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Joint venture will develop and produce OLED light modules.

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.