China-based Kangde Xin Composite Material Group (KDX) is China's largest optical film supplier that produces over 700 film types for a wide range of applications - from printing and packaging to window films and display films.

For the OLED industry, KDX provides barrier (encapsulation) film and tapes, flexible touch films and flexible substrate coating films.

UltraDisplay was established in June 2017 as a joint-venture between INT Tech (30%) and UltraChip (40%). The company developers and produces AMOLED drive ICs in a fabless model.

UltraDisplay offers OLED ICs for smartphones, wearables and AR/VR displays.

Ares Materials was established in 2014 as a spin-out from the University of Texas, with an aim to commercialize novel flexible electronics materials.

In 2018 Ares launched a mechanical lift-off technology called Easybond for flexible OLED production. The company is also developing a flexible electronics substrate called Pylux, based on a polysulfide thermoset polymer.

Swizerland-based Sefar AG produces highly conductive, transparent and robust electrode materials for large area optoelectronics. Sefar's electrodes are based on fine metallic wires and are suitable for printed and evaporated devices such as flexible OLED lighting devices.

HanaAMT, established in 2003 in Korea, is a developer and producer of metal and glass products.

HanaAMT developed encapsulation glass solutions for OLED displays, and shipped products to WiseChip, RiTDisplay, Visionox, Samsung Display, LG Display, OSRAM and others.

OPTIS, based in France, provided software simulation of light and lighting technologies.

The company's SPEOS light and optical simulation software supports OLED since 2012 and can assist both designers and OLED panel makers. In 2018 Optis was acquired by Ansys.

Solip Technology was spun-off from Korea's KAIST University with an aim to commercialize flexible glass technology. Solip's flexible glass (called Hybrimer) can be used as a substrate for flexible OLEDs.

According to reports Samsung Display will use the glass in its foldable OLED phones.

Lotus Applied Technology was established in 2007 in the USA as a spin-off of the thin film process group within Planar Systems.

Lotus develops innovative solutions to thin film processing challenges, and is focused on ALD equipment, including ones for roll to roll production of encapsulation layers for OLED panels and other devices.

US-based Polyera was established in 2005 to develop OTFT based backplanes for flexible displays. The company raised over $30 million in several financing rounds, and has a flexible display pilot line in Taiwan.

In December 2014 the company demonstrated a flexible OLED panel, and in August 2015 they announced their first product, the Wove Band flexible E Ink smart band, to be released in the second half of 2016. In December 2015 we posted an interview with the company's VP of special operations.

Software for Chemistry Materials (SCM) was established in 1995 as a spin-out from the theoretical chemistry department of the VU University Amsterdam with an aim to develop and market the Amsterdam Density Functional (ADF) software that has unique capabilities for modeling molecular properties of OLED materials.

Notably, ADF predicts phosphorescent lifetimes of transition metal complexes (used as OLED phosphors) through first-principle methods. ADF can also assess charge mobilities and exciton couplings in organic semi-conductors.