LG to build foldable OLED factory

LG builds a factory to produce foldable OLED screens. The manufacturer has announced this. In addition to the folding screens, the manufacturer wants to be able to make large car displays based on OLED technology there.

The factory should start mass-producing the screens in the first half of 2017, the manufacturer says. LG wants to produce the screens in the OLED factory on the basis of a production line of what LG calls the sixth generation. The manufacturer will use sheets of 1.85×1.5m, where it now uses much smaller sheets.

With this new-generation production line, LG wants to make foldable screens possible, just like larger OLED screens than it can currently produce. Until now, LG has made panels up to 77″ for TVs.

The building of the new factory indicates that LG continues to invest heavily in OLED. At Samsung, things are a little different. Although Samsung often equips its smartphones with OLED screens, it has stopped the production of OLED panels for TVs because it was too expensive due to the low yields. LG works around this by equipping TVs with purely white OLEDs, using color filters for the sub pixels.