Exhibitors & Sponsors

Heraeus, the precious metals and technology group headquartered in Hanau, Germany, is a global, private company with over 155 years of tradition. Our businesses include precious metals, sensors, biomaterials and medical products, dental products, quartz glass, and specialty light sources. With product revenues of 2.6 billion and precious metal trading revenues of 13.6 billion, as well as more than 12,300 employees in over 110 subsidiaries worldwide, Heraeus holds a leading position in its global markets.

 

Heraeus PM, Conductive Polymers Division manufactures a range of conductive transparent and flexible polymers based on Clevios™ PEDOT:PSS - chemistry for electronic applications. From conductive polymers for antistatic, OLED, organic solar cell and capacitor applications to new printable electronic and touch screen applications, versatile Clevios meets the requirements of emerging flexible electronic materials. High conductive materials, such as Clevios™ PEDOT:PSS with 1000S/cm or 100Ohm and new HIL materials for OLEDs and Solar Cells will be spotlighted by the company.

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.

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.

Within the Roth & Rau group OTB Solar / PixDro is an innovative company, specialized in the research & development of industrial inkjet applications including engineering 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 of the shelf products consist of printing modules embedded in an open system architecture allowing PixDro to customize the systems for client specific processes and applications.

PixDro's product portfolio on inkjet systems includes:

• LP50 inkjet printer for research and development

• IP410 inkjet printer for research and pilot production on large format

• IP3000 inkjet printer for mass production of wafer based applications (Solar PV)

 

The modular setup of our products enables easy integration and migration from entry-level single layer printing for R&D purposes to volume printing in an industrial system.

With a clear product roadmap from research & development to volume production our customers benefit from easy transfer of application development to full industrial production.

 

As part of Roth & Rau, OTB Solar / PixDro offers printing solutions including pre and post processing with integration in complete automated production lines.

(Stefan Gabriel, president of 3M New Venture)

 

Our vision is breathing digital life into all printed products.

 

Printechnologics is the leading technology developer in field of printed electronics.

 

We are able to offer a dramatically new technology enabling print products to communicate with the online world by only one touch. Printed during a regular offset printing machine process, our invisible identification tag - which we named AirCode - interacts with online world just by one touch. Holding on smartphone - being online - as easy as it sounds.

 

Using known materials and processes, the AirCode is thin, flexible, recyclable, invisible and robust. But furthermore, the additional production costs are just a fraction of a cent.

 

Including all these advantages, the AirCode comes down to everyday end user applications like marketing, brand protection, ticketing, publishing or gaming - just to name a few.

 

Since 2010, we are a 3M Company.

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.

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.

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.

ALTANA represents a global specialty chemical group. It comprises four operating divisions: BYK Additives & Instruments, ECKART Effect Pigments, ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, and ACTEGA Coatings & Sealants.

 

ALTANA offers speciality products for coating, paint and plastic manufactures, the printing and the electrical and electronic industry. The product range includes additives, special coatings and adhesives, effect pigments, sealants, resins & varnishes, measuring instruments and printing inks.

 

As a focused specialty chemicals company, ALTANA offers its customers highly specialized and innovative technological solutions in niche markets.

 

Our competencies for the printed electronics market are carbon nanotubes dispersions, paper and printing additives, functional metallic inks, dielectrics, barrier layers and glues.

The advanced display technology (adt) group is a Swiss company group focused on the development and launch of the innovative ePaper display technology, called D³-Technology („Droplet-Driven-Display"). The D³-Technology allows to produce printing-like displays in various formats e.g. for small, medium and large scale applications.

Key features of the D³-Technology are: Lowest energy consumption / Real bi-stability / Printing-like optical display quality.

D³-Technology is a display technology using patented electrowetting principles and structures. Liquid coloured droplets are driven by this technology in pixel structures.

ANP(Advanced Nano Products Co.,Ltd) successfully completed the commercialization of the nano-sized material products utilizing its own state-of-the-art technology for the manufacture of metal & metal oxide ultrafine powders, sol, paste and coating solutions.

All products manufactured from its vertically integrated process capabilities from raw material procurement to final inspection have been applied to electronic display, semiconductor fabrication & special film industry all over the world.

We are committed to be a world class leader in nano-scale material industry through the commercialization knowledge and intensive R&D and will put our efforts on creating diverse technologies with a view to combine our capabilities with the other industrial applications such as IT, BT & ET which are closely related to Nano-Material technology.

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

AIXTRON is a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. The Company's technology solutions are used by a diverse range of customers worldwide to build advanced components for electronic and opto-electronic applications based on compound, silicon, or organic semiconductor materials, functional polymers, as well as Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) and other nanomaterials. Such components are used in flat panel display applications, solid state lighting, energy harvesting and storage, fiber optic communication systems, wireless and mobile telephony applications, optical and electronic storage devices, computing, signalling and lighting, as well as a range of other leading-edge technologies.

 

AIXTRON's product portfolio for compound semiconductors includes:

 

ALTANA represents a global specialty chemical group. It comprises four operating divisions: BYK Additives & Instruments, ECKART Effect Pigments, ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, and ACTEGA Coatings & Sealants.

 

ALTANA offers speciality products for coating, paint and plastic manufactures, the printing and the electrical and electronic industry. The product range includes additives, special coatings and adhesives, effect pigments, sealants, resins & varnishes, measuring instruments and printing inks.

 

As a focused specialty chemicals company, ALTANA offers its customers highly specialized and innovative technological solutions in niche markets.

 

Our competencies for the printed electronics market are carbon nanotubes dispersions, paper and printing additives, functional metallic inks, dielectrics, barrier layers and glues.

Applied Laser Engineering is the world-leading manufacturer of High Definition Laser Engraving Systems available in a range of sizes and formats.

We specialise in machines which produce engravings into a typically cylindrical form where high resolution and high accuracy over the work-piece are required. Engravings can be of a graphical nature, a simple texture or really almost any pattern that you can think of. Flat sheet engravings can also be produced either wrapped onto a drum or in the flat using our new X/Y systems. Systems can utilise a drum scanning technique, galvo scanning or acousto-optic scanning or a combination there-of. A wide range of substrate materials can also be engraved including polymers, metals, and ceramics to date.

Our systems offer a great deal to the Printed Electronics arena, either directly or modified via an R&D collaboration for a specific end purpose.

Asada Mesh is leveraging 70 years of Stainless Wire Mesh for Screen-Printing industry leadership towards your precise Printed Electronics applications. Asada Mesh has contributed the high quality printing technology and utilizing organic transistors onto flexible film substrates with our superior stainless wire mesh. The new Ultra Hard Non-Distortion Mesh, HS-D500 and HS-D360 are achieving fine line Double Printing for Photovoltaics, 50 micron L/S electrode printing for Touch Panel. Asada Mesh Total Screen-Printing Solution will continue to support high quality screen printing to produce "Printed Devices" and "Printable Electronics".

Beneq - Equipment, Technology and Applications

 

Beneq is a supplier of production and research equipment for thin film coatings. We serve the cleantech and renewable energy fields and are at the forefront of applications development in solar power technology, energy conservation and flexible electronics. Our equipment is based on two technologies, atomic layer deposition (ALD) and aerosol coating. Beneq also offers complete coating services to its customers.

 

Industries served include:

 

Equipment range includes:

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.

Botest Systems is a technology company founded in 2001. The company is active in development, manufacturing and marketing of test and inspection systems for the organic and printed electronics industry and for various other high-tech industries. The Botest product portfolio includes lifetime and functionality test systems for OLEDs, organic solar cells, and organic sensors as well as custom engineered test solutions. The Botest team consists of engineers and scientists in the fields of electronics, information technology and mechanical engineering as well as applied physical chemistry and OLED development. The company closely collaborates with leading research institutions in Germany and Europe in the different fields of the application of organic electronics and can thus fulfil any special customer requirements in the area of science and research as well as development and production.

ALTANA represents a global specialty chemical group. It comprises four operating divisions: BYK Additives & Instruments, ECKART Effect Pigments, ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, and ACTEGA Coatings & Sealants.

 

ALTANA offers speciality products for coating, paint and plastic manufactures, the printing and the electrical and electronic industry. The product range includes additives, special coatings and adhesives, effect pigments, sealants, resins & varnishes, measuring instruments and printing inks.

 

As a focused specialty chemicals company, ALTANA offers its customers highly specialized and innovative technological solutions in niche markets.

 

Our competencies for the printed electronics market are carbon nanotubes dispersions, paper and printing additives, functional metallic inks, dielectrics, barrier layers and glues.

Carestream Advanced Materials offers touch panel manufacturers a flexible, durable and low-cost alternative to indium tin oxide (ITO) films. New Carestream® FLEXX transparent conductive films feature a patented silver nanomaterial technology that allows for exceptional conductance and superior optical performance. 300 ohm/square and 100 ohm/square products (with an optional hardcoat) are ideal for resistive and projected capacitive touch screen applications. Carestream, which emerged from Eastman Kodak, has annual revenues of $2.5B (USD), 7,000+ employees and customers in more than 150 countries. Carestream Advanced Materials, a new division of Carestream, has research & development facilities and distribution centers throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas.

CeNTI, Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials, is a private, non-profit Institute, placed in Portugal, formally established in May 2006. CeNTI is a distinct European Research and Development Centre, equipped with cutting-edge technology, and conducting world-class research and development. A highly qualified research team works with partners around the world, to develop multicomponent fibres, smart materials/devices, multifunctional coatings and organic electronics and embedded systems, to improve and assess the real performance of materials/devices and products in different areas (e.g. renewable energy devices, well-being & health, sports, protection, automotive, aeronautic, buildings...). CeNTI is a membership of E2B-EI and OEA.

Ceradrop is an innovative company who design, manufacture and sell inkjet equipment for the digital manufacturing of components (printed electronics and new energies). Ceradrop's tools enable multi-materials printing (both 2D and 3D) with high accuracy. The Ceradrop team has the specificity of not coming from graphical art but from materials science and components engineering. This background allows Ceradrop to provide an exclusive approach of inkjet processes, fully dedicated to materials problems solving. Following our experience and users feedback, Ceradrop provides to industries and laboratories a wide range of specific tools and dedicated services.

 

Company organization is focused on customer service and support for providing a complete work environment covering the entire needs of an inkjet process. With dedicated facilities and highly specialized teams, Ceradrop supplies to the customers of its machines, support on ink formulation and optimization, process development, custom printer design, and dedicated software modules.

 

Ceradrop exclusive approach of inkjet processes, based on using standard CAD files for the generation of printing scripts, is one of the keys of our current success and excellent user feedback in many different fields: OPV, OLED, organic electronic, passive components, ceramic and metallic thick films, 3D micro fabrication.

 

To learn more, please visit us at booth #F121.

Charnwood Molecular Ltd is a leading provider of synthetic organic chemistry services founded in 1998 and based in the UK.

 

We offer custom synthesis and contract research services, from high purity organic semi-conductor materials to dye chemistry.

 

Our experience is wide-ranging, but particular expertise exists in heterocyclic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, catalysis, and polymer supported organic synthesis.

 

Charnwood Molecular can undertake challenging chemistry projects tailored to the specific requirements of the client, delivered by experienced highly skilled chemists.

Chisso Corporation, a $3B global chemical supplier, develops a variety of ink-jet printing inks. Chisso UV curable ink-jet ink is suitable for a variety of applications including fabrication of microlenses with high transparency. Chisso thermal cure polyimide ink-jet ink can be used as an insulating layer in Electroluminescense (EL) devices and can be applied to printed circuit boards, semiconductors and many other applications. The use of Chisso ink is expected to simplify manufacturing processes, lower facility costs and reduce effects on the environment.

 

Chisso Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan, manufactures and sells liquid crystal materials, alignment films, overcoats for color filters and many other performance chemical products. Please visit http://www.chisso.co.jp/english/index.asp for more information.　

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For 30 years now, Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH has been designing and constructing coating and laminating plants for the most different applications. Almost all substrates and chemicals can be processed on Coatema plants, either as sheets or from roll-to-roll.

 

For third generation electronics, Coatema will also offer you the optimal coating, printing, laminating and embossing technologies combined with different drying and annealing options under nitrogen atmosphere if needed. Advanced flexible technologies like OLED, lighting and signage, organic based sensors, smart packaging, optical coatings, RFID applications and flexible printed circuits can be produced on Coatema equipment.

 

Organic large area developers and flexible electronic manufacturers can choose processes, which can take place in a glove box, nitrogen dryer atmospheres or under cleanroom conditions.

 

A wide variety of coating and printing can be used: knife, commabar, slot die, engraved roller, screen printing, flexo-printing, inkjet, ultrasonic spray and hotmelt slot die systems. Lamination technologies are part of the Coatema expertise and the ability to nanoimprint surfaces.

 

From small scale to production scale of operation, Coatema is the partner for flexible electronic coating and printing operations.

Coveme spa, founded in 1965 and today leader in engineering polyester film, offers a wide range of films for printed electronics and photovoltaic applications.

 

Coveme Kemafoil® high grade polyester films for printed electronics are available with surface treatments for enhanced adhesion, heat stabilized for dimensional stability, in laminated version for high humidity barrier (low WVTR) and with hydrophilic coatings. Kemafoil® is available in very wide range of thicknesses (23µ to 350µ), and suitable for all types of printing systems, such as Silk Screen, Flexo, UV, UV Digital, Ink Jet and Laser, both for roll and sheet - fed applications.

 

Coveme dyMat PYE® is a high grade polyester laminate used as backsheet protection for photovoltaic modules guaranteeing high voltage insulation and an outstanding durability under extreme conditions. dyMat PYE® is available in different versions with special layers such as aluminium and copper for thin film and back contact module applications.

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is a technology innovation centre that uses market knowledge and technology understanding to develop and prototype products and processes, quickly and efficiently, with minimal risk to its public and private sector partners.

 

CPI is home to The UK's National Printable Electronics Technology Centre (PETEC) a design, development and prototyping facility for the emerging printable electronics industry. Our mission is to work with clients to bring new printable electronics products and processes to market quickly and efficiently, by offering facilities and expertise that help reduce levels of R&D risk and capital investment, while speeding up time to market.

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.

 

DELO Industrial Adhesives is a leading expert in the field of customized industrial adhesives with its headquarters close to Munich in Germany. A team of 230 experts works on fast and reliable bonding solutions for individual customer needs.

 

Innovative developments such as edge and area sealants for e-paper displays or flexible solar cells belong to the company's portfolio. A wide range of different flexibilities together with lowest water vapor transmission rates offers optimum solutions for rigid glass based as well as flexible displays. Moreover, we developed optically clear adhesives for window cover or touch panel bonding on LCD displays.

DuPont Microcircuit Materials has over 40 years of experience in the development, manufacture and sale of specialized ink compositions for a wide variety of electronic applications in the display, photovoltaic, automotive, biomedical, industrial and telecommunications markets. This division holds a lead position in these markets with a success based on the close working relationship DuPont maintains with its customers and a comprehensive worldwide support infrastructure.

 

Utilizing core expertise in materials science, chemistry and fine particle technology, DuPont develops inks for a wide variety of substrates suitable for many new Printed Electronics applications, including DuPont™ Solamet® photovoltaic metalization 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.

ALTANA represents a global specialty chemical group. It comprises four operating divisions: BYK Additives & Instruments, ECKART Effect Pigments, ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, and ACTEGA Coatings & Sealants.

 

ALTANA offers speciality products for coating, paint and plastic manufactures, the printing and the electrical and electronic industry. The product range includes additives, special coatings and adhesives, effect pigments, sealants, resins & varnishes, measuring instruments and printing inks.

 

As a focused specialty chemicals company, ALTANA offers its customers highly specialized and innovative technological solutions in niche markets.

 

Our competencies for the printed electronics market are carbon nanotubes dispersions, paper and printing additives, functional metallic inks, dielectrics, barrier layers and glues.

Eight19 is developing a new generation of low cost, flexible solar cells, using organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology. Based on work pioneered by the internationally renowned team at Cambridge University, the company focuses on high speed, low temperature manufacturing techniques to print solar cells on lightweight, non-toxic, plastic films. The resulting modules are aimed at new mass markets for solar power generation, from off-grid applications in emerging economies to high volume industrial products. Eight19 is headquartered in Cambridge, England and investors include the Carbon Trust, Rhodia SA, TTP Ltd and the University of Cambridge.

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ALTANA represents a global specialty chemical group. It comprises four operating divisions: BYK Additives & Instruments, ECKART Effect Pigments, ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, and ACTEGA Coatings & Sealants.

 

ALTANA offers speciality products for coating, paint and plastic manufactures, the printing and the electrical and electronic industry. The product range includes additives, special coatings and adhesives, effect pigments, sealants, resins & varnishes, measuring instruments and printing inks.

 

As a focused specialty chemicals company, ALTANA offers its customers highly specialized and innovative technological solutions in niche markets.

 

Our competencies for the printed electronics market are carbon nanotubes dispersions, paper and printing additives, functional metallic inks, dielectrics, barrier layers and glues.

Electric Vehicles Research is a website portal providing analysis from experts on the latest news on electric vehicles from around the World. A new article is posted each working day and the site is free to access. From cars, buses, two wheelers, industrial, commercial, mobility for disabled, to military, marine and other types of EVs, it is all covered here. The journal also focuses on the associated infrastructure, components and technologies, including batteries, energy harvesting, energy storage and much more. Hosted and written by IDTechEx, the leading analyst and event organiser on electric vehicle 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 Friday listing the new articles posted in the week. For more details, see

The Electronics, Sensors, Photonics (ESP) KTN is a Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) funded by the UK Government through the Technology Strategy Board. One of our key work programmes is the promotion and support of the printed and plastic electronics community in the UK. We carry out these duties through a wide variety of knowledge exchange tools and activities including industry events, strategy workshops, training courses, international missions, seminars and company based tutorials. These activities cover the entire value chain, from basic science at universities through process development and manufacturing up to and including end user interaction with brand holders. The KTN is free to join and provides access to people and organisations cutting across the whole ESP technology space.

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 .

 

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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.

ESL has developed and manufactured screen-printable thick-film pastes (conductors, dielectrics and resistors) for almost 50 years. These advanced, high temperature firing materials are used in hybrid circuits, multilayer microelectronics, electronic components, heaters on insulated steel, solar cells, SOFC and temperature/pressure/gas sensors. Screen-printable polymer-based pastes are also manufactured for use on rigid, and flexible plastic substrates. These may also be applied to cloth and paper. Ink jet printing may be achieved by rheological adjustments. Typical applications for the latter material group include wearable and/or portable electronics, organic solar cells and printed antennas for contactless RFID.

Express Circuits Ltd is a pioneering UK printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer, offering a total solution in the Design, Manufacture & Assembly of high performance prototype & small batch PCB's to accurately fulfil your specific design requirements, on a fast turnaround basis. As a dynamic player in the electronics industry and with a reputation for innovative, dependable PCB manufacturing solutions, Express Circuits Ltd ensures complete customer satisfaction. With our experienced technical personnel we specialised in producing, quality Multilayers, Blind & Buried Multilayer with MicroVia, Rigid-Flex and now Stretchable Circuits.

Our continued investment in equipment and emerging technology, coupled with thoroughly trained skilled staff, enables us to flexibly meet the demands of ever-changing international markets, from our base in Coleshill. www.express-circuits.co.uk Tel:+44(01)675 464884

Flexible Electronics Concepts FEC is a new company set up to create innovative working samples of printed electronics. Many consumer packaged goods companies and other potential end users are frustrated that they cannot obtain innovative product concepts or even simple devices such as smart labels based on the new printed electronics. They do not want components. FEC will endeavour to help by being a product integrator and concept generator for small quantities of printed electronic products. Any successes will be produced in volume by the industry leaders. Meanwhile, buy your samples and sample books here.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) undertakes research and development work in the areas "Shaping and Functional Materials" and "Adhesive Bonding Technology and Surfaces".

The department of Functional Structures at Fraunhofer-IFAM has substancial experience in engineering manufacturing processes that allows the integration of functions into materials and components. Several technologies, e.g. rapid-prototyping, ink-jet-printing and aerosol printing, as well as sputtering processes are available for functional integration in manufacturing technology.

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 Dimatix Materials Printer 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. Expanding upon the DMP-2831 and the DMP-3000, the new DMP-5000 and DMP-5005 are large format, non-contact, fluid deposition systems 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. As of July 2006, FUJIFILM Dimatix is a wholly owned subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation. FUJIFILM Dimatix has more than 28 years experience in advancing the performance of drop-on-demand dispensing devices and applications, and its state-of-the-art technology provides solutions for the printed electronics industry.

Future-Shape uses tomorrow's vision of ambient assisted living today in applications that are both practicable and purposeful. These technologies will bring about some major advances in building automation, while at the same time maximizing comfort, improving security systems and, thanks to the use of sophisticated energy-saving techniques, helping to increase environmental protection. In our view, making such complex systems both robust and easy to use is one of the greatest challenges facing the technologies of tomorrow. We are specialized on large-area sensor systems based on smart textiles, that enable a variety of new applications.

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At the Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg/Germany almost 10 000 students are imatriculated. The university offers a broad spectrum of studies ranging from electronics to international business. Prof. Jillek is head of the Electronic Packaging Lab which is part of the faculty Electronics, Mechatronics, Information Technology. Fields of research of this lab are Printed Circuit Boards, Hybrid Circuits and Interconnection Technology. One research focus in recent years was on the inkjet printing of nano-particles for manufacturing electronic devices.

Germany Trade & Invest is the foreign trade and inward investment agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. The organization advises foreign companies looking to expand their business activities in the German market. It provides information on foreign trade to German companies that seek to enter into foreign markets. All inquiries relating to Germany as a business and investment location are treated confidentially. All investment services are available at no charge.

Haiku Tech is a leading provider of customized, high accuracy, screen printing and coating solutions for the manufacture of Multilayer Electronic (Passive) Components, Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, OLEDs, Batteries and Printed Electronics in general. Together with our partner companies, Keko Equipment and Polymer Innovations, we have over 40 years of experience designing custom printing (including roll to roll) and coating equipment, as well as screen printable pastes and coating materials.

Avidity IP is a firm of European Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys and has extensive experience in the diverse fields of printed electronics and materials.

 

Our team includes a number of attorneys with expertise in the area, some having worked in-house at major industrial companies. Familiar technologies include formulation chemistry, driving electronics, device architecture, microprinting, polymer and small molecule chemistry, medical devices, PVs, display systems and inkjet.

 

We provide a full spectrum of patent services, including drafting and prosecuting patent applications, advising on freedom to use and advising on litigation and European Patent Office oppositions and appeals.

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

 

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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.

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.

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.

InnovationLab GmbH (iL) is an application-oriented research and transfer platform of business and science in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan region. It was jointly founded by the six globally active companies BASF SE, Freudenberg & Co. KG, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Merck KGaA, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, SAP AG, and the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. All partners are involved in one shared enterprise and have the common goal of driving innovation.

iL focuses on Organic Electronics. It collaborates with its partners across disciplines along the entire value chain in order to create novel solutions. The company is a crucial part of the strategy of the cluster Forum Organic Electronics which concentrates on joint research, the transfer of ideas into marketable products, and the development and implementation of educational programs. In addition to the founders mentioned above, the cluster consists of a wider set of 26 companies and universities and was awarded as a Cluster of Excellence (Spitzencluster) with € 40 million by the German Ministry of Education and Research.

Founded in 2000 UK based Integration Technology Limited designs and produces high intensity UV light engines for a blue chip OEM customer base traditionally in the inkjet printing markets.

Integration Technology has a global presence with regional offices in UK, USA, South Korea and China, and supports Japan through two distributors.

Recent expansion of the European sales team is enabling lateral diversification into other high tech market sectors and this will be primarily driven by the companies range of advanced semiconductor based UV LED products. Ongoing development since 2003 has resulted in state of the art systems enabling new and exciting applications.

Intrinsiq Materials is a UK-based advanced materials company providing nanoparticle copper ink formulations for printed electronics applications. Our copper nanoparticle ink, 'Intrinsiq CI', is an innovative ink formulation designed for photonic curing at room temperature in air. It is ready to print using industry standard commercial inkjet systems on a variety of substrates including paper, polyimide and FR4, producing conductivities comparable to commercial silver inks.

isiQiri interface technologies is a High-Tech-Startup in Hagenberg / Upper Austria. isiQiri is based on research carried out at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich / Germany and the Johannes-Kepler-University in Linz / Austria. As a university spin-off we continue to work closely together with research facilities in Upper Austria.

 

isiQiri develops, produces and commercializes large-area optical sensors that can detect input from light spots (laser pointers) as well as by touch (fingers or pen) based on the patented Q-Foil-technology.

 

Our vision is to help our customers to add interactivity to their products. Thus we facilitate new ways of human-machine-interaction.

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.

The Institute for Surface Technology and Photonics focuses on the miniaturization and integration of functional components and devices on the basis of novel materials and processes. Core competences include Functional Surfaces (thin- and thickfilm technology including inkjet printing, surface modifications), Micro- and Nanostructuring (organic electronics, laser structuring), Light- and Optotechnologies (LED-technology, optical simulation), Sensor Systems (chemical- and biosensors) and Laser Production Technology (welding, alloying). Main organization objectives are to expand the limits of performance, functionality and cost-efficiency as well as to develop new application concepts, systems and methods of operation. Flexible interlinking of expertise and capabilities within the research groups of the institute enables a cutting-edge knowledge and technology portfolio to meet the demanding requirements of our contract partners.

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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Meet the Precision.

Since 1968 KOENEN conquers new markets for the technical screen printing. Today we are an internationally demanded partner for high tech solutions in the microelectronics and solar industries. Our strategic position in the market is our passion for precision. Experience something new with the KOENEN Paste Reduction System and the New Quality of Aspect Ratio. With enthusiasm and more than 40 years of experience we are looking forward to develop your individual solution for your product realisation.

 

Meet us at stand E129 - We are looking forward to your visit www.koenen.de and www.koenen-solar.de

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.

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.

NANOGAP manufactures a broad range of fully dispersed metal and metal oxide nanomaterials, including sub-nanometre atomic quantum clusters with unique properties, nanoparticles from 1 to 100 nanometres in size, and high aspect ratio nanofibers. All materials can be custom tailored to exact requirements including particle size, morphology, surface functionalisation and carrier fluid. In preliminary trials, NANOGAP's latest conductive ink, printed with a Xaar print head onto paper and cured at 120oC for two minutes gave a resistivity of 6x10-5 ohm.cm. Silver nanofibers can be used to prepare transparent conductive films suitable for use in displays, photovoltaics and OLED lighting.

The NanoTecCenter Weiz Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (NTCW) is a non-profit R&D Centre for "Organic Optoelectronics and Sensorics" founded in 2006. The shareholders are JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH and Graz University of Technology. Currently NTCW employs 22 scientists and staff. The project portfolio of NTCW reaches from contract research with industry partners in the inkjet development to applied research projects in the field of organic electronics and sensor development supported by national and international funding programmes. NTCW operates an integrate modular pilot- and demonstration fabrication line in an ISO Class 6 cleanroom including an inert glove box cluster for thin-film deposition by evaporation, sputtering and solution processing, state-of-the-art industrial inkjet printers, a most-modern E-beam lithography and photolithography and various material and device characterisation equipment.

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK's national measurement institute and is a world-leading centre of excellence in developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and technology available. For more than a century NPL has developed and maintained the nation's primary measurement standards. These standards underpin an infrastructure of traceability throughout the UK and the world that ensures accuracy and consistency of measurement. NPL employs over 500 scientists, based in South West London, in a laboratory, which is amongst the world's most extensive and sophisticated measurement science buildings.

NeoDec develops and manufactures highly conductive inks for use in printed electronics applications. These complex inks enable fast, cost effective printing of electrodes with very low resistance even at room temperature, depending the choice of curing process. As the NeoDec ink is based on components, that can be completely dissolved, many print technologies like inkjet, screenprinting or flexography, can be used without problems. Currently the Neojet ink (for inkjet printing) and Neoflex ink (for flexo) are readily available, while Neoscreen is still under development. The Neodec inks pair excellent conductiveness to an outstanding ease of use in the printing process.

Nicomatic manufactures "Products for the Printed Ink Industry"; CrimpFlex Connectors offer the most cost effective crimp connector available at 2.54mm (0.100") and 1.27mm (0.050") pitch matching industry standards in male and female styles; Switch'Air non-stick metal domes and arrays with custom solder domes and P-Switch technology for security card applications; Ultra-Thin SMD LEDs offering low profile easy to place product; Adhesive Spacer Material for the interior layers of circuitry. Also available Automation equipment supporting Nicomatic products.

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.

ONE-P, an European project of 28 partners, will develop the missing high-performance, low-cost multifunctional materials and their fabrication technology thanks to the synergy between academic and industrial research and the integration of complementary expertise.

With a total budget of 26 million EURO over 3 years, from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2011, ONE-P will set the knowledge basis for long-term industrial development and exploitation by materials suppliers and end-users. ONE-P is coordinated by the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

 

FlexNet, the Network of Excellence for the Exploitation of Flexible, Organic and Large Area Electronics (FOLAE), aims at interlinking Europe's FOLAE-expertise in the domains of science, technology development, components, devices and systems integration technologies. www.noe-flexnet.eu

FlexNet is coordinated by VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH.

The OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association) is a working group within the German Engineering Federation (VDMA). It was founded in December 2004. OE-A is the key international industry association for organic and printed electronics and represents the whole value chain of this emerging industry. Our members are leading international companies and institutions, ranging from component and material suppliers, equipment and tool suppliers, producers/system integrators and end-users to R&D institutes. More than 160 companies from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia are working together to promote the establishment of a competitive production infrastructure for organic and printed electronics. The vision of the OE-A is to build a bridge between science, technology and application. The activities of the OE-A include education, networking opportunities, strategic market understanding, roadmap for organic and printed electronics, quality control and measurement, applications and the exchange of ideas to unite the entire industry. The OE-A headquarter is in Frankfurt/Germany and our local North American office is in Pittsburgh/USA.

Further information on OE-A, member companies, member benefits, becoming a member, etc., please visit the OE-A Website. www.oe-a.org

Ossila Limited is a start-up providing advanced materials and components to the organic electronic research community. Our catalogue of off-the-shelf organic semiconductors and rapid-prototyping systems for the fabrication of OFETs, OLEDs and OPVs allow scientists to accelerate their research for faster turnaround and discovery.

Ossila also offers testing services to chemists, material scientists and technology companies including device engineering, quality assurance and prototyping. Our rapid turnaround engineering enables scientists to focus on what they do best - science!

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!

A premier center for commercial innovation, PARC, a Xerox company, is in the business of breakthroughs. We work closely with global enterprises, entrepreneurs, government agencies and partners, and other clients to invent, co-develop, and bring to market game-changing innovations by combining imagination, investigation, and return on investment for our clients. For 40 years, we have lived at the leading edge of innovation, merging inquiry and strategy to pioneer technological change. PARC was incorporated in 2002 as a wholly owned independent subsidiary of Xerox Corporation - enabling us to continue pioneering technological change but across a broader set of industries and clients today.

PARU FE's two step 'printing & curing' process significantly reduced process steps compared with copper etching system.

PARU inks are printed with conventional printing technology such as roll to roll gravure, offset, screen and inkjet.

We are making the highly conductive silver and cooper inks using nanoparticles for R2R gravure printing and inkjet printing. We are now using the Single walled carbon nanotube for semi-conductive inks which can be applied for printing.

Our technologies can be used for printed RF label & logo, printed photovoltaic, printed display, printed sensor, FPCB, printed fuel cell and Bio-technology.

Peakdale Molecular offers a class-leading range of products and services to accelerate discovery initiatives for organic semi conductor materials. At its very core, Peakdale's approach is based upon its long & successful track record of chemistry problem-solving, offering flexible, creative and confidential support for new materials discovery projects.

 

Peakdale has significant experience in the synthesis and characterization of OSC candidate compounds and the purification of such materials to high specifications. These projects have also demonstrated our process development skills for small-scale production of ultra high purity materials. Put our experience to the test.

Composites and functionalized surfaces came increasingly into focus recently. In fact, composite materials offers improvements in reliability and efficiency, perfectly fitting into the global efforts of developing green technology and reducing environmental pollution.

 

Platingtech has specialized in surface processing of fabrics and wire meshes (polymeres and metal substrates) using a continuous roll-to-roll process. In addition to classic electrodeposition of metals Platingtech developed in cooporation with BASF a selectively plating process for polymeres leading to so called "smart textiles".

 

Our product range is widely spread and covers heat-seating systems, intelligent building automation, meshes for screen-printing, solderable components and conductive textiles.

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.

Printed Electronics Ltd is a process and application company. The facility has been specifically designed to support businesses investigating, developing and prototyping:

Equipment and capability include high precision inkjet platform supporting multiple Xaar heads and fluid delivery systems: high speed video drop watching for investigating drop ejection of fluids; electronics reliability and design services. The company has facilities in Cambridge, for ink characterisation, and Tamworth, for printing and circuit development. PEL will be launching a new range of specialist papers substrate for nano-conductor deposition at IDTechEx.

Printed Electronics Now is an online publication devoted to the fast growing field of electronic products created through the printing process, an emerging industry that promises to revolutionize the methods in which electronic components and systems are manufactured.

 

Printed electronics covers solar cells, batteries, displays, sensors, medical devices, military equipment, and much more. In the near future, the world will be treated to displays on packages, on pharmaceuticals that remind users when to take the drugs, more advanced electronic readers, flexible dashboard displays in vehicles, printed solar panels, and disposable devices that promise to revolutionize medical testing.

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.

The S in PST stands for SILICON and the P for PRINTED. We are a new company, seeking strategic partners to develop applications for our proprietary printed silicon TECHNOLOGY, starting with sensors. Our first products to be launched at the 2011 Printed Electronics Europe Conference are printed electronic temperature sensors working in the environmental temperature range, -40 to +50 CC (-40 to 120 0F). Cryogenic ( -2200C/50K) and high temperature ( +150 0C/300 0F) are available for inclusion in custom applications. Ultra-high temperature sensors (1000 0C) are currently under development.

The Performance Films Division of Solutia Inc. is the only supplier capable of providing full-service film enhancement "under one roof". Key available segments within the Printed Electronics industry include: flexible displays, touch screens, energy (flexible photovoltaics and batteries), lighting, and medical sensors. Under the Flexvue™ brand name, coated film products include: clear transparent conductive (ITO and others) and low resistance sputtered, thermally evaporated aluminum, protective masking, barrier, anti-reflection, optically clear pressure sensitive adhesive and release films, and UV and IR absorbing polyester (available in colors), all coated roll-to-roll in clean rooms. Custom coating of customer supplied materials and pilot coating services are offered for development of new materials intended for full scale production. Flexvue™ provides highly experienced technical support in addition to high end manufacturing capabilities.

Solvay Solexis is a member of the Solvay Group with a distinguished history of promoting scientific exploration for the betterment of the world community; with more than 4,200 registered patents, it ranks second worldwide in fluorochemicals.

It is structured in 4 Business Units with more than 23 product lines covering the market demand for high value: Melt processable fluoropolymers, fluorinated fluids, fluoroelastomers, PTFE & Fluoropolymer coatings.

Thanks to its specialization, Solexis answers to the most demanding needs of high technology markets such as: printed electronic, semicon, surface treatment, pharmaceutical, building & architecture, wire & cable, automotive, aerospace, batteries, membranes, etc.

Stora Enso has a long experience of developing solutions for the healthcare industry. These include high-quality packaging boards, award-winning compliance packaging, child resistant blister packaging, specialty boards and consumer packaging. Stora Enso has also worked and added solutions in digital printing to improve on the needs within healthcare to efficiently supply multiple SKU's and variable data through in-line digital printing and converting.

 

New features to improve the compliance control, usability and data transfer via wireless communication are introduced utilising GSM networks. These will lead to more sustainable products and substantial benefits both for the healthcare provider and also for the patients.

 

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Thieme GmbH & Co. KG specialized in the production of screen printing machines for more than 30 years. Thieme currently employs about 400 people around the world. Thieme offers modular machine concepts for single- and multicolor flatbed screen printing applications. The machines range from small-size semi automatic machines to large-size fully automatic production lines. Thieme is headquartered in the German town of Teningen. The company serves its customers with sales and service subsidiaries in France, Great Britain, and the United States.

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.

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.

Founded 1985 Unigraphica AG started up in Liechtenstein as a consulting specialist and provider of new and specially refurbished narrow-web presses including training, start-up and full maintenance services. In the 90ies Unigraphica evolved into the design and engineering of own process modules in webfed production lines. Digital print integration and mastering complex processes demonstrates the huge competence in this field. The company grew up by delivering answers and solutions for special applications (i.e. security printing) and is today renowned as a system development partner for most demanding specifications. Their multi-web system (CHALLENGER) offers highly versatile inline applications and is therefore a most appropriate option for mass production of dedicated multi-layer compounds.

The Nanosciences Innovation Centre is unique, in that it has a dual focus on Research and Innovation into the science and application of nanostructured materials. Currently its main development focus is on printed electronics applications of silicon and other inorganic semiconductor nanoparticles.

The First Choice for OLED research and Surface Science

 

VG Scienta supplies cluster based process tools into the Organic and Large Area Electronics market for the development of OLED based devices. The OLED Edge tool combines small molecule deposition modules with up to 8 sources each with finely controlled low temperature sputter deposition of electrode layers, including ITO, allowing complete devices to be fabricated.

 

The VG Scienta XPS/UPS/ARPES analysis tool gives vital chemical and band structure information allowing optimisation of the thin film device structures. VG Scienta electron spectrometers offer the best energy, and angular resolution; this coupled with high intensity UV / XPS sources and an advanced 2D detection gives extremely high quality and fast data collection.

 

VG Scienta remains at the cutting edge of science supplying high quality solutions to meet the exacting standards of advanced UHV technology.

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.

The Institute for Surface Technology and Photonics focuses on the miniaturization and integration of functional components and devices on the basis of novel materials and processes. Core competences include Functional Surfaces (thin- and thickfilm technology including inkjet printing, surface modifications), Micro- and Nanostructuring (organic electronics, laser structuring), Light- and Optotechnologies (LED-technology, optical simulation), Sensor Systems (chemical- and biosensors) and Laser Production Technology (welding, alloying). Main organization objectives are to expand the limits of performance, functionality and cost-efficiency as well as to develop new application concepts, systems and methods of operation. Flexible interlinking of expertise and capabilities within the research groups of the institute enables a cutting-edge knowledge and technology portfolio to meet the demanding requirements of our contract partners.