Plastic optical fiber optical communication industry was the buzzword, but for these few years, the size of China FTTH coverage to become the world’s first plastic optical fiber promotion has encountered considerable resistance, still at the pilot stage several small cities. Over time, the plastic optical fiber opportunities in the field of optical communications are lost, and the plastic optical fiber need to know the breakthrough, but do you know the breakthrough?
Since 2009, China Telecom began promoting FTTH pilot scale since the plastic optical fiber with its high transfer rate, large core diameter, easy operation, anti-bending, high mechanical properties, low prices, was once considered to achieve FTTH’s best solution.
According to a study, the global plastic optical fiber industry sales are expected to reach $4.7 billion in 2015, including home networking, consumer electronics, automotive, aircraft, industrial and other fields, this is just the plastic optical fiber primary products, not including composite applications( such as mixing with cable drape applications). Plastic optical fiber is widely used, but in China it is far from spreading. FTTH is just one market, currently they are hot speculation only.
For example, in the European car market, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche and so on all of them have a application of plastic optical in the on-board communication, entertainment system. China as the world’s largest auto market, but faltered plastic optical fiber applications. In landscape decorative lighting market, plastic optical fiber in a foreign country has been widely used, which is a typical case of the London 2012 Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies.
Plastic optical fiber for landscape lighting in China is still in the bud. The potential is very large compared to traditional lamps, lower cost plastic optical fiber, more beautiful, environmental friendly; compared to the large number of applications of LED lights, plastic optical naturally soft, for artistic design and layout to help improve nighttime environmental values.
So you can see there will be much more plastic demanding in the market, and it is time to recollect waste plastic