Konica Minolta Constructs Plant for World’s First Mass Production of Plastic Substrate Flexible OLED Lighting Panels

Konica Minolta, Inc. announced the construction of a plant at Konica Minolta Kofu Site for mass production of plastic substrate flexible OLED lighting panels toward a stronger development of its OLED lighting business in fiscal 2014 and forward. The construction will be complete in the summer of 2014. The plant is scheduled to start mass production in the fall of 2014.

Konica Minolta has been making progress in the R&D of OLED lighting toward commercialization, as it most effectively utilizes the company’s unique core technologies. In 2011 Konica Minolta commercialized OLED lighting panels using all phosphorescent emitters for the first time in the world. Last year the company exhibited at trade shows its paper-thin and lightweight plastic substrate flexible OLED lighting panels and low-resistance transparent conductive film.

So far in 2014, Konica Minolta has presented pioneering R&D results and drawn close attention in the industry, including the announcement of the OLED lighting panels with the world’s first color tunable function and the world’s thinnest form factor among flexible type, and white-light OLED lighting panel with the world’s highest efficacy.