Panasonic will finish production of incandescent bulbs at the end of October

Although LED bulbs have been intensely publicized in recent years due to energy savings compared to incandescent bulbs, Panasonic will accelerate the promotion of promotion of energy-saving lamps, in order to accelerate the promotion of promotion of energy-saving lamps, the end of production of incandescent light bulbs, I announced it will move forward to the end of the month.

Accelerate efforts to promote energy-saving lamp penetration Production completion of incandescent light bulbs for general household (E26 mouthpiece type) advanced earlier at the end of October | News Releases | Panasonic Corporate Information | Panasonic


This time, the target of production end is "Long-life silica bulb"4 types (20 W type, 40 W type, 60 W type, 100 W type).

Panasonic released 207 ordinary home incandescent bulbs at the 2008 stage, but in May 2008 the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry launched "Measures to Promote the Promotion of Energy Saving Lamps" in place of incandescent light bulbs We have developed light bulb type fluorescent lamps and others.

We have released LED bulbs from October 2009 to accelerate this movement and we have released 48 models by July 2012.

Traditionally, the production of incandescent bulbs was planned to be completed on March 31, 2013, but the incandescent light bulbs that are currently produced as of 2012 are only 4 types of this long-lived silica bulbs, already As products substituting incandescent light bulbs gathered, we decided to end the schedule and decide to end production as of October 31, 2012.

This is Panasonic's announced alternative product. At the moment, those which are not released either "daylight color", "day white color" or "light bulb color" with the LED light bulb are only equivalent to the 80 W type, and we are planning to develop this alternative product as well.


By the way, Panasonic consolidated net loss for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 is the largest amount of 780 billion yen. Mr. Kazuhiro Tsuka assumed office as president in JuneIf we do not accept a certain decrease in sales, the organization structure will not change and we can not prioritize the profitI am talking.