Jenn Feng branches into LED lamp production

This article was published by the Taiwan Headlines on March 31, 2006. It reports that Taiwan's power-tool supplier Jenn Feng Group recently announced its cooperation with the National Central University in producing cutting-edge, 180-watt and 30-watt light-emitting diode (LED) lamps for the growing market.

Jenn Feng has secured orders from foreign distributors and will begin to deliver the products in August 2006. The company will start introducing 50-watt products, as well as other own-branded and OEM-based lamps, by the end of 2006. These new business lines are expected to significantly boost the company's revenue in 2007.

Jenn Feng already has the technology for making aluminium nitride (AIN) heat dissipation modules, and this will be an advantage in the company's attempt to produce the high-power LED lamps. The company and the National Central University are currently applying for patents for the technology in many countries.

According to Jenn Feng, the LED lamps will feature efficiency, low pollution, low cost, and module design. The 30-watt lamps will first target the US$300 million market for lamps used in homes and offices.

Industry analysts point out that the world lighting market was worth about US$9.4 billion in 2002, while fluorescent and incandescent lamps accounted for a combined US$4.3 billion. The market grew to about US$10 billion in 2003, and is expected to increase at a 5-to-6-percent pace in each of the next few years. These figures show that there will be ample room for LED lamps to grow in the world light market.

Industry analysts predict that LED lamps will emerge as the most common lighting source by 2010, with an estimated market share of at least NT$1 trillion (US31 billion). The LED lamps are noted for their greater power conservation and durability than traditional fluorescent and incandescent lamps.

In 1999 alone, lighting equipment consumed about 2.3 billion kilowatts of electricity per hour across Taiwan - an amount that roughly equals that generated by a nuclear power plant.