Building boom will help boost overall capacity

A construction boom is underway as major companies in the flat screen sector increase production in high-tech AMOLED display units.

Industry insiders point out that the surge in upgrading and building new factories has been fueled by the growing use of active matrix/organic light-emitting diode technology, or AMOLED, panels in smartphones and televisions.

China, Japan and South Korea plan to build the equivalent of 46 new fabrication plants, known as "fabs" in the sector, to produce 30,000 plastic substrates.