In the Spring Festival of 2020, due to the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic, ultraviolet lamps, as one of the disinfection and sterilization programs, never expected to board the stage of public focus in such a worrying way.
also fulfilled their mission and offered ideas and materials, Philips, Osram, Snow Wright, Guangmingyuan, Raishi, Foshan Lighting and so on immediately responded, donated the inventory of UV sterilization mercury lamps to support Wuhan.
In addition, the 10,000 sets of UVC LED disinfection kits donated in 59 seconds have also attracted greater attention, solving the problem of disinfection and sterilization of medical staff mobile phones, masks, stethoscopes, thermometers and other items.
So, under the influence of the epidemic, can it really help speed up the research and development of the industry? Will the lamp bead industry break out in advance?
Regardless of the background of the epidemic, according to the data of the expert said industry Research center, the global UV LED lamp market size reached 269 million US dollars (about 1.9 billion yuan) in 2019, and it is expected to become UV LED in 2020. Lamp beads really enter the first year of rapid growth, by 2024, the global UV LED lamp bead market is expected to exceed 1 billion US dollars, 2019-2024 compound growth rate of 31%. UVC LED lamp beads as an important part of the UV LED industry, its output value accounts for more than 20% of the scale, mainly used in sterilization, disinfection and other fields.
With the rapid development of the entire UV LED lamp bead industry, and driven by the epidemic, UVC LED lamp beads may be expected to enter the fast track of growth this year. Why do you say that? Let's take a look at the two major problems that currently hinder the development of UVC leds.
In the general consumer market:
1) The mass market is not just necessary for disinfection. Bacteria have been living on Earth for billions of years, and bacteria and humans are in a symbiotic state for many of the time. In the environment that does not affect human life and work, the demand for disinfection in the mass market is not strong. In addition, because UVC is invisible, invisible, colorless and tasteless, consumers can not perceive the working effect of UVC LED lamp beads, and the market's cognition of UVC LED lamp beads is shallow, making it difficult for enterprises to open the market and promote.
2) Even if the mass market is conscious of disinfection and sterilization, there are many ways to choose, such as ozone sterilization, high temperature sterilization, disinfectant sterilization, etc., and even people can achieve the effect of sterilization and disinfection with boiling water, ultraviolet UVC lamp beads are only one of many disinfection and sterilization methods. At present, UVC has not found a very painful point, with an absolute alternative application, need to stand out, still need to dig a focus.
In the industrial or commercial field:
It is undeniable that compared with ultraviolet mercury lamps, the working efficiency of UVC LED lamp beads is far less than that of ultraviolet mercury lamps, and the conversion efficiency of UVC LED lamp beads is still relatively low, and the technical problems are larger; At present, ultraviolet mercury lamps still occupy the low mainstream.
Therefore, the occurrence of the new coronavirus pneumonia, in terms of lamps, only ultraviolet sterilization mercury lamps can be donated first, and UVC LED lamp beads can only emerge in the field of surface sterilization of personal protection in the resistance to the epidemic.
Then after this epidemic, there is an opportunity to solve the above two development problems :
1) Obviously, to solve the long-term cultivation and cognition problems of UV LED lamp beads on the mass market. After spending a long time to educate the market, with little effect, this time in an unfortunate accident for a huge positive publicity, deepening consumers' understanding of UV LED beads, UV LED disinfection and sterilization.
2) Once the public's awareness of ultraviolet sterilization is improved, with the UVC LED lamp industry chain will pay more attention to research and development and promotion, technology has achieved a certain breakthrough, mercury lamp gradually withdrew from the stage, which will be very conducive to UVC LED lamp beads to fully open the market.
3) UVC LED lamp beads will rise more from the aspects of sterilization, home appliances, consumer grade water treatment and so on. For example, a few days ago, the news reported that the coronavirus was found on the doorknob, which greatly aroused the meaning of people's prevention of the virus in doorknobs, elevators, etc. Although human amnesia and inertia are difficult to move, after the epidemic, the attention to sterilization will inevitably decline, but at the same time, it will still cause some people to pay attention to it. In terms of product design, the function of disinfection and sterilization of UVC LED lamp beads will be more in the original household products or with daily cleaning products, which will be a better choice. Such as air conditioners, air purifiers, water dispensers, sweeping robots and so on.
4) will be able to cause the strategic attention of the country, under the continuous breakthrough in technology, UVC LED lamp beads are expected to gradually in medical, industrial water treatment and other aspects will wait for attention and application. Although it is still mainly ultraviolet mercury lamps, the development path of UVC LED lamp beads can refer to the path of LED lamp beads replacing ordinary lighting, from assisting, imitating and replacing, and then gradually developing UVC LED lamp beads with senior characteristics.
In summary, ultraviolet led lamp beads have made a certain positive contribution in the fight against the new coronavirus, I believe that after the epidemic, UVC LED lamp beads will also accelerate the development to a certain extent.
