SmartDigital (represented by Jeong Seok-soon), a local manufacturer of LED light diffuser plates, has recently localized the white glass tube used for light diffusion. With price and quality competitiveness, the local company is now aiming at local and overseas markets currently dominated Japanese companies.

The newly-localized glass tube is produced directly from a glass melting furnace. The company could drastically save the cost thanks to its own manufacturing method patented home and abroad.

As the glass tube is well received in the American and Japanese markets, the company is expecting to mass-produce it sometime early next year.

The local market is also positively responding to the product not only because it is 20% cheaper than a plastic diffuser plate but also because it has good quality.

“Even if the market has been led by Japanese companies, we are quite confident in competing with them as we have developed our own technology of producing a good-quality glass tube at an affordable price. As an increasing demand is expected from many of the local and foreign companies, we could start producing it en masse ahead of the schedule,” says Mr. Jeong, the representative of SmartDigital. 

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