Agfa Materials has a leading position in producing film and related products for the graphical and healthcare industry. Agfa Materials commercializes with ORGACON™ a portfolio of PEDOT/PSS based formulations and printing inks. Fields of application range from antistatic or ESD protection to the use as transparent conductive flexible electrode for ITO replacement. More information can be found on

Germany Trade & Invest is the foreign trade and inward investment agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. Germany Trade & Invest's mission is to promote Germany as a location for industrial and technological investments and to identify investors for the German market.

The organization advises and supports foreign companies seeking to expand into the German market, and assists companies established in Germany looking to enter foreign markets. Germany Trade & Invest provides comprehensive and client-oriented economic and industry data as well as information about calls for proposals in foreign countries, investment and development projects, and legal and customs authorities.

Germany Trade & Invest can count upon an international network of industry analysts who perform on-site research into foreign markets and supports foreign businesses looking to establish a company in Germany. Our international team of experts works closely together with the German Chamber Network. This growing partnership allows German exporters and potential foreign investors alike to benefit from a centralized first point of contact overseas, with client-specific information and consultancy services all provided under one roof.

imaging Technology international Corporation (iTi) is a leading digital fabrication systems supplier. Established in 1992, headquartered in Boulder, CO with its European office in Cambridge UK, iTi designs, develops and manufactures high precision digital material deposition systems that incorporate inkjet technology. iTi's strategy is to support customers from Lab2Fab with a comprehensive range of flexible, printhead independent R&D tools, which include the Drop Watcher and MDS 300 materials deposition system, through to high volume fabrication systems such as the VJet and Digital Web Press.

 

In 2009, iTi established the iTi Solar division to advance the economies of clean, renewable energy through the use of industrial inkjet technologies. iTi Solar develops precision industrial inkjet systems for use in the manufacturing of efficient, low-cost solar cells. iTi Solar's material deposition systems are used by a number of labs worldwide, including the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL).

 

iTi is widely acknowledged for its technical expertise in incorporating inkjet technology as a digital manufacturing process. Our in-depth understanding of the capabilities of inkjet technologies, combined with expertise in industrial design, electrical, mechanical and software engineering assist our customers in a wide variety of deposition applications.

 

iTi can shape a world-class solution that makes sense for your inkjet challenge - work with us from Lab2Fab.

NovaCentrix is focused on technologies and products to enable products and manufacturing in Printed Electronics. The PulseForge® line of tools dries, sinters, and anneals metallic, non-metallic, and semiconductor inks, without damaging fragile substrates such as foils and plastics. With processing times of only milliseconds, surface depositions can be heated to melting or crystallization temperatures without damaging low temperature substrates. The very short processing times also allow high-speed processing rates, and the PulseForge tools are capable of roll-to-roll production at speeds approaching 300 meters per minute.

NovaCentrix also offers Metalon® conductive inks, specially suited for maximum performance with PulseForge tools. Use with the PulseForge tools allows the Metalon inks to be formulated for maximum printability while still attaining maximum conductivity. Silver inks and breakthrough true-copper inks are available. Metalon inks can be applied to substrates such as plastic films, paper, transparent conductive oxides, and glass. With PulseForge tools and Metalon inks, Now You Can.

PixDro is an innovative company, specialized in the research & development of industrial inkjet applications and the manufacturing of advanced inkjet printing systems for research and industry. Our experience in the inkjet printing market has resulted in various innovative technologies and products.

 

Our products consist of printing modules embedded in an open system architecture allowing PixDro to customize our systems (LP 50 and LP 150) for client specific processes and applications. These building blocks enable easy integration and migration from entry-level single layer printing for R&D purposes to volume printing in an industrial system.

 

With these products and modules PixDro facilitates the development of applications and offers a migration path to a complete industrial production system.

 

As part of the OTB-Group, PixDro offers complete printing solutions including pre and post processing; thereby, providing a complete solution for your requirements.

www.pixdro.com www.otb.nl

PixDro is an innovative company, specialized in the research & development of industrial inkjet applications and the manufacturing of advanced inkjet printing systems for research and industry. Our experience in the inkjet printing market has resulted in various innovative technologies and products.

 

Our products consist of printing modules embedded in an open system architecture allowing PixDro to customize our systems (LP 50 and LP 150) for client specific processes and applications. These building blocks enable easy integration and migration from entry-level single layer printing for R&D purposes to volume printing in an industrial system.

 

With these products and modules PixDro facilitates the development of applications and offers a migration path to a complete industrial production system.

 

As part of the OTB-Group, PixDro offers complete printing solutions including pre and post processing; thereby, providing a complete solution for your requirements.

www.pixdro.com www.otb.nl

As part of Royal Philips Electronics, Philips Applied Technologies is a contract R&D organization that supports the development of products, applications and technical solutions. Its customers are market leaders, fast growing companies and start-ups. For every phase of the innovation process, it offers integral solutions, consultancy and specialist services. With over 1000 in-house experts, it can draw on a wide range of competences. For further information, visit

Plastic Logic's mission is to lead a revolution in the way people acquire, organize and consume information. We are using our proprietary technology leadership in plastic electronics to create a range of innovative products. Our first product, the QUE™ proReader, will enter the marketplace in April 2010. Founded in 2000 by researchers out of the Cambridge University Cavendish Laboratory, Plastic Logic has research and development in Cambridge, England; high-volume, state-of-the-art manufacturing in Dresden, Germany; and executive management, product engineering, sales and marketing headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about Plastic Logic, please go to http://www.plasticlogic.com

Soligie is the leading company to utilize high speed manufacturing to produce printed electronics with a variety of conductive, resistive and proprietary materials on flexible substrates such as PET, paper and foil. State of-the-art design and development capabilities enable customers to realize products that push traditional boundaries. Soligie engages in development projects from the product concept phase through high volume manufacturing. The Company is on the cutting edge of the production of electronic components using high speed, fully additive roll-to-roll processes. Soligie offers a full range of services from concept design, circuit design, design for manufacturability and final volume production. Soligie currently serves the medical device, smart packaging, RFID and flexible interconnect markets. Through the combined use of emergent materials and proprietary manufacturing processes, electronics components such as memory, sensors, displays and batteries will soon be integrated into applications on thin flexible substrates.

Trident is a leader in the development and manufacture of both industrial piezoelectric ink jet printheads and ink jet inks. Trident was one of the pioneers of ink jet in the early 1980's jetting both liquid inks and hot melt inks. Today, Trident products are used in a variety of applications that require rugged, inert, stainless steel printheads for printing or accurately dispensing fluids reliably and frequently. Applications include digital patterned printing with etchants, dopants, metallic conductive inks and conductive fluids. Trident's inert printheads are unique in their ability to be disassembled, cleaned and reassembled enabling long life and high degree of return on investment.

 

Trident printheads are marketed worldwide through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the flat panel display manufacturing, printable electronics, wide format printing, precision coating markets. OEMs integrate Trident printheads into computer-controlled, application-specific products or systems which are then sold to end users.

 

Trident's development, manufacturing and administrative headquarters is located in Brookfield, Connecticut, USA (100 km from New York City). The company also has regional offices in Tokyo and Dublin, Ireland.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a globally networked multitechnological contract research organization. VTT has taken a wide R&D approach to RFID and wireless sensing, which is supported by extensive interdisciplinary know-how and in-house technology platforms. Our activities cover RFID and wireless systems from low frequency to mm-waves. VTT develops novel solutions to improve the performance level of RFID systems. Modern equipment and excellent facilities, like micro- and nanofabrication services and anechoic chambers, provide exceptional opportunities for the fabrication and characterization of components. VTT is collaborating with many of the key European players in the field of RFID.

ARDEJE has a strong knowledge and background in DOD inkjet printing. We design and manufacture custom-built print engines based on our customers' specifications by integrating piezoelectric printheads for industrial applications based on DOD inkjet technology. Several printers and print engines have been manufactured for graphic art applications and printing industry. We are now taking advantage of our 10-year inkjet printing expertise by developing opportunities and new markets in printed electronics. ARDEJE has been pioneering this field since 2001 with successful partners and recently increased our R&D activities to provide technological innovative solutions for printed electronics applications. These developments are supported by involvement in European and French scientific and technology development projects in microelectronics, smart textiles, solar cells, etc. Furthermore, ARDEJE supplies technological and experimental products and services for fluid formulation and print quality optimization. Based on our vision expertise, ARDEJE has developed laboratory equipments for both drop formation and impact analysis.

Blue Spark Technologies, Inc. is the leader in developing flexible, printed, "green," proprietary power source solutions for battery-powered printed electronic systems. The company was founded as Thin Battery Technologies in 2002 with patented technology and technical leadership from Energizer (Eveready Battery Company). Blue Spark customers include manufacturers, product designers, and integrators across multiple industries including: interactive packaging, RFID, pharmaceutical, powered smart cards, and novelty items. Users of products powered by Blue Spark batteries enjoy increased efficiency, greater convenience and portability, improved safety, lower manufacturing and assembly costs, higher profit margins, and greater environmental responsibility. For more information, visit www.bluesparktechnologies.com or call +1 440 249 5400.

Dresden - your favorite place

The Dresden region is the largest and most important European location for microelectronics and information technology - with more than 40.000 employees in about 1.200 companies, represented by the network "Silicon Saxony". The business areas of the local companies cover the entire value chain, however, development and production of electronic components and integrated circuits is the most significant sector of the Dresden microelectronic cluster. Large semiconductor fabs and almost all leading equipment manufacturers have settled here, delivering their products worldwide. To the technological strengths of Saxony belongs a high competence in the field of organic and printed electronics. The highly motivated and qualified experts as well as the dense network of business, science and government authorities are decisive factors for future investors.

Welcome to Dresden!

Coatema Coating manufactures coating and laminating plants and has been delivering for more than 30 years solutions for the most different markets like textile, foil, paper and renewable energies and printed electronics. These solutions may consist of small lab coating plants, of pilot plants as well as of turn-key production plants for the coating and laminating of roll-to-roll substrates. One of Coatema´s areas, the R&D solutions, deals with the service for coating and laminating like the Coatema´s R&D Centre with more than 10 pilot plants and one production plant. This large range of services is completed by an annual coating symposium.

cyberTECHNOLOGIES is dedicated to providing our clients with industry leading high-resolution, non-contact 3D measurement systems. Our advanced systems are widely utilized for industrial and scientific applications. The high resolution optical sensor, either laser-based or with a white and infrared light source, together with the specifically designed highly precise x/y scanning stage and sophisticated software, are the core of the system and produce reliable/dependable results.

Our non-contact 3D measurement systems are widely used in microelectronics and other precision industries for a vast array of applications, including waviness measurement, contour measurement, roughness measurement, step height measurement, solar cell measurement, thickness measurement and much more. Our solutions are trusted by major international companies, as well as many small and medium sized companies in R&D and production. We have a worldwide network of qualified distributors and representatives, which makes our company a dependable global player.

 

DuPont Microcircuit Materials has 40 years of experience in the development, manufacture and sale of specialised ink compositions for a wide variety of electronic applications in the display, photovoltaic, automotive, biomedical, industrial and telecommunications markets. The company holds a lead position in these markets with success based on close customer relationships and a comprehensive worldwide support infrastructure.

Utilising core expertise such as materials science, chemistry and fine particle technology, the inks are used on a wide variety of substrates suitable for many new Printed Electronics applications, for example DuPont™ Solamet® Ag inks for thin film photovoltaics.

DuPont Teijin Films is the world's premier producer of PET and PEN polyester films, specialising in film products and related services for the speciality, industrial, packaging and advanced magnetic media and photo systems, electrical and electronics markets. For Flexible Electronics our newest range of products include:

 

 

Brand names include Mylar®, Melinex®, and Teijin® and Tetoron® PET polyester film, and Teonex® PEN polyester film.

EKRA is a leading manufacturer of screen and stencil-printing systems and for more than 50 years have been consistently adhering to their business philosophy of offering only the highest quality products together with the best possible customer service. The products on offer range from manual laboratory machines through semiautomatic machines all the way to fully automatic inline machines. With systems on offer such as high-speed printers, flexible dual-lane solutions, customer-specific special machines or even complete production lines, EKRA is the ideal partner for any number of applications within the SMT, hybrid and thick film technology as well as advanced packaging fields.

 

Up until now, EKRA have installed more than 6000 systems worldwide and with the integration into the ASYS group in July 2005, EKRA have been able to extend their range of products in the field of screen and stencil printing which has consequently optimized their position in the market.

Energy Harvesting Journal provides you with a free daily update of the latest industry developments. Launched in late 2008, this free portal covers progress of energy harvesting and energy storage in all its forms.

 

Hosted and written by IDTechEx, the leading analyst and event organiser on energy harvesting and related technologies, articles provide commentary, analysis and give a balanced view of the subject. You can opt-in for an email to be sent to you every Thursday listing the new articles posted in the previous week. We aim to make this service your most valuable tool for keeping up to date with the energy harvesting industry.

 

We seek your input - company progress, press releases, case studies and developments, which in turn we will feature as future articles. Please forward these to us - email Tessa Henderson at .

 

You can opt-in for an email to be sent to you every Thursday listing the new articles posted in the week. For more details, see

With main focus on printed electronics, Enfucell is a Finnish technology company with roots in the Helsinki University of Technology (today the Aalto University School of Science and Technology). Enfucell has developed SoftBattery®, a thin, flexible environmentally friendly and printable 1.5 - 6 V power source to be utilized in disposable and short lifetime products like RFID, micro sensors, displays, OLEDs, functional packaging and media, cosmetic and pharmaceutical transdermal delivery systems. Enfucell's customers and partners include many of world's largest corporations in their fields. Enfucell has wan many international recognitions, incl. Technology Pioneer 2007 by World Economic Forum, and 100Cleantech Europe 2008 by the Guardian.

Epurex Films, based in Bomlitz up north in Germany is a Bayer Material Science company. We have specialised in high-performance technical films for more than 25 years. Our focus lies on development, production and sale of high-quality polyurethane films, breathable membrane- and hot-melt adhesive films. Our product portfolio offers customized products, e. g. special films for the use in modern electronic applications. We provide our customers with expert advice and technical support. We fill innovative ideas with life - films for ideas.

The Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS in Chemnitz focuses on Smart Systems Integration using micro and nano technologies. Smart Systems are defined as miniaturized devices that incorporate functions of sensing, actuating and control. The integration of nano materials as well as printed functionalities causes new challenges and requires new approaches in terms of reliability, testability, design and security. Fraunhofer ENAS meets these demands. The development of printed functionalities (like conductivity, semiconductivity, insulator, energy storage, catalysis, light energy transformation), MEMS/NEMS, advanced technologies as well as reliability of systems and components belong to the core competences of Fraunhofer ENAS.

Fraunhofer IZM is one of the leading institutes in the fields of system integration technologies, reliability, wafer level integration and heterogeneous integration technology. Fraunhofer IZM has a strong background in electronics packaging technologies and micro energy systems.

System integration and the packaging of electronic products are developed for suppliers and users from the consumer electronics, telecommunications, mechanical engineering and automotive and medical sectors. Our main objective is to support firms in the broad application of microelectronic and micro system technologies.

Fraunhofer IZM represents an efficient research, development and service potential, in most of the electronic packaging sectors. Since 1999 the institute engages in micro energy technologies like integrated micro batteries, micro fuel cells and energy harvesting.

FHR Anlagenbau GmbH, a subsidiary of centrotherm photovoltaics AG, supplies thin-film technologies and key equipment for the production of solar cells.

 

 

FHR equips customers around the world with customized plants for the thin film coating, and is also a supplier of high-quality, bonded sputtering targets.

FUJIFILM Dimatix's MEMS-based technology lets inkjet printing create products like displays and electronics, RFID antennas, smart tags, DNA arrays, smart packaging and wearable electronics. The DMP-2831 is a low-cost, cartridge-based piezo inkjet printing system that enables direct deposition of functional fluids - including nanoparticle-based metallic and organic materials. Similarly, the DMP-3000 is capable of printing a wide range of functional fluids from both experimental cartridge-based printheads with small volumes and high performance printheads appropriate for industrial and high throughput applications. The new DMP-5000 is a large format, non-contact, fluid deposition system capable of jetting a wide range of functional fluids using multiple FUJIFILM Dimatix fluid deposition printheads interchangeably.

 

FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc. is the world's premier provider of piezoelectric inkjet printheads and systems. The company's products are designed to accurately dispense a wide range of fluid types in demanding imaging and fabricating applications. FUJIFILM Dimatix has more than 25 years experience in advancing the performance of drop-on-demand dispensing devices and applications. The company's state-of-the-art technology provides solutions for the printed electronics industry.

H.C. Starck Clevios GmbH is a 100% daughter of H.C. Starck GmbH, Germany.

H.C. Starck Clevios GmbH manufactures a range of patented conductive polymers based on PEDOT:PSS (Clevios P) - chemistry for electronic applications. From conductive polymers for antistatic, OLED, organic solar cell and capacitor applications to new printable applications, versatile Clevios meets the requirements of emerging flexible electronic materials. High conductive materials, such as PEDOT:PSS with 750 S/cm and new HIL materials will be spotlighted by the company.

HTT is a representative and distribution organization representing about 30 key Semiconductor Equipment manufacturer in the Central Europe region.

Beside of Semiconductor Industry HTT is also involved in other industries like Solar, Photo Voltaic, Printed and Organic Electronics, Bio and MEMS.

HTT offers local sales, application and service support.

Also HTT runs their own Probe Card

manufacturing plant in Dresden.

With over 20 years of experiance we are

specialized in customer requirements for

fully automated processes.

ICI Imagedata is one of the world's leading manufacturers of speciality coated polyester films, including the Stabilex Ultra range of thermally stabilised films.

 

Produced by a unique purpose-built thermal stabilisation system which minimises thermal instability and skew and provides excellent lay flat properties, Stabilex Ultra Films offer excellent product quality, consistency and performance.

 

Ideal for the most demanding electronics, display and photovoltaic applications, the Stabilex Ultra range comprises Clear, White, Translucent and Optically Pure Films. All are available plain or pre-treated in different thicknesses and with a choice of master roll, slit reel or sheet formats.

IDTechEx provides independent analysis on the development and application of energy harvesting, printed electronics, RFID, electric vehicles and allied technologies.

 

You can trust IDTechEx to help you build your business. We provide consultancy, market research and executive-level events across the US, Europe and Asia.

ImageXpert Inc. is a leader in part inspection systems and tools for printed electronics. Developers and manufacturers rely on ImageXpert systems in R&D and in production. We offer expertise in analyzing printed materials from a variety of traditional and digital printing technologies and a long history of providing machine-vision based image quality measurement and part inspection systems to imaging companies worldwide. Our hardware configurations include 2-D camera-based systems, 3-D laser height profiling systems, and line scan camera-based systems. Specialized systems include JetXpert, an innovative system for analysis of drops in flight for any inkjet print head or jetting technology, and ImageXpert Solar, a solar cell inspection system that uses machine vision with both visible and NIR cameras to measure finger widths, spacing and other features.

 

All of our systems use the same flexible, analytical software to produce objective, repeatable data.

Transparent Silver Inks, developed by InkTec with patented technology, are Ag-based conducting inks suitable to RFID Tag, PCB, reflective film, display, and EMI shielding, etc. Differently from other prior conductive inks based on nano-technology, InkTec inks are purely transparent silver inks which are not formulated by particle structure. The inks are stable even in long-term storage and applicable to various substrates because they enable ink sintering in low temperature for conductive trace. According to our business plan for electronic materials, it was completed the 2nd plant in March 2007 and this plant will be occupied by electromagnetic manufacturing facilities.

IN-CORE Systemes designs and manufactures high speed quality control equipments for printed and plain surfaces. After very quick master patch learning of all repetitive patterns, the printed surfaces are inspected continuously whatever registration organization, with automatic and dynamic elasticity adjustment. During the inspection the system detects flaws and monitors the registration period or geometrical position of printings / hot stampings. Major fields of application are printed electronics like RFID antennas and flexible circuits, coated laminated and metallized films for a range of industrial and security applications. IN-CORE Systemes team has been active in computer vision since the late 80s.

 

Automatic inspection is going beyond the aspect defect detection and provides accurate classification for root cause analysis, trend data for process improvement, roll data to optimize slitting, and rewind control for increased throughput.

InnovationLab (iL) is an application oriented research and transfer platform of business and science in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan region. It was jointly founded in June 2008 by three DAX companies (BASF SE, Merck KGaA and SAP AG), three other global leaders (Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Freudenberg & Co. KG, and Roche Diagnostics GmbH) and the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim.

iL focuses on Organic Electronics and collaborates with its partners along the entire value chain. The company is a crucial part of the success strategy of the Forum Organic Electronics that was awarded as a Cluster of Excellence (Spitzencluster) with € 40 million by the German Ministry of Education and Research in September 2008.

After more than 25 years, ISRA VISION continues to be one of the global leading suppliers of machine vision systems with strategic focus on high-speed surface quality inspection. The systems provide 100% inspection of printed, patterned, and un-printed materials, either on continuous web (reel-to-reel) or sheets. For printed electronics applications, the systems inspect 100% of each repeat and detect defects such as mis-registration, shorts, opens, cracks, "mouse-bites", and substrate defects. Defects are classified by type and the location of each defect is mapped. Our goal: to provide the entire production chain with standard solutions to optimize production and to maximize yield.

Johnson Matthey Silver & Coating Technologies supplies silver based conductive coatings globally, for use in the electronics industry.

 

We offer a full range of materials for various applications, such as flexible circuitry, display technologies, membrane switches and RFID to name a few.

 

Our full product range is supported by a highly qualified technical team, which provides complete support in material selection, application and development.

 

 

We would be pleased to discuss your requirements and ways in which we can support your business.

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Konarka Technologies develops and manufactures solar plastic films that convert light to energy - anywhere. As the leading developer of polymer-based, organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology that provides a source of renewable power in a variety of form factors, Konarka has a broad portfolio of patents, technology licenses and an accomplished technical, scientific and manufacturing team. Manufactured at low cost and low energy consumption, the company's Konarka Power Plastic® technology is lightweight, flexible, scalable and adaptable for use in a variety of commercial, industrial, government and consumer applications. Konarka Technologies is headquartered in Lowell, Mass., U.S.A. and has a full scale production manufacturing facility in New Bedford, Mass. U.S.A., with European headquarters in Nurnberg, Germany, business development offices in Asia and a research and development facility in Austria. For additional information, visit http://www.konarka.com.

We will be demonstrating the Kurabo "Mazerustar" planetary mixer which is ideal for mixing of ingredients in inks, pastes and gels for a wide range of applications. Advantages are very fast mixing/deaeration, even for difficult to mix materials, without waste or contamination. A range of different sized machines is offered - from laboratory scale to large production.

 

Mozaik is the European representative and stockist for Kurabo "Mazerustar" mixers.

Director of Mozaik is Steve Muckett - who is an expert on fine line thick film materials and processes and also the European representative of Technic (USA) for promotion of precious metal powders and flakes.

PolyPhotonix is a new company that is manufacturing POLED devices for and lighting and design applications. He says, "The principal reason for setting up PolyPhotonix in the North East is because of the Printable Electronic Technology Centre PETEC. It would have been very difficult to do without the PETEC infrastructure. We've been able to pull in resources, use some of the PETEC materials, and gain access the right kind of people - all of which would have been prohibitively expensive under any other system. In addition ONE NorthEast have been very helpful. I firmly believe that we are in a position to lead the field with this new generation of materials - which is very exciting." PETEC is a UK national flagship centre backed by the UK Government and industry, newly opened at NETPark in Sedgefield, County Durham UK for the development of printable electronics technologies.

We will be demonstrating the Kurabo "Mazerustar" planetary mixer which is ideal for mixing of ingredients in inks, pastes and gels for a wide range of applications. Advantages are very fast mixing/deaeration, even for difficult to mix materials, without waste or contamination. A range of different sized machines is offered - from laboratory scale to large production.

 

Mozaik is the European representative and stockist for Kurabo "Mazerustar" mixers.

Director of Mozaik is Steve Muckett - who is an expert on fine line thick film materials and processes and also the European representative of Technic (USA) for promotion of precious metal powders and flakes.

Mühlbauer is a global, independent consultant and manufacturer of turnkey automation solutions for the smart card, smart label, semiconductor backend and vision industries. In addition, the company is active in the areas of data enrollment and verification, precision parts and OEM production. With about 1,800 employees in 29 locations on five continents, Mühlbauer is a leading supplier of production equipment for the smart card industry.

 

Mühlbauer solutions enable to manufacture any type of chip card, including ID cards, contact and contactless cards, dual interface as well as multimedia cards and smart labels for access control, supply chain management, tracking of textiles and applications for the retail industry.

NexTechFAS offers its Advantage Series Extrusion Deposition (ED) systems as standalone units or fully automated, integrated process lines designed to meet the unique requirements of the flexible and OLED markets. The integrated coating process line uses the patented FASCoat technology, a high-performance deposition method which maximizes material use to over 95% and offers extremely high throughput compared to competing deposition technologies. The Advantage Series ED technology offers a cost effective solution capable of depositing a wide variety of process chemistries, including tough-to-coat OLED and PV materials which are often deposited at submicron thicknesses with stringent uniformity requirements.

NexTech Solutions, Inc. and FAS Holdings Group, LLC, doing business jointly as "NexTechFAS", are pleased to announce that the company has signed an exclusive sales and marketing representative agreement with J. P. Kummer, a specialist distributor of instruments used in the manufacturing of semiconductors.

Novaled AG is a world-class technology provider in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies. Together with its proprietary materials, Novaled markets its advanced Novaled PIN OLEDTM technology to display and lighting makers preparing their entry into this promising new field.

 

In operation since March 2003, the company has developed into a leading technology provider with a strong intellectual property position. In this short time Novaled has attained the world record in power efficiency.

Novalia puts interactivity into print. Touch sensitive input and light/sound output is coupled with transistor based intelligence.

 

We offer design, product development/creation services and work with our partners to co-ordinate manufacture.

 

We believe there is an opportunity for our customers to add significant value to their products in the form of creative new product concepts manufactured with existing and proven production capability.

OMIC is a University Innovation Centre for the speciality organic materials and polymer industries, and is facilitating knowledge transfer in organic materials from Universities in the northwest of the UK to businesses in the UK and Europe to help those businesses to innovate and grow. OMIC is part of the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (www.materialschemistry.org)

 

There is considerable expertise within OMIC in organic / printable electronics and in particular in:

• The discovery, development and characterisation of new organic materials for application in electronic devices such as:

• The processing (e.g. direct write including inkjet and nanolithography) of semi-conducting and conducting organic materials, including nanoparticulate metals and precursors, into a wide range of devices on a diverse range of substrates including plastic, glasses and textiles.

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Optomec® is the world-leading provider of additive manufacturing systems for high-performance applications in the Electronics, Photovoltaic, and Aerospace & Defense markets. Optomec's Aerosol Jet ® Deposition System (formerly known as M3D) is a breakthrough additive technology enabling finer feature sizes than traditional ink-jetting and screen printing processes. The Aerosol Jet system utilizes an innovative aerodynamic focusing technology that produces electronic and physical structures with feature sizes down to 10 microns. The Aerosol Jet system supports a wide variety of materials including nanoparticle inks and screen-printing pastes, conductive polymers, insulators, adhesives, and even biological matter that can be accurately deposited onto non-planar substrates.

 

Aerosol Jet is a registered trademark of Optomec, Inc.

Osmotronic is a London based design company that creates interactive products, services and experiences across print, digital media and physical spaces. It works with companies who want to benefit from innovative products and services that connect technology and content in a direct and tangible way.

 

Osmotronic combines expertise in interaction design and communication to create intuitive and engaging products that drive revenue and increase brand value.The company offers a range of consultancy services from concept generation through to software design and content production, as well as working with exciting companies across the sectors of technology, media and manufacturing to develop proprietary products and technologies.

Pall Corporation is the largest and most diverse filtration, separations and purifications company in the world. We apply a vast technology portfolio to many industries including semiconductor fabrication, ink jet printing and display manufacturing. Printable electronics is evolving from these key industries and Pall can leverage significant filtration expertise for these new applications.

 

Pall offers filtration options for conductive ink dispersion classification, defect reduction in all coating applications, gel removal in UV curable fluids and for many other applications. Pall filtration technology will enable faster production, fewer defects and lower overall costs in all the markets that we serve.

 

In addition, Pall also offers the tools to support your filtration and purification needs from the laboratory to full production. Our products and services will allow you to select the correct filtration technology for your need and optimize for maximum performance and economy.

 

We look forward to your filtration challenge!

PolyIC produces printed electronics in a high-speed printing process. Printed electronics means that in a printing process electrical conducting and semi conducting plastics, so called polymers, are applied in several layers on a polyester film. The printing process is conducted in an exactly defined design so that electronic devices can be created. These devices are integrated, for example, into a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag. PolyIC's product line for RFID is called PolyID. Printed electronics makes low-cost RFID tags possible that can be used for mass applications. Furthermore, this new technology is also used in displays and complex systems, called smart objects. PolyIC sells smart objects under the name of PolyLogo.

 

PolyIC is a joint venture between Siemens AG and Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG and is located in Fuerth, Germany. PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2003.

Printed Electronics World provides you with a daily update of the latest industry developments. Launched in May 2007, this free portal covers the progress to printed electronics in all its forms - from transistor circuits to power, sensors, displays, materials and manufacturing.

 

Hosted and written by IDTechEx, the leading printed electronics analyst and event organiser, articles provide commentary, analysis and give a balanced view of the issue. You can opt-in for an email to be sent to you every Wednesday listing the new articles posted in the previous week. We aim to make this service your most valuable tool for keeping up to date with the printed electronics industry.

Rodman Publishing, based in Ramsey, New Jersey, has been a leading publisher of trade publications for more than four decades. Established in 1964, Rodman Publishing has been the leading source of information for global industries such as household and personal products, nonwovens, coatings and inks, label converting, nutritional supplements, and contract pharmaceutical and medical device outsourcing.

 

Ink World is the most widely read ink magazine in the world covering the US$14+ billion global printing ink industry, reaching over 6,000 subscribers worldwide. Ink World's editors and correspondents provide extensive and accurate reporting with incisive articles on the companies, the people and the trends in the global printing ink industry. Rodman also publishes Label and Narrow Web and Coatings World magazines in addition to web sites that provide coverage of the global printed electronics market.

The Durel Division of Rogers Corporation will present their Printed Electronics and Lighting Solutions. Durel has over twenty years of design and high volume manufacturing experience in printed electronics. Our screen printing capabilities include product design, electrical, mechanical and optical testing, precision registration along with finished product converting and assembly operations.

 

Products and applications include medical electrodes and sensors, capacitive sensors, conductive adhesives, antenna, electroluminescent lamps, light guide film backlights and polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC).

 

Rogers Corporation (NYSE: ROG) is a global technology leader in the development of high performance specialty-materials-based products for a variety of applications in diverse markets. The company operates sales and manufacture facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Samsung SDS was established in 1985, by consolidating Information and Communication Technology(ICT) systems of all Samsung subsidiaries.

Since its foundation, Samsung SDS has provided comprehensive ICT services and contributed to the growth of Samsung Group as a global company.

Samsung SDS has established 17 overseas offices in ten countries starting with SDS America in 1997, and has set up eight data centers in six countries since its first data center in Gwacheon, Korea in 1992.

Samsung SDS's business is organized according to the clients' business environments and needs.

It provides various ICT services such as business consulting,

network system integration (NSI), smart infrastructure engineering (SIE),

ICT outsourcing, business process outsourcing (BPO), ICT infra, and ICT solution.

 

In case of the composition of researchers at S.A.I.T, close to 40% hold Ph.D degree and in terms of the majors, 37% of researchers here hold electronics major and others spread across the board.

 

SAIT has 3 research centers, 1 technology center and 1 frontier lab .

 

Those are Future IT Research Center , Materials & Devices Research Center , Emerging Technology Research Center, Material Technology Center and Frontier Research Lab.

 

Last year we spent 300 million US dollars for research budget of 1300 employees.

Saxony is the German federal state with the most remarkable developments and achievements in organic and printed electronics as well as in photovoltaics. Interested in the business location Saxony? Then the Saxony Economic Development Corporation (WFS - Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH) is the right partner. Companies from all over the world benefit from our profound network competence and in-depth knowledge of Saxony's core industries.

www.invest-in-saxony.com/peeurope

Saxony is the German federal state with the most remarkable developments and achievements in organic and printed electronics as well as in photovoltaics. Interested in the business location Saxony? Then the Saxony Economic Development Corporation (WFS - Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH) is the right partner. Companies from all over the world benefit from our profound network competence and in-depth knowledge of Saxony's core industries.

www.invest-in-saxony.com/peeurope

The Smart Systems Campus in Chemnitz represents a dynamic network of microsystems technology expertise. The Technology Park, with its generous dimensions on a site measuring almost 4.5 hectares, provides renowned scientific and technical centres with an entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen together with an economic boost at a location where everything is on the spot.

 

The city of Chemnitz meets all the conditions for developing a microsystems technology specialist centre of expertise. The region is one of the most important sector clusters in Germany due to the number of companies already established in this sector. The cooperation and intensive exchange of knowledge with the Silicon Saxony e.V. organisation permits interdisciplinary approaches to joint projects.

 

Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales over $3 billion and 11,000 employees, Sun Chemical operates in 110 countries worldwide. Leveraging 50 years of experience as a supplier to the printed circuits industry, Sun Chemical has recently commercialized a range of new products for membrane switch, RFID and photovoltaics markets. Through an ongoing commitment to developing innovative products that provide value to our customers, Sun Chemical is investing in facilities and technologies targeted at the evolving printed electronics market.

Manufacturer of LASER SYSTEMS, UV STEPPERS, UV SCANNERS and MASK ALIGNERS. Tamarack supplies photolithography and laser micromachining systems. We specialize in applications including: Displays, RFID, Solar Cells, Organic Electronics, MEMS, Medical Devices and HDI. Our Excimer and Solid State ablation systems are ideal for direct pattern etching thin metals from various organic substrates to form transistors or other electronic circuits. In addition, these systems are used to via drill most types of organic and inorganic materials with selective material removal, down to 1um. Systems designed for Roll-to-Roll, Reel-to-Reel and Sheet handling. Resolution capabilities to 1um. Machines designed for 24/7 production environments.

Thin Film Electronics ASA ("Thinfilm") is a publicly-listed Norwegian technology company with its head office in Oslo and product development in Linköping, Sweden. Thinfilm is a pioneer in the field of Printed Electronics, and provides fully-printed non-volatile, rewritable memory for applications in toys & games, logistics, sensor, and ID systems.

The Toyo Ink Group develops a broad array of high-functional, high-value-added materials for printed electronics and industrial applications. Our Rexalpha series of conductive silver pastes used for forming RFIDs and FPCs, leads the field in ultra-thin and low resistance properties. Other cutting-edge products on display are insulators for touch screen panels and FPCs as well as various adhesive films and conductive tapes for EMI shielding applications.

 

Toyo Ink leverages our advanced manufacturing expertise based on our core colorants and resins technology, continuously pushing for improvements. Come see why we have been the leader in print innovation for over a century now.

UNITEX (Part of the Trelleborg Group) has been manufacturing high performance SCREEN PRINTING SQUEEGEES for over 50 years. Our class leading products with tight dimensional tolerance and Shore A hardness accuracy are the preferred squeegees in a wide range of industries. The printing edge is consistently sharp and is capable of depositing the printed layer accurately between 70µm and 10 µm, while resisting glass frits and abrasive particles often found in conductive inks and pastes. Our Blue Chip customers recognise the advantages of the precision and repeatability of the Unitex product. Customers refuse to make relatively small savings on the cost of a squeegee and potentially jeopardise an expensive print run. UNITEX squeegees are specified in many OEM printing processes around the world and are out there helping the customer make money in the world of screen printed electronics.

UK Displays and Lighting Network was launched in April 2006 as part of the DTI - "Knowledge Transfer Networks' programme. UKDL is a vibrant central hub of activity for the displays and lighting community. Designed to stimulate innovation in the key technology sectors by promoting collaboration, best practice and knowledge sharing between industry and academia. By encouraging partnerships and teamwork, UKDL aims to support science base through to end-users. Positioning the UK as the innovation engine for Europe.

 

UKDL supports and strengthens the UK Displays and Lighting Sector through tutorials, workshops and seminars with training and education embracing all levels of industry, commerce and academia. We encourage commercial and industrial collaborations between members that result in creation of wealth for UK plc through the profitable activities of members.

Umicore is a materials technology group. Its activities are centred on four business areas: Advanced Materials, Precious Metals Products and Catalysts, Precious Metals Services and Zinc Specialties. Each business area is divided into market-focused business units, be it in products that are essential to everyday life or those at the cutting edge of new technological developments.

 

Umicore focuses on application areas where it knows its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy can make a real difference. Umicore generates approximately 50% of its revenues and spends approximately 80% of its R&D budget in the area of clean technology, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells, and precious metals recycling. Umicore's overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life.

UniJet Co. Ltd is a total solution provider of inkjet printing systems and technology, especially for electronic material deposition. UniJet supplies printing systems ranging from R&D systems to mass production systems for LCD, PDP, OLED, PLED, solar cell, PCB, RFID, semiconductor packaging, and various coating applications. Mass production systems are customized to meet the application requirements and specifications with R2R printing systems. UniJet also offers process know how for various application developments as well as for application specific inks.

Vorbeck Materials Corp. develops products based on Vor-xTM graphene to meet real-world industrial challenges. Vorbeck's Vor-inkTM line of conductive inks and coatings for the printed electronics industry are the world's first graphene-based commercial products. Vor-ink formulations harness the exceptional conductivity of graphene and provide ultra-flexible and robust inks and coatings at a fraction of the cost of silver inks. Vor-ink formulations are available for screen, flexographic, and gravure printing techniques and can be used with standard commercial graphic printing presses. Vorbeck also offers on-site application support and custom formulation capabilities to compliment the attractive price and performance of its inks.