the island with LED lamps in three years

Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) will put up NT$100 billion (US$3.4 billion at US$1: NT$29) as a fund for loaning or subsidizing enterprises’ procurements of energy-saving equipment, including Led high bay light. Also, the government will invest NT$2.7 billion (US$95 million) to replace the 326,000 traditional streetlights around the island with LED lamps in three years and all traditional emergency exit lamps on the island will be replaced by LED lights by the end of this year, aiming at saving 143 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.

Benefited from new electricity rates, industry executives estimated it would help boost penetration rate of LED bulbs in Taiwan to 30% in one and a half years, elevating the lamps to mainstream position in Taiwan’s lighting market in 2015.

 Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Hangzhou Silan Azure Co. Ltd., a leading  LED manufacturer in China, has placed a multi-tool order for Veeco's Turbo Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems. The equipment will be used to expand Silan’s manufacturing capacity for blue and green high brightness light emitting diodes (HB LEDs).

Mr. Zhongyong Jiang, President of Silan Azure, commented “The growth we are experiencing supplying LEDs for general illumination, backlighting and outdoor display applications required us to add manufacturing capacity at our Hangzhou facility. After evaluating various suppliers, we chose to purchase additional systems from Veeco because of our satisfaction with the production-worthiness and reliability of existing Led linear high bay light tools at our fab.   The excellent field support we have received from Veeco was also a major factor in our decision.”