Update interview
31 Mar 2023

FlexEnable
FlexEnable offers materials and technology transfer services for producing flexible active matrix backplanes based on OTFTs (organic thin film transistors). These were originally targeted at the display industry, but increasingly FlexEnable is looking to new applications such as selectively dimmable AR (augmented reality) glasses.
Update interview
28 Feb 2023

CLAP
CLAP is a Korean firm that produces polarizing optical films based on liquid crystals for OLED displays and organic TFT materials, utilizing IP originally developed by BASF. At CES 2023, CLAP introduced its OTFT-based sensors.
External press release
23 Feb 2022

FlexEnable Raises $11-$25M for Mass Production of Flexible Displays
FlexEnable has raised $11M Series B financing. Coretronic, a major Taiwanese LCD backlight module manufacturer, has made a strategic investment alongside significant European family offices. The initial $11M investment includes options for a further $14m and is expected to finance FlexEnable through to mass production ramp up of flexible displays and liquid crystal optical modules at Asian display manufacturing partners. The funds will also be used to scale up the company's organic materials production capacity to meet the growing needs of display manufacturing partners entering volume production.
Full profile interview: SWOT Analysis
12 Feb 2021

Plastic Logic
Full profile interview: SWOT
3 Aug 2020

Flexterra
Update
9 Mar 2020

FlexEnable
FlexEnable presented at Flex 2020 a dual-cell OLCD approach that is thinner and simpler than existing strategies.
Full profile interview
5 Mar 2020

NeuDrive
NeuDrive is a small company that has a patented material formulation for organic field effect transistors (OFETs). It previously aspired for these to be used in TFT display backplanes and printed logic applications, but it has recently changed its focus to biological and chemical sensors that utilize its OFET material.
Full profile interview
29 Jan 2020

FlexEnable
Formerly part of Plastic Logic, FlexEnable has developed a flexible organic thin film transistor (OTFT) backplane that can be produced at low temperatures. It then licenses this technology to manufacturers, with a key selling point that it can be integrated into existing LCD display fabrication lines to produce curved OLCD displays.
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6 Nov 2019

Creating the Market: Technology Development is Only Half the Work
Printed electronics has many successful market creation stories and certain materials or components have moved rapidly but sometimes, inventing the enabling technology is only half the work.
External press release
21 Aug 2019

Breakthrough in glass-free OLCD technology enables bezel-less displays
FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic electronics, has revealed an ultra-narrow border organic LCD (OLCD).
External press release
26 Jun 2019

Novares integrates FlexEnable's conformable OLCDs into new demo car
FlexEnable has announced that it has collaborated with Novares on the integration of curved, glass-free organic LCDs into the Novares Nova Car #2.
2 Apr 2019

High Performance Laser-Additive Manufacturing (HIPERLAM Project)
The HIPERLAM Project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 723879.