listed as an important part of the business of Siemens, in 2010 sales revenue reached 4.68 billion euros (76 billion euros of Siemens total revenue), an increase of 12.2%, profit up 5.7 billion euros (4.1 billion euros of Siemens total profit), an increase of 14% and this growth stems from the LED and the strong demand for car lighting, Osram plans to continue to expand production and sales volume.

Career ( CREE) is the world's leading LED chip R & D and manufacturing enterprises in the U.S. Nasdaq Stock Exchange in 2010, sales rose 53 percent to $ 870 million, of which LED products accounted for 7.9 billion dollars, up 51% ; profit growth of 402%, reaching $ 150 million, its contribution is mainly from the LED. Cree's annual report, sales growth in part because product prices. Cree's market advantage comes from its unique use of SiC ( SiC) substrate grown GaN (gallium nitride) technology, but the high price of Cree is not conducive to open up its market, but because the area of the chip monopoly, Career, or by many large customers, recently on yaming Zhejiang Ming-kai, Huizhou and other famous enterprises and NVC Career signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop LED lighting industry, the market size of Career is still expanding.

Said to the LED chip, the chip can not be reminiscent of home on business, manufacturing, chip manufacturing equipment. small chip manufacturers at home and abroad, and chip manufacturing equipment manufacturing companies and even fewer, more important is the German Articles strong (AIXTRON) and the United States Veken (VEECO). MOCVD other major manufacturers including Japan's NIPPON Sanso and Nissin Electric, with its basic limited to the Japanese domestic market in the global LED industry is flourishing situation, LED chips are in short supply, and LED Chip manufacturing equipment is in short supply.

Articles strong is the world's largest III-V semiconductors MOCVD epitaxy equipment manufacturing company, established in 1983, worked in Frankfurt, Germany and the U.S. NASDAQ . AIXTRON is the world's largest and highest market share in compound semiconductor epitaxy equipment suppliers, it is nearly a thousand sets of devices installed worldwide, and in 15 countries of the Permanent Representative now up to 65% global market share , AIXTRON manufacturing production and R & D-type MOCVD equipment is mainly used in the production of high electron mobility transistors, the heterogeneity of bipolar transistors, high-brightness light-emitting diode (including blue and green), laser diodes, optical data transmission devices and space solar cells, etc. 2010 sales of 780 million euros, an increase of 91%, sales in Asia of which 720 million euros, which also reflects the development of Asian LED industry-leading status; profit of 1.9 billion euros, an increase of 330%. Articles by strong emphasis on the Chinese market, especially because the Chinese government to promote the development of LED industry under the Articles of strong demand for products made huge.

Veeco in the U.S. NASDAQ company, is the world leader in precision measuring instruments and process equipment manufacturers, including LED, solar, and storage devices, MOCVD in the global market share of close to 30% .2010 $ 930 million of total revenue, profits $ 360 million; including LED and solar equipment sales revenue of $ 800 million, an increase of 289%, then sold 334 sets of MOCVD. China is also an important market for Veeco, contributed nearly 30% of sales.

We can see that foreign companies as an international leader in the lighting industry, and then relied on its technology and scale advantages, maintaining high growth and high profitability of the situation, it is difficult for domestic lighting industry, compared to listed companies, but also domestic companies to step up to catch up, only the technology leader, to ensure higher profits, higher profits only, in order to ensure sustainable development.