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YoungFast & RiTdisplay & AimCore to form a joint venture for glass subtract capacitive touch panels
Monday, 03 May 2010
Young Fast Optoelectronics Inc., and RiTdisplay Corporation and AimCore Technology Co., Ltd. to form a joint venture for glass subtract capacitive touch panels

Taoyuan
, Taiwan, May 3, 2010, Young Fast Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (YFO), RiTdisplay Corporation (RiTD) of Ritek Group, and AimCore Technology Co., Ltd. (AimCore) announced today to jointly form a company for glass substrate capacitive type touch business. This alliance will further enhance global competitiveness of all three companies in the capacitive touch.
Total investment of the JV will be NT$500m, YFO and RiTD will account for 40% of the stake each while AimCore will take the remaining 20%. Main business of the new company is the manufacture and sale of glass capacitive type touch panel. In addition to the glass sensor technology and capacity, Ritek Group will also inject the OLED technology to the company! Through the JV, YFO secures the glass sensor capacity and provides even more competitive glass sensors to the customers.

T.J. Lin, CEO of Young Fast said,
"Leveraging existing resources from RiTek group, the new company will provide immediate glass sensor capacity to YFO customers, furthermore, by combining R&D efforts from both groups will accelerating developments of the next generation products.”
Ritek indicated, “Ritek has already established a full supply chain for glass sensor touch panels. Through this collaboration, integrating frontend and backend in glass based touch panel technologies; will help further penetrate the market for RiTD, AimCore and YFO! In addition, as OLED has become a popular option for mobile handset display, this join venture will leverage the existing Ritek technologies for further integrations of the mobile handset applications.”
The new company will be in operation once the company has formally established.
 
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About Young Fast Optoelectronics co., Ltd.
Young Fast Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (TW: 3622) is a worldwide leader in design and manufacturing of premium touch panel sensors! A Taiwan based company, Young Fast has facilities in Taoyuan (Taiwan), Shenzhen (China), Huizhou (China), and Hanoi (Vietnam), is supplying high-end touch panels to top tier customers in the applications of mobile phones, navigation devices, notebook computers, and various other devices.
Dedicated in small to medium-size touch panels, YFO introduced resistive type lens touch in 2007 and designed in most of the major mobile phone makers. In 2009, YFO begins to mass production capacitive type touch panels to its major customers as well. YFO holds 10m pieces per month capacity, and expanding its capacity in Hanoi.
For further information, please contact
Sharon Ho, VP of Finance
+886-3-483366x168
 
About RiTdisplay Corporation
RiTdisplay, established in 2000, is the first company in Taiwan devoted in OLED R&D and manufacturing, and is currently the only company capable of manufacturing both OLED and PLED products. By adopting customer oriented marketing strategy together with the most advanced technology capability, RiTdisplay offers the most advanced display products to meet the variety of demand in different application. RiTdisplay specializes in OLED research and has been granted over 500 patents up to today. By utilizing existing equipment and technology, RiTdisplay also diversifies itself into glass capacitive type touch panel successfully.
About AimCore Technology Co., Ltd.
AimCore (TW: 3615), the former optoelectronic business unit of Ritek Corporation, is now ranking one of the top professional coating companies globally. Ever since its set up, we have invested significantly in new product development and manufacturing process improvement. With the experience in research and mass production, AimCore possesses the most advanced core technology in coating ITO glass.
ITO glass, with the characteristics of highly transparent, extremely uniform and reliable, is the major material of touch plan and can be applied in different field such as PDAs, smart phones, GPS, PMP, Electric Appliances and other consumer application market.
For further information, please contact
John Wu, PR
+886-2-8521-5555x8776
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