Out of the chaos and clutter of global industrialization and technology development has emerged an new global innovator– TCL Corporation. TCL stands for “The Creative Life,
A slogan that represents the company’s aspirations of building a truly international and innovative brand.
Founded in 1981, TCL is one of the largest consumer electronics enterprises in China with a truly international presence. It has companies and business units in almost all major continents and employs over 60,000 people in its more than 40 sales offices across the world. It has become widely known for its own television sets and mobile phones as well as Thomson televisions and Alcatel mobile phones brands.
In 2012, TCL Corporation achieved global sales of 10 billion US Dollars, with a production of 10.86 million LCD TV sets and 43.61million handsets only for that year.
The meteoric rise of TCL these past decade has been in part due to its diligent commitment to research. It has established R&D centres in China, U.S.A., France and Singapore and owns 20 manufacturing bases globally, in China, Poland, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam. Out of these, it has sought to provide solutions to some of the world’s most pressing technology needs.
But the biggest advantage of TCL is its ability to cover the whole production process from end-to-end. Unlike similarly offered products right now in the Philippines which are basically OEM- sourced, TCL manufactures everything, from their semiconductor wafers to bulb lead frames and product casings.
The push for greater adoption of LED lighting technology has been made more urgent by the worldwide drive towards ‘clean energy’. We see this with the phase-out of the use of incandescent bulbs in China, Europe, US and even in the Philippines by 2014.
We now all know how incandescent bulbs and even CFL actually produce harmful consequences for our environment. They have been determined to, besides wasteful energy consumption, actually contribute to the depletion of our Earth’s Ozone layer through excessive heat production and a host of other toxic and cancer- producing chemicals like mercury, phenol and styrene.
The global response to rush into the production of many alternative LED lighting solutions however was not without unwanted consequences.
The massive rise of low- budget LED lighting solutions have resulted in products of poor quality that deliver substandard performance. On occasions this may have discouraged some early adopters.
With this environment, TCL Corporation has decided to show the way by helping establish LED efficiency standards. Again through its strong design and research units, TCL has identified methods that provide optimum light distribution while producing natural lighting conditions with whatever application.
Proof of TCL’s success can be seen in the many, many large scale applications by TCL LED lighting technology to be found in installations around the world. One of the truly astonishing examples, is the iconic Watercube Beijing or the National Swimming Centre, first unveiled during in the last Summer Olympics in Beijing. It is the world’s largest EFTE- clad structure in the world and also the most energy efficient.
TCL stands out not only through its large scale projects but also draws pride with its ability to provide practical, energy efficient and earth- friendly solutions for home, office, industrial and special lighting environments.
TCL’s vision to build the most creative brand name in the world has found a reliable partner in the Philippines in Sonic Electrical and Lighting Inc.
Sonic Philippines is firmly committed to values of offering ONLY LED technology products of the highest quality that will protect people’s health and care for our environment and natural resources.
With the winning combination of TCL capabilities and the wide-ranging vision of Sonic Philippines, we can probably say that we will have a healthier Earth in our hands.
