BASF Future Business GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, was founded in April 2001. It aims to open up new business areas with above-average growth rates for the BASF group. Working closely with internal R&D-units as well as external cooperation partners to develop products, solutions, and new business models, the company focuses on areas such as energy, electronics and health. Through its subsidiary, BASF Venture Capital GmbH, it provides startup companies with capital to support their development.

DuPont Microcircuit Materials has 40 years of experience in the development, manufacture and sale of specialised ink compositions for a wide variety of electronic applications in the display, photovoltaic, automotive, biomedical, industrial and telecommunications markets. This division holds a lead position in these markets with a success based on DuPont's close working relationship with its customers and a comprehensive worldwide support infrastructure.

 

Utilising core expertise such as materials science, chemistry and fine particle technology, the inks are used on a wide variety of substrates, rigid and flexible, and are suitable for many new Printed Electronics applications.

H.C. Starck is an international group of companies with more than 3,400 employees at production sites in Europe, North America and the Far East. H.C. Starck produces an assortment of refractory metal powders that is unique in the world, including tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, rhenium as well as their compounds and chemicals for the electronics industry.

H.C. Starck provides technical solutions in innovative technologies with its transparent conductive polymer CLEVIOS™ P (PEDOT:PSS). This material was formerly marketed under the trade name Baytron®.

H.C. Starck will spotlight recently developed HIL materials for OLEDs and conductive CLEVIOS™ materials for printable applications. So far, successful applications of CLEVIOS™ include transparent antistatic-coated films and conductive polymer capacitors based on tantalum and aluminium.. New kinds of OLED displays, organic solar cells, electronic paper, and printed electronics are just a few of the many possible new applications.

Optomec® is the world-leading provider of additive manufacturing systems for high-performance applications in the Electronics, Photovoltaic, and Aerospace & Defense markets. Optomec's M3D® Aerosol Jet Deposition System is a breakthrough additive technology enabling finer feature sizes than traditional ink-jetting and screen printing processes. The M3D system utilizes an innovative aerodynamic focusing technology that produces electronic and physical structures with feature sizes down to 10 microns. The M3D system supports a wide variety of materials including nanoparticle inks and screen-printing pastes, conductive polymers, insulators, adhesives, and even biological matter that can be accurately deposited by M3D onto non-planar substrates.

 

M3D is a registered trademark of Optomec, Inc.

PixDro is an innovative company, specializing in the research & development of industrial inkjet applications and the manufacturing of advanced inkjet printing systems for research and industry. Our experience in the inkjet printing market has resulted in various innovative technologies and products.

Our products consist of printing modules embedded in an open system architecture allowing PixDro to customize our systems (LP 50 and LP 150) for client specific processes and applications. These building blocks enable easy integration and migration from entry-level single layer printing for R&D purposes to volume printing in an industrial system.

With these products and modules PixDro facilitates the development of applications and offers a migration path to a complete industrial production system.

As part of the OTB-Group, PixDro offers complete printing solutions including pre and post processing; thereby, providing a complete solution for your requirements.

Light. Power. Circuitry.

 

Plextronics, Inc. is a leading innovator of technology for printed electronics. The printed electronics market comprises next-generation light, power and circuitry products, including flexible displays, plastic solar cells and organic RFID tags.

 

With a company vision of enabling 15 billion printed electronic devices by 2015, Plextronics is creating technology capable of commercial-scale performance and manufacturability. The company's device design, process technology and Plexcore® branded inks enable the formation of active electrical layers — the key drivers of printed electronics.

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Trident is a leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of piezoelectric ink jet printheads and inks. Trident was one of the pioneers of industrial ink jet in the early 1980's jetting both liquid inks and hot melt inks. Today, Trident products are used in a variety of applications that require rugged, inert, stainless steel printheads for printing or accurately dispensing fluids reliably and frequently. Trident's printheads are unique in their ability to be disassembled, cleaned and reassembled enabling long life and high degree of return on investment.

 

Trident printheads are marketed worldwide through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the carton coding, postal coding, flat panel display manufacturing, printable electronics, wide format printing and digital textile printing markets. OEMs integrate Trident printheads into computer-controlled, application-specific products or systems which are then sold to end users.

 

Trident's development, manufacturing and administrative headquarters is located in Brookfield, Connecticut, USA. The company also has regional offices in Japan and Ireland.

3D-Micromac AG, a leading supplier of customized laser micromachining systems, has gained an established position in the international market over the past several years. As a developer and manufacturer of complex workstations, as a service provider for materials and surface machining or as a solution provider for the development of specific production processes - we are able to find the best solution for every customer's task. Our portfolio is subdivided into the following divisions: High End Laser Systems - High End Laser Applications - High End Laser Tools - High End Laser Services. Our customers appreciate the long lasting experience with all types of lasers used in research and industry.

Agfa Materials has a leading position in producing film and related products at low cost for the graphical and healthcare industry. Agfa Materials holds a strong position in niche markets such as PCB, Aerial, and Cine-film. In the business of 'e-consumables' (Identity and Safety documents - ORGACON Electronic Materials) AGFA Materials commercializes conductive polymer based products (ORGACONTM) as inks, films and coating solutions.

ARDEJE has a strong knowledge and background in DOD inkjet printing. We design and manufacture custom-built print engines based on our customers' specifications by integrating piezoelectric printheads for industrial applications based on DOD inkjet technology. Several print engines have been manufactured for graphic art applications. Now, we want to take advantage of our 10-year inkjet printing expertise for developing opportunities and new markets in printed electronics. ARDEJE is pioneering this field since 2001 with successful partners and we recently increase our R&D activities to provide technological innovative solutions for printed electronics applications. These developments are supported by our involvement in European and French scientific and technology development projects in microelectronics, smart textiles, solar cells, ... Furthermore, ARDEJE supplies technological and experimental products and services for print quality optimization. Based on our vision expertise, ARDEJE has developed laboratory equipments for drop formation and impact observations and analysis.

CEA/LITEN is composed of 550 employees with 62M€ budget. CEA-LITEN is a Technical Research Laboratory focus on:

 

New technologies for Energy:

Batteries, fuel cells and photovoltaic energy. Miniaturization of such energy devices is one of the main LITEN goals: miniature batteries, micro fuel cells, miniature thermoelectric generators.... Nanomaterials development and optimization of materials for advanced lithium battery, flexible batteries and other energy sources are also part of the LITEN research activities. Nanosurfaces, high gradient temperature environment, miniature energy recovery technology, silicon nanofibres, multiquantum wells are other technologies develop in LITEN for new energy applications.

 

Organic Electronic Devices:

LITEN offers interested customers a set of options to evaluate and develop the next generation of organic electronic: Flexible polymer electronics - polymer optoelectronics, printed electronics for low cost new technology applications - smart fabrics.

CEA-LITEN's mission is to provide innovation and facilitate its transfer to industry. Our device experts have an understanding of the relationship between structure-property and device performance.

The Dresden region is the largest European Semiconductor manufacturing area with more than 44,000 employees in approximately 1,200 companies represented by the network "Silicon Saxony". Activities range from silicon wafer suppliers like Wackner to design houses, software and service companies and fabrication companies including AMD, Qimonda and Infineon.

 

The Dresden region also offers a huge employee resource, ranging from trained operators to PhD scientists. Having fast become Europe's leading centre of excellence for innovative organic semiconductors, "Silicon Saxony" boasts names such Microemmissive Displays, Plastic Logic, Novaled AG as well as top scientific institutions. We cross the entire value creation chain - from research to preliminary product stages to mass production.

Ciba is a leading global company dedicated to producing high-value effects for its customers' products. We strive to be the partner of choice for our customers, offering them innovative products and one-stop expert service. We create effects that improve the quality of life - adding performance, protection, color and strength to plastics, paper, automobiles, buildings, home and personal care products and much more. Ciba is active in more than 120 countries around the world and is committed to being a leader in its chosen markets.

Enfucell was founded in June 2002 after a decade of research on power sources for low power applications at the Automation Laboratory of The Helsinki University of Technology. The company's main product is the SoftBattery™, a flexible and thin battery made of low cost industrial environmentally friendly materials that are disposable with other household waste. The main fields of the SoftBattery™ applications are in RFID/logistics, cosmetics, and medical industry.

Epurex Films, based in Bomlitz up north in Germany is a Bayer Material Science company. We have specialised in high-performance technical films for more than 25 years. Our focus lies on development, production and sale of high-quality polyurethane films, breathable membrane- and hot-melt adhesive films. Our product portfolio offers customized products, e. g. special films for the use in modern electronic applications. We provide our customers with expert advice and technical support. We fill innovative ideas with life - films for ideas.

FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation, is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance ink jet printheads and components used in a broad range of industrial, non-impact imaging applications. The company is evolving jetting technology into a production process that lowers the cost, time and environmental impact of producing electronic circuits and functions for RFID tags, flat panel displays, circuit boards and other electronic and bioscience applications. FUJIFILM Dimatix products are designed to accurately dispense a wide range of fluid types in micro-amounts for demanding imaging and fabricating applications. With more than 20 years advancing the performance of drop-on-demand dispensing devices and applications, FUJIFILM Dimatix is the only developer and manufacturer in this industry with the technology, know-how, and creativity to lead the industry into the future.

Holst Centre is rapidly evolving into an internationally recognized centre for open innovation in technologies for wireless autonomous sensor-based microsystems and systems-in-foil. Holst Centre was established in 2005 by the Flemish research centre for nanoelectronics and nanotechnology IMEC and the Dutch research institute TNO. From the start, it is financially supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and can count on the approval of the Flemish Government. Located on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Holst Centre can benefit from the state-of-the art on-site facilities. Holst Centre has over 100 employees (growing to over 200 by 2010) and a network of over 15 partners.

IDTechEx provides independent analysis on the development and application of printed electronics, RFID and allied technologies.

 

You can trust IDTechEx to help you build your business. We provide consultancy, market research and executive-level events across the US, Europe and Asia.

ImageXpert Inc. is a leader in part inspection systems and tools for electronic imaging. Manufacturers rely on ImageXpert systems in R&D and in production. We have expertise in a wide range of printing technologies and have a long history of providing machine-vision based image quality measurement and part inspection systems to imaging companies worldwide. Our hardware configurations include 2-D camera-based systems, 3-D laser height profiling systems, and line scan camera-based systems, all of which use the same software to produce objective, repeatable data.

imaging Technology international Corporation (iTi) is a leading digital fabrication systems supplier. Established in 1992, headquartered in Boulder, CO with its European office in Cambridge UK, iTi designs, develops and manufactures high precision digital material deposition systems that incorporate inkjet technology. iTi's strategy is to support customers from Lab2Fab with a comprehensive range of R&D equipment, including the Drop Watcher and new MDS 300 materials deposition system, through to high volume fabrication systems such as the Versatile Jet and Digital Web Press. In partnership with Printed Electronics Ltd, iTi has established an Inkjet Development Lab in Cambridge, UK which is available on an 'open access' basis and includes a suite of iTi's inkjet development tools.

IN-CORE Systemes designs and manufactures high speed quality control equipments for printed and plain surfaces. After very quick master patch learning of all repetitive patterns, the printed surfaces are inspected continuously whatever registration organization, with automatic and dynamic elasticity adjustment. During the inspection the system detects flaws and monitors the registration period or geometrical position of printings / hot stampings. Major fields of application are printed electronics like RFID antennas and flexible circuits, coated laminated and metallized films for a range of industrial and security applications. IN-CORE Systemes team has been active in computer vision since the late 80s.

Transparent Silver Inks, developed by InkTec with patented technology, are Ag-based conducting inks suitable to RFID Tag, PCB, reflective film, display, and EMI shielding, etc. Differently from other prior conductive inks based on nano-technology, InkTec inks are purely transparent silver inks which are not formulated by particle structure. The inks are stable even in long-term storage and applicable to various substrates because they enable ink sintering in low temperature for conductive trace. According to our business plan for electronic materials, it was completed the 2nd plant in March 2007 and this plant will be occupied by electromagnetic manufacturing facilities.

ISRA VISION provides in-line surface inspection systems that provide 100% inspection of printed, patterned, and un-printed materials. For printed electronics applications, the system inspects 100% of each repeat and detects defects to include mis-registration, shorts, opens, cracks, "mouse-bites", and substrate defects. Defects are classified by type and the location of each defect is mapped. Continuous web (reel to reel) or sheets can be inspected. ISRA is a global acting company and the leader in surface inspection with over 400 employees committed to providing in-line 100% inspection solutions for process improvement and quality assurance.

Headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., NanoDynamics, Inc. develops and commercializes technologies, materials and products that provide clean technology solutions, with a principal focus on the application of nanotechnology-enabled solutions in the energy, environment, and infrastructure markets.

 

NanoDynamics will be exhibiting their nano-metal powders and flakes which are ideal for printed electronics, RFID tags, and other electronics applications.

NanoMas Technologies, Inc. is an innovative technology leader in nanomaterials development and commercialization. Our proprietary technologies integrate the art of precision nano-scale engineering with LOW COST mass production of functional nanomaterials; thereby, enabling the HIGHEST PERFORMING conductive and semi-conductive

nanoparticle inks and pastes for the emerging Printed Electronics industry.

 

NanoMas currently markets two products: NanoSilver(tm) ink and NanoGold(tm) ink, which are the highest performance printable

conductive inks, with finest particle size (~5 nm), highest conductivity (~4.3x107 S/m), lowest curing temperature (70-150ºC) and shortest curing time (~ 2 min).

 

In the product pipeline: semiconductor inks, dielectric inks, electroluminescent inks, low temperature conductive pastes and solders, high quality carbon nanotubes and nanowires ...

Northfield Automation Systems, Inc. designs, engineers and fabricates automation machinery for OEMs and high-volume, custom manufacturers. Its engineers provide consultative support for streamlined manufacturing processes with turnkey, integrated equipment. The company's vision is to become the global leader in web-based, high-precision, roll-to-roll processing of thin-film applications, including flexible electronics, display, solar, flexible battery, and organic electronics. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Northfield Medimation, focuses on advanced automation and robotics for the medical device industry. Both companies are located in Northfield, MN, which is 35 minutes south of Minneapolis.

The Organic Electronics Association (OE-A) is a working group within the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) and was founded in December 2004. OE-A is the international key industry association for organic and printed electronics and represents the entire value chain of this emerging industry. Our members are international leading companies and institutions, ranging from component and material suppliers, equipment and tool suppliers, producers / system integrators and end-users to R&D institutes. More than 85 companies from Europe, the US, and Asia work together to promote the establishment of a competitive production infrastructure for organic electronics. The vision of OE-A is to build a bridge between science, technology and application. More than 3000 member companies from the engineering industry make VDMA the largest industry association in Europe.

The OLLA project is a Pan European research project, which is funded by the European Commission. It's acronym stands for high brightness Organic LEDs for Lighting Applications, and targets to further develop OLEDs as lighting technology. Coming close to the project end, we here show our latest results at the Printed Electronics Europe.

 

The aim of the OLLA project is to research and develop high brightness, high efficient white OLEDs and demonstrate its use in general lighting applications.

Pall Corporation provides filtration, separation and purification technologies to the semiconductor, fine chemical and digital printing markets. Our leading technologies enable faster processing, better performance and less waste. In addition, Pall offers a wide range of laboratory filtration equipment for process optimization.

PolyIC produces printed electronics in a high-speed printing process. Printed electronics means that in a printing process electrical conducting and semi conducting plastics, so called polymers, are applied in several layers on a polyester film. The printing process is conducted in an exactly defined design so that electronic devices can be created. These devices are integrated, for example, into a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag. PolyIC's product line for RFID is called PolyID. Printed electronics makes low-cost RFID tags possible that can be used for mass applications. Furthermore, this new technology is also used in displays and complex systems, called smart objects. PolyIC sells smart objects under the name of PolyLogo.

 

PolyIC is a joint venture between Siemens AG and Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG and is located in Fuerth, Germany. PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2003.

Polymertronics is a technology enabler for rigid and flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Polymertronics provides a fast route to market for parties developing nanotechnology products. This is achieved by providing the company's OLED chemicals, licenses for high volume OLED production, electronics schematics for OLED drivers and knowhow for inkjet printing.

Polymertronics' OLEDs have the unique selling points that they can be printed using existing UV inkjet printers, then instantly cured by irradiating them with ultra-violet (UV) light. Polymertronics' techniques allow OLED and colour UV-curable inks to be simultaneously printed, with no tooling requirements.

Printed Electronics World provides you with a daily update of the latest industry developments. Launched in May 2007, this free portal covers the progress to printed electronics in all its forms - from transistor circuits to power, sensors, displays, materials and manufacturing.

 

Hosted and written by IDTechEx, the leading printed electronics analyst and event organiser, articles provide commentary, analysis and give a balanced view of the issue. You can opt-in for an email to be sent to you every Wednesday listing the new articles posted in the previous week. We aim to make this service your most valuable tool for keeping up to date with the printed electronics industry.

printed systems uses specialized mass printing processes to produce paper electronics fast and cost-effective. The new crossmedia-technology CROSSLINK, consisting of environment-friendly electronic paper cards with imprinted data memory and a low cost USB reader, bridges paper to internet for read@home products. Using this cost effective technology, CROSSLINK provides the base for a new category of applications in various fields like marketing, entertainment and medicine. The cards are already in use in dialogue marketing projects and games but can also be used for micro payment or customer loyalty programmes. In the plant in Chemnitz printed systems produces millions of data memories a day by high speed roll to roll printing.

We build bridges: between companies in Saxony and cooperation partners from outside the state, between potential investors and the regions and communities in Saxony, between research and practice, between corporate ideas and economic success.

Soligie is the leading company to utilize printing techniques to manufacture products with integrated, printed electronics in a thin, flexible form-factor. Soligie's proprietary techniques enable the development of reliable, custom solutions using a full range of functional inks and specialized substrates. Soligie is now in production with products that utilize nano-particle and conventional inks. Soligie forms partnerships at any phase from concept to high volume production to make our customers successful. Soligie is also investing in the development of processes for printed thin-film transistors that can be used in products such as smart labels and chipless RFID tags. If you need a manufacturing partner to get your "printed electronics" product to market - let us "Deliver your Vision".

Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales over $3 billion and 11,000 employees, Sun Chemical operates in 110 countries worldwide. Leveraging 50 years of experience as a supplier to the printed circuits industry, Sun Chemical has recently commercialized a range of new products for membrane switch, RFID and photovoltaics markets. Through an ongoing commitment to developing innovative products that provide value to our customers, Sun Chemical is investing in facilities and technologies targeted at the evolving printed electronics market.

Manufacturer of LASER ABLATION, UV STEPPERS, UV SCANNERS and MASK ALIGNERS. Tamarack supplies photolithography and laser micromachining systems. We specialize in applications including: Displays, RFID, Solar Cells, Organic Electronics, MEMS, Medical Devices and HDI. Our Excimer ablation systems are ideal for direct pattern etching thin metals from various organic substrates to form transistors or other electronic circuits. In addition, these systems are used to via drill most types of polymers with selective material removal, down to 1um. Systems designed for Roll-to-Roll, Reel-to-Reel and Sheet handling. Resolution capabilities to 1um. Machines are designed for 24/7 production environments.

Thin Battery Technologies, Inc. is the leading supplier of thin, flexible, printed power solutions. Thin Battery's products are integrated into innovative solutions created by the leading developers of RFID, RF-linked sensors, transdermal patches, and other thin, flexible, electronics. Providing eco-friendly power sources to printed electronics systems, the TBT leadership team combines a track record of entrepreneurial accomplishment with deep domain experience in printing and high volume, low cost batteries. The technical team is rooted in battery development and has over 250 years of battery design, development, and production experience. Based on a patent estate acquired from the Eveready Battery Company (now Energizer), Thin Battery is expanding its portfolio of products, technology and applications to create market changing solutions.

Thin Film Electronics is providing non-volatile printed memories. By using the physical, chemical and electrical properties of advanced polymers TFE can add new functionality to printed products. Thin Film Electronics technology can be used in many different applications, ranging from high security anti-counterfeit application to children's toys. In fact, TFE's unique polymer memory technology can be used in any printed electronics application were a non volatile random access memory is desired, e.g., to store information on a package that can later be displayed to the customer

UniJet Co. Ltd is a total solution provider of inkjet printing systems and technology, especially for electronic material deposition. UniJet supplies everything from R&D printing systems to mass production printing systems in LCD, PDP, OLED, PLED, Solar Cell, PCB, RFID, Semiconductor Packaging, and Various Coating applications. Mass production systems are customised for the customer purpose to meet the application requirement and specification with R2R printing system. Also UniJet offers process know-how of the various application developments as well as application specific inks.

Xennia Technology Ltd is a leading industrial inkjet integrator and developer of printers and inks. Headquartered near London, with a US operation in San Antonio, Texas, Xennia provides state-of-the-art inkjet solutions for a wide variety of industrial applications including printed electronics and displays. In 2005, Xennia launched the XenJet range of inkjet development tools and high accuracy production printers for functional materials deposition. In addition to printing systems Xennia also offers a full fluid development service, implementing customer's proprietary materials into reliable and robust inkjet solutions.

UK Displays and Lighting Network was launched in April 2006 as part of the DTI - "Knowledge Transfer Networks' programme. UKDL is a vibrant central hub of activity for the displays and lighting community. Designed to stimulate innovation in the key technology sectors by promoting collaboration, best practice and knowledge sharing between industry and academia. By encouraging partnerships and teamwork, UKDL aims to support science base through to end-users. Positioning the UK as the innovation engine for Europe.

 

UKDL supports and strengthens the UK Displays and Lighting Sector through tutorials, workshops and seminars with training and education embracing all levels of industry, commerce and academia. We encourage commercial and industrial collaborations between members that result in creation of wealth for UK plc through the profitable activities of members.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is an impartial expert organisation. Its objective is to develop new technologies, create new innovations and value added thus increasing customer's competitiveness. Printed intelligence is a strategic initiative at VTT. Our organization is committed to pioneering work in the development of printed electronics and intelligence generic technologies closely coupled with active efforts to identify and build value-adding end applications and their paths to profitable and sustainable commercial exploitation. We are also strong believers in the power of collaboration and relentlessly work to build stronger and stronger consortia both with research and industry.

Founded in 2001, Novaled experienced a rapid growth maturing into a world-class company. Novaled commercializes its Novaled PIN OLEDTM technology along with its proprietary OLED materials to display makers and lighting companies. The company has a strong IP position in OLED technology based on more than 300 patents granted or pending.

H.C. Starck is an international group of companies with more than 3,400 employees at production sites in Europe, North America and the Far East. H.C. Starck produces an assortment of refractory metal powders that is unique in the world, including tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, rhenium as well as their compounds and chemicals for the electronics industry.

H.C. Starck provides technical solutions in innovative technologies with its transparent conductive polymer CLEVIOS™ P (PEDOT:PSS). This material was formerly marketed under the trade name Baytron®.

H.C. Starck will spotlight recently developed HIL materials for OLEDs and conductive CLEVIOS™ materials for printable applications. So far, successful applications of CLEVIOS™ include transparent antistatic-coated films and conductive polymer capacitors based on tantalum and aluminium.. New kinds of OLED displays, organic solar cells, electronic paper, and printed electronics are just a few of the many possible new applications.