Full profile interview
24 Sep 2013

Sumitomo Chemical and CDT
Sumitomo Chemical is a Japanese company. It's a member of the Sumitomo group and is listed on the Nikkei 225. The company is one of Japan's major chemical companies and was founded in 1913. The company has been working on organic materials for OLEDs for about a decade, forming a joint venture with Cambridge UK based CDT (Cambridge display Technology). Sumitomo Chemical acquired CDT for $285 million in 2007, at price similar to the amount that had been invested in CDT until that point.
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External press release
4 Jun 2008

CDT, Sumitomo and Novaled plan to co-develop hybrid OLED devices
CDT, Sumitomo Chemical and Novaled will collaborate to evaluate Novaled PIN OLED structures in Polymer OLED devices.
External press release
29 May 2008

CDT, Sumitomo and Novaled will collaborate
CDT and Sumitomo Chemicals, leaders in polymer organic light emitting diode (P-OLED) devices, and Novaled, the leader in high efficiency p-i-n OLED structures and dopant materials, have agreed to collaborate under a joint development agreement to investigate the feasibility and benefits of new materials and Novaled PIN OLEDâ„¢ structures in P-OLED devices.