Konica Minolta, based in Japan, is involved in copiers, printers, medical equipment, optical devices and thin films used to enhance picture quality in LCD.
KM is developing and producing OLED for lighting, and in March 2014 the company announced that it is starting to construct a R2R flexible OLED lighting fab with plans to start production by the end of 2014. The project took much longer than KM expected, and only entered mass production at around 2023. The company now supplies its flexible OLED lighting panels to companies.
In 2017 Konica Minolta and Pioneer announced that the two companies will setup a joint venture, which will be called Konica Minolta Pioneer OLED and will focus on OLED lighting for automotive applications. In 2019 KMPO was dissolved following Pioneer's withdrawal from the OLED lighting market and the operations moved back into Konica Minolta.
