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Global and China LED Industry Report, 2014-2015NEW YORK, March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Global and China LED Industry Report, 2014-2015 is primarily concerned with the following: In July 2014, Philips merged LED Chip business and automotive lighting business into a new company, while other businesses were integrated to form Philips Lighting. In future, Philips will sell the equities of Philips Lighting, and the highly profitable LED Chip and automotive lighting businesses will still be Philips' wholly-owned subsidiary. NICHIA's YAG is generally recognized as white-light LED patent with the best performance. The patent fee is very high and NICHIA has a stringent patent authorization, but this patent will expire in 2017. The white-light LED patents from other companies -- such as Toyota Gosei's orthosilicate fluorescent powder containing Sr, Ba, and Ca, will devalue after 2017. Recently, Toyota Gosei's LED revenue declined and its profit slumped, which made the company be willing to transfer its patents at a low price. In 2014, Toyota Gosei transferred the patent to Harvatek and JuFei Optoelectronics. This was the first time that the mainland Chinese enterprise had gained the white-light LED patent. However, JuFei Optoelectronics is a downstream packaging enterprise, and Toyota Gosei's patent transfer is to get profit and to entrust JuFei Optoelectronics to produce for it. In 2014, as the companies in LED industry were aggressively expanding industry chain and packaging companies were entering retailing fields of lighting industry. This was particularly true of companies in Mainland China. The MLS Lighting -- the largest packaging enterprise in Chinese Mainland, for instance, was building a huge marketing network, with a network of 300 distributors brought into being in 2014. Its target is to create a network of 3,000 distributors. In August 2014, Tsinghua Tongfang acquired Neo-Neon LED Lighting International, a company listed in Hong Kong. In FY 2014, Neo-Neon reported revenue of HKD841 million and a loss of HKD731 million in net income. But the company had a complete marketing network, which was Tsinghua Tongfang's top concern. In 2014, Epistar's buyout of Formosa Epitaxy was the largest acquisition in LED industry. When the acquisition was completed, Epistar would have over 400 MOCVDs , more than doubling that of its rivals. In Q4 2014, Epistar's capacity was estimated to hold 11% of the market's total. After the merger, its capacity would increase an additional 4%, far exceeding the 7% for Sanan Optoelectronics and Samsung, which would make it the largest GaN wafer supplier around the world. Read the full report: http://www.reportlinker.com/p0236992-summary/view-report.html About Reportlinker ReportLinker is an award-winning market research solution that finds, filters and organizes the latest industry data so you get all the market research you need - instantly, in one place. http://www.reportlinker.com __________________________ To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-and-china-led-industry-report-2014-2015-300044058.html SOURCE Reportlinker |