Research / IP companies

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

Organic Lighting Technologies focuses on a product that exploits OLED technology for application to LCD backlight, especially small area LCDs like that used in cell phone and digital cameras. The product is ‘Alqalight’ which is an OLED backlight.

OLT's web site 

Sumitomo Chemical has been established in 1913, and since then has been researching and producing industrial chemicals and materials. Sumitomo has been working with CDT on PLED materials, and has acquired the company in July 2007. They aim to produce OLED displays, and an OLED TV at 2009.

Sumitomo's web site

TMDisplay is a JV between Toshiba and Matsushita, started in 2002. TMDisplay is involved in design and production of display, focusing on small and medium sized panels. TMDisplay is CDT licensee, and is focusing on PLED displays. 

TMDisplay are making OLED panels in sizes up to 3.5", and are also working on TV-size OLED panels. They claim they will start making TV OLEDs in 2009.

TMDisplay's web page

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.

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.

GE's web page 

Founded in 2000, as a subsidiary of KOLON Group, NeoView KOLON is focused on developing, manufacturing and marketing OLED displays. NeoView KOLON is capable of realizing full color as a determinant of the properties of OLED itself and is in the capacity and capability of mass production of OLED display.

NeoView Kolon's web site

Dynamic Organic Light is focused on developing and commercializing advanced materials and their incorporation into next-generation organic electronic devices, specifically, OLED-type flat panel displays, solid state lighting, and solar cells. The Company's technology provides for improved material lifetime, efficiency, color purity, and device manufacturing cost versus conventional OLED materials.
Dynamic Organic Light was founded in 2003 and is a privately held, venture capital backed company located in Longmont, CO.

Dynamic Organic Light web site

Add-Vision is a pioneer in the development of PLEDs display technology for use in a wide range of flexible low-resolution display and specialty lighting applications. Add-Visions claims that their unique P-OLED technology offers a superior set of display characteristics and cost performance as compared to other flexible display technologies, such as AC-driven thick-film EL.
The key advantage of Add-Vision’s P-OLEDs is its ability to offer many of the attractive characteristics of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) while simultaneously being fully printable onto thin flexible substrates using conventional printing equipment and practices..Add-Vision is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California (USA).

Add-Vision web site

BASF Future Business GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF AG, focused on development of new materials, technologies, and system approaches within the business areas of Energy Management, Quality of Life and Organic Electronics.
BASF aim to develop monochromic price tags and flexible newspaper-like applications.

BASF future business web site