Samsung will promote a new OLED screen factory

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

Samsung, through its subsidiary Samsung Mobile Display, and after much consideration of the future of LCD, is determined to expand its factory in the Korean town of Tangjeong (south of Seoul in the province of South Chungcheong) in order to manufacture new generation large OLED screens. The objective is to produce and supply a large number of OLED screens of 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 for eighth-generation panels, measuring 2.2 by 2.5 meters, from which 12 40-inch or six 52-inch screens can be produced. The first eighth generation line was started in 2007 and capacity has now been doubled with the second line, totaling 100,000 panels per month. The activity of the two seventh generation lines, measuring 1.87 by 2.2 meters, is maintained, with around 90,000 panels per month. The investment in the second line has been about 1.5 billion euros.

Samsung manufactures LCD screens for mobile phones, laptops and monitors in Tangjeong, whose manufacturing process is different from that of televisions that it now intends to revive.