On September 16, 2021, Hay Think learned from ZJLT Precision Optical Technology Corporation that the company's newly-built microprism production base has successfully achieved commercial production.
In the field of microprisms, the company has cooperated with major North American customers. The product has completed multiple rounds of sample delivery and testing, and the microprism products are about to enter the stage of mass supply.
The 2021 semi-annual report shows that the company's revenue and net profit in the first half of the year were 207 million yuan and 76,247,100 yuan respectively, an increase of 12.6% and 10.14% year-on-year. The company said that the performance growth was mainly due to the increase in revenue from glass aspheric lenses, glass wafers and other products over the same period last year, of which the revenue from glass aspheric lenses increased by 126.49% year-on-year.
Regarding the application of glass aspheric lens products in the field of intelligent driving, with the popularization of automobile intelligent driving, the company's glass aspheric lens provides supporting services for many automotive lens companies, and the overall business volume will increase. The company currently has plans for capacity expansion in this regard. "
The company has the mass production capacity of high-refractive-index glass wafers, and the high-precision molded glass aspheric lens has successfully entered the automotive field and has become a green partner of Sony.
In the AR field that has attracted much attention from the market, the glass wafers produced by ZJLT can be cut and cut into AR optical waveguides, which can eventually be used as AR lens materials. At present, the main customer of glass wafers is Corning Corporation of the United States. "
Regarding the rumors that "Apple's new generation of iPhones will no longer use the long glass prisms of Lantech Optics", ZJLT said, "The company, as a supplier to Apple, mainly supplies optical components. The long prisms are mainly supplied to AMS Group. The final customer is Apple. The company has no way of knowing whether the iphone13 will use the strip prism, but the shipment of the strip prism has decreased compared with the same period last year."
Previously, ZJLT had penetrated into the North American major customer industry chain with long prisms, occupied 80% of the major customer long prisms, established good customer relationships and obtained direct supply qualifications.
ZJLT stated in the semi-annual report that the company's initial research and development project has basically successfully developed aspheric lenses for lithography machine lenses, and has shifted to the development of wide-spectrum lenses. The company's lithography machine lenses are mainly supplied to lithography machines in the PCB field, and there is still a certain distance from the supply of DUV lithography machines. "