LED lamps can be used for home, street or industrial lighting, illumination of facades of houses, fountains or pools, illuminated advertising. Interior lights are especially interesting.
They are ceiling, wall or furniture. With their help, you can correctly place accents in the interior, create a cozy and comfortable atmosphere. Therefore, the production of LED lamps is a fairly profitable occupation.
The popularity of lighting systems
Lamps can be switched on in a certain order, highlighting the functional areas in the room. Space zoning is now in fashion. In addition, given the value of real estate, each square meter is on the account, and dividing the room into zones is simply necessary.
There is also the option to adjust the light intensity. Interior designers like to work with LED backlighting, as there is room for imagination to take a walk. In addition, LEDs on cars are also very popular.
This is an environmentally friendly light source, since the LED lamp does not contain mercury, does not have ultraviolet and infrared radiation, and consumes little electricity. And if saving the planet for some consumers is something abstract, then saving money is already a more real, weighty argument. In addition, the LED lamp can serve up to 100 thousand hours, and an incandescent lamp - up to 4 thousand hours. Strength, vibration resistance, no flicker, modern design are also undoubted advantages of LED lamps.
Investors are interested in this area of activity.
The production of LED lighting is now incredibly interesting for investors. The reason for this lies in the presidential decree, which spoke about increasing energy efficiency, or more simply, about the transition to energy-saving technologies. Some restrictions on the sale of incandescent lamps were introduced, and in the future they will be completely withdrawn from sale.
You should create your own business.
Thus, now is the time to create an enterprise and establish the production of LED lamps. With the right approach, this kind of entrepreneurial activity is a very profitable business in the near future. Especially considering the fact that scientists have solved the problem of white light LEDs. According to market analysts, already in 2015, the share of LED lamps in total sales of energy-saving lighting will reach 30% (in 2011, the market share of LED lamps is 10%).
Documentation collection
In order to organize your own production of LED lamps, it is necessary to collect, and most importantly, correctly draw up documents. You will not get help from the state in this matter, since it simply does not support such a sphere of activity. It will take about two weeks to collect the documentation. Spend about 10 thousand rubles. But it’s worth understanding that everything will depend on the region in which you decide to open your company.
How can lamps be made?
If you want to open your own production of LED lamps, you can go in two ways: a full cycle or only assembly production.
In the first case, it will be extremely difficult to compete with Chinese manufacturers.To invest in such a business will have a lot of money. Given the cost of equipment, rent, labor, it will not work to achieve any competitive cost of production.
Although there is always hope that the country's leadership will begin to take care of the domestic manufacturer and block the flow of low-quality, cheap goods from China. However, while the technology of manufacturing LEDs using a full cycle is not popular among entrepreneurs.
Raw Material Acquisition
The assembly production option will require the purchase of boards, microcircuits, LEDs and soldering irons. The room for the assembly workshop should be quite large (about 350 sq. M for a workshop with 10 assembly tables). It should provide good ventilation. You also need to rent storage facilities and make a stand for checking finished products.
Search for colleagues
The production of LED lamps will require approximately 10 employees of the assembly shop, several managers in the sales department, managers in the procurement department, marketers, as well as a good experienced accountant. Drivers, cleaners, packers, movers are not required in a permanent staff.
Purchase of equipment for production
It will be necessary to purchase special assembly equipment for the production of LED lamps. Its cost will reach about 400 thousand rubles. But the equipment makes it possible to reduce costs by hiring a minimum number of employees. Instead of, for example, 20 employees, you can hire just three installers who will monitor the condition of the production line.
To open the plant, soldering equipment is required to create printed circuit boards. Also, a section of injection molding machines will be required, with the help of which the production of cases will take place. It will be necessary to purchase a winding section. For more successful work, you will need a CAD laboratory.
Accompanying clearance
It will be necessary to think over packaging and methods of promoting finished products. A third-party organization will develop a packaging project, print and assemble boxes for the fixtures. Making a small print run is unprofitable, so you need to be prepared for high packaging costs.
Company marketing activities
LED manufacturing should be well advertised. Methods of promotion: company website, advertising in the press, on billboards, promotions in supermarkets and so on. Typically, marketing costs are in the range of 1-5% of sales. But this does not apply to the costs of launching a new product on the market. These costs are huge and do not immediately pay off.
Money for advertising will “flow through your fingers” if you do not draw up a detailed plan of advertising and marketing activities. So that the money spent on advertising does not go nowhere, market research is conducted, which must be ordered by the agency. Marketers will have to pay well. You can’t save on who owns the entire advertising and marketing budget of the company. Otherwise, the LED backlight created by you will not enjoy due popularity.
Trademark Registration
You need to conduct a serious market analysis before registering a brand. Entrust the development of a trademark to a good advertising agency. It is unacceptable to search for a mark on the Internet, then it will simply be impossible to register. After developing a trademark, you need to order a patent search service, after which it will become clear whether registration is possible or whether the mark should be modified.
Then an application for registration of a trademark and trademark is submitted. This procedure will take from 8 to 15 months. The process can “stall” for a couple of years even at the stage of patent search.
Therefore, it is better not to waste your time and nerves and turn to intermediaries who manage to reduce terms to 5 months in some miraculous way. It will cost a lot.
Do I need a trademark and a trademark? Yes, if you plan to expand and grow your business, if you have made serious investments that should be protected, if your soul is invested in your business, and your reputation is extremely expensive.
The financial part of production
Investments in the production of LED lamps require relatively little, about 5 million rubles. It will pay off in 2-3 years. With a high level of sales, the payback period may be shorter. Competent promotion and high professionalism of sales managers - and investments will return in 1-1.5 years.
Conclusion
Given the competition, the manufacture of LED lamps is not the easiest business, but rather promising, since science does not stand still, LEDs are becoming cheaper, and perhaps the Chinese will not be afraid of us soon. Over time, you can expand your organization and start producing, for example, LEDs on cars. Of course, there are many ideas. They need to be worked out constantly. Otherwise, entrepreneurial activity will fade, without having brought the proper profit. It is worth to wish you good luck in organizing such a production and success in maintaining your business at a high level!
