The 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, the global second largest and Asia's first largest International Lighting Fair, opened at China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex on June 9-12, which was organized by Messe Frankfurt and Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co Ltd. More than 2,600 exhibitors from 29 countries and regions showcased LED lighting technology and products on the exhibition area of 220,000 square meters. In addition, Guangzhou International Electrical Building Technology Exhibition and Guangzhou International Photoelectric architecture Exhibition were held during the same period.

Messe Frankfurt pointed out on the press conference that the exhibitors in 2013 decreased by approximately 10% over 2012, and the exhibitors in 2012 reduced by 9% over 2011. Because exhibitors of each session are very enthusiastic, the organizers rejected the booth application from more than 400 vendors in 2013 in order to enhance the quality of exhibition and avoid excessive homogeneity exhibits or vendors. The overall average unit area and the total exhibition area have improved.

LEDinside observed that the booths of many medium and large manufacturers in the A area already have reached the international standard, the new lighting exhibits are more mature than the products showcased in last year in the integrated systems, intelligent lighting, planning of lighting design and the use of LED light source technology. Among them, the devices for commercial lighting, architectural lighting and public lighting are the most popular categories, and the intension to use LED light source for indoor lighting is greater than ever. The decorative lighting is one of the major market applications, the proportion to use LED increases rapidly.

LEDinside pointed out that LED light source and components exhibition in the B area is more successful than that in previous years, the booth design and visitor amount of several Korean and cross-strait LED chip makers are better than 2012, more lighting manufacturers and retailers enquired LED lighting source and related products.

Many global leading enterprises and indicative manufacturers of the lighting industry participated in this exhibition with various indicative products, including Philips, OSRAM, Tridonic, Citizen, Seoul Semiconductor, GE Lighting, Cree, Semileds, as well as Epistar, Lextar, TSMC SSL, Everlight and other famous enterprises. However, Topanga Technologies, Fumagalli Srl, Dow Corning, Kny Design GmbH are international well-known manufacturers.