Full profile interview
19 May 2025

Sumitomo Electric Industries
Sumitomo Electric Industries, part of the Sumitomo Corporation, develops and manufactures vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) for large-scale applications. IDTechEx spoke with the company at Smart Energy Week 2025 in Japan.
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Full profile interview
17 Apr 2025

SMART Photonics
SMART Photonics is a Dutch photonic integrated circuit pure-play foundry based in Eindhoven, NL. The company manufactures PICs on a 4 inch InP platform, providing MPW and full production runs. It expects to open a 6 inch InP fab in 2027. IDTechEx caught up with SMART Photonics at PIC International 2025.
25 Apr 2024

IDTechEx Discusses Future Market Penetration of the Redox Flow Battery
The vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) has prevailed as the most widely deployed and commercialized RFB chemistry over the last decade; despite this, the volume of their installations for stationary energy storage applications is still minimal compared to the incumbent Li-ion battery, but is this set to change?
Full profile interview
19 Dec 2023

Sumitomo SHI FW (LAES)
Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW) was formed in 2017 and is based in Finland. The traditional business function of the company was to supply circulating fluidized bed boilers and bubbling fluidized bed boilers. However, the company is now also focusing on developing energy from waste, carbon capture and liquid air energy storage (LAES) technologies. This profile focuses on LAES.
Full profile interview
9 Aug 2023

Sumitomo Electric Industries (Redox Flow Batteries)
Sumitomo Electric Industries, part of the Sumitomo Corporation, develop and manufacture vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) for large-scale applications.
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Background
22 Jun 2023

Sumitomo Electric (Carbon Nanotube)
Sumitomo Electric Industries are a Japanese company, featuring on the Fortune Global 500. This profile covers activity relating to carbon nanotubes (CNTs).
Update interview
10 Jan 2020

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd
umitomo Electric, part of the Sumitomo Corporation, develops and manufactures vanadium redox flow battery for large scale applications.
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Background
26 Jun 2019

Frankfurt Laser Company
Frankfurt Laser Company are an international distributor of laser diode products and a custom laser solution provider.
Background
30 Apr 2018

Innova Superconductor Technology (InnoST)
InnoST are a first generation high-temperature superconductor (1G HTS) wire manufacturer who have commercialized their wire products.
This interview was conducted in April 2018, but due to confidentiality agreements has been published in July 2019.
Full profile interview
12 Jan 2017

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd
Sumitomo is a large Japanese conglomerate which is now marketing its own vanadium redox flow battery for industrial and renewable energy applications.
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4 Dec 2015

Lizard electric vehicles
Extreme vehicle concepts have a habit of appearing in a car near you.
Background: Competitors
3 Dec 2015

Transphorm
Offering SiC inverters since 2015, using their own SiC semiconductors form MOSFETS to diodes.
15 Oct 2015

Three new technology megatrends
Thought leaders IDTechEx were among the first to identify three new megatrends in the world of technology: Structural Electronics (SE); 3D Printed Electronics (3DPE); Energy Independent Electric Vehicles (EIVs).
6 Jul 2015

High-efficiency and high-stability SiC power transistor
Sumitomo Electric has developed a power transistor of an original structure consisting of silicon carbide which is seen as a next-generation power semiconductor.
18 Jun 2015

Electric vehicle power electronics: divergent approaches
The power electronics business as applied to electric vehicles is becoming so huge that very divergent approaches become viable.
6 Mar 2015

Different electric vehicles pioneer best technology first
To benchmark new technology for electric vehicles it is vital to look at all of the off-road, on-road, water and airborne e-vehicles.
17 Sep 2014

Electric vehicle news from Battery Osaka, PV Expo, Smart Grid Expo
The Reed Exhibitions event last week consisting of PV Expo, Battery Osaka and Smart Grid Expo successfully extended an event that started with photovoltaics last year.
13 Apr 2012

Joint development of EDLC using Aluminum-Celmet
Meidensha Corporation and Sumitomo Electric Industries are developing a new electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC) which they plan to commercialise for pure electric and hybrid vehicles in 2015.
7 Jul 2011

Aluminum-celmet extends battery life
Aluminum-Celmet can be used to improve the capacity of lithium-ion secondary batteries and capacitors.