FlexEnable (Cambridge, UK), a leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic electronics, has acquired Merck’s (Darmstadt, Germany) portfolio of best-in-class, high-performance organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) materials, including revolutionary and highly-patented organic semiconductors and dielectrics. The deal makes FlexEnable the first company to offer display manufacturers both the only OTFT materials which are proven to have higher performance than amorphous silicon, and an entire package of industrially-proven manufacturing processes needed for production of flexible organic liquid crystal displays (OLCD) of any size.
PragmatIC (Cambridge, UK), a leader in ultra-low-cost flexible electronics, and Schreiner MediPharm (Oberschleißheim, Germany), a leading provider of specialty labels for the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, have entered into a strategic partnership to add smart labels based on PragmatIC’s ConnectIC family of flexible integrated circuits into Schreiner MediPharm’s product portfolio.
Canatu Oy (Helsinki, Finland) recently announced a capital raise of €15M in total, from the new investor 3M Ventures, as well as the existing investors DENSO Corporation (leading the round) and Faurecia.
