LED lighting exports face severe challenges

According to IEC 62560-2011, “Luminaires shall be manufactured so that when they are installed and wired in accordance with normal use and when the lamps must be turned on for replacement of light sources or replaceable actuators, even if they are not manually operated, live parts are not accessible. of". During the routine inspection of exported products, inspection and quarantine personnel repeatedly found that after one end of the LED lamp produced by multiple manufacturers was inserted into the lamp holder, the other free end was easily accessible live parts.

Recently, the Wuxi Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found that the self-ballasted LED lamps used for general lighting produced by an exporting company were found to be unqualified and could not be successfully exported due to an unreasonable structure.

The WTO/TBT Center of the Guangdong Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau recently reported that EU, the United States, Chile, Uganda and other countries and regions have set higher thresholds for directional lights and LED lighting products in the country of entry. For the directional lamps and LED luminaire products of the country of entry, higher and more stringent requirements for energy-saving and environmental protection, eco-design, energy-efficiency labeling, test and inspection, performance, safety, size, weight, and shape are proposed. For example, the European Union has proposed high-efficiency requirements for directional lamps and LED lamps.

According to statistics, a total of 56,000 lamps and lamps worth 1.45 billion U.S. dollars were exported in Ningbo in 2012, an increase of 12% and 23% respectively compared with the previous year. From the perspective of product categories, traditional lamps and lanterns represented by outdoor lamps, solar lamps, and work lamps are still the main export products, accounting for 30% of the total export volume, an increase of 33% over the previous year; as a “fresh force” LED lamp is exported to the lamps and lanterns. The proportion in China has increased year by year, accounting for 22% of total exports, a substantial increase of 47% over the previous year. From the trade country perspective, the EU region is still the “main position” of outdoor lighting exports, accounting for 51% of total exports, an increase of 13% over the previous year; the importance of the US market has become increasingly significant, accounting for 20% of total exports, compared with Year-on-year growth of 48%. Judging from the on-site inspection, the number of unqualified batches of export lamps decreased by 40% from the previous year; the rate of failure of export lamps decreased by 0.41 percentage point from the previous year.

Although the LED lighting market has started, but due to price, the domestic market demand is insufficient, most of the products are still exported overseas. Therefore, the improvement of the export standard of LED lighting products will bring a lot of impact to some export-oriented companies.

“Enterprises should positively view the EU's regulations to raise barriers to entry, and the development of standards is inevitably linked to international standards. The follow-up may be further enhanced.” Nie Pengxiang, general manager of Shanghai Lixie Detection Technology Services Co., Ltd., seems to have “predicted” ". He pointed out that there are two main indicators for the quality of lamps. One is the safety issue and the other is the product performance. Traditional lighting companies have always paid more attention to safety issues, but when the lamps enter the LED era, the market will definitely put higher requirements on product performance.

From the export situation, the two trends are particularly evident: First, energy saving and environmental protection products have become new highlights of growth. In recent years, with the promotion of energy conservation and emission reduction in various countries, LED lamps and solar lamps are increasingly favored by the international market because of their long life, high luminous efficiency, low power consumption, and energy saving and environmental protection. Lamps and lighting products continue to occupy energy saving and environmental protection. The field has become the biggest highlight of the Luzhou lighting company. The second is the developed countries market into the main position of Luzhou lighting exports. From the point of view of the distribution to the countries of distribution, Luzhou lamps have been distributed in 112 countries and regions around the world, and the EU, the United States, etc. are still the major export markets. Among them, the value of goods exported to the EU reached 69.007 million U.S. dollars, accounting for 40% of the total export volume. The value of U.S. exports to the United States reached 30.309 million U.S. dollars. Export emerging market countries also showed good growth.