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NFC technology from Thinfilm plays a major role in The Conran Shop’s collaboration with Pinterest (photo: Thinfilm)

Thinfilm partners with The Conran Shop and Pinterest to create immersive personalised shopping experience


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The Conran Shop and Pinterest are collaborating to deliver an innovative, multi-faceted experience for consumers in celebration of the London Design Festival 2018, which will enable shoppers to engage with the inspiration they see in-store and take action with a personalised shopping journey.

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Qorvo’s general manager Cees Links (photo: Qorvo)

Qorvo and LEEDARSON launch multi-standard smart lighting solutions for IoT


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Qorvo (Greensboro, North Carolina), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions, and LEEDARSON, a renowned lighting and IoT solutions company, have partnered to create a family of smart home lighting products that operate concurrently with Zigbee 3.0 and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 protocols – offering compatibility with the most popular IoT standards. The first of these solutions is a new LEEDARSON smart light bulb and light switch that integrates Qorvo’s QPG6095 system-on-chip (SoC), a multi-protocol/multi-channel smart home communications controller for ultra-low-power wireless applications.

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A line out of Coatema's portfolio (photo: Coatema)

KROENERT and Coatema under one umbrella company


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Hamburg-based ATH Altonaer-Technologie-Holding GmbH – owner of KROENERT GmbH & Co KG – and Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH (Dormagen, Germany), have announced that they have signed an agreement under which ATH will take over all shares of Coatema.

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Comparison of display manufacturing processes with OLED materials (photo: Sumitomo Chemical)

Sumitomo Chemical acquires shares of JOLED


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The Sumitomo Chemical Company has invested ¥5bn in JOLED Inc., a Japan-based developer and manufacturer of printed OLED displays, by way of acquiring some of JOLED’s new shares issued through third-party allocation.

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Oxford PV’s 156x156mm perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells at the company’s industrial pilot line in Germany (photo: Oxford PV)

Oxford PV leads consortium to prepare perovskite solar cells for high volume manufacturing


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Oxford PV, a leader in the field of perovskite solar cells, announced a new consortium to further demonstrate the manufacturability of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. The project has received €2.8M from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy as part of its wider investment programme into renewable energy development. The consortium led by Oxford PV additionally comprises VON ARDENNE GmbH, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, and the Technical University of Berlin.

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