Dr. Yan Xiaolin, Chairman of Juhua Company, and Udo, President of Merck’s OLED Division Dr. Heider jointly signed a strategic cooperation agreement; based on this agreement, the two parties will carry out close cooperation. The cooperation content covers: inkjet printing materials, ink formulations, inkjet printing processes, technology development milestones, etc.; During the cooperation period, Merck will provide OLED ink materials and printing processes for inkjet printing, Juhua The company will provide a printed OLED research and development platform, and both parties will work together to realize the industrialization of printed OLED. It is hoped that through this strategic cooperation, it can break through the technical barriers of printed OLED, realize large-size, high-resolution printed OLED display panels, and push the printed OLED technology to maturity and promote the market.
Guangdong Juhua Printing Display Technology Co., Ltd. is a public open platform company with printing display as its core. In accordance with the idea of "market-oriented, school-enterprise cooperation, government guidance, resource integration, and win-win", the project consortium jointly invests in establishing a legal person operating company to provide the industry with an open process development platform and testing platform, and drive technological progress in the entire industry. Innovation in this model will build Guangdong Province into a national and even global next-generation display technology research and development center.
Merck is the third largest chemical company in Germany and the oldest chemical group in the world. Its business is mainly divided into medical, pharmaceutical and fine chemicals. It performs very well in the display field, with liquid crystal products accounting for more than 70% of the global market. It is the world's largest provider of liquid crystal materials. Merck also has 15 years of experience in the development of OLED materials. It has a comprehensive layout in the field of OLED materials, and its products cover traditional Traditional evaporation-type OLED materials and solution-processed OLED materials.
In the future, Juhua will further focus on the public R&D open platform and attract domestic and foreign companies, universities, and scientific research institutes with advantages in materials, processes, devices, terminals, and equipment in the field of next-generation display to jointly carry out research and development of printing OLED-related technologies, open up the entire next-generation display industry chain, catch up and take the lead in overtaking the curve of printing display innovation, and lay a solid foundation for my country to make an important transition from following to leading in the next-generation display industry.
Up to now, Juhua has successfully joined hands with DuPont, Sumitomo, Nissan Chemical, Kateeva and other world-leading companies in materials and equipment. It has gone a step further and successfully signed a contract with the world's top company Merck of Germany. Since then, it has united the major elite companies in the global printing display industry to carry out a comprehensive industrial layout and ecological construction in the field of printed OLED, helping the printed OLED industry to mature and enter the market. The field has laid a solid foundation.
Inkjet printing has a higher utilization rate of materials than evaporation. The advantage of printing is that it uses low temperature and the material utilization rate is very high. The material utilization rate of evaporation is 20%, and if recycling is considered, it is 40%. With inkjet printing, you can precisely locate where the ink hits. This material utilization rate is at least 80%, and can reach at least 90% after optimization. This can reduce material consumption and reduce costs. The usual printing technology is relatively mature. What needs to be done now is to deepen the printing technology into OLED, which also requires a lot of work. Another problem with printing OLED is the material. Now everyone is paying attention to evaporation-type small molecule materials. Polymer materials cannot be used for evaporation, but can be used for printing. Evaporated small molecules can actually be modified into soluble and printable materials. Therefore, printing technology has two types of materials to choose from, one is a polymer and the other is a soluble small molecule. Merck mainly produces soluble small molecules. At present, these two materials have made great progress in recent years, such as Merck and DuPont, especially DuPont last year. The performance is very good. The printing process can reach up to 200pp. Apple's is 400-500ppi, so printing for small screens is not very competitive, but TVs like 2K and 4K require 100-120ppi, which printing can meet. Inkjet printing was originally designed for large-screen TVs. It will take another five years for the industry chain to mature. This is an opportunity to overtake in a corner.
So far, Guangdong Juhua Printing and Display Technology Co., Ltd. has stood at the forefront of the printing and display industry with the strong support of the Chinese government; strong strategic allies at home and abroad; industry-leading industrial technology and strong shareholder backing!
Guangdong Juhua Printing and Display Technology Co., Ltd.
Juhua Company is the operating entity of the public R&D open platform of the Guangdong Printing and Display Technology Innovation Alliance. It is a subsidiary of TCL Group. Star Optoelectronics and Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. jointly invested and established.
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