It’s reported that Neo-Neon, a decorative LED lighting company based in China, announced that it will be making some of its LEDs at its LED plant in Quangdong, China.
At the Beijing Olympics 2008, many of the company’s products were prominently displayed. Neo-Neon's color changing pathway lighting illuminated the walkways leading into the "Bird's Nest" stadium, and the company's video tubes reportedly displayed the Olympic 2008 message and entertained visitors at Festival Walk. The company will begin test runs at its China plant next month, according to the industry sources.
Neo-Neon expects to begin volume production soon after the test runs are completed. The production will reportedly allow a degree of vertical integration at the company. The plant will initially have a capacity of 12,500 wafers per month. Despite the new source of LEDs, the company will reportedly still have to get some of its LEDs from outside sources. The company indicated that it hopes that the in-house LED production will save the company 40-50 percent in production costs for its luminaires.
