Futaba started shipping flexible PMOLED panels, which they call film-type formable OLEDs, back in 2013 - with the first panel on production being a 1.4" 128x16 white PMOLED (which was adopted in Huawei's Talkband and Garmin's Vivosmart fitness trackers).

Now Futaba expanded their and the company currently has 3 flexible OLED products - adding a new 1.8" white 160x32 panel that is now in mass production and a full-color 1.4" 128x16 PMOLED that will enter mass production soon.

LG installs a huge 13x8 meter OLED display at Seoul's Incheon airport, made from 140 individual 55" OLED TV displays. LG says this is the world's largest OLED display - as they consider this to be a single display.

Those 55" OLEDs are 4K panels - which means that there are 290 million pixels in total. This looks like a beautiful display - and hopefully a great showcase of LG's OLED technology.

OSRAM Announced a new five-year strategic plan that includes a €2 billion investment in current and future lighting applications - including lasers, LEDs and OLEDs for automobiles.

OSRAM says that their automotive OLED lighting panels will enter mass production in early 2016. OSRAM is the OLED supplier of BMW's M4 GTS taillights. The M4 GTS will enter limited-edition (700 units) production and may be considered the first commercial car with OLED lighting.

Visionox developed a new high-density (604 PPI) AMOLED panel. The new 2560x1440 prototype is 4.85" in size and was deposited using FMM / VTE. It uses Visionox's Z-Type AMOLED RGB sub-pixel arrangement first demonstrated in 2014.

Visionox recently started to mass produce the company's first AMOLED panel, a 5.5" display aimed towards the mid/high smartphone market. Visionox's Gen-5.5 AMOLED line can currently produce 4,000 monthly substrate, and once yields stabilize they will reach a full capacity of 15,000 monthly substrates.

LG Chem collaborated with Korean 3D printer maker 3D-Box to show how easy it is to produce an OLED lamp with 3D printing:

LG Chem is one of the world's OLED lighting leaders and is producing several OLED panels including the world's first truly-bendable panels - only a few weeks ago they announced 406x60 mm plastic-based bendable panels. Last month LG Display announced it acquired LG Chem's OLED lighting unit for $142 million in a bid to consolidate LG's OLED technologies and manufacturing capabilities.

Samsung Display published a new video, explaining why AMOLED is the best display for mobile phones. I have some misgivings about this video, but it's still nice to see Samsung trying to "end the confusion regarding mobile displays" as they say in the video:

Samsung explains that AMOLED has four important features that make it the best display for mobile devices: excellent photo quality, rich color reproduction, slim design and low energy consumption.

The Korean Government announced a set of measure to boost exports of promising export items - such as cosmetics and medicine and OLED panels and products.

Korean OLED exporters will be exempt from tariffs on imported OLED manufacturing equipment, and will enjoy a 20% tax reduction on R&D investments in OLED technologies.

TV testing website HDTVTest, UK retailer Crampton and Moore and Leeds Trinity University teamed up to do a public TV shootout, pitching two new OLED TVs (Panasonic's upcoming TX-65CZ950 and LG's 65EF9500) against Panasonic's TC-P60ZT60 plasma TV, which is considered the best plasma TV ever made.

Panasonic TX-65CZ950

The three TVs were calibrated and then displayed the same scenes in front of 28 AV enthusiasts - who voted for the TV that delivered the best picture quality. After disqualifying two voting papers, only 3 voted for the plasma TV - the rest of the votes were split almost evenly between the Panasonic and the LG OLEDs. That represented a 88% vote in favor of OLED technology.

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Samsung Display decided to shut down its L5 Gen-5 LCD line in Cheonan. The company is now seeking buyers for the LCD production equipment. The L5 line was built in 2002 to make small and medium sized LCDs. Last year SDC closed down a Gen-4 LCD line in the same site (and sold the equipment to china's Truly).

It is becoming more and more difficult to profit from LCD production - especially using outdated production lines. Sources from the industry say that Samsung will convert the L5 production site to OLED production - and some even suggest that the new OLED line at the L5 site will be dedicated to make flexible OLEDs for Apple - to be used in future Watch and iPhone products.