Material Science was established in Korea in 2014 with an aim to develop OLED materials. The company currently offer ETL, HTL, EIL, EBL materials in addition to red and green host and emitter materials.
In 2017 Material Science announced it has developed an efficient blue OLED fluorescent emitter and host system. The company also develops TADF emitters.
Mendel Chemicals is a Moldova-based supplier of chemical products, serving various analytical, industrial, and manufacturing needs.
For the OLED industry the company suppliers a wide range of materials, including some intermediates it produces in-house.
Merck is a global company that specializes on Healthcare, Life Sciences and Electronics with its headquarters in Germany, and a history that goes back to 1668. The company designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of specialized materials including high performance OLED materials and supplies these materials to almost all OLED panel makers.
In 2016, Merck constructed a €30 Million OLED materials production plant in Darmstadt as the company sees OLED as one of its future growth drivers. In 2020 Merck announced that it acquired the OLED patent portfolio for display applications from Konica Minolta Inc. In 2022 Merck completed its OLED facility expansion in Korea and China.
Mitsubishi is a "community" that consists of a multitude of independent companies involved in a wide range of markets including automobiles, plastics, electronics, hotels, banking and more. Several of these companies were involved with OLEDs, but most (not all) of Mitsubishi's OLED projects were cancelled.
Mitsubishi Chemicals was working towards OLED materials together with UDC. They had also entered the OLED Lighting market together with Pioneer in 2010 and were selling OLED panels under the Verbatim brand (Verbatim is owned by Mitsubishi Chemicals), but the OLED lighting business was later disbanded. The company developed (in collaboration with researchers from Keio University) a new method to accelerate the design of OLED materials, using a combination of classical computing with quantum computing.
Mitsui Chemicals was established in 1997 in Tokyo, Japan. The company develops and markets chemicals (petrochemicals, basic chemicals, polyurethane, industry chemicals, etc.). Mitsui's Fine & Performance Chemical divisions develops and markets small molecule OLED materials.
Mitsui is co-developing OLED materials together with Idemitsu Kosan (the partnership was announced in 2006) and also owns a part of Lumiotec, a Japanese consortium that develops and markets OLED lighting panels.
Nissan Chemical Industries, established in 1887 in Japan, is a diversified chemical company involved in many industries, including Agricultural materials, pharmaceuticals and advanced materials.
In September 2016 the company acquired Solvay's HIL and HTL soluble-OLED IP and expertise as it aims to become an OLED material supplier.
Noctiluca, established in 2019 in Torun, Poland, is developing TADF emitters for third- and fourth-gen (Hyperfluorescence) OLED systems. The company also offers custom synthesis and R&D services as a chemical CRO.
Noctiluca's patented donor-acceptor-donor emitters show TADF effect with high quantum yield. Noctiluca is still at an early-stage of development.
In April 2022 the company went public in Poland's NewConnect stock exchange.
Germany-based Novaled, established in 2003, specializes in high efficiency, long-lifetime OLED stack materials. With expertise in synthetic and analytical chemistry, the company offers complete solutions for the organic electronic markets, commercializing Novaled's Doping technology and materials. The company has over 1,300 patents granted or pending.
Orthogonal, based in Rochester, NY, US is developing proprietary photoresist solution that allows direct patterning (maskless production) of OLED materials for flexible display applications.
Orthogonal is using fluorinated chemicals that behaves and performs the same standard photoresist, yet is fully compatible with organic electronic materials. In 2024, it was reported that the company sold its family of maskless OLED production patents to Samsung Display.
Ossila is a UK based company (spun-off from the University of Sheffield Physics department) that supplies components and materials for rapid prototyping of organic electronics (OLEDs, OPVs and OFETs). The company also provides contract services and test equipment and materials testing.
