Hohance Chemistry
Shanghai-based Hohance Chemical develops and markets pharmaceutical & chemical materials.
The company offers several OLED intermediates.
Shanghai-based Hohance Chemical develops and markets pharmaceutical & chemical materials.
The company offers several OLED intermediates.
Idemitsu Kosan is a Japanese company, founded in 1911, to engage in oil distribution, and over the years they have gained experience in fuel products and basic chemicals, plastics, electronic materials and OLED materials. Idemitsu is best known for its fluorescent blue emitter and host.
Ind-Swift, established in 1995 and based in India, produces chemical mostly for the global pharmaceutical industry.
Ind-Swift started developing OLED intermediates in 2014 and has since scaled-up many molecules for mass production. Ind Swift is specialized in the synthesis of complex derivatives of pyridine, piperidine, pyrolidine, piperzaine, quinoline and more for organic electroluminescent materials.
China's Jilin OLED was established in 2005 and is engaged with development, manufacturing and sales of OLED materials. Jilin OLED is a public company that trades on the Shanghai STAR Market (ticker 688378).
The company offers hole injection materials, hole transport materials, light-emitting layer materials and electron transport materials.
In August 2019 it was reported that Jilin OLED is building a $85 million OLED Material R&D center in China.
Japan-based JSR Corporation, established in 1957, develops and markets materials and products for industries such as semiconductors, life-sciences, packaging, computing and more.
For the OLED industry JSR offers pixel defining layer (PDL) materials, planarization layer materials (PLN) and materials for alignment of flexible/film substrates.
Kaiyuan Chemical, based in Tianjin, China is involved with chemical research and manufacturing. The company supplies pharmaceutical intermediates and ingredients and also high-tech electronic materials.
The company produces several OLED intermediates and claims it has been supplying materials to both LG and Samsung.
Kanto Chemical, established in 1944 in Japan, develops and manufactures fine chemicals, reagents, and chemicals for the electronics industry. For the OLED industry, the company offers hole transporting electron blocking materials that it developed in collaboration with NHK.
US-based Kebotix develops next-generation materials using advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics technologies. The company automates the scientific method using a proprietary closed-loop R&D process, in order to predict and produce new chemistries in a self-driving lab.
Kebotix targets several markets, including the OLED material market, for which it aims to introduce its first emitter materials in 2022.
LG Chem (part of the LG Group) is developing and marketing chemicals and electronic materials. For the OLED display market, LG Chem is offering OLED stack materials.
In July 2017, Idemitsu Kosan and LG Chem announced a new collaboration agreement that will allow both companies to use each other OLED material-related patents in certain areas.
LG Chem was producing OLED lighting panels, but in 2015 the company sold the OLED lighting business unit to LG Display is a $135 million deal (LGD later withdrew from the market). LG Chem also had an OLED circular polarizer business, which was sold in 2023.
Light Polymers, established in 2013 in San Francisco, is developing products based on lyotropic liquid crystals for applications such as displays (LCD and OLEDs), lighting, solar panels and packaging.
In March 2017 Light Polymers announced a $24.3 million financing round to scale up its OLED circular polarizer solution.
LORDIN is an early-stage company established in 2020 that aims to develop efficient blue OLED emitter materials based on triplet harvesting. The company also offers services to the OLED industry.
LORDIN has raised just over $6 million in funds, and is looking to IPO in the future. The company hopes to develop a commercial OLED emitter by 2024.
Korea-based LT Materials, a subsidiary of LT Group, produces materials for the electronics industry, such as solder materials, MCCL, and more.
LT Materials produces materials used in the production of OLED displays.
Luminescence Technology (or Lumtec) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of organic chemicals for the OLED, OPV and OTFT markets.
Lumtec offers both evaporable and soluble OLED materials (HTL, HIL, ETL, EBL, Host materials and dopants). The company offers phosphorescent and TADF emitters.
In 2019 Lumtec announced that it started to produce OLED lighting panels, mainly for the automotive market. The company's production capacity is around 150,000 50x35 mm panels per month. The company is planning to expand its production capacity to 600,000 units per month.
US-based Margik (previously Light and Charge Solutions) was established in 2019 to design next-generation electron and hole transport materials (ETM, HTL) for organic electronic devices, including OLED lighting and display panels.
The company says its materials offer high thermal stability and high resistance to moisture.
Material Science was established in Korea in 2014 with an aim to develop OLED materials. The company currently offer ETL, HTL, EIL, EBL materials in addition to red and green host and emitter materials.
In 2017 Material Science announced it has developed an efficient blue OLED fluorescent emitter and host system. The company also develops TADF emitters.
Mendel Chemicals is a Moldova-based supplier of chemical products, serving various analytical, industrial, and manufacturing needs.
For the OLED industry the company suppliers a wide range of materials, including some intermediates it produces in-house.