Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta lays out OLED Lighting plan, wants to get $1 billion in sales by 2017/18

11/13/2009

Konica Minolta lays out its OLED Lighting plan:

Launch OLED lighting equipment by March 2011
Build a large-scale OLED lighting plant by march 2014
Get over 100 billion yen (about $1 billion) in sales by 2017/18

The company will spend around 3.5 billion yen ($38 million) to build an initial production line by the end of 2010, in order to launch products by March 2011. The line will use roll-to-roll production method. The mass-production line planned for 2014 will require at least 10 billion yen ($110 million) to build.

Konica Minolta is working towards OLEDs together with GE and UDC.

Via Reuters

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Konica Minolta launches OLED lighting campaign

07/27/2009

Konica Minolta is launching an online OLED lighting ad campaign (ads has spotted in CNN video, for example). Konica Minolta is working on Phosphorescent OLED lighting, together with UDC and GE. They have plans to release their first products by 2011. It seems like OLED lighting is heating up (unlike the OLED panels), especially since Philips has started shipping samples, and I guess KM also wants to make an early impact, and hopefully we'll hear more from them soon. Perhaps they also plan an "early launch" of samples, like Philips.

KM says that OLED lighting will "change our world", it's the biggest invention in lighting since Edison, and focus on the environmental bonuses and design possibilities. KM also seems to working on flexible or curved OLEDs, or at least they list these as some of OLED's advantages.

Universal Display Corporation Announces Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results

11/07/2008

For the third quarter of 2008, UDC reported a net loss of $5,302,983, or $(0.15) per diluted share, versus a net loss of $2,960,565, or $(0.08) per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2007.

Konica Minolta and UDC Announce OLED Technology License Agreement for Lighting Applications

08/14/2008

Konica Minolta and Universal Display Corporation today announced the signing of an OLED Technology License Agreement. Under the agreement, Konica Minolta will be able to integrate Universal Display’s proprietary OLED technologies into Konica Minolta’s white OLED lighting products, thus securing Konica Minolta to accelerate commercialization and to strengthen the competitiveness of its white OLEDs.

Konica Minolta plans to launch OLED lighting products in 2011

05/22/2008

Konica Minolta plans to launch the OLED lighting equipment by early 2011, Senior Executive Officer Shoei Yamana told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in Tokyo.

Konica and GE to jointly develop OLED lights, release product within 3 years

03/27/2007

Konica Minolta has tied up with GE to jointly develop flexible and thin lighting products using organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology. Konica Minolta said it would aim to release a product within three years, most likely using the GE brand.

Company spokeswoman Yuko Ogiso said Konica and GE would develop devices that are thin and can be bent to fit curved surfaces, aiming to offer a new category of lighting while cultivating the business into a new driver of earnings growth. Ogiso said the company did not have any concrete profit or sales forecasts for the OLED business.

Konica Minolta and Universal Display Corporation Strengthen Collaboration in OLED Development

10/16/2006

Next Phase to Focus on Konica Minolta's Commercialization of All-Phosphorescent OLED Backlights and Other Lighting Products

Konica Minolta And UDC announced the strengthening of their collaboration to incorporate Universal Display's proprietary PHOLED(TM) phosphorescent OLED technology into Konica Minolta's white OLED devices. On June 30, 2006, Konica Minolta announced that it had successfully developed a white OLED with a power efficiency of 64 lumens per watt, which is four times the efficiency of standard incandescent bulbs. For this development, Universal Display's red and green PHOLED technology and materials have been used in conjunction with Konica Minolta's proprietary OLED technologies, such as its own blue phosphorescent materials and multi-layer design technologies.

Konica Minolta is currently accelerating its efforts to enable commercial manufacturing of white OLED devices for backlights in displays and for other lighting applications. These OLED devices are anticipated to use all phosphorescent materials.