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Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd.

Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd. established in 2004, is a company incorporated for the purpose of mainly developing and manufacturing of lithium-ion battery for automotive application through the capital investment of 3 Hitachi group companies, Hitachi, Ltd. Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd. and Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.

Arcam

Arcam is the only producer of Electron Beam Melting 3D printers, which can print in titanium, nickel alloys and cobalt-chrome. It targets the aerospace and orthopaedic industries, and its customers are beginning to place large orders as they use these machines for production parts. They have acquired AP&C to guarantee consistent powder supply and DiSanto to vertically integrate.

HZO Waterproofs Electronic Devices: Interview at the IDTechEx Show!

Interview with HZO at the IDTechEx Wearable USA event.

Oculus

Oculus VR is a US based virtual reality company that was acquired by Facebook for $2bn in March, 2014.

Lely

Lely are perhaps the world leader in robotic milking machines but also offer a variety of other robots for agricultural applications.

Webinar Tuesday 26 January: Energy Independent Electric Vehicles

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 26 January 2016.

Thin Film Electronics Interviewed by IDTechEx

Video Interview with Thin Film Electronics at Printed Electronics USA 2015.

The $100bn robotics opportunity

The first industrial robot, Unimate, went into operation at a General Motors plant in 1961. Over the next few decades the use of industrial robot arms in the automotive industry matured.

Carbon Robotics

Carbon Robotics are bringing to market a high-quality low-cost (sub-$5,000) robot arm by employing novel technologies and materials.

Nantero

Nantero was founded in 2001. It has since raised a total of $87.5m via multiple rounds of funding from VCs and strategic investors ($40m raised in 2014). Nantero has generated accumulative sales of $50m to this date. They have 170 approved patents and 200 pending ones protecting spin coating, patterning, circuit design and testing. Its technology enables high-performance non-volatile memory. Its follows a licensing business model.

NanoPhotonica

NanoPhotonica's innovations is in nano-material chemistry, as well as processing and layering techniques for Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes (QLEDs). QLED is an emissive display technology, which is similar to OLED but offers larger color gamuts, better viewing angles and potentially better energy efficiency.

Are e-textiles on the cusp of rapid growth?

Whilst the majority of wearable technology products sold today still fit with the components-in-a-box design, 2015 has been a record year for investment in smart clothing and e-textile products.

Webinar Tuesday 19 January: After the Hype: So Who's Buying IoT?

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 19 January 2016.

Dexerials

This profile focuses on their Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF) work, as part of the Advanced Materials Division, and produced at the Kanuma and Neagari plants. ACF was originally launched by Sony Chemicals over 30 years ago. Dexerials was founded in June 2012 from Sony Chemicals. They have capital stock of 15.7 billion yen, and employ 2366 employees, as of March 2015. Dexerials Corporation was listed in the First Section Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on 29th July, 2015.

Vocalzoom

Founded in 2010 and based in Israel, VocalZoom's main product revolves around a laser used to acquire information about facial vibrations during speech. The sensor acts as an interferometer and can reduce errors in speech recognition with background noise by upto 75%.

MesoScribe Technologies

MesoScribe is commercializing a direct write process based on a plasma process. The technology enables electronic parts to be directly deposited onto 3D-shaped structures, thus enabling structural or conformal electronics. The technology is strong in processing structures at high (>850C) temperature, giving rise to high performance.

Flexbright Oy

Flexbright Oy was established in 2013 as a spin-off (joint venture) from VTT. Flexbright is focused on roll-to-roll printing of LED foils.

Printed sensors: the key trends of 2015

As part of our coverage of printed electronics, IDTechEx has been following the development of printed and flexible sensors. In this article we look back at the most important trends of 2015.

Wearable technology in 2015 - how far have we come?

As the hype around wearable technology fades, IDTechEx technology analyst James Hayward looks at where the industry is now.

Ricoh Europe

Ricoh produces cameras, printers, photocopiers, fax machines, and offers Software as a Service (SaaS) document management solutions. They have recently partnered with Leapfrog to offer desktop 3D printers, and Aspect to launch a new SLS machine.