LED packager Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. announced NT$1.9 billion (US$64.3 million), or NT$3.5 per share, in after-tax net income from 2013 operations, making it the most profitable LED maker in Taiwan, with such figures in line with market expectations and surging from 2012’s NT$1.3 per share. The company’s board of directors has decided to pay shareholders cash dividend of NT$3 per share...

All the chief executives of Taiwan’s top-4 LED makers unanimously expressed optimism for the business, touting their companies will fetch fatter profit this year than last year. After earning NT$3.51 per share in after-tax net income last year, chairman Robert Yeh of Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., currently the world’s No.1 LED packager by quantity, has said the company’s earnings for t...

LED packager Edison Opto Corp. aims to increase its annual revenue to the NT$10 billion (US$333 million) range in three years and boost market value of company shares to NT$10 billion as mid-term goal, in addition to considering more acquisitions. The company saw its revenue for the first two months of this year rise 51.96% year on year, leading industry peers on the island. Company executives...

According to market consultant LEDinside, a subsidiary of TrendForce Corp., average selling price (ASP) of LED light bulbs dropped at least 20% year on year worldwide in January this year, with 40W incandescent-replacement bulbs dropping 21% or so while 60W replacement bulbs down around 28%. The organization feels that the price decline will remain the trend this year although the price of 40W...

Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. Chairman Robert Yeh expects the company’s revenue for the first quarter to likely outstrip the second highest of NT$6.7 billion (US$225.2 million) of Q4, 2013 regardless of fewer workdays in the first quarter due to Chinese New Year holidays. Yeh, whose company is the world’s No.1 LED packager by volume, bases the bright forecast on strong market both for LED li...

By CARMEN LO An estimated 1.32 million LED streetlights with a value of around RMB8.6 billion (US$1.4 billion) have been installed in China since the Chinese State Council began pushing an aggressive LED-streetlight demonstration program named “Ten Cities, Million Lights” in 2009. This program alone accounted for around half of the global market for LED lights in terms of value, and about 3...

By JENNY WU China has set itself the goal of becoming a world LED powerhouse in 2020 with millions of households using highly efficient LED lighting, and its LED industry aims to snatch 30% of global market for LED functional lighting by 2015. To do that, it will have to overcome outstanding issues with European and American patent holders. The Chinese LED industry knows that to achieve...

In January, the United Kingdom-headquartered lighting manufacturer, the Aurora Group, started up production in its new 440,000-square-foot factory in Ji’an City, Jiangxi province, China, where the plant, four times the size of the group’s current manufacturing sites combined, will drive the group’s next-stage growth to enable product engineering and manufacturing with innovative technologies in o...

By MICHELLE HSU The market for new-generation "green" lighting has grown steadily over the past few years, though the rate of growth has been slower than expected. The global market for LED lighting, the dominant green-lighting category, was worth an estimated US$7 billion in 2013 and is expected to top US$10 billion this year. Market prospects are looking up this year, with some lighti...

By KEN LIU “Plant factory” has emerged as a theme at the LED Lighting Taiwan trade show during the past two years, and Wei Fang, director of National Taiwan University’s Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering and a specialist in greenhouse horticulture, believes that Taiwan is well positioned to develop this new industry. One of island's main advantages for the development of...