Can't spell LED? Panasonic Panasonic OLED lighting panel manufacturing company

It is reported that Panasonic plans to liquidate the subsidiary Panasonic Idemitsu OLED Lighting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as PIOL), which is a joint venture with the global OLED material manufacturer Idemitsu Co., Ltd. at the end of March; PIOL contributed 51% and 49 for Panasonic and Idemitsu respectively. % company established in 2011, PIOL combines the design/manufacturing technology and OLED material research and development capabilities of the two companies, and is engaged in the manufacturing, research and development, and sales of OLED panels for lighting.

According to reports, due to the popularity of LED lighting, Panasonic has determined that the current OLED lighting market is not expected to significantly expand, so the resolution dissolves PIOL, but after the dissolution of PIOL, Panasonic will continue to conduct market research on OLED lighting, compared to Panasonic's intention to dissolve lighting OLED panel manufacturing subsidiary, Pioneer and other Japanese manufacturers are accelerating the mass production of OLED lighting panels.

Pioneer and Mitsubishi Chemical released a joint press release on March 19th, announcing that the OLED lighting panel using the "light-emitting layer coating type (forming a light-emitting layer by coating process)" production technology began in March. Production/shipment; compared with the current “vacuum evaporation” technology, the manufacturing cost of the “light-emitting layer coating” OLED lighting panel can be reduced by 1/5-1/10, and the life can be increased by 4 times (30,000) Hour, brightness 2,000 cd/m2).

Konica Minolta also announced on March 18 that it will build a new factory in its Kofu factory site and mass produce the world's first resin substrate flexible OLED lighting panel products (both white and tunable); The new plant will be completed in the summer of 2014 and is scheduled to begin mass production in the fall of 2014 with a monthly production of approximately 1 million pieces.