OLED Daily Issue, April 25, 2019

While LG Display is recording poor performance in first quarter of this year, it is going to strengthen its competitive edge in OLED display, which is its main business. Because it is expected that Chinese LCD will continue to make inroads into supplies this year, Samsung Display is planning to bring about results through high-value OLEDs that are highly profitable.
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OLED Daily Issue, April 24, 2019

BOE is going to start construction of its fourth 6th generation flexible OLED plant soon. It is planning to invest a total of 46.5 billion yuan (approximately 7.9 trillion won) to have a monthly production capacity of 48,000 sheets. Although the display market is slumping and demand for flexible OLEDs for smartphones is falling short of expectations, it is speeding up aggressive investments and expanding production capacity.
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OLED Daily Issue, April 23, 2019

The Chinese companies' volume offensive raised concerns that the OLED industry, following liquid crystal displays, could face oversupply problems. Analysts say that while South Korean display manufacturers' performance in the first quarter has deteriorated due to a sharp drop in prices of LCD panels, even OLEDs, which are seen as new growth engines, could be on the verge of oversupply in the near future.
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OLED Daily Issue, April 22, 2019

Following LCD panels, there are predictions that oversupply can become a reality for OLED panels. Concerns are growing as South Korean companies plan to grow OLEDs into new "cash cow" instead of LCDs that China has taken the lead.
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The largest OLED business conference, OLED KOREA 2019

The OLED Korea Conference 2019, organized by UBI Research, will be held on March 6 and 7 at Novotel Ambassador in Gangnam. The OLED Korea for the fifth consecutive year, the event includes many high profile speakers by having representatives of the industry on board.
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[OLED KOREA 2019] Early Bird Registration D-4 (until January 31)

The year 2018 was the inflection point for new application that had never existed in the OLED industry. Newly introduced OLED applications in 2019 include foldable phone, 8K OLED TV, rollable OLED TV, monitors made of inkjet technology, and automotive side view display. The speaker of OLED KOREA 2019 consists of companies related to these five applications and presents the market and technology direction in 2019.
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What is the biggest issue in the display industry in 2019?

In 2019, 8K OLED TVs and foldable smartphone will be on sale, bring new vitality to the OLED industry. OLED makers are leading the market with high-value-added products in order to maintain the display industry, which is collapsing due to low-cost LCDs pouring from the Gen10.5 line of Chinese panel makers.
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[IMID 2018] Samsung Display, The key material that will connect the smart world and the individual in the future is the display

At IMID 2018 held in BEXCO, Busan, Korea on August 29, Kwak Jin-Oh, vice president of Samsung Display, delivered a keynote speech on the theme of 'The Infinite Evolution with Display'. He emphasized “Display will be the key material to link to the smart world and the creation of a new world and environment will be accelerated.”
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JOLED raised 47 billion yen to spur solution process OLED business for automobiles.

JOLED, the world's first to successfully commercialize solution process OLED products, announced that it had raised a total of 47 billion yen as a third-party capital increase.
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TCL announced “Establishing large-area OLED panel production plant", is solution processed RGB OLED mass production accelerated?

China TCL will invest RMB 42.8 billion (US$ 6.71 billion) in Shenzhen to establish a factory for large-area OLED panel production. According to South China Morning Post, TCL recently announced that it will produce 90,000 units on the basis of 70-inch panel in the new production line of Gen 11 (3370 mm x 2940 mm) with the goal of mass production in March 2021 in the data submitted to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The main products are to be known as 65-inch and 75-inch OLED panels, and 65-inch, 70-inch and 75-inch display panels with 8K resolution.
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Completed the Construction of CSOT Wuhan Gen6 LTPS OLED Fab

On December 28, CSOT's Wuhan Gen6 LTPS OLED(T4 fab) production line was announced to be completed four months ahead of schedule. CSOT started building T4 fab in June 2017 and built a factory with a capacity of about 600,000 pyeong(1,983,471 m2) in 199 days. The total investment amount is reported to be 5,080 million dollars.
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UBI Research, an OLED specializing global research institute, is invited as an overseas expert in the Shenzhen Display Industry Association

On November 25, Jeff Kwok, Vice President and Executive Deputy of the Shenzhen Display Industry Association, officially invited Choong Hoon Yi, the CEO of UBI Research, an OLED specializing global research institute, as an overseas expert of the association.
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