Global Lighting Technologies Opens Fifth Fab in Taiwan

摘要

Global Lighting Technologies, a major maker of LED-based edge-lit light-guide technology, has completed construction of a fifth manufacturing facility, located within a newly built Science Park in Tongluo, Taiwan (Fig. 1). The factory was scheduled to open for production in September 2016. This facility was developed as a green building and includes new fully automatic equipment that will enable light-guide fabrication to go from "pellet to pallet" without operator involvement. These are the most efficient extrusion lines ever employed by GLT for production and are capable of manufacturing light guides up to 80 in. on the diagonal. GLT estimates that the additional capacity will enable the company to reach 15-20% market share for light guides used within edge-lit LCD TVs worldwide.