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Expected sales revenue for 2017 and 2018 (source: OE-A)

Organic and printed electronics industry expects an increase of 8% in sales revenue in 2017

Wednesday 05 April 2017
Companies / Markets

The signs are still set for growth in the organic and printed electronics industry. This is the clear message to result from the latest business climate survey conducted by the OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association). 80% of survey participants expect the industry to continue its positive development in the coming year. The results of the survey, carried out for the seventh time, were presented by OE-A Chair Dr Jeremy Burroughes to the international press at LOPEC 2017 – the leading international trade fair and conference for organic and printed electronics – in Munich, Germany.

CSEM Brasil and SUNEW collaborate with Cambrios Advanced Materials (photo: CSEM Brasil)

CSEM Brasil and Sunew develop fully transparent solar film using Cambrios‘ ClearOhm

Friday 31 March 2017
Companies / Markets

CSEM Brasil, an institute for applied science and technology based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, its spin-off company SUNEW, and Cambrios Advanced Materials (headquartered in Sunnyvale, California) have announced at LOPEC 2017 that they have jointly developed “OPV Power Film” that uses Cambrios’ ClearOhm technology to make transparent solar cells which will be integrated into windows and make use of the large areas available to produce power in buildings.

Coatema and temicon are continuing their cooperation

Coatema and temicon unveil new nanoimprint technology

Tuesday 28 March 2017
Companies / Markets

The cooperation between Coatema Coating Machinery (Dormagen, Germany) and temicon (Dortmund, Germany) has revealed a brand-new R2R-Nanoimprint line. The new line allows nanoimprinting of seamless structures on rolled products up to the width of 300mmfor various applications.

The FlexE Centre for R&D in flexible and printed electronics (photo: National Centre for Flexible Electronics, Kanpur)

RK Print announces collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Wednesday 15 March 2017
Companies / Markets

UK-based RK PrintCoat Instruments is now collaborating with the National Centre of Flexible Electronics (FlexE Centre) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (IITK) to design, manufacture and supply a bespoke roll-to-roll pilot line for their latest R&D and prototyping projects in the field of printed and flexible electronics.

VON ARDENNE FOSA LabX 330 Glass - a coating system for flexible glass (image: VON ARDENNE)

Fraunhofer FEP and VON ARDENNE introduce solution for coating flexible glass in a roll-to-roll process

Wednesday 08 March 2017
Companies / Markets

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP, which is based in Dresden, Germany, and the machinery company VON ARDENNE, also based in Dresden, will intensify their cooperation in the field of the coating of flexible glass. Due to its properties, this new material is ideally suited as a substrate for various applications in flexible electronics. Since October 2016, the two partners have been operating the roll-to-roll coating system FOSA LabX 330 Glass together.