TactoTek scores CES Innovation Awards
The finish company was awarded for its in-mold structural electronics (IMSE) technology in the Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility category. The CES Innovation Awards highlight products and technologies that set new benchmarks for innovation, engineering, and functionality.
TactoTek’s first 2025 CES Innovation Award is for their IMSE, a transformational technology platform for designing and building electronics. The system integrates electronics, mechanics, and cosmetics to deliver lighting, touch controls, antennas, and circuitry in a smart surface: a thin, seamless, single conformal part. With the design freedom to create aesthetically pleasing electronics, IMSE technology is used to differentiate products and decarbonize electronics manufacturing. After passing demanding automotive market performance requirements it has been approved by many OEMs.
The Oulu, Finland, based company is the pioneer of IMSE technology and dominates the intellectual property landscape with more than 280 granted patents. It licenses the technology to a global ecosystem of partners who design and manufacture IMSE parts.
Their second 2025 CES Innovation Award is for an intelligent illuminated door panel for vehicles produced using IMSE technology. This design styles ambient lighting to driver preferences, and even integrates with vehicle sensors to enhance situational awareness. It achieves highly uniform RGB lighting with dynamic effects in a slim, conformal part. IMSE technology supports high illumination efficiency with few LEDs integrated inside of the structure.
“We are very excited to be honoured with two CES Innovation Awards recognising TactoTek’s achievements with IMSE technology,” noted Jussi Harvela, TactoTek CEO. “TactoTek continuously advances IMSE technology to help our customers build better products while also meeting their environmental goals. Our licensees, who design and manufacture IMSE parts, are scaling to bring IMSE solutions to market, globally in markets ranging from automotive and smart home, to industrial and defence.”
Source: TactoTek
Caption: TactoTek’s first 2025 CES Innovation Award is for their transformational IMSE technology. (Image: TactoTek).