Manufacturing equipment companies - Page 6

Schiller Automation

Schiller Automation logoSchiller produces and markets integrated automation, process and system solutions. The company provides complete factory automation, machines for manufacturing and production lines - mostly for the photovoltaic, automotive and electronics industry, as well as for the OLED display and lighting markets.

Scienta Omicron

Scienta Omicron logoScienta Omicron was established in 2017 as a merger between two Surface Science companies - VG Scienta and Omicron NanoTechnology.

For the OLED industry, the company offers VG Scienta's OFT EDGE Series - a deposition system that can be used to deposit and analyse organic and inorganic layers on flexible and solid substrates.

Screen Holdings

Screen Holdings logoScreen Holdings (previously DaiNippon Screen Mfg) is a Japanese company that manufacture and sales manufacturing equipment for the semiconductors, flat panel displays, media and precision technology industries.

For the OLED industry the company's SCREEN Finetech offers deposition machines for the production of flexible OLEDs on polyimide substrates. In November 2017 Screen FT announced new 6-Gen OLED deposition systems.

Through its subsidiary Screen Laminatech, the company also offers a flexible OLED lamination tool that can be used to attach flexible OLED panels to curved glass. The company targets these tools specifically for the automotive market, and is currently offers R&D tools with aims to launch mass production ones in the future.

Seiko Epson

Seiko Epson is a global corporation based in Japan involved in imaging, robotics, precision machinery and electronics technologies. Seiko Epson lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker is JP:6724).

Seiko Epson started developing OLED technologies years ago. In 2004 for example the company unveiled a prototype 40-inch OLED display, and in 2009 Epson unveiled new inkjet-printing technology that will enable HDTV OLEDs. Seiko Epson aimed to produce 37" or larger TVs by 2012, but that never materialized. The company does have a small scale OLED microdisplay production line.

SFA Engineering

SFA Engineering logoSFA Engineering is a Korean manufacturing equipment maker. Among its many automatic equipment products, the company offers FPD equipment, including OLED systems.

SFA's OLED deposition device can be used to produce PMOLED, AMOLED, OLED lighting and OPV panels.

SNU Precision

SNU Precision logoSNU System, established in 1998 in Korea is making manufacturing and measurement equipment for LCD, OLEDs, solar cells and the semiconductor industry.

For the OLED industry, SNU offers advanced deposition and encapsulation equipment for up to 5G glass substrates.

SparkNano

The Netherlands-based SparkNano (formerly known as SALDtech) was established in 2018 as a spinoff from the TNO institute to developed Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (SALD) systems into the flat panel display industry.

In 2020 the company announced (following its second investment round) that it is developing flexible OLED production equipment for Half Gen 6 TFE and ultra high mobility (> 100 cm2/VS) TFT applications. The company's tools can be used to deposit the inorganic layers of the OLED TFE, in addition to IGZO layer deposition.

Sputtering Components

Sputtering Components logo 2020US-based Sputtering Components Inc (SCI) was established in 2001 to design and manufacture equipment used for physical vapor deposition of thin films. SCI's products include rotating sputtering magnetrons (end blocks and magnetics) and complete vacuum coater lid systems.

For OLED manufacturing, SCI's equipment is used to produce thin film array back planes as well as the anode and cathode layer.

STi

STi logoKorea-based STi develops and markets production systems for the semiconductor and display industries.

For the OLED industry, STi offers OLED inkjet systems (for both encapsulation and stack material deposition) and FMM cleaning equipment.