Canon: consider entering OLED material Market

Recently, Canon announced that it is considering entering the OLED material market to produce OLED materials, saying its subsidiary Fukui Canon materials will lead the project with Canon's own research and development team. Although Canon didn't disclose what kind of OLED materials it would produce, according to relevant materials, Canon currently has some patents on thermal activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) technology, which can study the transmitter of TADF.

In fact, Canon Tokki, a subsidiary of Canon, has been engaged in manufacturing OLED manufacturing equipment for more than 25 years. Among all distillation equipment manufacturers in the world, Canon Tokki takes the lead with its advantages of stable mass production and mature technology.

Compared with other distillation equipment companies, Canon Tokki can control the manufacturing error within 5 microns. Only Canon Tokki can do this in the world. With its excellent technology, it almost monopolizes the whole OLED distillation equipment market. Even Samsung's OLED screen equipment is purchased from Canon Tokki, which shows its strong strength.

Because of the slow time required to produce OLED manufacturing equipment, customers who order Tokki products often have to wait for two years. When Foxconn acquired sharp, the display manufacturer, chairman Gou Taiming visited Canon's headquarters in Xinxie to get orders.

Canon Tokki is not a large company. It has only 364 employees and is located in a village in Japan. It is just a village enterprise.

As far as we know, Canon is likely to enter the OLED material market. With years of OLED research experience, Canon may have a certain impact on the market.