Sapporo

Baldwin Technology Co., Inc., a provider of process automation technology for the global printing industry, today announced aggressive initiatives to strengthen its competitive position and to cut costs in a challenging market. Baldwin President and CEO Karl Puehringer said, “As we have previously stated, the market for printing equipment faces significant challenges due to the current economic environment."

The largest potential market for OLEDs is in wide area, low cost, flexible lighting, signage and displays. Here, the challenges include life, even distribution of voltage and the commissioning of low cost, high speed production, almost certainly by printing reel to reel. Seiko Epson Corporation, Japan reported on a joint paper with Universal Display Corporation, USA last week at the IDW Conference in Sapporo, Japan, significant progress in the development of P²OLED™ printable, phosphorescent OLED materials for use with solution-based manufacturing processes. Display manufacturers consider this a prospective solution for the cost-effective production of large-area OLED displays. These advances are the result of a three-year