LEDs + Lighting

Zumtobel and Fraunhofer Form Ledon OLEDs

Joint venture will develop and produce OLED light modules.

Published

15 years ago

October 15, 2009

Steve Aust Signs of the Times October 2009 Issue

The Zumtobel Group, a Dornbin-Austria-based lighting manufacturer, is planning to join forces with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and several employees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) in Dresden, to found a joint-venture company, Ledon OLED Lighting GmbH & Co. KG. With 13,000 employees, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the leading organization for applied research in Europe.
Ledon OLED will focus on the development and production of light modules based on OLEDs, and aims to set up a team of 10 to 15 highly qualified specialists in its initial year. Ledon OLED says it will be developing and manufacturing complete OLED lighting solutions, including contact and light-conducting elements, as well as concepts for addressing large-scale OLED systems.
The Zumtobel Group already has focused on LEDs through its subsidiaries Ledon Lighting and TridonicAtco Optoelectronics. Thorn Lighting, a U.K.-based subsidiary of Zumtobel, has been involved in the development of OLEDs for several years.

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