Strengthening vertical integration of Dongbei Investment 500 million participation in private equity

According to Taiwan media reports, in order to further deepen the vertical strategic cooperation, the LED packaging factory Dongbei Board of Directors decided on the 27th to participate in the round-the-box private placement, the two sides will strengthen the integration and cooperation of LED upstream die to package and downstream backlight and lighting application customers in the future. Dongbei is expected to acquire 15.3 million shares of the private equity of the company, with a total investment of 558 million yuan, accounting for 17% of the 90 million shares of the private equity.

Based on the long-term application development of LEDs and the need for stable source of crystal supply, Dongbei and Yuyuan are expected to quickly attack the large-size backlight application market under the vertical cooperation of both parties, and actively expand the world's major large-size backlights. Apply the customer base.

In the future, both parties will use vertically integrated resources to develop complete backlight application products, create cost competitive advantages, and combine downstream application development, and rapidly increase the scale of operation, and grab the backlight application market with double demand in the next year to create a comprehensive range. Supply upstream and downstream.

Since Dongbei entered the international leading TV backlight customer supply chain in 2009, Yiyuan has been an important TV chip supply partner, and Dongbei has also actively participated in the Yangzhou Yangyang Optoelectronics Investment Case. Dongbei pointed out that in view of the double penetration of the TV backlight market next year, the rising demand for tablet computer backlights, and the new backlight customer orders to be added next year, the company will be able to stably obtain high-brightness crystal supply under the private placement of the company. For the next year, the high-end backlight application market will be ready for the supply of crystal chips to meet the growth needs of downstream customers.

In addition, Dongbei said that this year, in addition to laying a solid customer base in the backlight market, in line with the progress and maturity of die efficiency and process, Dongbei is also actively developing a series of LED general lighting application related products, focusing on indoor lighting applications.

Dongbei pointed out that under the gradual fermentation of the channel construction benefits, the company will fully attack the lighting application market next year, and by participating in the private equity, it is expected to further deepen the company's cost competitive advantage in products, the above-mentioned downstream one-stop The cooperation accelerates the application of LEDs to general lighting penetration, develops and expands new application niche markets, and enhances operational scale and efficiency.