Umicore
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Umicore is a materials technology group. Its activities are centred on four business areas: Advanced Materials, Precious Metals Products and Catalysts, Precious Metals Services and Zinc Specialties. Each business area is divided into market-focused business units, be it in products that are essential to everyday life or those at the cutting edge of new technological developments.
Umicore focuses on application areas where it knows its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy can make a real difference. Umicore generates approximately 50% of its revenues and spends approximately 80% of its R&D budget in the area of clean technology, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells, and precious metals recycling. Umicore's overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life.
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2010
17 Nov 2010
Dyesol and Umicore announce alliance in dye solar cells
Dyesol Limited and Umicore have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) and entered negotiations to establish a business alliance covering the development, production and marketing, at high quality and industrial scale, of Ruthenium-based dyes, as well as other potentially relevant metal-based chemicals, for the global dye solar cell market.12 Mar 2010
Flexible PV with storage - basic hardware platform
There is a new energy harvesting project that IDTechEx believes could lead to a basic hardware platform for the new printed flexible electronics, incorporated in many products in most applicational sectors from military to consumer packaged goods.2009
3 Nov 2009
Thin films and nanotechnology for power
Printed electronics and electrics will be a $335 billion business in twenty years, just for devices primarily made by printing with electronic inks. IDTechEx gives a summary of the projections.