External press release
3 Mar 2020

Avery Dennison Completes Acquisition of Smartrac's RFID Business
Avery Dennison Corporation completed the acquisition of Smartrac's Transponder business, for the purchase price of €225 million, subject to customary adjustments.
External press release
21 Feb 2020

Avery Dennison Invests in new Factory in Brazil
Avery Dennison is gearing up for future growth of RFID technology, improving the efficiency of processes and the relationship between brands. Just months after signing a deal to acquire Smartrac's transponder division, the Company announced the location of its next RFID manufacturing facility, its first in Brazil and fifth in the world.
External press release
15 Nov 2019

FlexIC Foundry Enables Custom Flexible Integrated Circuit Design
PragmatIC has developed a unique, patented semiconductor device platform that provides the opportunity to invent entirely new applications for electronics: As well as being ultra-low cost, it is also ultra-thin and flexible, and can be easily combined with other thin film electronic components to create novel solutions.
External press release
24 Oct 2019

PragmatIC joins forces with Topolytics
PragmatIC has announced another order for its ConnectIC family of ultra-low-cost flexible integrated circuits. Topolytics, a leading waste analytics company, will use RFID tags incorporating PragmatIC's unique technology to deliver the UK's first comprehensive digital waste tracking solution.
External press release
21 Jun 2019

Baoshen, joins growing list of customers for PragmatIC
PragmatIC is pleased to announce that BSN, part of the Baoshen Group, has placed an order for its recently released ConnectIC products.
External press release
18 Mar 2019

Mühlbauer and PragmatIC announce strategic partnership
Mühlbauer, the proven technology supplier of RFID and smart label production and personalisation solutions, and PragmatIC, a pioneer in ultra-low cost flexible electronics, are pleased to announce their strategic partnership to deliver solutions that support the integration of PragmatIC's unique flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs).
External press release
12 Feb 2019

PragmatIC launches ConnectIC family of ultra-low cost RFID ICS
PragmatIC announces the first products in their ConnectIC family designed for use in closed HF RFID systems. The ground breaking ConnectIC family will be pivotal in the acceleration of the smart packaging market.
15 Jan 2019

First battery-free Bluetooth sticker sensor tag
Demonstration of the first-ever sticker-sized Bluetooth sensor tag incorporating an ARM processor powered solely by scavenging energy from ambient radio frequencies.
External press release
9 Nov 2018

PragmatIC and S&S smooth the way for ultra low cost printed RFID
PragmatIC and Smooth & Sharp Corporation are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration which will accelerate the adoption of PragmatIC's flexible integrated circuits.
Full profile interview: Partners
8 Oct 2018

PragmatIC
PragmatIC and Holst Centre are jointly developing qualified processes and materials, making the technology readily accessible to Holst Centre programme partners and other PragmatIC licensees.
Full profile interview
5 Sep 2018

Avery Biomedical Devices
Avery Biomedical Devices is a medical device company that has been offering the diaphragm pacemaker since 1971. IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed Avery Biomedical Devices CSO Dr Dilys Gore on 15 Aug 2018.
External press release
17 Nov 2017

PragmatIC reinvents RFID & NFC for the mass market
PragmatIC,is reinventing radio frequency identification and near field communications to bring connectivity to mass market applications.
Full profile interview
7 Nov 2017

Avery Therapeutics
IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed Avery Therapeutics COO Dr Jennifer Koevary on July 26, 2017. Avery Therapeutics is a pre-clinical company developing a tissue engineered graft for heart failure.
25 Oct 2017

More Money Raised for Printed and Organic Electronics: The Rationale
Excitement is building in the printed and organic electronics sector as demand grows and investors focus in on the opportunities.
26 Oct 2016

Printed energy harvesting device for the next gen smart packaging
A novel printed energy harvesting device, which will play an important role in the development of packaging with electronic functionality.
14 Oct 2016

PragmatIC strengthens financial and commercial position
PragmatIC has secured £18 million of funding including a strategic investment from Avery Dennison. Avery Dennison joins existing shareholders Cambridge Innovation Capital and ARM, who also participated in the round.
12 Oct 2016

Turning brewery wastewater into battery power
Engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells.
12 Oct 2016

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2016: More Adopters
Senior executives from Unilever, Kellogg, Toyota, Google, Boeing, Coca-Cola and Bayer will be providing industry insights at next month's IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA conference and exhibition , to be held Nov.16-17 in Santa Clara, CA.