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plant for TMGa, which will be three times the size of the existing unit. With this expansion, AkzoNobel’s total capacity for gallium based metalorganics will exceed 100 tons per year, from two independent production lines. This project is already well advanced; construction of the plant will start in 2011 with completion in 2012.
A large second production unit for another key LED precursor, TMIn, will be built as well, giving a 400% increase of capacity. Construction of this unit is already in progress and will be completed by December 2011.
Both units will be built at AkzoNobel’s Laporte (Texas, US) manufacturing site, which serves the global plastics, pharma and electronic industries with large scale, fully integrated bulk metalorganics production plants.
The company will also enhance its global distribution network by establishing regional transfilling capabilities in Asia.
“These continued investments in the HPMO business show AkzoNobel’s commitment to support the LED industry in the coming years. Our capacity additions will enable our customers to maintain their growth pace, which will be increasingly driven by general lighting applications, says Jan Svärd, Managing Director of Functional Chemicals. “This business also supports our efforts in sustainability, by focussing on applications that drive energy efficiency and lower energy usage, like LEDs and solar cells”.
European motorists could get stung to replace LED lights
On a positive note for new buyers, Astra Automotive says that new business for the replacement LED bulb market will not be seen for at least three years due to manufacturers’ warranties.
According to an interview with
just-auto.com, UK aftermarket lighting specialist Astra Automotive suggests that as the European Commission has recently mandated the use of daytime running lights for newly-registered vehicles, European motorists
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could get stung if their LED lights fail, because they may have to stump up the cost of replacing whole lighting units.
Just-auto’s analyst Matthew Beecham interviewed Astra Automotive’s Leon Callahan and managing director Robert Jones.
Just-auto asked, “The European Commission recently mandated the use of daytime running lights for newly-registered vehicles. All new types of passenger cars and small delivery vans will have to be equipped with the lights, while trucks and buses will follow in August 2012. Does this spell out good news for your business?”
Astra Automotive responded, “The daytime running lights that we have seen are mostly LEDs, therefore this will not bring in new business for the replacement bulb market for at least three years, because in nearly all cases they will be covered under manufacturers’ warranties.”
“Even then, most will be fitted with LED model specific lighting systems such as the LED “Eyebrow” effect of the Audi and LED circle around the front side lights on the latest Land Rover and Range Rovers.”
“These units, as we see it, will be sealed in manufacture so if a LED light was to fail, it will almost certainly be impossible to just replace the bulb. Instead the motorist will have to replace the whole light assembly, which will prove expensive in terms of replacement and garage time. The same goes for truck and bus operators who are more conscious of vehicle downtime and costs.”
CEA-Leti and Neolux to industrialise intelligent LED systems in France
The firms will develop third-generation gallium nitride LEDs in the MODULED project which aims to simplify the functioning and assembly of current LED systems.
CEA-Leti and Neolux have announced a new partnership aimed at developing and manufacturing innovative LED modules and products for lighting.
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