OLED lighting companies

Acuity Brands

Acuity Brands logoAcuity Brands is one of the world's largest lighting solution providers. Acuity Brands is involved with OLED based lighting fixtures and installations for many years, using panels by both LG and OLEDWorks.

In April 2019 Acuity Brands announced it has decided to exclusively rely on OLEDWorks panels. As of early 2024, the company no longer offers any OLED luminaries. 

ams OSRAM

Germany-based ams-OSRAM is a merger between OSRAM and ams, and is a supplier and manufacturer of optoelectronic semiconductors. 

OSRAM Opto Electronics (now merged into ams-OSRAM) released the world's first OLED lamp back in 2008, but this was more of a prototype than a commercial product. In November 2009 OSRAM started to ship its first OLED lighting panel, the ORBEOS, and here's our hands-on review of those panels

 

In 2014 or so OSRAM shifted its OLED lighting focus to the automotive market. OSRAM was the first company to supply OLED lighting panels for serially produced cars as it supplies the OLEDs for BMW's M4 GTS taillights and also the OLED lighting in Audi's TT RS Coupe 2016.

Blackbody

Blackbody logoBlackbody is an OLED lighting developer and manufacturer. Blackbody covers all the aspects from design study to mass production. The company offers OLED lamps and installations (it does not offer stand alone panels), and sometimes use 3rd-party panels in its OLED lamps.

Blackbody has introduced many OLED lamps and installations - from small desk lamps to huge chandeliers with hundreds OLED panels. We interviewed their CTO in May 2010 and reviewed one of their OLED lamps (the V-LUX OLED desk lamp) in November 2011.

First-o-lite

First-O-Lite was established in 2010 in Nanjing, China. The company is developing OLED lighting panels (based on a hybrid tandem architecture) and has a 2-Gen OLED lighting production fab that is currently producing 70 lm/W OLED lighting panels.

First-O-Lite focuses on finding niche OLED applications, mostly the health market, and it has released 29 products into the Chinese market aimed for babies and kids lighting. In March 2017 we posted an article detailing the company's current product offering and its strategy and roadmaps.

In November 2013 the company announced it has developed the world's most efficient OLED lighting module at 111.7 lm/W.

General Electric (GE)

General Electric Company (GE) is a diversified industrial corporation, and operations include engines, military, wind turbines, locomotives, lighting and financial services. GE is one of the leading lighting companies in the world.

GE had an active OLED lighting program, collaborating with Tokki and Konica-Minolta on roll-to-roll printing of OLEDs and in 2008 GE announced they will stop working on incandescent lamps and focus only on LED and OLEDs. GE did not update on their OLED Program since 2010, though.

Inuru

INURU logoGermany based Inuru developed an interactive "smart surface" technology that enable light-emitting (based on OLED lighting devices) packaging and advertisement labels and solutions.

Inuru's first project enabled Coca Cola Singapore's Star Wars campaign in 2019. Inuru apparently developed its own printed OLED stack and is producing the devices in Germany.

 

In 2020 Inuru raised 2.3 million Euro in a Series A funding round. In 2023, the company raised a further $10 million, and announced its new focus on printed OLED lighting for the medication and entertainment sectors. In March 2024,  Inuru inaugurates its inkjet printing OLED lighting production line in Wildau.