Chinese-style subsidies attract domestic and foreign players to grab the plant factory lighting market

The plant factory with LED lighting application is not a new concept. The international giants Philips and OSRAM have already rushed into the plant factory market with LED light source and environmental control advantages as early as 2-3 years ago, and Japan's development in this area Research has been around for a while. LEDinside pointed out that with the gradual maturity of public space and commercial space LED lighting applications, plant factories have become a new market for European and American Taiwanese companies to actively enter, especially the Chinese local government to adopt plant factories as a strategy for their political achievements. Once again, the factories are eager to try and win local government subsidies.

Plant factory technology benefits from the maturity of LED lighting technology

The development of LED lighting technology has become more mature in 2012 and 2012. In recent years, it has also begun to introduce agricultural lighting applications. Plant factories that use LED light sources and environmental control characteristics have become niche for major manufacturers in recent years. The market, combined with LED lighting, will shorten the harvest period of crops, plants or flowers, and appropriate environmental control, not only to prevent pests, but also to avoid the use of pesticides or reduce the use of pesticides, to ensure food safety, and to improve agricultural products. additional value. The concept niche of plant factories will have the opportunity to bring new solutions to many agricultural problems such as narrow populations and pollution. In particular, the amount of electricity used in LED lighting can be lower than that of traditional fluorescent tubes and halogen lamps, which is relatively more economical.

The application of plant factories in China has also been gradually expanded in recent years, and it has also attracted cross-straits, as well as overseas LED manufacturers to actively enter this application. LED manufacturers include Jingdian, Yuyuan, New Century, Guangxu, Yiguang, Dongbei. They all want to cut into this niche market and each has a corresponding light source application solution.

There are subsidy opportunities in the Chinese mainland market?

In the vast Chinese market, the benefits of using plant factories are expected to be amazing. Therefore, many early deployments have made great strides. According to industry insiders in China, the local government of China is active in plant factories. Some local governments have already cooperated with policy directives. In order to promote the plant factory as a highlight of political achievements, therefore, whether it is the LED light source factory, or the entire factory output manufacturers, they also want to follow the development of the local government, and actively cut into the Chinese plant factory market by means of standard projects and project projects. While the establishment of Chinese plant factories is still dominated by policies rather than capacity considerations, the positive footsteps of local governments have also allowed operators to sniff subsidized business opportunities. Compared with the Chinese government's previous MOCVD machine field, the large-scale subsidy method is impressive, and it is hard to ignore the formation of this wave of business opportunities. It is not only cross-strait operators, but also global LED international manufacturers. I want to cut in ahead with big Japanese manufacturers and traders.

In the development of cross-strait LED industry, the pace of Taiwan-related industry is relatively fast. The plant factory became one of the theme of “2013 Taipei International Photoelectric Week” held in Taipei this year in 2013. There are quite a few LED industry and plant factory solutions. Industry and agricultural related industry exhibitors have shown that the market acceptance of this special application has been significantly improved. The development of plant factories in Taiwan's domestic market is currently being actively promoted by the Agriculture, Forestry and Animal Husbandry LED Application Industry Promotion Alliance. The alliance will adopt a demonstration mode of cooperation with the industry in 2013 to expand the acceptance and penetration of LED lighting, in addition to the upcoming Optoelectronic Week. Outside the special exhibition area of ​​the plant factory, the alliance will also hold a demonstration plant field visit in June to let the outside world feel the fruits of the plant factory's work in Taiwan.