Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) will help South Korean equipment and component companies enter the Chinese market.KDIA will form an export consortium to take part in C-Touch & Display tradeshow taking place between November 19 to 21 at Shenzhen, China. The consortium will be part of the Ko

Chinese display giant BOE will reattempt to supply Apple its OLED panels starting this month, TheElec has learned.If BOE succeeds, it will be able to supply OLED panels for refurbished iPhone 12 smartphones.The company failed to clinch a deal earlier this year due to low yield rates at its factories

Flexible display evaluation firm FlexiGO has developed evaluation technology for rollable and slidable displays, the company said on Friday.The South Korean firm specializes in evaluating durability of OLED display panels. FlexiGO checks whether cracks appear on flexible OLED panels when they are fo

Chinese display giant BOE is aiming to ship over 40 million units of flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels this year, the company said in its conference call for the first half of 2020.The company shipped 16 million units of 6th generation flexible OLED panels in the first half, it sai

Display equipment maker Shindo ENG Lab, which listed on KOSDAQ last month, saw its sales for the first half of 2020 drop a steep 58% from a year prior.The company posted operating loss of 4 billion won and sales of 15.7 billion won in the first half of 2020, it said in its filings to local financial

Display inspection equipment maker K-Mac saw its order backlog increase 78% in the first half of 2020.This will help it improve earnings in the second half of 2020.According to the company’s filings to local financial authorities on Wednesday, K-Mac had 81.7 billion won of order-on-hand as of the fi

APS Holdings’ paper on fine metal mask (FMM) has been published Journal of Society for Information Display (SID), the company said on Wednesday.The company said its president Chiwoo Kim’s paper FMM was published on the August issue of the prestigious journal.Kim introduced material and laser pattern

South Korean display equipment companies saw their earnings jump in the first half of 2020 thanks to demand from China. This contrast to last year when they saw new orders nosedive, which hurt earnings.Thirty one companies combined posted 5.318 trillion won in sales in the first half of the year, a

A former employee of display equipment maker Invenia has appealed against a guilty verdict handed down by a court in South Korea over alleged technology leaks to competitor Wonik IPS.The employee started working for Invenia on December, 2013. The company was the first in South Korea to develop dry e

LG Display has supplied world’s largest monitor maker Dell with light emitting diode (LED) Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panels, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker provided the panels for Dell’s 31.5-inch medical miniLED monitor launched earlier this year.MiniLED is being touted as th

LG Display is aiming to ship 5 million large-sized OLED panels this year, the company said on Thursday at its conference call for second quarter earnings.Company CFO Seo Dong hee said the COVID-19 pandemic remained a risk but it will react to the market situation to find sales opportunities.5 millio

The global display ink jet printing market has become a competition of three major companies __ Tokyo Electron, JOLED and Toray Engineering __ with the decline of Kateeva.Though Kateeva’s equipment for thin film encapsulation in small-sized OLED was once used by market leader Samsung Display and ris

BOE is supplying on-cell organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel __ in which the touch sensor is embedded within the panel __ to Huawei for the first time, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Monday.The success in winning the order shows that the Chinese display giant is narrowing its

UBI Research has reduced its forecast for LG Display’s large-sized OLED panel shipment this year by over 25%.The South Korea display maker is expected to ship 3.6 million units this year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said at a conference on Thursday. Thi

The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) will formally complain to the Chinese ambassador of South Korea on Wednesday of Jiangxi Infintech’s delayed payments due to local display equipment makers, TheElec learned on Tuesday.They have invited ambassador Xing Haiming for a morning conference wher

Samsung Display’s flexible OLED shipment to China will triple this year compared to last year, UBI Research said on Tuesday.The South Korean display panel maker will ship 47 million units of flexible OLED panel to China this year __ in 2019 it shipped 15.5 million units.Thanks to this high demand fr

Color filters will replace polarizers in foldable organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels in the future, a South Korean research firm said on Friday.Major panel companies were working on such technology as color filters will allow the panels to become thinner and more brighter, UBI Research said.

Quantum dot (QD)-based organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels will remain under 10% of the total large-sized OLED panel shipments up to 2024, a South Korean research firm said on Thursday.Earlier this month, Samsung Display announced that it has put in equipment into its Asan factory for use in

LG Display has delayed the starting of operations at its 10.5th-generation organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel line at Paju indefinitely, sources within the company told TheElec on Tuesday.The company initially planned to begin production sometime between 2022 to 2023 but this has been delayed

Cover windows used in foldable smartphones will use both ultra thin glass (UTG) and colorless polyimide (CPI) films for at least the next five years, market research firm UBI Research said on Monday.Shipment of CPI films and UTG will reach 4.5 million units and 3.5 million units, respectively, this