SCREEN Holdingsは先日8日、滋賀県彦根市の彦根事業所にディスプレイ製造装置と蒸着装置の新工場を建設すると発表した。
<SCREEN Holdings新工場の完成イメージ、参考: screen.co.jp>
SCREEN Holdingsによると、新工場の建設は従来装置の生産量を増加させ、市場シェア拡大を目指す。総工事費約20億円が投じられ、10月に完成する予定だ。
SCREEN Holdingsは今回の投資で、微細化が求められるOLEDを始めとするフレキシブルディスプレイ製造装置の生産に対応できるクリーン環境を整えることができると期待している。
同社は2017年7月に車載用OLEDの生産装置を公開したことがあり、11月には第6世代OLED TFT用とTSP用スリットコーターを公開するなど、OLED関連装置を披露し続けている。
<SCREEN Holdingsの車載用OLED装置、参考: asia.nikkei.com>
Source = Dai Nippon Printing
Hyunjoo Kang / jjoo@olednet.com
Japan’s Nikkei recently reported that Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing will expand their capa. by 3 times. Dai Nippon Printing occupies 50% of the global OLED evaporation mask market as a dominating leader of the market.
Dai Nippon Printing is planning to invest USD 54.6 million in stages until 2020. Through this, the company is striving to strengthen their position as the evaporation mask leader in the OLED market where a rapid growth is expected.
Evaporation mask is used when red, green, and blue emitting materials are coated in order to produce OLED panel production. The performance of the mask is directly related to increasing the panel resolution. Dai Nippon Printing is aiming to increase their client base in future and achieve revenue of JPY 30,000 million in 2020, which is 3 times higher than the current revenue.
Nikkei also reported that Japan’s Screen Holdings began manufacturing equipment to mass produce OLED panel. The company only handled test production manufacturing equipment, but they recently developed product compatible with Gen6 substrate, and began supplying to panel mass production line from April. The manufacturing equipment is used to coat polyimide, high performance resin to produce OLED panel.
Display related Japanese industry, following Korean and Chinese, is also busy to seize the OLED market, which is expected to rapidly grow.