Historic company listing - Page 9

Plastic Logic was founded in 2000 as a spin-off from Cambridge University, to develop OTFT backplanes for displays. The company mostly focus on e-paper (E Ink) displays, but it is also involved with OLED displays.

In 2011 Plastic Logic received a major investment from Russia's RUSNANO fund, and the company setup a manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany. In February 2015 Plastic Logic spun-off FlexEnable to handle technology development and licensing, and is currently developing and manufacturing flexible OTFT-based EPD (E Ink) displays, and is no longer involved with OLEDs.

Founded in 2002, as a spin-out from Carnegie Mellon University, Plextronics was developing technology that enables broad market commercialization of organic electronic devices - including OLEDs, plastic chips, polymer solar cells and organic sensors.

In January 2014 the company filed for bankruptcy, after it didn't manage to find a buyer or an investor. The company was acquired by Solvay, who then consolidated all OLED activities under Solvay OLED.

In January 2009 plextronics installed a $6 million pilot-production line for OLED displays and OPVs. Back in 2006, we interviewed the company's CEO, and in March 2011 we posted a follow-up interview. In July 2012 UDC invested $4 million in Plextronics.

Polar OLED was spun-off from the University of Hull in November 2009. Polar developed liquid-crystal based OLED materials, that according to the company are efficient and easy to deposit using printing methods.

Polar OLED claimed that the CrystOLED material will feature the quality of small molecule OLEDs with the manufacturing flexibility of polymer (soluble) OLEDs.

The company seems no longer to be in business.

Polymertronics was a UK based company that designed customized OLED systems and products for experimenting with OLEDs.

UK-based Power OLEDs was established in December 2013 to develop OLED stack materials - including high triplet-energy, high performance hole transporters, electron transporters, electron injectors, host and emitters.

The company seems no longer to be in business.

PPML was focused on OLED lighting applications, offering support to companies that have the intention to develop and industrialize customized OLED applications.

The company's web site is no longer active and it seems the company is no longer in business.

Finland-based Pulsedeon (previously known as Picodeon) specialized on thin film coatings and surface treatments with its patented Coldab Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser Deposition (USPLD) process.

The company's Coldab Series4 USPLD batch process coating equipment can be used to deposit OLED encapsulation on plastic substrates at low temperatures. In recent years the company has focused entirely on deposition tools for Li-Ion battery materials.

Raystar Optronics is a Taiwanese display supplier that offers small to medium sized LCD, TFTs and OLED modules.

Raystar currently offers character and graphic PMOLED displays.

Samsung Mobile Display (SMD), formed in 2008, was owned by Samsung Electronics (64%) and Samsung SDI (36%), and was the world's largest OLED producer (both AMOLEDs and PMOLEDs). In July 2012 Samsung Mobile Display was merged into Samsung Display.

You can read more about Samsung's OLED products here.

Sigma-Aldrich is a life science and technology company based in St. Louis, Missouri. Sigma Aldrich offers chemical and biochemical products and kits used for research, development and manufacturing. The company offers several organic materials used as conductive inks and other applications.

In September 2014, Merck acquired Sigma Aldrich for $17 billion.