Historic company listing - Page 7

NEC Lighting

NEC Lighting was established in 2000 by the NEC Corporation to develop, produce and sale lighting products. NEC Lighting is researching new lighting technologies, and was involved with OLED R&D.

It seems that NEC Lighting abandoned its OLED program, though.

NeoView Kolon

NeoView Kolon was a Korean company established in 2000 as a subsidiary of the Kolon group to develop and produce PMOLED panels. Neoview shipped PMOLED displays until 2015, when the company was shut down.

NeoView Kolon used to make regular PMOLED displays, transparent PMOLED displays, OLED lighting panels and transparent OLED lighting panels. The company also developed flexible transparent OLEDs.

Newhaven Display

Newhaven display logoNewhaven Display is a north american small-display supplier. Newhaven offers both LCD and PMOLED panels (character and graphic displays).

In their web site, the company lists prices for small-quantity orders.

 

Nuelight

Nuelight, based in the USA, developed OLED technologies that ensure uniform brightness, balanced colors and long lifetimes.

Nuelight went out of business.

OLED Materials Solutions

OLED Materials solutions, established in June 2014 in Japan, was formed by Nippon Electric Glass (60%) and Saint-Gobain (40%) to develop, manufacture and market glass substrates with internal extraction layers for OLED Lighting panels.

As far as we know, this company is no longer in business.

OLED Technologies & Solutions

OLED Technologies & Solutions BV (formerly OLED Technologies BV, OTBv and before that OTB Display) was involved with OLED display automated equipment design and manufacturing. The company offered a total solution for OLED display manufacturing: in-line OLED printed display manufacturing systems, backplane and display product development, OLED device, stack, and ink development, process development expertise and display characterization and improvement.

OTS filed for bankruptcy in June 2015. OTS BV finished development of a fully automated printed OLED processing line, the PCAP-20, and the company was busy developing the next-gen tool, the PCAP-48, a Gen-4.5 OLED processing line, designed to produce high quality large screen HDTV displays with industry record yields and lowest cost per display.

Optrex

Optrex was established in 1976 by Asahi Glass and Mitsubishi Electric and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Optrex designed and produced LCD and PMOLED displays.

In December 2011 Kyocera bought Optrex, which is now called Kyocera Display.

Orgalight

Orgalight was a supplier of organic chemicals and polymers with a focus on aromatic imidazole synthesis and semiconducting polymers. The company offered small molecule and polymer chemicals for OLED (and PLED) devices.

The company was established in 2009 in France, but seems no longer to be in business.

Organic Lighting

Japanese Organic Lighting was formed by Junji Kido, a professor from the Yamagata University (he invented the first white OLED) to work on OLED lighting production equipment. The company was setup in Yamagata University's Venture Business Laboratory. The company planned to enter the market in 2010, but as far as we know it is no longer in business.