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David Wolin, technical & production director at CSEM Brasil, and Frank Schäfer, sales director at KROENERT

KROENERT supplies production line for organic photovoltaics to Brazil

Thursday 05 June 2014
Companies / Markets

The Hamburg-based KROENERT GmbH & Co. KG, a leading manufacturer of coating and laminating lines for web materials, is about to finish the construction of the biggest production line for printed electronics and organic photovoltaics (OPV) in the Americas. The system will be supplied to CSEM Brasil, a subsidiary of the Neuchatel, Switzerland-based CSEM SA. With the commissioning of KROENERT’s LabCo, the company wants to strengthen its position as one of the leading organic and printed electronics suppliers.

At the recent LOPEC (26-28 May 2014 in Munich) many of the leading companies from the printed and organic electronics industry presented their latest developments

OE-A releases business climate survey

Friday 30 May 2014
Companies / Markets

The German OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association), a working group within VDMA, has just released its first business climate survey, which signals a significant growth in sales turnover for this year.

Holst Centre and NocaCentrix partner to advance photonic curing

Wednesday 30 April 2014
Companies / Markets

Holst Centre, an open-innovation R&D centre based in The Netherlands, and NovaCentrix, an US based producer of printed electronics manufacturing technologies, have announced a partnership to advance the study and application of photonic curing technologies.

The project’s target is to produce organic solar cells using environmentally compatible production processes

New project for environmentally compatible solar cells

Wednesday 30 April 2014
Companies / Markets

Just recently the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) launched a project called “MatHero” that aims at making organic photovoltaics competitive to their inorganic counterparts by enhancing their efficiency, reducing their production costs and increasing their life-time. As the organisers of KIT state “green” processes for materials synthesis and coating play a key role.

Thinfilm and PST enter into purchase and license agreement

Tuesday 08 April 2014
Companies / Markets

PST Sensors Ltd, a South Africa based developer and producer of temperature sensors, and Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm), a Norwegian producer of printed systems, have entered into a purchase and license agreement.