As strategic supplier of technology innovation for the flat panel display industry, SAES Getters provides solutions that allow enhanced display efficiency and lifetime. For OLEDs particularly, SAES’ DryFlex^® boosts display lifetime to over 30% thanks to the highest sorption speed available on the market, and AlkaMax^®, an advanced alkali metal dispenser, increases OLED performance in terms of operating voltage and luminosity.
 

SaesGetters web site

Samsung SDI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung. SDI means Samsung (or Supreme, Superior, Strategic, etc) Display Interface. Samsung SDI is involved in display and future energy products. It is mass-producing colour OLED displays, and is involved in both AMOLED and PMOLED, primarily for the mobile phone display market.
Samsung lists on the Korean Stock Exchange (Ticker is SSNGY).

Samsung plans to open its AMOLED plant in January 2007, hoping to produce 1.5Million panels monthly.

Samsung SDI web page

Seiko Epson is a global corporation based in Japan that is at the forefront of technological revolutions in imaging, robotics, precision machinery and electronics.

Seiko Epson plans to produce OLED TVs by 2007, and unveiled in a prototype 40-inch OLED display in May 2004. Seiko Epson lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker is JP:6724).

Seiko Epson web page

Sensient Imaging Technologies GmbH, subsidiary of the US based Sensient Technologies Corporation, is a German manufacturer of highly specialized performance chemicals for OLED displays and laser printing equipment. Sensient started its OLED R&D activities in 1998. Sensient is a supplier of "classical" OLED materials, e. g. Alq3, a-NPB, BAlq, Rubrene, but also of innovative materials, e. g. high TG hole transporters, electron conductors/ matrix materials for phosphorescent systems and phosphorescent emitters.

SIT has invested into 10 independent sublimation lines with a total capacity of up to 80 kg per month, and they have an in-house application lab for device and life time testing guaranteed consist OLED performance and product quality.
Sensient is a participant in the European OLLA - Project on OLED for lighting application.  

Sensient's web site

Sony is one of the leading consumer electronics companies in the world.

Sony has an OLED research program, aiming to produce small sized panels in the short term, and large panels for OLED TVs.

Sony is already selling several products (mainly MP3 players) with OLED displays. In december 2007 Sony will begin to sell their XEL-1 11" OLED Television.

Sony's web site

Sumitomo Chemical has been established in 1913, and since then has been researching and producing industrial chemicals and materials. Sumitomo has been working with CDT on PLED materials, and has acquired the company in July 2007. They aim to produce OLED displays, and an OLED TV at 2009.

Sumitomo's web site

Shenyang Syndy chemistry institute is a private-owned R&D enterprise based in China. Syndychem mainly engage in R&D of chemical drugs  and function chemicals synthesis. Syndy is a OLED materials manufacturer.

Syndy's web page 

TMDisplay is a JV between Toshiba and Matsushita, started in 2002. TMDisplay is involved in design and production of display, focusing on small and medium sized panels. TMDisplay is CDT licensee, and is focusing on PLED displays. 

TMDisplay are making OLED panels in sizes up to 3.5", and are also working on TV-size OLED panels. They claim they will start making TV OLEDs in 2009.

TMDisplay's web page

Tokki manufactures vacuum process equipment and factory automation system, and has developed the first OLED mass production system in 1999, which processed both OLED / electrode material deposition and encapsulation by one system. Tokki's OLED production system has been delivered to most of small molecular OLED manufactures in Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

Tokki's web page

TPO is a merger of two display companies - Toppoly and Philips MDS. The merger was completed in 2006. Toppoly has been researching AMOLED displays, and TPO plans to mass-produce these displays in 2006.

TPO Web page

UDC is an OLED research company, and one of the field's pioneers. UDC is involved in OLED IP, and holds many patent, related to the commercialization of OLEDs, and also related to Flexible (FOLED), Transparent (TOLED), Stacked (SOLED) and phosphorescent (PHOLED) displays. UDC licenses its OLED production IP, and also sells chemical materials to be used in the production process, and cites Samsung as one of its licensees.
UDC trades in the NASDAQ (ticker is PANL).

Universal display corporation web site

Universal Display Technology (Jilin) is a Chinese foreign joint venture company which is owned by Changchun High & New Technology Industries Development Parent Company, Jilin Province Trust & Investment Company and PLED Technology Group (Hong Kong) Limited.

UDT is involved in flat panel display manufacturing utilizing P-OLED manufacturing technologies. The company'’s first display products are expected to reach the market by mid 2008.

Univision Technology develops, manufactures and markets OLEDs displays. Univision was established in Taiwan in 2000.

Univision is among the top five OLED manufacturer. The product line includes full color, multicolor, and monochrome displays which can be used in the main and sub-panel of mobile phone, MP3 player, blue tooth earphone, game, digital camera, car audio, and other industrial applications. Univision offers different sizes color OLED modules from 0.95” to 1.5” and mono/area color OLED modules having size from 0.66” to 3.12”. Read more here in our December 2006 company spotlight.

In December 2006, it was reported that Univision is in deep financial problems. 

Univision web site (English)

Established in 1978 by a group of academics from Hong Kong's universities, Varitronix has grown to become one of the worlds leading manufacturers of Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD).
Varitronix has successfully acquired a Kodak OLED Licensing agreement in 2002 Q4 and finished expansion of the clean room to install the metal sputtering line in 2003 Q3. At the moment, Varitronix is planning for the mass production.
Varitronix lists on the Hong Kong stock exchange (Ticker is 0710)

Varitronix web page

Vitex Systems

Research / IP companies

Company description

Vitex's Vacuum Polymer Technology (VPT) creates a moisture barrier that is several orders of magnitude better than conventional inorganic barrier coatings. In fact, it provides a barrier to water or oxygen penetration that's equivalent to a sheet of glass. This VPT technology can be applied to flexible substrates or over a finished display.

Vitex Systems' web page