APEVA SE developed and markets Organic Vapor Phase Deposition (OVPD) OLED manufacturing equipment. APEVA was spun-off from Aixtron in 2017. OVPD was exclusively licensed to Aixtron by UDC.
In 2022 Aixtron decided to shut-down APEVA as the company did not manage to find customers for its OVPD platform.
In October 2014 we posted an interview with AIXTRON's business development director and he explains the company's OLED technology and business.
Applied Films was a leading provider of technologically advanced thin film deposition equipment and service for high-tech markets such as the flat panel display and the solar glass industry. For the display sectors, Applied offered manufacturing solutions that apply coatings for producing different display types such as LCDs, plasma display panels (PDPs) and OLEDs.
Applied Films have been bought by Applied Materials in 2006.
US-based Atom Nanoelectronics was established in 2013 to develop innovative, scalable and high throughput fabrication technologies.
The company's technology was based about HiPCOT single-walled carbon nanotubes, and using these material Atom developed fully-printed CNT-TFT backplanes for AMOLED displays.
In addition to the backplane technology, Atom has invented a new OLED architecture in which the light-emitting function and electronically driving circuits are monolithically integrated, leading to less fabrication processes and low price.
It seems as if the company is no longer in business.
Borun, based in Ningbo China, is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals, in several markets including solar panels, nanomaterials and more.
The company produces several OLED materials and intermediates, including dopants, host materials, transport materials, hole injection materials, Carbazole Derivatives and Fluorene Derivatives.
Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) is a material developer, that was spearheading polymer-OLEDs (or PLEDs) technology development.
CDT is based in Cambridge, UK, and is owned by Sumitomo Chemicals. The company today is no longer involved in OLED related technologies.
Cheil Industries is a Samsung affiliate that produces textiles, fashion, chemicals and electronic chemical materials. In May 2011 the company announced a plan to invest $92 million in an OLED material facility, to produce ETL, HTL and EML materials.
In August 2013, Cheil Industries (together with Samsung Electronics) acquired Novaled for €260 million. In March 2014, Samsung SDI acquired Cheil Industries for $3.3 billion. Samsung Everland, which acquired Cheil's fashion business in March 2014, changed its name to Cheil Industries. So Cheil now is involved with the fashion, construction and resort businesses.
UPDATE: CMO (CMEL's parent company) has been acquired by Innolux in the end of 2009. We still have to wait and see how it effects the company's OLED program.
Chi Mei EL Corporation (CMEL), founded by the R&D team at Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) in 2004, is fully devoted to the R&D, design, production, and sales of OLED panels.
CMEL currently focuses on small and medium-sized OLED panel production. Their largest panel available is 7.6" AMOLED. The company has over 210 employees and is fully owned by Chi Mei Optoelectronics.
CMEL purchases PHOLED materials from Universal Display Corporation, and have developed a new 'MEM' tech to make thinner and lighter AMOLEDs, showing a 25" TV in November 2008.
CPT (Chunghwa Picture Tubes) was established in 1971 in Taiwan and was a CRT and LCD display maker.
In 2012 CPT started to develop AMOLED technologies and the company established a small-size experimental line. Later on CPT actually started to produce AMOLEDs in low volume, and also developed flexible OLED technologies.
In September 2019 the company filed for bankruptcy.
Crystalfontz designs, manufactures, and distributes standard LCD modules, TFT displays and OLEDs for embedded and industrial products. They also provide technical support and embedded development assistance.
Daejoo Electronic Materials, based in Korea, manufactures materials for the electronic industry. The company's materials are used in a wide range of applications such as LEDs, CFLs, epoxies, glass materials, phosphors and more.
For the OLED industry, Daejoo used to offer blue host and emitters in addition to ETL, EML, HTL and HIL materials. The company stopped its OLED project a while back.
