OLED materials companies

The 3M Company, based in the US, operates in the fields of industry, worker safety, U.S. health care, and consumer goods. The company produces a wide range of products (over 60,000, in fact) including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, protection films, dental and orthodontic products, electrical and electronic connecting and insulating materials, and optical films.

3M's Display Materials and solutions Division (DMSD) is offering several products for the OLED industry - transparent adhesives (OCAs), micro/nanoreplication technologies, printable optical materials, and multilayered optical films.

Japan-based Ajinomoto Fine-Techno (AFT), a subsidiary of Ajinomoto, develops and produces electronic materials, functional materials and activated carbon.

For the OLED industry, Ajinomoto developed a film-type encapsulation solution.

Arubedo is a Swedish company, founded in 2012, that works with organic electronics, including in-house projects and contract research assignments for industrial and academic customers.

The company delivers building-blocks for OLED materials to several of the leading producers in the world. Arubedo delivers new materials in milligram to kilogram quantities.

Switzerland-based Avantama AG (previously known as Nanograde) is specialized in the development and supply of printable and coatable materials for the manufacturing of optical or electronic thin films. Avantama's materials are based on liquid formulations and inks containing semiconducting metal oxides or luminescent perovskite quantum dots.

For the OLED industry, Avantama offers a portfolio of almost 30 different products for solution processed OLED devices. Avantama inks are hole injection/electron blocking and electron injection/hole blocking materials.

Baowei Technology (Qinhuangdao), established in 1996, designs and produces chemical materials for a wide range of industries, including electronics, textiles, cosmetics and agriculture.

For the OLED market, Baowei introduces intermediate materials.

BASF New Business GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF AG, focused on development of new materials, technologies, and system approaches within the business areas of Energy Management, Quality of Life and Organic Electronics.

BASF has been developing OLED technologies for over 15 years, and demonstrated a module that includes transparent OLED and OPV panels in collaboration with Philips. BASF also collaborated with OSRAM on efficient white light OLEDs.

In 2016, BASF sold its entire OLED IP portfolio to Universal Display for $96 million.

China-based Baynoe Chem specializes on R&D and production of OLED intermediates, fine chemical intermediates and bio-medical chemicals. The company has an R&D center in Suzhou, a production base in Baiyin and a sales office in Shanghai.

Baynoe's main focus is on OLED intermediates and new materials. The company says it is supplying materials to a wide range of OLED developers, including Samsung, LG Chem, Duksan and Doosan.