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Meta: Professional Use of VR and Quest for Business

Meta presented its vision for Quest for Business platform at AWE EU 2023, giving deeper insight into its assessment of the potential for virtual/mixed reality (VR/MR) in professional settings.

National Diagnostic Products

National Diagnostic Products is an Australian medtech company with over 30 years experience in designing and manufacturing blood glucose testing products.

Epic Resins: Insulation and Potting for Electric Vehicle Electronics

Epic Resins is a formulator and manufacturer of polyurethan (PU) and epoxy resins that was founded in 1958. At a recent webinar it presented some key products of insulation and potting of electric vehicle motors, power electronics, and sensors.

Upcoming Webinar - A Vision of the Future of Optics for AR and VR

Tuesday 5 December 2023 - Overview of how the changing XR device market has driven new requirements for XR optics; Outlook for the development of AR waveguide combiner industry, with key innovations highlighted; Analysis of the rapid rise of pancake lenses in VR and identification of the technologies that may replace them; Overview of the latest ten-year market forecasts for XR optics, predicting technological winners and the suitability of optics types for different segments of the XR device market

AlphaPowders

AlphaPowders is a Polish start-up developing spheroidization machines for thermoplastic powders for 3D printing. AlphaPowders offered an update of its progress at Formnext 2023.

Snorkel

Snorkel makes aerial working platforms used widely in the construction industry. These vehicles spend much of their time stationary, making them an ideal candidate for electrification.

Avantium: Volta Technology

Avantium develops and commercializes chemistry technologies across industry value chains in order to produce chemicals and materials based on renewable feedstock instead of fossil fuels. One of its technologies, Volta Technology, is a carbon capture and utilization (CCU) solution that uses electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction to produce organic acids.

OneD Battery Sciences

OneD Battery Sciences are a US company developing silicon anode material for Li-ion batteries.

Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc., an American company founded in 1925 and now headquartered in Irving, Texas, is the world's largest OEM of off-highway vehicles. Caterpillar designs, manufactures, and sells products to companies across construction, mining, and agriculture. This company profile will focus on Caterpillar's recent electrification efforts in the mining industry.

The Automotive Display Eco-System - A Complex Environment

Modern automotive interiors are evolving at a tremendously fast pace, moving past the mechanical dials and becoming fully electronic. The key attributes of these electronics are noticed by consumers, such as the design of the display, its curvature, brightness, and type of technology, i.e., OLED or LCD, when, in reality, there is a lot more that goes into building the display and assembling the entire unit.

Evolution of the Automotive Industry and Electrification Beyond Cars

2023 has proven another momentous year for the electric vehicle (EV) market. 2022 saw electric car sales rise by 62% compared with 2021, and IDTechEx estimates that 2023 will see global sales rise by another 16%. But what can we expect for the future of EVs? In this article, Dr James Edmondson and Shazan Siddiqi from IDTechEx discuss what can be learned about the future of electrification, not only for vehicles on land, but also for marine sectors and aerial vehicles.

Hoeller Electrolyzer

Hoeller Electrolyzer GmbH is a new PEM electrolyzer start-up. The company is developing new PEM electrolyzer stacks with higher efficiencies over the current PEM electrolyzers on the market. IDTechEx spoke to the company and attended its presentation at the Hydrogen Technology Expo & Conference Europe 2023 in Bremen, Germany.

Amadeu Materials

Amadeu Materials are a company based in Brazil which produce plant-based sustainable alternatives to leather. They use cotton and natural rubber as a feedstock and offer a plastic free alternative.

Solidia Technologies

Solidia is a US-based company developing carbon dioxide curing of precast concrete and lower carbon footprint cement mixtures. In October 2023, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Eve Pope spoke with Pradeep Ghosh, Senior Director, Strategy and Business Development.

Scrona AG

Scrona are a Swiss company focusing on multi nozzle electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printhead development, with the aim to simplify the microfabrication process through printing with high precision and high throughput.

Sylvatex

Sylvatex are a US company aiming to commercialise a new method for producing Li-ion cathode materials.

Upcoming Webinar - Electrifying Vehicles Across Land, Sea, and Air

Wednesday 6 December - Cars; Light commercial vehicles; Trucks; Buses; Boats and ships; Trains; Air Taxis (eVTOL)

The E-textiles Journey from Heated Clothing to Monitoring Astronauts

From blankets to towels to clothing to upholstery, humans are in contact with textiles for almost all their lives. Textiles, used for warmth, comfort, and aesthetics, can be combined with electronics to gain exciting new functionalities.

XCMG: Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co

XCMG is one of the biggest construction equipment manufacturers in the world. It is taking electrification seriously with a range of new pure electric machines ranging from 2-tonne up to 40-tonne and more for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). This profile takes a deep dive into XCMG's electric vehicle range and strategy.

TriLite: Visit and Technology Demo

TriLite is a Viennese startup developing laser beam scanning (LBS) displays for augmented reality (AR). IDTechEx visited its Viennese headquarters and tried a demonstration of its projectors in a headset.