how across our LED manufacturing sites

Osram says it is already more than halfway towards its target of making 8,000 job cuts in its traditional lighting business by 2014.Wolfgang Dehen, CEO of Osram said: “LED is the future of the lighting market, where we are already a leader today. Our focus is on profitable growth and we plan to further increase the share of LED-based revenue of our overall business.Last year, Osram announced it will invest more than 100 million in the construction of an LED assembly plant in the Chinese province of Shenzhen. At the led high bay light  1,700 workers will manufacture products for the Asian market.The Chinese company will use PE9000C Series purifier to support a process tool at its facility in the Nanchang High-Tech District in Jangxi, China.

By 2015, production of filament lamps over 60W will be eliminated, with the market share expected to drop to 10 percent. Traditional energy saving lamps will account for 70 percent of lighting product market. LED lighting products, on the other hand, will account for 20 percent of the market.Compared to the traditional lighting products, LED streetlights can save on 30 percent of energy usage, indoor lighting can save on 60 percent energy use, LED backlit products can save 50 percent and LED landscape lighting can save 80 percent of energy used.The plan also lays out nationalization of chips of LED products reaching 80 percent. Luminous efficiency of core devices will step into the leading position of the world. Production of key equipment and materials will also be nationalized, as well as 70 percent of testing equipment.

Veeco has received an order for multi- and single-chamber TurboDisc Systems, including the new MaxBright,President of Epistar Corporation commented, “This latest capacity expansion in Xiamen is in keeping with our goal to maximize our position in the China LED backlighting, automotive and general illumination market. Since we originally selected Veeco as our MOCVD equipment supplier for KaiStar a year ago, we have been extremely impressed with the product quality, service and support we have received. A critical deciding factor has been Veeco’s quick process transfer which is important as we share know-how across our LED manufacturing sites. In addition, the led flood light low cost-of-ownership made it a straight-forward decision to turn to Veeco as we add more tools for KaiStar in 2013.We are pleased to support Epistar and Kaifa as they continue to expand their leadership position in the China market through KaiStar and their other joint ventures. We will remain focused on helping them to achieve their manufacturing goals.”