OLED lighting companies

TechnoCorp Energy was formed by ex-Kodak employees, who left the company following Kodak's OLED business acquisition by LG in December 2010. The company (based in New York, US) will work on OLED Lighting, and has already given seed funding. 

It's not clear yet whether they will use Kodak's OLED Lighting IP, which was bought by LG as part of the acquisition.

TechnoCorp's web site

Mitsubishi community that consists of a multitude of independent companies involved in a wide range of markets including automobiles, plastics, electronics, hotels, banking and more. Several of these companies are involved with OLEDs:

Mitsubishi Chemicals is working towards OLED materials together with UDC. They have also entered the OLED Lighting market together with Pioneer in February 2010.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has decided to start making OLED display panels back in 2007, although we did not hear about these efforts since.

Mitsubishi Electric has shown a modular large-size OLED display aimed for outdoor use in 2009, but there's no word yet on pricing or availability of these displays.

Pioneer, based in Japan, was founded in 1938, and is involved in home and car electronics. Pioneer was the first company to actually make OLED displays, but have exited from the OLED display market in 2005 (and will stop making TVs altogether in 2010).

In February 2010, Pioneer announced it has entered the OLED Lighting market, together with Mitsubishi Chemicals. Pioneer will be the one to actually make the panels, and Mitsubishi will market and sell them. They plan to start mass production in 2011, with a sales target of $335 million in 2015 and $1.1 billion in 2020.

Pioneer's web site

Doosan Electronic (based in Korea, and established in 1974) specializes in electronic materials, especially in the Copper Clad Laminate (CCL) industry.

Doosan Electronic is developing (and wants to commercialize) OLED lighting.

Doosan Electronic's web site

Ledon OLED Lighting was created in October 2009, as a joint-venture between the Zumbotel group and the Fraunhofer IPMS institute. The company is based in Dresden, and will produce OLED panels and also develop and manufacture complete OLED lighting solutions and concepts for large-scale OLED systems. Ledon will use the Fraunhofer's pilot line, to make OLED panels on 370x470 mm2 substrates.

NEC Lighting (100% owned by NEC corporation) was established in 2000, and is into planning, development, manufacture and sales of CCFLs, lamp products, lighting apparatus and related products. NEC lighting is focusing on efficient lighting products such as LEDs and OLEDs. NEC Lighting will cease all manufactures and sales of incandescent lamps by 2012.

NEC Lighting OLED page

ModisTech is a Korean company focusing on OLED displays and lighting R&D, and also consluting services. 

ModisTech's web site