OLED lighting companies

PolyPhotonix is based in the UK, and are using CDT's P-OLED IP to create OLED Lighting panels. They have begun to work on their first production line in November 2008.

Royal Philips Electronics is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest. It is involved in many areas, and one of the world's leaders in lighting. Philips is working on OLED lighting, aiming to have products ready by 2009 under the lumiblade brand. It is also involved in sevaral european lighting projects. 

Lumiblade's web page

Lumiotec was formed in May 2008 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, ROHM, Toppan Printing and Mitsui to check the viability of OLED panels for lighting, and to manufacture and sell the panels.

Lumiotec is located at Yonezawa City, Japan.

Press release about Lumiotec's establishment

Konica Minolta is a japanese company, involved in copiers, printers, medical equipment, optical devices and a film used to enhance picture quality in liquid crystal displays.

KM is researching OLED for lighting, announced a partnership with GE and aims to have product on the market before 2010. KM has licenced OLED IP from UDC.

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Konica Minolta's web site

General Electric Company (GE) is a diversified industrial corporation, and operations include engines, military, wind turbines, locomotives, lighting and financial services. 

GE is into OLED lighting, with partnerships with Tokki and Konica-Minolta announced. In fact GE announced they will stop working on incandescent lamps and focus only on LED and OLEDs.

GE's web page 

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Regensburg, is a wholly owned subsidiary of OSRAM. Is a leading supplier and manufacturer of solid-state lighting solutions with a strategic focus on OLED technology. The company has developed an extensive range of IPs, development capabilities and manufacturing expertise. OSRAM OS offers Pictiva - a Single color, Passive matrix microdisplay (Display format: 80x48, 96x64 and 128x64). OSRAM is one of the two largest lighting manufacturers in the world. This international company, with its headquarters in Munich, employs more than 35,000 people throughout the world. World sales in the 2003 fiscal year totalled Euro 4.2 billion.

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OSRAM-OS web site