Samsung to boost new OLED display factory

Samsung Mobile Display, subsidiary of Samsung that among other brands supplies Sharp and Sony, plans to expand its Korean factory in Tangjeong to increase the production of OLED screens up to 30 Inch.

Samsung, through its subsidiary Samsung Mobile Display, and after much consideration the future of the LCD is determined to expand its factory in the Korean town of Tangjeong (south of Seoul in South Chungcheong Province) in order to manufacture large new generation OLED screens. The aim is to produce and supply a large number of OLED displays up to 30 inches to both Samsung itself and Sharp and Sony. The investment in the Tangjeong factory is precisely shared with Sony. Last summer Samsung inaugurated the second production line of eighth-generation panels, of 2,2 by 2,5 metre, from which they can be drawn 12 screens of 40 inches or six inches of 52 Inch. The first eighth-generation line was started in 2007 and now capacity has doubled with the second line, Totaling 100.000 Monthly Dashboards. The activity of the two seventh generation lines is maintained, of 1,87 by 2,2 metre, with some 90.000 Monthly Dashboards. The investment of the second line has been of some 1.500 millions of euros. Samsung manufactures in in Tangjeong LCD screens for mobile phones, Laptops & Monitors, whose manufacturing process is different from that of televisions that are now intended to be twisted.