Hidden Rules Of "Halogen Filling" Into Energy-Saving Lamps?

After 3 years of promotion, energy saving lamps have entered the market in large numbers, making the incandescent lamp almost completely withdraw from the market.

However, an energy saving lamp, which sells at least 10 times the price of an incandescent lamp, will not save energy in the end?

In the near future, a market test in Beijing Municipal Association is a big drop: the unqualified rate of the energy saving lamp is almost 50%.

Quite a few of them are energy-saving lamps.

Relying on the government's energy subsidies to capture the lighting market, there are quite a lot of products that are full of money, which are neither energy efficient nor expensive. The reason for this is worth exploring and thinking deeply.

This newspaper set up a column today, "why does energy saving lamp not save energy"? We hope to diagnose the confusion of energy saving lamp market.

Readers are also welcome to report energy-saving lamps without energy saving.

Global lighting giant

PHILPS energy saving lamp

Probably from the foundries.

According to the press, PHILPS currently supplies the world's energy saving lamps mainly made in China, but there are no independent production bases in China.

There are people familiar with the matter, "when there are seven or eight companies, there are three or four companies."

"Even if PHILPS has unified standards, there will surely be differences in the level of manufacturing of different enterprises."

According to the person, PHILPS products from different factories are also different. For example, the products of this factory will be exclusively for Europe and the United States, while the other products will be the main Chinese market.

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"Big companies like PHILPS have a very strong bargaining power in looking for OEM companies. Basically, they say:" I want to do this thing, only the money, can you do it? "

And in order to get a large list, many OEM enterprises will bite the teeth, but how to win their profits in the cracks, eventually only the OEM enterprises themselves.

Reporters have learned that PHILPS has so far not explained why the energy saving lamps fail to meet the standards, and has not disclosed which products are from the foundry enterprises.

Exergy

Shoddy "hidden rules"

In fact, the seemingly unremarkable energy-saving lamps are affected by the strategy of protecting the rare earth resources in China over the past year.

Because the phosphors used in energy saving lamps need to be extracted from rare earth elements, the price of rare earth that has surged since last year is plaguing hundreds of energy saving lamp manufacturers in China and even threatening the survival of some strength and fragile enterprises.

In an interview with reporters yesterday, the senior expert of the domestic lighting industry, an LAN Po, said that since last year, China has implemented extremely strict control measures for rare earth resources, of which the rare earth resource tax has increased by more than 10 times, and the price of rare earth has also soared.

He calculated an account. "In the middle of last year, the price of domestic rare earths was about 100 thousand yuan per ton, which reached 130 thousand yuan by the beginning of this year, and the price has skyrocketed to 270 thousand yuan at the beginning of the year. The price has doubled more than three months ago."

As the fluorescent lamps used for energy saving lamps are extracted from rare earth, the price of phosphors has risen correspondingly, from 350 yuan to 500 yuan per kilogram at the beginning of the year, which has risen to the current 800 yuan.

According to the industry, it is precisely because of the sharp rise in the prices of upstream raw materials such as phosphors, and Jerry building has become a choice for some enterprises to survive.

Among them, the low price of halogen powder instead of phosphor is the "hidden rules" of many energy saving lamps nowadays.

An LAN Po told reporters that the use of halogen power saving lamps not only reduce energy efficiency, the key is that its low color index for people reading and writing under the lamp will cause damage to vision.

"Those lights are blue or gray, and even some dim lights under the lamp are basically made of halogen powder."

An Lanpo said.

He told reporters that although the use of halogen power saving lamps will also save electricity than ordinary incandescent lamps, but compared with the real energy-saving lamps, regardless of the lighting effect or life expectancy will be greatly reduced.

According to the reporter, according to the national standard, the effective life of energy-saving lamps should be 6000 hours.

So the energy saving lamps that will soon be darkened or even flicker must have used halogen powder.

According to a professional, a 7 WATT or 9 watt energy-saving lamp should be priced at $13 to $4 at wholesale. If the market price is lower than this, it should be alert to its quality.

Energy saving lamp faces the protracted war of rare earth prices

It is understood that China is now the world's largest producer of energy-saving lamps, with an annual output of 6 billion 200 million, and 80% of the world's energy-saving lamps are from China.

And the professional introduction, the energy saving lamp industry this kind of regional aggregation's very key factor is the world has initially looked at China's rare earth resources.

"Until last year, China strengthened the strategy of protecting rare earth resources, and some rare earths in Australia and the US began to show up."

From this perspective, we can see the influence of rare earth resources on energy saving lamp industry.

In fact, unlike the rise in oil prices and gold prices, the industry generally forecasts that the price of rare earth will hardly fluctuate too much, in other words, there is no possibility of a significant downward trend.

This means that the high price of raw materials for the energy-saving lamp industry is not only a simple idea, but probably a protracted war.

An LAN Po predicts that if the price of raw materials continues to be high, the energy saving lamp industry in China will probably have a bigger change.

"The final situation is the re integration of resources, because a lot of less powerful enterprises can't live together with halogen powder."

Reporters also learned that today, the China Lighting Association will convene a closed door meeting of enterprises in the industry to discuss the price of energy-saving lamps under the background of rising raw materials.

Some industry people told reporters, "in fact, the export of energy saving lamp products have already risen, but domestic products have been put to rest."

In his view, excessive holding down prices is not necessarily a good thing for the whole industry. "Some enterprises are still willing to shoddy and shoddy, and ultimately damage the interests of consumers."