SmartKem is an early-stage UK-based company that develops a new class of flexible high-mobility p-type semiconductor inks for flexible displays.

Smartkem provides customized solutions involving molecular synthesis, electronic prototyping and on-site technology transfer support. In November 2013 the company announced a joint-development agreement with a major Asian display maker. In August 2014 SmartKem raised million Euro from BASF ventures and other investors. In total the company raised $37 million so far.

SolOLED, established in 2021 in the UK, develops a family of novel solution-based TADF OLED emitter, based on technology that was developed at the University of St. Andrews.

In 2022, SolOLED secured 200,000 GBP in new funding from Scottish Enterprise and has initiated a collaborative research project with CENSIS to commercialize its novel materials.

Solus Advanced Materials (previously Doosan Solus), spun-off from Doosan Electro Materials in 2019, is producing materials for the electronics industry, the health and beauty industry and the battery industry.

For the OLED industry, Solus is producing HBL, ETL, EIL and other materials - and it is developing blue and green host materials. Solus is also researching new materials such as TADF emitters and quantum dots.

In 2015 Doosan signed a business arrangement and cross-patent agreement with Idemitsu Kosan to cooperate on OLED manufacturing.

Solvay is an international chemical company (based in Belgium) that offers a broad range of products for several markets including consumer goods, construction, automotive, energy, water and environment, and electronics.

Following the acquisition of Plextronics, Solvay consolidated all its OLED activity under Solvay OLED. This activity was later closed as Solvay decided to exit the OLED market and sell its IP to Nissan Chemical Industries.

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.

Sumitomo is focused on OLED materials for lighting (after their partnership with Panasonic for OLED TVs did not take off). In early 2016 the OLED-A published the performance of Sumitomo's soluble OLED materials.

Sumitomo's materials are used by JOLED in its printed monitors, and in 2018 Sumitomo invested in JOLED.

Summer Sprout Technology, established in June 2017, develops OLED materials and technologies. The company develops almost all OLED stack materials, including HIL, HTL, EBL, ETL, hosts and emitters.

Summer Sprout raised almost $15 million in its first financing round to establish material R&D labs in Beijing, China. The company is building a production center in Taixing, Jiangsu province - with support from the local governments (to the tune of $71 million).

Sun Fine Chem (SFC), based in Korea, develops fine chemicals for OLEDs, organic TFTs, PDP displays and other devices.

SFC has been producing OLED materials since 2002, and are working together with Universal Display to develop and commercialize highly-efficient phosphorescent OLED material systems.

SunaTech Inc. develops and supplies chemicals/materials and provides custom synthesis for the worldwide R&D activities in multiple sectors, especially in the organic electronics, such as OLED, OPV and OTFT.

SunaTech is located in Suzhou Industrial Park in China.

Shenyang Syndy chemistry institute (Syndy Chem) is a private-owned R&D enterprise based in China engaged in R&D of chemicals and drugs.

For the OLED market, Syndy produces red, green and blue fluorescent emitter materials.

It is not clear if the company is still in business (its website is down).

China-based Taizhou Tyloo Biopharm is a chemical maker that is mostly engaged with chemicals for the bio-pharma industry and nutritional ingredients.

Taizhou Tyloo Biopharm also produces OLED intermediates.

Taiwan-based Tetrahedron Technology (also known as Jingyi Technology Co.) was established in 2000, focusing on the development of OLED materials. The company's core capabilities are in material design, synthesis, purification, analysis and production.

Tetrahedron a wide range of services, including OLED materials R&D, OLED materials production, OLED properties analysis, OLED materials quality verification and more.

Toray Group is a chemical industry group that sets organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry and biotechnology as its core technologies. The main businesses are fibers & textiles and plastics & chemicals, but the company also develops IT-related products, carbon fiber composites, water treatment materials and pharmaceuticals.

Toray produces materials (ETL and HTL) for OLED display and lighting systems.

Universal Display (UDC) is an OLED research company, and one of the field's pioneers. UDC is involved in OLED IP, and holds many patent related to the commercialization of phosphorescent based OLEDs and also flexible, transparent and stacked OLEDs - for both display and lighting applications. The company offers both emitting and host materials.

UDC licenses its OLED production IP, and also sells OLED chemicals. UDC's customer list include Samsung, LG, Konica Minolta, BOE and others. In fact almost all OLED displays on the market make use of the company's emitters.

UDC trades in the NASDAQ (ticker: OLED).

VIVAN Life Sciences is an India-based high-end chemical producer that caters for various industrial verticals such as electronics, display materials, solar panel materials and pharmaceuticals.

For the display market, VIVAN produces specialized OLED materials and quantum dots, custom made for customer requirements. The company also offer perovskite materials.

Xi'an Kaixiang Photoelectric Technology, also known as CSOAR is an independent chemical developer and producer. The company offers materials for the display industry and the pharmaceutical industry.

For the display industry offers OLED intermediates (mostly furan series, carbazole series and biphenyl series) and liquid crystal displays.

Xian Caijing Opto-Electrical Science & Technology (also known as CJOE), based in Xi'an, China, is a producer of chemicals for a wide range of markets, including pharmaceutical intermediates, liquid crystal intermediates, opto-electrical materials and fine chemicals.

For the OLED industry, CJOE offers offers OLED intermediates.