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The ribbon cutting ceremony on 19 October for new state-of-the-art laboratories (photo: Emily David)

Adesis celebrates laboratory expansion with ribbon cutting ceremony

Tuesday 23 October 2018
Companies / Markets

Adesis, Inc. (New Castle, Delaware), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Display Corporation, recently announced the grand-opening of its new, state-of-the-art chemistry laboratories in its New Castle facility. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on 19 October 2018 to commemorate this expansion with state and local officials, and other members of the Delaware community. The attendance included Governor John Carney, Senator Tom Carper and the Delaware Prosperity Partnership (DPP), whose support for innovation and job growth in Delaware were integral with this expansion.

(From left) Dave Ramahi and Urs Berger from Optomec; Harald Moder (Merconics), Lars Sommerhäuser and Pierangelo Gröning (Empa) in front of the Coating Competency Center at Empa in Switzerland (photo: Optomec)

Optomec launches Europe, Middle East, and Africa Operations Center in Switzerland

Monday 22 October 2018
Companies / Markets

Optomec (Albuquerque, New Mexico), a global supplier of production-grade additive manufacturing systems (AM) for 3D printed metals and 3D printed electronics, recently announced the opening of Optomec GmbH, its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Operations Center in Dübendorf, Switzerland. Optomec GmbH will be located at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology.

Impinj and Redington Value have signed a partnership to extend Impinj’s presence in the Middle East and Africa. (photo: rawpixel.com)

Redington Value partners with Impinj to deliver transformative IoT solutions

Friday 19 October 2018
Companies / Markets

The regional distributor Redington Value has added Impinj (Seattle, Washington), provider and pioneer of RAIN RFID solutions, to its portfolio, allowing its extensive partner network in the Middle East and Africa region to leverage the Impinj solutions and platform.

CPI is using its state-of-the-art equipment and industry expertise alongside Pireta Limited to support the scale-up of wearable technology in textiles (photo: CPI)

CPI works with Pireta to develop new smart clothing

Wednesday 17 October 2018
Companies / Markets

The UK-based Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is collaborating on a project to support the development of next-generation smart clothing. Working with Pireta Limited, CPI is using its industry expertise in the printed electronics sector to aid scale-up of wearable technology in textiles.

Barrier films are the centrepiece in recent research at Fraunhofer IVV (photo: Fraunhofer IVV)

Fraunhofer IVV: How to measure ultra-low water vapour permeation faster

Tuesday 16 October 2018
Companies / Markets

Permeation measurements are often a bottleneck for the development of high barrier films required for flexible electronic devices and vacuum insulation panels. The reasons are long measuring times, restricted measuring conditions and specific constants, such as sorption and diffusion coefficients, which cannot be easily read out from results.