August 20, Philips (China) Investment Co., Ltd has held the groundbreaking ceremony on for its LED Professional Lighting Solutions manufacturing facility in Chengdu High-tech Industrial Development Zone.

It’s the bilateral cooperation that between Philips and Chengdu has entered a new phase since the two sides signed the LED strategic cooperation agreement last December.

Philips will build a fully integrated LED Professional Lighting Solutions manufacturing site to optimize the allocation of resources including production, warehousing and logistics, etc.

The site will help to control production efficiency and quality, increase greatly the responsiveness to clients and shorten the delivery time.

It is noteworthy that Philips will focus on providing more customized products to meet unique requirements of different customers with great speed. It will also ensure that Philips can specifically work with Chinese customers to help upgrade their lighting in all segments and applications.

To this end, Philips will organize a professional service team to ensure everything is OK from designing upon a client's request to final product delivery. It is expected that the site will start production in 2013.