Novaled AG is the world's leading enterprise in the field of OLED technologies and specializes in highly efficient OLED structures with a long lifetime. The company disposes of state-of-the-art competences with respect to synthetic and analytic chemistry. In addition to its Novaled PIN OLED® technology and OLED materials, the company also offers OLED lighting products and other related services. Novaled is a long-term partner of leading international OLED suppliers. With more than 400 granted and pending patents, Novaled has a strong IP position. In 2008, Novaled was determined Germany’s fastest growing mid-size company by the business publications Handelsblatt and Wirtschaftswoche. Main investors are eCAPITAL, Crédit Agricole Private Equity, TechnoStart, TechFund and CDC Innovation.

Novaled's PIN OLEDs on metal substrates combine an attractive design with the extraordinary characteristics of Novaled OLEDs, including a long lifetime of 20,000 hours. Metal substrates such as steel or aluminum dispose of excellent barrier characteristics, flexibility and robustness. OLEDs on metal are suitable for applications where magnetic adhesion of the OLEDs might be desirable or processing such as welding, drilling or the like is required. Furthermore, metal as a carrier material enables bent or bendable OLED versions. Due to the substrate's favorable heat conducting characteristics, OLEDs on metal are particularly suitable for applications where heat abstraction is of decisive importance. Furthermore, metal substrates enable more cost-efficient role-to-role manufacturing of OLEDs in mass production.

The OLEDs manufactured by Novaled for lights and light sculptures are processed on steel substrates with a thinness of 0.7 mm. The metal substrate requires special, top-emitting OLED structures. Novaled developed a special ITO-free OLED architecture whose performance parameters are comparable to the standard of bottom-emitting structures. Another Novaled development is the Thin Film Encapsulation (TFE), which will enable bent and bendable OLEDs in the future.