LG Display was shut down

South Korean panel giant LGDisplay (LGD) factory January 12 came nitrogen leak accident, two people were killed and four wounded. Authorities the next day ordered the OLED TV production line downtime, it is unclear how much influence on the production of energy.

 

South Korea's Ministry of Labor official website announced on January 13, ordered an OLED production line LGD suspend production plant accident, saying the investigation are allowed to start before the end. LGD spokesman confirmed OLED TV panel production line downtime, but declined to explain the impact on sales or production capacity, only stressed that it will resume production as soon as possible.

 

LGD senior said, nitrogen may leak from the panel production line in the cleaning process, two production line workers died. Police will investigate whether the company required security checks, and detailed reasons for the accident.

 

Firefighters said the 12th local time 12:50 or so, LGD employees and contractors at 40 kilometers north of Seoul, the LGD Paju (Paju) P8 plant for routine maintenance when the plant suspected inadvertently switch on the ninth floor of the nitrogen valve , causing accidents. One person died on the spot, another person on the way to hospital where he died; injured four people, one of them critically.

 

Leading global LCD panel plant LGDisplay (LGD) who spent 700 billion won (about 76 billion yen) in Paju, South Korea will enable the plant to build the TV volume with a new OLED panel production line (new plant) within this month (January) production, when used by LGD OLED TV panel production capacity will be increased to four times the current (than the current three-fold increase). According to reports, the new plant using 8.5 generation OLED (2200x2500mm) glass substrate, the monthly capacity of 26,000, converted into 55-inch TV panels, it can produce more than 100,000 per month.

 

NPDDisplaySearch that Apple uses OLED wisdom table this will drive substantial growth industry; wisdom watches OLED displays estimated this year shipments will reach 11 million units, which accounted for AMOLED AppleWatch of 800 million units. Since Apple launched AppleWatch ready early next year, is expected to table OLED display wisdom shipments this year will be the fourth quarter jumped sharply. Generally believed, AppleWatch monitor suppliers should LGD.

 

LGDisplay (LGD) intends to call for the year 600 000 OLED panel shipments, continued next year to $ 1.5 million. LGD Executive Officer Han Sang Van (HanSang-beom) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), said the company in 2014 laid the OLED manufacturing process, technology, basic production, the main objective in 2015 is to promote this technology. 1.5 million panel seems small, but LGD locked top of the pyramid 2% customer base, about 400 million TV sets; ratio is concerned, if the high-end market to sell 1.5 million OLED TV is enough to attract attention.

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