Manufacturing equipment companies

Germany-based 3D-Micromac AG develops develops and manufactures processes and laser systems for leading-edge processes. 3D-Micromac targets a wide range of industries, including semiconductor, photovoltaic, glass and display industry, electronics, as well as medical device technology.

For OLED manufacturing, 3D-Micromac offers a variety of industrial laser solutions such as:

• Laser separation systems for glass panels
• Laser cutting machines for ultra-thin glass and glass polymer stacks
• Laser Lift-Off (LLO) which guarantees a highly uniform, force-free lift-off of different layers on wafer, panel and flexible substrates
• ITO/TCO laser patterning systems or rigid and flexible substrates
• Laser cutting of flexible substrates and material stacks.

4JET Technologies GmbH, based in Germany, supplies laser equipment for thin-film applications. 4JET supplies production equipment for laser patterning of OLED and OPV, laser drilling and cutting of substrate glass, Reel-2-Reel machinery for flexible electronics and innovative laser processes such as annealing or crystallization.

4JET's machine platforms supports processing of rigid glass and flexible substrates both in atmosphere and vacuum and integrates laser processes into turnkey production systems that may also include printing, marking and quality control modules.

Accent Pro 2000 (AP2K) is a private company based in Romania that specialized in developing X-ray digital imaging systems for application in Non-Destructive Testing and Security.

AP2K, together with other European partners have developed (under a European Framework 7 funded project called PlastronicsSpec) a digital X-Ray system for real time NDT inspection of OLED displays.

The new equipment is able to X-Ray scan flexible or glass OLED displays having maximum size of 600 mm X 600 mm, obtaining sample 2D X-ray images with resolution up to 1 micron. The investigation technique is fully automatic, the sample's defects are detected by continuously comparing display's each pixel cell with a reference cell image.

Aixtron AG is a provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. The company's technology solutions are used by a diverse range of customers world wide to build advanced components for electronic and opto-electronic applications (such as LEDs, micro-LEDs and graphene) based on compound, silicon, or organic semiconductor materials.

Aixtron has introduced Organic Vapor Phase Deposition (OVPD) equipment, which was exclusively licensed to Aixtron by UDC. In October 2014 we posted an interview with AIXTRON's business development director and he explains the company's OLED technology and business.

Aixtron trades in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and in the NASDAQ Stock Exchange (AIXG). In 2017 Aixtron's OLED activities were spun-off to APEVA, which was later shut down, and OVPD is no longer being pursued. 

Established in 1994 in Korea, AP Systems (APS) provides manufacturing equipment for the semiconductor and display industries.

For the OLED industry, AP Systems provides ELA and LLA systems and OLED encapsulation systems.

Applied Materials is developing and marketing equipment, services and software for manufacturing of semiconductors, displays and PV products. Applied Materials offers LTPS deposition system that can used to produce AMOLED and LCD displays.

Applied is based in Santa Clara, California, US and trades in the Nasdaq (ticker AMAT).

Avaco is a specialized equipment and system maker, developing equipment mostly for the display and solar industries.

Avaco offers encapsulation and evaporation system for OLED display makers.