LG Chem collaborated with Korean 3D printer maker 3D-Box to show how easy it is to produce an OLED lamp with 3D printing:

LG Chem is one of the world's OLED lighting leaders and is producing several OLED panels including the world's first truly-bendable panels - only a few weeks ago they announced 406x60 mm plastic-based bendable panels. Last month LG Display announced it acquired LG Chem's OLED lighting unit for $142 million in a bid to consolidate LG's OLED technologies and manufacturing capabilities.

LG Chem announced that it has sold its OLED lighting business to LG Display, for 160 billion Won (a little over $142 million USD). LG decided that LG Display will be in charge of all OLED-based products while LG chem will focus on high-end materials (including OLED materials) and batteries. The idea is that consolidating the OLED production of both displays and lighting in the same company will enable LG to advance OLED lighting more quickly - and at a lower cost.

LG Chem is developing and producing OLED lighting panels, including the world's first truly-bendable panels (a few days ago they announced 406x60 mm plastic-based bendable panels), and is one of the clear leaders in the OLED lighting industry. The deal is set to take plan on December 15th, 2015.

LG Chem launched a new flexible OLED lighting panel sized 406x60 mm - more than twice the size of their current flexible panel (which is 200x50 mm). The new plastic-based panel model number is P6BD, and it is only 0.41 mm thick.

The P6BD offers 20,000 hours of lifetime, efficiency of 50 lm/W and a CRI of 85. LG Chem says that the panel's uniformity is 70% and above.

BlackBody introduced a new OLED lighting installation called the Dispertion at the London Design Festival. The Dispertion, designed by Thierry Gaugain uses 550 square OLEDs in addition to some round OLED:

The most interesting thing here is that the 100x100 mm square OLED panels were actually provided by LG Chem. Up until now Blackbody only used their own OLED panels (produced in the company's Gen-2 fab in Toulon, France).

According to reports from Korea, LG is considering moving the OLED lighting business from LG Chem to LG Display. The idea is that consolidating the OLED production of both displays and lighting in the same company will enable LG to advance OLED lighting more quickly - and at a lower cost.

The OLED Association goes on to speculate that LG Display may decide to convert one of its existing Gen-4.5 OLED display fabs to produce OLED lighting. This will make it even cheaper to expand capacity. Of course the downside is that LG Display will be more focused on displays than lighting as currently the OLED lighting market is still very small.

LG Chem published a short video that shows how OLEDs emit very little heat. The video shows an OLED lamp next to a fluorescent light and how much heat they emit:

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK, used LG Chem's OLED lighting panels in a new exhibition called "What is Luxury". LG Chem published a short interview with Zerlina Hughes, the director of London-based lighting design studio ZNA. She explains why OLEDs are excellent for museum exhibits:

A few months ago LG Chem installed over 550 OLED desk lamps with 1,100 panels at Seoul National University's new main library. LG Chem said that SNU adopted OLED lighting because they energy efficient, extremely comfortable to the eyes - and they enable modern designs due to their slim profile.

LG Chem now conducted a survey, asking 150 SNU students what they think of the new lamps. They published the results in the video above. To summarize? The students are happy with those lamps, they say that OLED provides a very comfortable light that helps them concentrate...

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. While some of their products are already shipping, Alkilu now launched a Kickstarter campaign for the TripLit portable OLED light.

The TripLit OLED panel is about 100x100 mm in size, and has a color temperature of 3000K (yes, that's all we know). The TripLit has a Li-Polymer battery that lasts for more than 30 hours (coupled with a solar charger, this is pretty neat). As part of the campaign, you can get it for $61.

LG Chem started developing "truly flexible" plastic-based OLED panels back in 2013, and they recently finished that development effort with sample production already underway. The company now released this video showing the panels undergoing some flexibility tests (including the hammer test):

Currently LG Chem offers samples for $250 each, and mass production of these panels is expected by July 2015 - which will also mean a lower price. Those panels offer 60 lm/W, 75 lumens, a color temperature of 3,000K and a CRI of over 85. The bending radius is 30 mm.