Samsung Display begins importing A4-2 sixth-gen OLED plant equipment

Samsung has started supplying display processing equipment to Asan’s sixth-generation organic light-emitting diode (OLED) plant ‘A4-2’. The investment has won a total of nearly 1 trillion won and is expected to hurt the performance equipment industry.

According to the report, the A4-2 line of Samsung Display is intended to replace the LCD factory (L7-2), which was converted to the 6th generation OLED production line earlier last year. It is expected to start operations quickly in the third quarter.

Since bringing in some equipment from the first quarter of this year, line construction has been very fast. With the manufacture of this OLED line, Samsung Display achieves an additional 180,000 annual production capacity for sixth-generation OLED panels.

Samsung A4-2 plant is a complementary investment rather than a new expansion. It is an investment to address production capacity imbalances that have arisen while implementing new technologies at the A3 and A4 of Samsung Display’s sixth-generation OLED plants.

Samsung Display has begun processing touch-integrated and low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) in its A3 and A4 factories. Due to this, the current sixth-generation OLED production capacity is partially reduced.

Samsung Display’s A4-2 plant also has the space and space to achieve an additional production capacity of 180,000 sheets per year. If additional orders are placed, large-scale equipment orders similar to this subsidiary investment will follow.

Samsung Display responds to mobile OLED demand and decides whether to make additional investments in line with market conditions. Some display device manufacturers are also preparing to invest in Samsung Display’s A5 plant. Samsung Display has not yet confirmed the factory specifications.