LED chip capacity increased by 10 times in 3 years, demand improvement does not change the price decline


With the announcement of the 2013 annual report by listed companies in the LED industry, the operating status of the entire LED industry chain was clearly presented last year. "Daily Economic News" reporters statistics learned that in 2013 the entire LED industry production and sales volume, but the performance has diverged: upstream and downstream enterprises are caught in the dilemma of increasing income, the midstream package enterprises in the income growth, while the profit has improved .
In 2013, the performance of LED midstream enterprises did exceed expectations. Zheng Liyao, vice president of Gaogong LED Industry Research Institute, said in an interview.
Upstream LED chip production capacity has expanded 10 times in 3 years. Demand has not improved. Price declines. In the short period of 3 years from 2010 to 2012, LED chip capacity expanded more than 10 times. Directly accompanied by the big capacity explosion, the price of LED chips has fallen sharply. In the same period, the cumulative decline of LED chips exceeded 50, which made the company miserable.
However, driven by the demand in the downstream lighting application market, the MOCVD capacity utilization rate rose to 52 in 2013, and the operating rate rose to around 70, and some companies even achieved full production. Despite this, the information that companies are giving back to the Daily Economic News is still conservative, and that chip prices may fall slowly.
Chip manufacturers crazy price war Huacan photoelectric performance report shows that the company's total operating income in 2013 was 316 million yuan, down 4.19 year-on-year, net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 18.064 million yuan, down 79.32 year-on-year; dry photo photoelectric business in 2013 The total revenue was 487 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29.38, but the net profit fell by 1.17. The Dehao Runda performance report showed that the company's total operating income in 2013 was 3.17 billion yuan, an increase of 13.04, and a net profit of 936.36 million yuan. 94.22.
2013 is an exciting year. Due to the rapid development of the lighting industry, the production capacity of the upper, middle and lower reaches has been fully utilized, and the overcapacity has slowed down. 2013 is also a year of great anxiety for the industry. Although there are many orders and revenues have increased, due to price wars, the gross profit margin of enterprises has become lower and lower. At the beginning of this year, at an industry forum, Zhang Xiaofei, dean of the High-tech LED Industry Research Institute, said.
The price war in the LED industry begins with the upstream chip. According to statistics from the High-tech LED Industry Research Institute, the price of LED chips in China dropped by more than 30 from the beginning of the year in 2012, and continued to fall by about 20 in 2013.
In 2012, the price of chips was very large. For example, (individual type chips), one dollar at the beginning of the year, and only one to five to two cents by the end of the year. Dehao Runda related people told the Daily Economic News as an example.
The price war of LED chips is an inevitable outcome of overcapacity.
According to statistics from the High-tech LED Industry Research Institute, the number of MOCVD in China's LED industry increased from 803 in 2011 to 917 in 2012, nearly three times that of 2010, and the total production capacity was more than 10 times that of 2010. In 2013, the total number of MOCVDs continued to increase to 1,017 units, eliminating the active exit factor of the old machines. In 2013, the number of newly added MOCVDs exceeded 130.
The concentrated release of a large amount of production capacity has brought tremendous pressure on LED chip companies. According to the data provided by the High-tech LED Industry Research Institute, the utilization rate of China's MOCVD capacity in 2012 was only about 30, and the operating rate was only about 50.
Under-employment, huge machine depreciation losses have brought heavy business pressure to enterprises. For example, Huacan Optoelectronics' 2013 semi-annual report showed that the gross profit margin of the company's chips during the reporting period was -5.27, and the company's chip gross margin did not turn positive until the third quarter of 2013.
Capacity expansion is still continuing. Under the demand of the downstream lighting application market, the MOCVD capacity utilization rate rose to 52 in 2013, and the operating rate rose to around 70. At the end of March this year, the reporters of "Daily Economic News" learned from Sanan Optoelectronics and Dehao Runda respectively that the former MOCVD equipment has been fully filled; the latter 54 MOCVD equipments have been mass-produced, and the two bases of Wuhu and Yangzhou have arrived. A total of 92 MOCVD equipment.
In an interview with reporters, Sanan Optoelectronics said that the price of chips may fall slowly, and the decline is determined by the advancement of the company's technology.
It is worth noting that the upstream expansion impulse did not diminish as prices fell. Sanan Optoelectronics announced on April 3 that the company decided to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Xiamen to invest in the construction of LED epitaxy and chip research and development and manufacturing. The total investment of the project is 10 billion yuan, and the total scale is 200 MOCVD.
In January this year, Huacan Optoelectronics announced that the company plans to start the second phase of the LED epitaxial wafer chip of Huacan Optoelectronics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. with its own funds of 305 million yuan. The project plans to form an annual output of 480,000 2 inches. The production capacity of red-yellow LED epitaxial wafers (for own use) and 15.4 billion red-yellow optical chips.
Then, in the context of upstream capacity not fully digested, will the company expand again and trigger a new round of excess crisis?
Zheng Liyao believes that these new projects will not be completed until a few years later, so there will be no new pressure on the chip market in the short term. He said that after learning the lessons of the past few years, companies began to become more stable.
Zheng Liyao judged that since most of the chip companies were in a state of loss or breakeven last year, the profitability of this year is expected to gradually improve due to the downstream pull. As for the substantial improvement, it is still difficult to judge.
Midstream LED package monopolizes triple-income revenues and double-increased LED upstream and downstream. It is either suffering from overcapacity or facing the market competition. In sharp contrast, the LED industry midstream, especially represented by packaging The segmentation industry has been quite moist, and many companies have achieved simultaneous growth in revenue and net profit. The LED packaging industry has been able to grow against the trend, in addition to the growth of demand in the downstream lighting market, but also related to the company's own competitiveness. And these favorable factors are expected to continue.
Demand and competitiveness doubled. Jufei Optoelectronics' revenue was 754 million yuan, up 52.19 year-on-year; net profit was 131 million yuan, up 43.06 year-on-year. Hongli Optoelectronics' total operating income was 736 million yuan, up 38.79 year-on-year; net profit 58.88 million yuan, an increase of 24.56 million. Ruifeng Optoelectronics operating income of 682 million yuan, an increase of 36.37, net profit of 56.6 million yuan, an increase of 20.78. Wanrun Technology operating income increased by 12.32, the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies increased by 15.5.
Downstream lighting, backlights and displays directly drive the growth of packaging companies. Zheng Liyao pointed out that.
Zheng Liyao also believes that with the continuous advancement of technology in mainland enterprises, product quality continues to improve, market acceptance has gradually increased, and mainland companies have also seized some of the shares of Taiwanese companies, which is also an important reason for the growth of LED packaging companies.
LED packaging companies also benefit from the characteristics of their segmented industries. Mid-stream companies provide semi-finished products without the need to face end consumers, so they do not have to build brands and channels on a large scale like downstream companies, and the sales costs are lower.
Downstream expansion is costly In order to gain greater living space, some packaging companies choose to expand downstream. For example, Hongli Optoelectronics has Latiya Lighting, and Wanrun Technology also has a part of lighting products. Changfang Lighting’s revenue from lighting products accounted for 30% of total revenue last year.
Packaging companies involved in downstream applications, the different strategies adopted in the channel, the final effect is not the same.
Hongli Optoelectronics began channel construction in March 2012. According to the news of Panorama Network in March last year, Hongli Optoelectronics had about 100 dealers, and there were direct sales centers in five cities including Shenzhen and Suzhou. Li Guoping, the chairman of the company, said at the time: I have invested a lot of money so far, and frankly the income is not high.
On April 3 this year, Hongli Optoelectronics Secretary-General Deng Shou-ti said in an interview with the "Daily Economic News" reporter that the dealership is now suspended, not done, and the cost is too high. At present, the company is mainly a municipal engineering channel, and cooperates with engineering companies. Such channels do not require any investment.
Wanrun Technology also takes a cautious attitude towards the investment in physical channels. Hao Jun, the company's director-general, told the "Daily Economic News" reporter that since last year, the company is also building channels, there are several stores, but not a large-scale construction, channel construction has not been the focus of the company in recent years.
According to Hao Jun, subject to the price factor, the company believes that the civilian market has not really started yet. Therefore, Wanrun Technology is currently focusing on commercial lighting and lighting engineering. The characteristics of this product also determine that it does not need to develop dealers on a large scale and conduct large-scale channels. Promotion.
Rectangular lighting is also expanding its channels in the downstream industry. According to the information disclosed in December last year, the company has established an agent system in more than 30 provincial-level administrative regions and hundreds of municipal and county-level administrative regions, with over 1,000 distributors.
Large-scale channel construction generated sales expenses of up to 52 million yuan, an increase of 84.80 year-on-year. Although Changfang Lighting's revenue increased by 42.03 in 2013, its net profit fell by 42.21, which became a big drop in profit for LED packaging companies. One of the companies.
Mei Zhimin, the brand director of Chau Ming Technology, told reporters that in terms of traditional channels, building a store would have to subsidize 100,000 yuan, and 100 stores would have lost 10 million. Hao Jun said that if you want to build a direct sales store, 100,000 is not enough, you may need 200,000 yuan.
Traditional channel construction also faces inventory problems. Mei Zhimin pointed out that after the store is built, the manufacturer has to press the dealer to press the goods, but the LED is an electronic product, and the inventory price risk is very high.
On April 10, the reporter called Changfang Lighting Securities Department. The staff said that at present, Changfang Lighting is already doing brand integration, and will be based on the Changfang brand. The other two LED lighting brands are subject to development.
Liu Jun, director of Guangdong Guangya Lighting Research Institute, believes that the packaging business is in the middle of the entire LED industry chain, and its special location is easily squeezed and restricted by upstream chips and downstream applications. From the upstream, some large chip companies, such as Jingyuan and Sanan Optoelectronics, will enter some packaging companies and open up the downstream industry chain. From the downstream, some application companies will also extend to the upper end of the industrial chain in order to master the core technology. . However, the chip field has a high threshold, large investment, and is difficult to enter. Therefore, it has become a choice for some application companies.
Looking at the industry as a whole, the number of packaging companies may be less and less. Liu Jun said.
However, for listed companies in the packaging industry, Liu Jun believes that the midstream links continue to maintain rapid growth should not be a problem. The penetration rate of the entire downstream application is further increased, and these large packaging companies will continue to produce pulling effects.
The downstream LED lighting attack and defense battle is in a new pattern. After one year, it will be difficult to see the LED upstream enterprises, and the downstream is also not good.
Based on the expectation of the LED lighting industry, many listed companies have cut into this field, such as Qinshang Optoelectronics and Zhouming Technology; traditional companies such as NVC Lighting and Foshan Lighting are obviously not willing to hand over the market to their opponents. They have sacrificed The price of the knife to maintain their relative advantage in the LED lighting industry.
In the downstream of the LED, because the companies are setting foot on each other's sites, the competition pattern of the industry is inconsistent, and the short-term connection is inevitable.
The confusion of the new entrant channel is in Zheng Liyao's view. As enterprises intervene in each other's inherent territory, there is still a big fight between LED downstream companies.
One is the emerging LED brand such as Qinshang Optoelectronics and Zhouming Technology, and the other is the company that cuts into LED from traditional lighting such as NVC Lighting and Foshan Lighting.
Old-fashioned lighting companies have a first-mover advantage in terms of channels. Take NVC lighting as an example. The company has 37 operating centers in the country and more than 3,000 specialty stores. This channel advantage is unmatched by the new LED lighting such as Zhou Ming Technology.
Compared with the old lighting companies, investing heavily in improving the channels is an indispensable step for new entrants. For example, Qinshang Optoelectronics called 2013 the channel construction year. In April of that year, the company held the first national investment conference in Dongguan headquarters. At that time, it planned to control the number of dealers to about 500, but the final registration of more than 1,000 .
In November 2013, Qinshang Optoelectronics disclosed that it plans to dismantle and integrate more than 30 offices across the country under the framework of the company's headquarters operations management center. Based on regional branches, in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc. Large cities set up regional marketing management centers to build a nationwide marketing management platform. The total investment of the project is 44.66 million yuan.

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