In spite of the difficult financial situation of Japanese companies engaged in high-tech manufacturing sector, research potential and development in the country remains one of the most advanced in the world. This concerns, including the production of LED display made of organic materials, or OLED. We do not find today the names of Japanese companies among manufacturers of OLED panels for smartphones and TVs .
In the late '90s and early 2000s, it was the Japanese companies have begun to actively develop technologies for the production of OLED. During the development phase was followed by the creation and production of industrial equipment for the production of panels. Although many companies are soon lost faith in the prospects for OLED due to the high level of failure and the effect of the organic LEDs aging. Samsung company, has been able to bring to mind development (finance) and take today on the OLED market dominant position with share of 95%.
The subsequent explosion of interest in the OLED provoke rumors about Apple's plans to start producing smartphones with OLED-panels. Manufacturers of industrial equipment for the production of OLED-panels have already begun to feel the cash flows on the subject. Manufacturer of systems for vacuum evaporation - the company Canon Tokki Corp - has orders for equipment for several years to come.
Another Japanese company - Dai Nippon Printing - until 2020 plans to triple industrial output, which will serve the OLED manufacturers. Dai Nippon Printing Company specializes in the production of photomasks for the manufacture of OLED. This special photomask which are adapted for use in systems with vacuum evaporation, and precipitation. Unique production is only in Japan. Samsung Company, by the way, over 70% of the production equipment for the production of OLED receives from Japan.
The equipment for semiconductor lithography oriented substrates for OLED develops and produces another Japanese company - Nikon. The company noted that the orders for such growing third consecutive quarter. From the supply of unique equipment in the current year, Nikon expects to gain about $ 472 million.
I experience the rise of another Japanese company that manufactures industrial equipment for the production of OLED - Ulvac. Over the past year the stock Ulvac on a wave of interest in the OLED rose in price by 64%, while the electronics market as a whole fell by 22%.