OLED lighting companies - Page 2

Kaneka is a Japanese materials company that active with plastics, PVC and caustic soda, foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals and other markets.

Kaneka have been working on OLED Lighting since 2008, producing panels in low volume mainly for large installations. In 2010 the company established a subsidiary called OLED Aomori to handle its OLED business.

n 2015 Kaneka announced new 50,000 hours OLED panels, and in June 2017 Kaneka unveiled its latest lighting fixture. In 2020 Aomori OLED's main target market was inspection systems for production sites.

Konica Minolta, based in Japan, is involved in copiers, printers, medical equipment, optical devices and thin films used to enhance picture quality in LCD.

KM is developing and producing OLED for lighting, and in March 2014 the company announced that it is starting to construct a R2R flexible OLED lighting fab with plans to start production by the end of 2014. The project took much longer than KM expected, and only entered mass production at around 2023. The company now supplies its flexible OLED lighting panels to companies.

Lumiotec, located at Yonezawa City, Japan, was formed in May 2008 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, ROHM, Toppan Printing and Mitsui to check the viability of OLED panels for lighting, and to manufacture and sell the panels.

In March 2009 Lumiotec showed their first OLED lighting prototype, and the company is now offering panels online - making about 60,000 panels a year. Here's our hands-on review with their Version 1 development kit and square OLED panel and here is some details on Lumitec's technology.

In early 2018 V-Technology acquired Lumiotec.

Japan-based Nippon Shokubai, established in 1941, is a chemical producer and supplier. The company offers many materials, and say that it is the world leader (by market share) of superabsorbent polymers.

Nippon Shokubai is developing its own OLED lighting panel product, branded as iOLED.

OLEDWorks was established in July 2010 by former Kodak OLED business experts and has become a leading OLED lighting maker. In 2015 OLEDWorks acquired Philips' OLED lighting business.

OLEDWorks produces panels in both Rochester New York and Aachen, Germany (what was previously Philips' site). The company offers a wide range of OLED panels and related products, and in November 2018 OLEDWorks started to ship its first flexible OLED lighting panels.

In 2019 the company signed a collaboration agreement with Audi, and since then the company supplied panels for several of Audi's cars. 

OLEDWorks also develops technologies for OLED microdisplays.

Pioneer, based in Japan, was founded in 1938, and is producing home and car electronics systems. Pioneer was the first company to actually make OLED displays - back in 1998, and was the first one to release an OLED-based product (car audio system).

Pioneer used to produce high-end PMOLEDs, and in 2022 it spun-off its PMOLED production unit to SOAR Corporation. Pioneer also used to produce AMOLED displays but exited from the AMOLED display market in 2005.

PolyPhotonix, based in the UK, is developing applications based on OLED lighting panels (made at CPI's pilot production lines).

The company's first commercial product is the Noctura OLED sleep mask which helps patients with Diabetic Retinopathy. The company is also researching graphene-based inks for lighting applications.

Rohm is a Japanese company established in 1958 that is making discrete semiconductors, passive components, displays and integrated circuits.

Rohm has an active OLED program working on OLED Lighting (Rohm owns a part of Lumiotec), displays and microdisplays.