U.S. giant GE Lighting has announced the end of September will be the last one off the U.S. production of ordinary incandescent light bulb factory, marking the production of GE out of the incandescent lamp.
Close incandescent plant primarily because the United States in 2007 adopted an energy efficiency policy that by 2014 will ban incandescent production is replaced by energy saving compact fluorescent lamps.
At present, the U.S. dependence on imported energy-saving lamps in China. GE has also taken into account this transition between the production of energy-saving incandescent lamp factory, but because their own production costs of energy-saving lamps higher than 50% of Chinese imports. Therefore, forced the plant closings.