OSRAM CEO Olaf Berlien delivered a speech at the factory's opening ceremony highlighting that Osram will further expand its new capacity with recent revenue growth of 19% over the course of the decade, while Osram's traditional lighting accounted for a further 10% OSRAM's overall revenue of 80%, and now two-thirds of revenues are derived from the contribution of optoelectronics, it is clear that such a business transformation efforts are correct.
Aldo Kamper, chief executive of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, also said the new plant is strong enough to produce a week's worth of products that illuminate the streets of major cities such as New York, Rio, Hong Kong and Berlin with full production capacity. , The plant can save as much as 80% of the world's street lighting by producing it in just five and a half years.
Osram said that the blue LED chip produced in the new factory in Malaysia can generate white light through the conversion layer, and the chip can be used for public lighting as well as outside building projection lighting, commercial and private interior and exterior lighting, advertising lighting, and plants Lighting and other applications By 2018, the global LED general lighting market is expected to reach 6000000000 euros.Estimated in 2020, at an average annual growth rate of 7%, the global optoelectronic semiconductor lighting market will grow to 17.5 billion euros.
Osram further pointed out that the current production plant with a 6-inch wafer fab, each wafer production capacity will be 125% more than the 4-inch fab chips.At this stage to complete the first phase of the new factory, the future will be two Phase expansion plan.But in the two-phase expansion plan is completed, it will also invest in automotive lighting and audio-visual projection and other high-end applications of LED chip production.