Plessey 5mm LED
LED street lights shine brightly on the industry right now.
In the past the UK electronics sector was heavily dependent on defence and telecommunications for its large infrastructure business.
These sectors, while still important to suppliers, are no longer the cash-cows they were in the 1980s and 1990s.
In desperation companies have been looking around for a sector which will use electronics systems in large and lucrative projects. Perhaps they have found it in LED lighting.
The replacement of filament light bulbs with LEDs is a global phenomenon.
But a visit to Lux Live 2014 exhibition in London last week convinced me that UK-based suppliers and design houses are well-placed to take advantage of the LED lighting revolution.
UK companies were very prominent in the presentation of their technologies, products and business successes.
What caught my eye was West Yorkshire’s Harvard Engineering plans to sell LED lighting to councils.
Significantly, along with the technology development and design wins, there is a reassuring rebirth in UK-based manufacturing.
This includes the production of lighting systems, sub-assemblies and even the semiconductor LEDs themselves.
Harvard designs and manufactures its products in the UK.
Long-time Cumbria-based manufacturer Marl is expanding its production facility to take advantage of the LED lighting opportunity.
And Plessey is reinventing the fabrication of semiconductors in the UK with its GaN-on-silicon LED wafer fab in Plymouth.
The mood lighting was very definitely reassuring. UK companies have been quick to see the opportunity LED lighting represents to electronics suppliers.
Twenty years ago the UK industry was quick to respond the wireless revolution. Could it have found its new cash-cow?
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