Solvay OLED, based in Pittsburgh, US, was established in 2014 by Solvay after the acquisition of Plextronics. Solvay OLED, an internal start-up owned by Solvay, handled all of Solvay's OLED activities - mostly focused on soluble HIL and HTL OLED materials - but also developing small-molecule hosts and other technologies.

The company had two dedicated laboratories located in Pittsburgh and in Korea as well as scale up capabilities in France. Solvay OLED was dissolved in 2016 as Solvay decided to exit the OLED market.

Everest Scientific, based in the US, was a chemicals and raw materials supplier for several industries.

For the OLED market, the company used to provide intermediate materials. It seems as if the company is no longer in business.

Eteris was supposed to be established in 2014 as a merger between Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron (TEL), creating a leading semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker.

The merger was called off in April 2015 due to regulation concerns.

Finland-based Pulsedeon (previously known as Picodeon) specialized on thin film coatings and surface treatments with its patented Coldab Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser Deposition (USPLD) process.

The company's Coldab Series4 USPLD batch process coating equipment can be used to deposit OLED encapsulation on plastic substrates at low temperatures. In recent years the company has focused entirely on deposition tools for Li-Ion battery materials.

Raystar Optronics is a Taiwanese display supplier that offers small to medium sized LCD, TFTs and OLED modules.

Raystar currently offers character and graphic PMOLED displays.

Alkilu was established in 2013 with an aim to develop innovative consumer OLED lighting products. Alkilu had a diverse range of products - from night lights, to bike lights and music conductor stands.

Alkilu first unveiled their products at CES 2014, using OLED panels from several OLED lighting makers. In January 2014 we interviewed the company's CEO.

Alkilu is no longer in business.

Plastic Logic was founded in 2000 as a spin-off from Cambridge University, to develop OTFT backplanes for displays. The company mostly focus on e-paper (E Ink) displays, but it is also involved with OLED displays.

In 2011 Plastic Logic received a major investment from Russia's RUSNANO fund, and the company setup a manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany. In February 2015 Plastic Logic spun-off FlexEnable to handle technology development and licensing, and is currently developing and manufacturing flexible OTFT-based EPD (E Ink) displays.

Luoyang Sifon Electronic was established in 2001 in Luoyang, China, to manufacture high-melting metals such as tungsten and molybdenum alloys. The company produces molybdenum targets, tungsten targets and WCu wafers for the OLED industry and says LG Display uses their products for OLED production.

Luoyang Sifon's web site is no longer operating, it is not clear whether this company is still in business.

StoreDot, based in Israel, was established in 2011 to develop and commercialize new peptide-based technology originally discovered in Tel Aviv University. The technology enabled the synthesis of quantum dots based on bio-materials for a variety of application.

In 2015 the company changed direction from focusing on memory technology to the display market. In 2016 we visited StoreDot's headquarters and reported on the company's technology and business. Later on the company changed direction again to focus on fast-charging EV batteries.

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