Achievement & development of Chinese CFL industry

Guan Fumin, GFL Lighting Technology Group, China

Keywords

CFL, global sales, global production, China, labor cost, component cost, electronics, PL, DL, 2D, compact fluorescent lamp, lamp industry, CFL industry, lamp manufacturing, CFL manufacturing

Abstract

The total yield of CFL all over the world in 2001 is about 800 millions. Among which, China has contributed over 80%. The CFL products are more diverse variety and with much wider wattage range than ten yeas ago.

With production base shifting to China, the technology level of Chinese manufacturer has had great advancement. The quality gap between Eastern and Western has narrowed down. Because of lower labor & components cost, the price of current production with much better quality has reduced greatly. To replace the conventional incandescent bulb, CFL products are more competitive than it was 10 years ago.

The improvement in electronic also help CFL application deriving from the simple bulb replacement to be upgrade to fixture designed specially for CFL.

The Chinese CFL manufacturers have developed practical products processing which only requires minimal investment cost but yet produce qualified CFL’s. This in effect will allow CFL manufacturing to be as popular as incandescent bulbs.