24 Sep 2013
Assessing the $6.3 billion printed and flexible sensor markets
Sensors do not require transistors and generally speaking have a simpler structure than displays or logic circuits. Printing works well with sensors because the manufacturing does always not require high resolution or accurate registration.
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24 Sep 2013
Nanotech and Beyond N&B
Nanotech and Beyond N&B was formed in 2010. It is based in Korea. In 2011 it developed an ITO alternative material for transparent electrodes for touch screen panels. In 2012 the company developed silver nanowires.
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24 Sep 2013
Zink Technologies
ZinkTech was formed in 2011. It is attached to a group of patent attorneys who look for interesting patents that are not fulfilled, and buy them and try to commercialise them, with the help of groups such as universities.
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24 Sep 2013
InkTec Co., Ltd
InkTec was formed in 1992. It has 375 staff, of which 80 are involved in R&D. The company had annual sales last years of $74.8million and is a publicly listed company. The company is very active in printed electronics, offering a variety of conductive inks as well as printing services.
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24 Sep 2013
Kunshan Printed Electronics Co Ltd
The company was founded by local investors together with Dr. Xia-chang Zhang in 2013, inventor of SoftBatteryTM and one of the founders of Enfucell. Kunshan Printed Electronics worked in co-operation with a local machinery company to set up a R2R printed battery mass production line with a capacity up to 40 million cells a year.
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24 Sep 2013
CPI
The Center for Process Innovation (CPI) was set up by the Government in 2008 as an initiative to help UK companies bring products to market, by giving them access to specialist equipment and scientists, over coming the burden of initial capital cost to test and develop products. £35 million has been invested in the center, which is based in the North East of England.
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24 Sep 2013
Teknek Ltd.
Teknek was founded in 1978, supplying consumables to the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) industry worldwide. In 1984 Teknek started to develop a contact cleaning technology to meet the growing need for high levels of surface cleanliness required in the electronics industry, particularly PCB manufacturers. The Teknek Clean Machine soon became popular and an integral part of any PCB production line.
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24 Sep 2013
Promethean Particles
Promethean Particles design, develop and manufacture inorganic nanoparticle dispersions to customer's specifications. The company uses continuous hydrothermal synthesis to make the desired product for each application and backs this up with large scale manufacturing capability (currently up to 10 tonnes per year with a 1000 TPA plant build underway).
Background
24 Sep 2013
PhosphonicS Ltd
PhosphonicS technology was developed by Professor Alice Sullivan at Queen Mary, University of London. At Queen Mary, a general and economically viable method for silica functionalisation was discovered using vinyltrimethoxysilane (VTMS) as a coupling agent. In 2001 PhosphonicS acquired the technology from University of London to select and commercialise areas of application
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24 Sep 2013
DZP Technologies Ltd
The company was formed in 2008 and is head-quartered in Cambridge, UK. It is a small company working on a range of technologies, including low temperature conductive inks, graphene inks and laser-nduced transfer for printing electronic devices (LITPED)
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24 Sep 2013
Sumitomo Chemical and CDT
Sumitomo Chemical is a Japanese company. It's a member of the Sumitomo group and is listed on the Nikkei 225. The company is one of Japan's major chemical companies and was founded in 1913. The company has been working on organic materials for OLEDs for about a decade, forming a joint venture with Cambridge UK based CDT (Cambridge display Technology). Sumitomo Chemical acquired CDT for $285 million in 2007, at price similar to the amount that had been invested in CDT until that point.
23 Sep 2013
Printed and organic electronics in Korea
IDTechEx has spent almost two weeks in Korea visiting executives at leading companies and attending conferences. Company profiles will be given in our Market Intelligence Portal over the coming weeks. In this article we summarise some of our observations from the country.
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23 Sep 2013
Vinci Technologies
Vinci Technologies are developing a measuring instrument for water vapour permeation.
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21 Sep 2013
Clothing+
Clothing+ has been in business for more than 15 years and was a pioneer in the mass production of textile-based heart rate measurement systems. The company is divided in two business units: Sports and Medical. While Sports has grown faster recently, they expect that Medical will become the main part of the business in the longer term. In July 2015, they were acquired by Jabil Circuit.
20 Sep 2013
Near Field Communication (NFC) 2014-2024
IDTechEx first published a detailed report on NFC five years ago. In this article we share some of the findings in the new IDTechEx report, "Near Field Communication (NFC) 2014-2024".
20 Sep 2013
Estrima Birò MicroEV Quadricycle removable battery
IDTechEx considers the fact that electric bicycle batteries can be removed for charging to be a huge benefit to those wishing to prevent theft and those parking where no charging is possible or where the vehicle may be vandalised during charging. Now that considerable benefit has come to microEVs.
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20 Sep 2013
Hicel Co Ltd
Hicel was founded in 1998. It is a supplier of parts to companies such as Samsung and LG. The company has three main activities: (1) Diffuser sheets for back lighting, (2) Printed electronics for electrodes and antennas, and (3) Other businesses including optical lenses and micro-restorer film.
18 Sep 2013
Free Webinar - OLED Lighting
IDTechEx will be hosting a free webinar 'Market Opportunities and Technology Developments for OLED Lighting' on Tuesday 24 September and we would be delighted if you could join us.
18 Sep 2013
Transparent Conductive Films (TCF) 2014-2024
This article introduces some of the research and content of the new IDTechEx report "Transparent Conductive Films (TCF) 2014-2024: Forecasts, Technologies, Players."
17 Sep 2013
Printed Electronics in Korea
IDTechEx has spent almost two weeks in Korea visiting executives at leading companies and attending conferences. Company profiles will be given in the Market Intelligence Portal over the coming weeks. In this article we summarise some of our observations from the country.