LED fluorescent tube will be a new force in 2014 lighting industry
LED fluorescent tube as a new generation of energy saving lighting products, now be more used in some commercial lighting and engineer lighting fields. Due to the increasing demand of the led lighting market, led manufacturer competition is increasingly intense, that leads to resulting chaos of the LED fluorescent tube market. Why LED fluorescent tubes have big difference between suppliers? What will be the challenges and opportunities in 2014 lighting industry?
- Standard difference
Becasue there is no national unified industry standard constraints and planning in LED fluorescent tube market, resulting in end markets emerge series of different power and lumen products. Each supplier is just making the products according to their own standards. So it is not surprising the products are with big difference to each other. - Price difference
In current years, Zhongshan and other city in china the 4ft T8 led tube price fell down to US$4.90, even below US$3.30. This price almost same with the price of traditional brand T8 led lamp price. However, These products with low price are not good in quality and performance. Because they use low level aluminum shell and PC cover as well as not qualified LED Chip. As known in current market, Led T8 T5 tubes adopt the SMD3528, SMD2835, SMD3014 and SMD3020 as major lighting source, different brand led chip is different price and quality. So in ending market, the products price and quality verify big difference. - Different marketing channels LED fluorescent tubes have always been used as commercial lighting, engineer and project lighting and home lighting. Different lighting market has different required for products. Currently, because the high cost of led fluorescent tube, the main market focus on the new construction project lighting and replacement engineer lighting. With fast development, some companies also open the wholesale market with network sales and shops channels. Thus different market with different sales channels leading to the different products.
More challenge and opportunity in 2014
Take example of china led t8 t5 tubes market, according to relevant statistics, in 2012, China’s LED fluorescent tube total sales quantity exceeded 100 million pieces, an increase of 188% compared to 2011 significantly improved growth. In 2013, this trend of rapid growth is still continuing. As predict by professional in lighting markets, 2013 – 2017 China LED Tube market value will be increase around 35% in 2017 to more than 7 billion dollars output value. 2013-2017 China LED Tube sales quantity will be increase around 58% and will be achieve to 1 billion pieces sales in 2017.
In the following years, LED product prices and costs will continue to decline making more and more LED lighting products become public acceptable. The market demand of LED fluorescent tube will be further released.
Mr David xu. from GCLEDLIGHT.com said: We will strengthen the right to all the services customers, trying to make better progress and improve the led t5 t8 tube products to meet future market needs. Their target is to be the first word level professional supplier of led t5 t8 tube light. To overcome the challenge and opportunity of the future led lighting market, they need focus on more energy to improve the cost and products.