Acuity Brands is one of the world's largest lighting solution providers. Acuity Brands is involved with OLED based lighting fixtures and installations for many years, using panels by both LG and OLEDWorks.
In April 2019 Acuity Brands announced it has decided to exclusively rely on OLEDWorks panels. As of early 2024, the company no longer offers any OLED luminaries.
GLOLED is designing and marketing OLED lighting based products. Established in 2012 in Yamagata, Japan, GLOLED is owned by Watanabe Woolen Spinning company.
GLOLED is using Lumiotec's OLED lighting panels and unveiled their first product in March 2013.
Pioneer OLED Lighting Devices is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pioneer, established in January 2013 to handle Pioneer's OLED lighting business. Pioneer is collaborating with Mitsubishi and is already producing OLED lighting panels (sold under the Verbatim brand).
OLEDWorks was established in July 2010 by former Kodak OLED business experts and has become a leading OLED lighting maker. In 2015 OLEDWorks acquired Philips' OLED lighting business.
OLEDWorks produces panels in both Rochester New York and Aachen, Germany (what was previously Philips' site). The company offers a wide range of OLED panels and related products, and in November 2018 OLEDWorks started to ship its first flexible OLED lighting panels.
In 2019 the company signed a collaboration agreement with Audi.
Rohm is a Japanese company established in 1958 that is making discrete semiconductors, passive components, displays and integrated circuits.
Rohm has an active OLED program working on OLED Lighting (Rohm owns a part of Lumiotec), displays and microdisplays.
First-O-Lite was established in 2010 in Nanjing, China. The company is developing OLED lighting panels (based on a hybrid tandem architecture) and has a 2-Gen OLED lighting production fab that is currently producing 70 lm/W OLED lighting panels.
First-O-Lite focuses on finding niche OLED applications, mostly the health market, and it has released 29 products into the Chinese market aimed for babies and kids lighting. In March 2017 we posted an article detailing the company's current product offering and its strategy and roadmaps.
In November 2013 the company announced it has developed the world's most efficient OLED lighting module at 111.7 lm/W.
Blackbody is an OLED lighting developer and manufacturer. Blackbody covers all the aspects from design study to mass production. The company offers OLED lamps and installations (it does not offer stand alone panels), and sometimes use 3rd-party panels in its OLED lamps.
Blackbody has introduced many OLED lamps and installations - from small desk lamps to huge chandeliers with hundreds OLED panels. We interviewed their CTO in May 2010 and reviewed one of their OLED lamps (the V-LUX OLED desk lamp) in November 2011.
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.
n 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.
Pioneer, based in Japan, was founded in 1938, and is producing home and car electronics systems. Pioneer was the first company to actually make OLED displays - back in 1998.
Pioneer today produces a wide range of high-end PMOLED panels. The company used to produce AMOLED display but exited from the AMOLED display market in 2005. In 2022 Pioneer spun-off its PMOLED production unit to SOAR Corporation.
In February 2010, Pioneer announced it has entered the OLED Lighting market, together with Mitsubishi Chemicals. Pioneer is producing the panels using Mitsubishi's technology. They are sold under the Verbatim brand.
Showa Denko (SDK) is a chemical producer established in 1908 in Japan, with a wide range of products and target markets.
SDK develops OLED lighting technologies, with aims to produce 80lm/W 40,000 hours white OLEDs - although it's not clear if this plan is still on track. SDK is using UDC's PHOLED materials.
