Kaneka is a Japanese materials company that active with plastics, PVC and caustic soda, foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals and other markets.
Kaneka have been working on OLED Lighting since 2008, producing panels in low volume mainly for large installations. In 2010 the company established a subsidiary called OLED Aomori to handle its OLED business.
In 2015 Kaneka announced new 50,000 hours OLED panels, and in June 2017 Kaneka unveiled its latest lighting fixture. In 2020 Aomori OLED's main target market was inspection systems for production sites.
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Kaneka expands its OLED lighting solutions for visual inspection at production sites
Kaneka unveils a new OLED lighting fixture
Kaneka demonstrate their new 50,000 hours OLED lighting panels
Kaneka starts producing 50,000 hours (LT70) OLED lighting panel samples
Kaneka developed a 50,000 hours OLED lighting panel, plans to increase production capacity
Kaneka signs a license agreement with UDC for OLED lighting materials
Universal Display announced that Kaneka signed an OLED technology license agreement. UDC granted license rights to manufacture and sell phosphorescent OLED lighting products. Kaneka will use UDC's PHOLED materials in their OLED lighting devices.
Kaneka has been developing OLED lighting panels for a long time. The company had plans to start offering OLED panels back in 2011, and showed dimmable 20 lm/w panels in five colors (warm white, red, orange, blue and green). Back in 2011 the company said those panels cost around ¥2 million (approx $24,000) per square meter - and they hoped this will drop to ¥50,000 ($600) or less by 2020.
Qube - an OLED installation with over 1400 OSRAM Orbeos panels
Kaneka shows a massive OLED lighting installation
OLED Lighting news from Japan's Lighting Fair 2011
Kaneka to start shipping OLED lighting panels in March, unveils OLED strategy
Kaneka announced that it will start accepting orders for OLED lighting panels on March 22nd, 2011 in Japan (and later in April in Europe). Kaneka will offer OLED square panels in five colors (warm white, red, orange, blue and green). The panels will be dimmable (in the range from 1,000cd/m2 to 5,000cd/m2).
Kaneka's OLED panels will cost around ¥2 million (approx $24,000) per square meter - and the company believes that the price will drop to ¥200,000 ($2,400) next year and to ¥50,000 ($600) or less by 2020. Production capacity in 2011 will be 10,000m2 - and this will grow to 100,000m2 in 2015. Kaneka panels will not be very efficient - around 20lm/W and will offer around 10,000 hours lifetime. But the company plans to improve this to about 60lm/W and 25,000 by 2014.
