Manufacturing equipment companies - Page 8

Holland-based Vactec designs and supplies thin film deposition systems and components.

For the OLED market, the company offers an evaporation system (COAT340) suitable for OLED R&D work.

Veeco Instruments is making process equipment for several markets. The company's main business segments are LEDs, PVs and data storage. For the display market Veeco provides Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) equipment and Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) products (the company's MBE systems can also be used to deposit graphene).

Veeco is providing OLED processing equipment for several customers including LG. In September 2013 Veeco bought Flexible-OLED FAST-ALD encapsulation equipment maker Synos, Reportedly, Samsung evaluated the FAST-ALD system but it appears that Veeco since abandoned the technology for this market.

Vinci Technologies, based in France, specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of instrumentation for the high vacuum and oil & gas industries.

For the OLED industry, Vinci Technologies offers two thin film deposition tools, the PVD-10 and PVD-20. These evaporators use thermal or organic sources.

Vinci also offers a unique process control tool for the screening of barrier materials. This UHV system (the QHV-4 Rapid Helium Permeameter) is used to evaluate the barrier improvement factor during processing.

VON ARDENNE develops and manufactures industrial equipment for vacuum coatings on materials such as glass, wafers, metal strip and polymer films.

The company has been active with OLED technologies since 2012 in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute, and in early 2017 commissioned the FOSA LABX 330 Glass roll-to-roll glass coating machine. In March 2017 VON ARDENNE established the German OLED Technology Alliance with three other partners in Germany.

Xaar Plc is a manufacturer of piezo-based drop-on-demand inkjet technologies. The company supplies inkjet print heads and related components and development systems - for a wide range of industries and applications such as FPD, optics and lighting.

XTPL develops and markets ultra-precise nanomaterials printing equipment. The company developed an additive printing methods with unprecedented precision (structures width 1-8 micrometres) and without a need to use electric field.

XTPL is focused commercialization of its technology in the flat panel display sector, including systems for OLED material printing.

YAS (Your Artistic Solution, formerly Yonsei Atomic Scale surface science, was established in 1992 with an aim to become an OLED production equipment maker. The company offers industrial-scale OLED deposition systems and is also developing ink-jet printing processes and solar-cell production equipment.

YAS supplied Gen-8 OLED deposition equipment for LGD's OLED TV fabs, and in February 2017 it was reported that YAS is collaborating with LG Display to develop 10-Gen OLED TV WRGB deposition systems.