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The Heliatek headquarters with active HeliaFilm façade (photo: Heliatek)

Heliatek raises an additional €15M

Monday 16 October 2017
Companies / Markets

Heliatek GmbH, a leader in organic photovoltaic and a manufacturer of solar films based in Dresden, Germany, announced recently that it has raised €15M from new and existing investors. Strong interest among potential investors led to an extension of the last round of financing. It will enable Heliatek to accelerate its development and speed up its worldwide market entry. The company supplies HeliaFilm to partners in the building and construction materials industry for application directly on facades and roofs of industrial and commercial buildings. These solar films generate green, delocalised, decarbonised electricity.

Eric Saint-Jacques, CEO at GGI (photo: Groupe Graham International)

Sun Chemical Enters into License Agreement to Introduce New Screen Printable Molecular Inks

Friday 13 October 2017
Companies / Markets

Sun Chemical (Parsippany, New Jersey) has entered into a license agreement to introduce a new family of molecular inks for the printed electronics market with Groupe Graham International (GGI), a world leader in user interface technologies in touch applications, and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).

Gauzy LCG (Liquid Crystal Glass) provides a switchable smart glass solution allowing opacity and transparency on demand (photo: Avery Dennison)

Avery Dennison makes capital investment in liquid crystal specialty films developer Gauzy

Wednesday 04 October 2017
Companies / Markets

The Avery Dennison Corporation (Glendale, California), a global materials science and manufacturing company specialising in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials, has made an investment in Gauzy, an Israeli-based developer and manufacturer of liquid-crystal-based materials, films, applications and solutions for a variety of end markets including construction, automotive, consumer electronics, home appliances, the solar industry and more.

The pilot façade at Hoesch Bausysteme (photo: Heliatek)

HeliaFilm meets steel elements from Hoesch Bausysteme

Thursday 28 September 2017
Companies / Markets

With the successful installation of a solar-active pilot façade, Heliatek GmbH from Dresden, Germany, and Hoesch Bausysteme GmbH (Kreuztal, Germany) show a first application of their joint product development. At the installation, the organic solar film HeliaFilm was integrated into the siding elements of Hoesch.

OLEDs applied to paper-thin stainless steel (photo: Fraunhofer FEP)

Fraunhofer FEP presents OLEDs applied to paper-thin stainless steel

Monday 25 September 2017
Companies / Markets

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP (Dresden, Germany) will be presenting OLEDs on gauzy stainless steel foil during AIMCAL 2017 in Tampa, Florida from 15-18 October. The novel application was developed in cooperation with Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co., Ltd. (NSMAT) and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC).