Manufacturing – Page 17

Leyard and Planar Announce Plans to Expand US Presence

by Andrew Fenn

LED co-manufacturers Leyard and Planar have announced plans to expand their presence in the US by adding an LED video wall production line to their factory in Hillsboro, Oregon in 2018. Over the past …

SIS Digital Has Factory in Peterborough

by Yvette Raikes

UK LED and LCD display provider SIS Digital has opened a technical HQ in Peterborough called Vision Park. The factory has design, fabrication and engineering facilities, as well as sterile conditions for screen calibration. …

Tags:Display Calibration| Large Display Monitor| Manufacturing| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Could a US Display Fab be OLED, or LTPS?

by Bob Raikes

In early February, an executive at Sharp was quoted in the Japanese press that the company was thinking about investing in a display fab in the USA. Separately, (or is it separately?), Apple’s CEO, …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Manufacturing| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 18

FMM Improvements Allow Higher Resolution

by Bob Raikes

At the Finetech show in Tokyo, V-Technology of Japan, a maker of shadow masks for OLED deposition, had shown a fine hybrid mask (FHM) that can support up to 738 ppi. The company told …

Tags:Manufacturing| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Sharp Plans Fourfold Growth in LCD TVs

by Yvette Raikes

Sharp plans to increase its LCD TV sales by four times over the next four years, according to Japanese sources as reported by Digitimes. In the company’s current financial year (April 2016 to March …

TCO Certified Reveals Improvements In Factory Working Conditions

by Alan Spencer

A new report, “Impacts and Insights” looks at the progress made in 2016 on supplier chain working conditions, conflict minerals initiatives and inclusion of safer chemicals brought about due to products being TCO Certified. …

Flex Increases Production Capability in Poland

by Alan Spencer

Flex is to open a new facility later this year. This will add 11,000 square metres of space with 9,000 square metres allocated to manufacturing space. The rest of the building will be allocated …

Tags:Flex| Large Display Monitor| Manufacturing| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Aixtron Delists from NASDAQ

by Yvette Raikes

Struggling German firm Aixtron has had several setbacks recently. Last May it reached agreement with Germany-based GCI, owned by Chinese investment company Fujian Grand Chip, for a takeover of Aixtron SE. However, in October …

Rumor: Foxconn to Build Display Factory in the USA?

by Norbert Hildebrand

The iTechPost and PhoneArena.com are both reporting on a rumor that Foxconn is planning or at least considering building a LCD factory in the USA. Both articles relate to an informal statement by an …

Statistics of Projector Manufacturing

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Bob Raikes brought to my attention the fact that BenQ makes two virtually identical projectors, the MU686 and the MU706. Both are single panel DLP projectors using a 240W lamp. The only difference between …

Tags:BenQ| Manufacturing| Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Samsung Quits TOLED

by Tom Allen

Just over a year since Samsung announced production of transparent OLED displays – and two months since the first customer was announced (Korean Hair Salon is First User of SDC’s Mirror OLEDs) – the …

OLED Will Overtake LCD by 2020

by Tom Allen

While LCD technology has been dominant in mobile phones for more than 15 years, IHS expects OLEDs to become dominant in smartphones in 2020. AMOLED displays with LTPS backplanes will represent 36% of all …