LGD in discussions to acquire Global OLED Technology

According to the Korea Times, LG Display is in talks to acquire Global OLED Technology (GOT), the IP holdings company that owns over 2,000 OLED related patents originally created by Kodak. GOT was formed in 2009 following LG's $100 million purchase of Kodak's OLED business unit.

LG Display already acquired the GOT shares owned by LG Electronics - which gave a value of $156 million to GOT. LGD now owns 65% of GOT, with the rest being owned by Idemitsu Kosan (33%) and LG Chem (2%).

Read the full story Posted: Apr 03,2015 - 2 comments

LG Chem publishes two nice videos showing their latest OLED lighting panels

LG Chem published two interesting videos today. The first one shows the company's booth at the Lighting Fair 2015 tradeshow which took place last month in Japan. It's a great video that showcases the company's latest panels, their new integration solutions and some great new OLED luminaires:

The second video shows the new OLED desk lamps installed at Seoul National University's Library. LG Chem says that this is the world's largest OLED "building installation" as it uses 1,100 OLED panels:

Read the full story Posted: Apr 01,2015