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NextFlex®, America's Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Institute, is a leading force in the Manufacturing USA network. It is a consortium of companies, academic institutions, non-profits, and state, local, and federal governments with a shared goal of advancing U.S. manufacturing of FHE. Since its formation in 2015, NextFlex's elite team of thought leaders, educators, problem solvers, and manufacturers have come together to collectively facilitate innovation, narrow the manufacturing workforce gap, and promote sustainable manufacturing ecosystems.
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2025
24 Nov 2025
Sensor Market 2026-2036: Technologies, Trends, Players, Forecasts
IDTechEx Report: Dr Tess Skyrme, Mika Takahashi, Dr Conor O'Brien, Noah El Alami, Daniel Parr, Shihao Fu, Dr Yu-Han Chang and Dr Xiaoxi He
22 Jul 2025
Bayflex Solutions
Bayflex Solutions is a printed and flexible electronics testing and automation service supplier based in the San Francisco bay area, California. Bayflex provides off-the-shelf and custom flexible electronics testing, with interchangeable mechatronics and hostile environment integration. Bayflex provides testing solutions into flexible display and electronics, wearable devices, e-textiles, medical and automobile industries. IDTechEx spoke with Bayflex CEO Eisuke Tsuyuzaki.
22 Jul 2025
RFID 2026-2036: Forecasts, Players and Opportunities
IDTechEx Report: Dr Yu-Han Chang and Raghu Das
2 Apr 2025
Printed Sensor Technology: Commercialization, Trends, and Outlook
This presentation was delivered virtually by IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Jack Howley at the NextFlex Innovation Days 2025 Conference on 26th March 2025 in Santa Clara, USA.2024
22 May 2024
Conductive Inks Market 2024-2034: Technologies, Applications, Players
IDTechEx Report: Dr Conor O'Brien
11 Jan 2024
ChemCubed
ChemCubed offer both nanocomposite material for 3D printing (termed NanoJet™) and multi-layer/multi-material digital printing solutions (termed ElectroJet™) for electronics, including materials (particle free inks), printers, and processes. This profile is an update of their latest developments on ElectroJet™.2023
1 Aug 2023
Tapecon
Tapecon is an established contract manufacturer leveraging its screen printing expertise to produce fully printed and flexible hybrid electronics circuits. IDTechEx caught up with Technical Program Leader Rafael Tudela at the FLEX 2023 conference.
17 Jul 2023
Flexible Hybrid Electronics 2024-2034
IDTechEx Report:
5 Jun 2023
Flexible & Printed Electronics 2023-2033: Forecasts, Technologies, Markets
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2022
21 Dec 2022
Manufacturing Printed Electronics 2023-2033
IDTechEx Report:
27 Oct 2022
Electronic Skin Patches 2023-2033
IDTechEx Report: Dr Tess Skyrme
22 Aug 2022
ACI Materials
ACI Materials manufactures a range of conductive inks, provided as part of a 'full-stack' functional material portfolio. It targets applications across printed/hybrid electronics, especially in the wearable technology market with its stretchable inks. IDTechEx caught up with Marshall Tibbetts (COO), Andrew Bambach (Application Engineering Manager) and Mike Mastropietro (CTO).15 Aug 2022
Boeing
Boeing are developing wireless connected sensors based on flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) for asset tracking/monitoring around their production sites. These will include Bluetooth Low Energy communication, along with temperature, humidity, and motion sensors.2021
1 Feb 2021
Liquid Wire Delivers Best-in-Class Performance in NextFlex Study
Liquid Wire Inc has joined the NextFlex community whose mission it is to advance US manufacturing of Flexible Hybrid Electronics by fostering technology innovation and commercialization. The current NextFlex project to identify reliable stretchable conductor systems utilizes Liquid Wire's proprietary elastic Metal Gel circuit and conductor technologies to exceed the project goals of 100% stretch for more than 10,000 cycles.2020
22 Oct 2020
ChemCubed
Chem Cubed offer particle-free conductive inks for thin-film printed electronics, along with inkjet printers for prototyping/small volume production that are optimized to work with their inks. Relative to other conductive inks ChemCubed's particle-free inks have very low time/temperature sintering requirements, just 30 s at 100 C.24 Jul 2020
Liquid Wire
28 May 2020
Integrated Deposition Solutions
Integrated Deposition Solutions produce aerosol print systems (termed 'nanojet'), offering both complete printers and print systems for integration into larger installations.20 Apr 2020
KAUST
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a research university located near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This profile focuses on the work of Prof. Shamim's group, which is based on printed circuits, antennae and their applications.24 Mar 2020
Electroninks
Electroninks has commercialized particle-free conductive inks for printed electronics applications. Such inks are marketed to replace nanoparticle inks, metal paste and sputtered or deposited metals.10 Mar 2020
Brewer Science
Brewer Science offers a variety of solutions for electronics manufacturing, including anti-reflective and protective coatings, planarizing materials, carbon electronics, processing equipment, and other related systems. This profile focuses on their activities in the printed electronics domain.