A couple of weeks ago LG Chem announced that they have started to mass produce the world's largest OLED lighting panel at 320 x320 mm. The panels are 0.88 mm thick and feature 60 lm/W, CRI of over 90 and an output level at 800 lm - 1,200 lm. LG today revealed that the panels cost $680 per panel (lower prices for bulk orders).

LG Chem also announced that they completed the development of their "truly flexible" plastic-based OLED panels. They now offer engineering samples for $250 and mass production is expected by July 2015. Prices will be lower when mass production starts.

In March 2014, LG Chem announced the world's largest OLED lighting panel at 320x320 mm. The company now finally started mass producing this panel. The 0.88 mm thick N6SD30 features 60 lm/W, 800-1,200 lumens brightness, a high CRI (>90) and a color temperature of 3000K.

LG Chem also announced two new mounting solutions for easy OLED lighting panel installation with magnetic connections. First up we have the Rail Connection type (shown above), in which each panel is cased and a DC-DC driver is integrated. The AC-DC driver supplies the DC to the conductor rail, and each lighting unit is magnetically attached to the rail.

A few days ago we reported that Home Depot now offers two OLED luminaire families from Acuity Brands - with prices starting at $199. This is exciting these are the cheapest OLED luminaires ever on offer, and these are the first OLED lamps ever to be offered in such a retail channel - and we've got some more information from Acuity Brands.

Acuity reveals that the Aedan and Chalina were both designed exclusively for the Home Depot (even though the designs resembles two of Acuity Brands' own OLED Luminiares, the Nomi and the Revel). Those OLEDs are currently available at Home Depot's online store and also at their store in Woodstock Georgia (not sure if they have plans to intrdoduce it to more stores).

Acuity Brands have been developing OLED luminaires since 2010, and have released several models commercially. Now Home Depot started offering some of the companies smaller OLED luminaires, with prices starting at $199.

Home Depot currently offers four OLED products from two families, the Aedan 2-panel lamps ($199, wall mount-sconce or pendant) and the 5-panel Chalina ($299, wall mount or pendant). These are probably the cheapest OLED luminaires available today, and it's great to see them retail at Home Depot!

Korean design firm HaeChan Design launched a new OLED luminaire brand called O'CLESS, which exclusively uses LG Chem OLED panels, and already unveiled several new lamps (all will be commercially available this December):

There's a new pop-up restaurant called Tincan in London's Soho that offers gourmet tinned seafood dishes. The interesting small restaurant (designed by AL_A architects) uses OLED lighting panels as the main lighting (in addition to some LED down-lights in the bar).

Tincan uses 16 circular OLED lighting panels produced by LG Chem. The designers found that because the OLEDs emit no heat, they can use simple 3D printing materials to build the prototype designs (actual end products were made with aluminum spinning method).

A new coffee shop opened in Korea called Marley Coffee (inspired by bob Marley's motto, "One Love"). They installed 15 OLED Butterfly Luminaries that use a total of 240 OLED panels - 53x55 mm panels produced by LG Chem.

Those OLED butterflies are connected to a motion detector, and they flicker when movement nearby is detected. LG Chem says that because the OLED panels have no glare, the flickering does not cause discomfort like in other types of lighting.

Check out this nice video, showing how to quickly and easily (well, if you have what it takes to do these kind of things) develop your own decorative OLED lamp:

The DIY blogger behind this lamp calls herself (or himself) Apple Tree. The 100x100 mm OLED panel used in this video is made by LG Chem.

Alkilu was established in 2013 with an aim to develop innovative consumer OLED lighting products, and the company unveiled their low cost OLED products at CES 2014, with aims to release them later in 2014. They are still not shipping OLEDs yet (despite accepting pre-orders on their web site since June).

Some Alkilu products (for example the Trio OLED Light shown above) us OLED panels made by LG Chem - which is also a marketing partner. Alkilu now announced that it signed a formal partnership with Visionox for OLED panel supply. Going forward, Alkilu plans to offer devices that use panels from both companies. Alkilu will buy the larger OLED panels from LG Chem, while the smaller ones will come from Visionox. The Visionox panels will be custom-designed and will offer some color variations.

LG Chem announced it developed new OLED lighting panels that features 100 lm/W and a lifetime of 40,000 hours. The plan is to release these panels towards the end of 2014. It's not clear, but it's likely that LG Chem aims to replace all current 60 lm/W OLED panels with the new 100 lm/W ones.

According to reports from Korea, LG Chem claims that their OLED panels will be available at lower prices compared to LED lighting. I'm guessing this is more of a "forward looking" statement as OLED panels are still very expensive, even after LG's plan to cut OLED prices by about 60% in Q3 2014 (from about $600/Klm to about $200/Klm).