Taiwanese contract LCD TV makers are expected to ship 42 percent more TV sets this year than last year, as demand exceeds market expectations in Japan and emerging markets, such as China, a Taipei-based research firm said yesterday.
Because of better-than-expected global demand, Topology Research Institute (拓墣產業研究所) significantly raised its shipments forecast for local firms, led by TPV Technology Ltd (冠捷), to 46.84 million units for this year, compared with 33 million units estimated at the end of last year.
That would represent a growth of 1.15 times from 21.73 million units shipped last year, according to Topology’s tally.
Local companies would benefit from “faster demand for LCD TVs in the second half, in particular, and increasing outsourcing from Japanese TV vendors, including Sony and Toshiba,” Topology analyst Maxwell Chang (張乘維) said in a report released yesterday.
Chang revised his forecast of global LCD TV shipments to 182 million units, up roughly 17 percent from 156 million units previously estimated, citing robust demand in emerging markets and replacement demand in developed countries such as Japan, where the government has extended a subsidy program for energy-saving models to the end of this year.
Amtran Technology Co (瑞軒), the nation’s No. 2 TV maker, aims to ship 8 million TV sets this year, up from 4.5 million last year.
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