IMEC美国公司发起了宁波宁海芯汇光电子科技有限公司，目的是营造第一个等离子体照明的中试规模制造公司。IMEC US,LLC founded IMEC Ningbo, Ltd. in 2014. The purpose of this entity is to establish the first APL manufacturer in pilot scale, in order to complete the product-to-market process of the new APL inventions.

The location is chosen in Ningbo South Coastal New Area, where concentrated lighting fixture manufacturers and mechanical engineering companies who traditionally working for major international lighting brands.

The local government development zone considered IMEC Ningbo the first light-engine or light-source company ever being established there, with a potential to lead the provincial industry to next level. The project is promised to be sponsored and supported by Ninghai County Strategic and Trendy Industrial Development Program; later Ninghai County Angle Investment, Ltd. invested a venture capital to the company. The positioning of IMEC Ningbo’s pilot and trial production also fulfils local industrial community’s demands, making spaces for expanding contracted manufacture and license OEM.

IMEC Ningbo has been forming a joint venture with international inventors for next step pushing the envelope of already outstanding performances of APL, namely Super Plasma Lighting (SPL).IMEC Ningbo includes 2 facilities, a 300–sqm factory facility and a campus of two buildings for IMEC Advanced Manufacture Tech Center. Although it is far from first destination of international traveling, the APL’s international inventors considered it is appropriated setting with adequate enough life supports. The Three-gate Golf area is the least polluted and environmentally friendly area in Ningbo Municipal and its vicinity, yet enjoys its background of this major China industrial metropolis.