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Opaque HeliaFilm on steel application (source: Kandil Steel)

Heliatek deploys its first large BIOPV project on the African continent


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The German organic photovoltaics supplier Heliatek GmbH has teamed up with Kandil Steel to realise its first building-integrated organic photovoltaic (BIOPV) pilot project in Africa. HeliaFilm, Heliatek’s organic solar film, is at the core of this installation in Egypt, which represents a first test project for further steel applications by Kandil Steel.

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Printed electronics has become an important field for Saueressig

Saueressig offers full service for printed electronics


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The German company Saueressig GmbH  + Co. KG, a renowned expert in premium rotogravure and special machinery solutions, is exploring the printing properties of inks and coatings for all manners of applications. The interaction between the printing plate and the functional ink is critical to achieving optimum results. Complex inks in particular demand a great deal from the printing plate. The knowledge acquired in this area is now being used for printing on electronically functional materials.

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Google and Levi's collaborate to make intelligent garments (photo: Levi's and Google)

Google and Levi's come together to tackle wearable technology


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The American jeans producer Levi’s has announced its cooperation with the Google Corporation within the framework of the “Project Jacquard”. The goal of this project is to confront the historical limitations of wearable technologies by decoupling the touch interface from the digital device.

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From left: Dr Paolo Bavaj, corporate director, New Business Development, Henkel, Armin Senne, flexo business manager at ContiTech, and Dr Thomas Perković, head of printing blanket segment at ContiTech

Continental and Henkel conclude cooperation agreement for printed electronics


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Henkel Adhesive Technologies from Düsseldorf, Germany, and ContiTech Elastomer Coatings (Hannover, Germany) will now be working more closely together in the fields of functional printing and printed electronics. The two companies made an announcement concerning the agreement in question at the printing trade show drupa in Düsseldorf. The aim is to develop products that can be produced using cost-effective roll-to-roll processing in flexographic and other printing processes.

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Mehran Yazdani, president of Sun Chemical Advanced Materials

Sun Chemical Advanced Materials and DIC Corporation open new Technical Centre


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Sun Chemical Advanced Materials (Parsippany (NJ), USA) and its parent company, the DIC Corporation, have opened a new European Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) Technical Centre in Karlstein, near Frankfurt in Germany. The new laboratory, an extension of Sun Chemical’s Eurolab, enables the DIC Group to provide enhanced and more localised expert technical support to its European and American customers of DIC.PPS, an industry-leading compound developed by the DIC Corporation.

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